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>>14089222

Did you build that island? I don't recall sky islands ever being nearly that big naturally.

Getting back to Wall of Flesh Expert strategies, I tried a whole bunch of new ones recently.

Beenades were far and away the best that I tried, I had no idea they were so good. I used Fossil Armor, Shark Tooth Necklace, Hive Pack, and about 60 Beenades stock (+ ammo conservation bonus). This is the only strategy that I have found which can actually kill the Wall of Flesh a tiny bit faster than my Demon Scythe strategy (at least with an Emerald Robe; scythe might work better with Ruby or Diamond but I didn't compare those). I'm very impressed.

Also tried regular grenades; they're really bad sadly, despite being so powerful, because their rate of fire is low.

Guns on the other hand are quite inferior. I tried Phoenix Blaster and Minishark with meteor shot and the Sandgun and they all require significantly longer runways than I'm accustomed to. I didn't get to test actually killing it, but I suspect the Minishark at least might have difficulty doing enough damage to kill it before it kills you when its on that last chunk of health where it speeds up faster than the player can run.

For kicks I also tried giving Jungle Armor a try again to see if I could find a use for it. Against the Wall of Flesh it's totally pointless; a robe and wizard hat give better damage and critical hit output while only having a slightly lower mana reduction bonus (which doesn't matter much when you're using a mana regeneration potion anyway). The only use I can see is adding the leggings with a robe and hat, but Meteor Leggings provide a greater damage boost which is more important than +4% critical hit.

Also tried a variety of bows with necro armor. I was surprised by Hellwing Bow's performance with wooden arrows, I didn't think it would be very good because its power is so low. With a wide open arena (i.e., not the narrow passage dug out of rock that I'm currently using for testing), I could see this performing quite well. The jury is still out on whether Bee's Knees is better or worse than Molten Fury.

Anybody got any other suggestions?

>>14089271

yea I got the clouds from a throw away level and made a fuck huge island with an ice core. jk I edited it in because fuck that tedious ass shit

>>14089980

Golden Shower and Bee gun with mana buff accessories with as many minions as I can spare is what I always do. Less DPS but you don't have to aim and can focus on movement.

>>14090752

Golden Shower is a hard mode spell, I think the point was to find the easiest way to enter hardmode, not kill the wall in the fasted possible way.

The fastest possible way to kill the wall that I've found is to make a catcher with blocks, then throw an enormous amount of dynamite into it. If you time it just right, you can kill the wall with just 10 dynamites.

>>14090959

That's right Ichor's hard mode. Eh I still use the Bee gun. It's just to fun to not use.

>>14089980

Have you tried using a minecart for speed?

>>14091229

Honestly movement isn't the biggest factor for Wall. The most important thing is killing the actual wall before you kill the hungry surrounding it, since his eye lazer speeds up once they are all dead. That or just constantly hitting face, leaving some hungry alive.

That's why I find using explosives, mostly dynamite, to kill it quickly while never actually seeing it die is what I prefer.

You could also set up a whole bunch of rigged explosives that you can find in caves, the only difficult thing being finding the traps and removing the explosives safely.

>>14089980

The absolute easiest way to clear the wall of flesh on expert is to use the hellwing bow, the one you find in the chests in hell.

Post cool builds.

>>14090959

>>14091316

I would love to be able to kill it with dynamite consistently but it seems like it requires a lot of finesse. The other issue is it destroys the runway, which is kind of annoying because I typically fight the wall 3 or more times in order to get several Emblems.

>>14091267

I've seen this demonstrated on video before but it seemed to require endgame armor in order to survive all the collisions. Unless you just mean using the cart to run away from the way. I think the slow acceleration is probably a problem (that would at least require a Cobalt Shield if it's even viable at all). Outside of a cart, you can instantly reach top speed when you need to with the Shield of Cthulu.

>>14091327

With wooden arrows, right?

Although once the wall is dead the first time you can go upgrade a ton of gear in hardmode before you fight it again. The question is can you upgrade enough before fighting a mechanical boss to be able to fight the wall again without needing a runway (which you blew up with dynamite)? I sometimes die re-fighting the wall in hardmode, so I dunno about that.

>>14091584

>Unless you just mean using the cart to run away from the way.

Yeah that's what I meant.

>I think the slow acceleration is probably a problem

Well there are booster tracks.

>>14091640

You would have to apply booster tracks like ever half screen length (or denser) to be safe though.

I used to try fighting the Wall of Flesh on platforms instead of solid blocks and would get obliterated by the lower eye attacks. I imagine an effective cart strategy would probably need something solid beneath it for protection as well, which would make it require an even larger infrastructure setup than without.

>>14092614

I mean, I could do vanilla too. I had just been playing it with mods lately, since I've played vanilla over and over since the game first came out.

>>14092425

I haven't played terraria with mods since those really weren't a thing back when 1.3 launched but I'd say simple quality of life mods are the best. If a mod adds new content, it should introduce new and cool ways to play the vanilla game rather than replacing the vanilla content. A quick google search and skimming some wiki pages tells me a mod like thorium would be the former while calamity is the latter.

>>14093131

Neither Calamity nor Thorium replace vanilla content, they both add content.

>>14092425

if you host a server if we can do everything by tommorow night work friday can stay up tonight but wont bumrush shit.

would be fucking nice light on the mods i guess something that extends the game but not by much

>>14093011

It looks pretty fun. No expert mode though fuck that.

>>14092425

None, my traitorous friends who introduced me to the game have still never played it to the finish with me and I've never even seen the final boss.

Yeah seriously, Expert is much more interesting. Werewolves probably have too much health though, that's a proper complaint on that at least.

>>14093761

You're missing a red keycard, and require additional pylons

>>14093761

>wasting 4 pieces for the corners

what a gay

>>14093761

Care to explain what you're trying to do?

>>14094651

Don't worry about it.

Does good terraria porn or lewd mods exist

>>14094790

Can't imagine there's any that are worth the effort.

>>14089222

Not sure how I feel about underground bases. I'm afraid of wraiths fucking with me later on

>>14096248

Pink candle's help on that front but yea underground bases have their issues.

Thoughts?

>>14098001

fuck me forgot to post vid

>>14098003

Why is it so dark. Terrible way to show off a trailer.

>>14098003

I tried it out, and its interesting, at least in early game. Spent most of it dying to wildfires caused by misplacing torches underneath ropes/platforms/vines/foliage.I had to tweak the camera settings because the constant panning camera was making me sick.The whole tool durability seems frustrating though, so I turned it off, but I'm not sure how that plays out in the long run.

>>14098003

The only good thing that came out of this is the realistic falling. Everything else is pretty gimmicky and dumb especially late game when you have wings. The wildfires are pretty cool though I guess.

>>14098003

>Second - all damage is based on player's velocity. Hitting an enemy mid-air after leaping from some building or accelerating with high speed hook can make deal up to 3x times more damage. Standing still and furiously clicking won't help you much.

Sounds like an absolutely terrible idea.

>>14098449

>spongebob_wesavedthecity.jpg

>>14089980

You can really easily make a cart track to kill him. Making a cart track that spans the entire map with bumpers on each end makes the mechanical bosses a cakewalk. Because they've got increased placement speed you can sip a builder's potion and place track while you're moving in the cart- you can set track at your movespeed up to 16 mph and just hold your mouse down while AFK.

Make an iron cart and you can outpace the wall of flesh until the very very end of his low life rush. Super easy.

>>14089980

Have you tried getting good?

>>14098736

I guess having 2 big content mods means more variety of resources, which means people can get Y gear instead of X gear if there's no X crafting material available. I'll check it out, but only for a bit today because time zones.

>>14098775

>Make an iron cart and you can outpace the wall of flesh until the very very end of his low life rush. Super easy.

I just tried this, how the fuck are you supposed to dodge eye lasers while on a cart? I got disintegrated.

>>14098826

Yeah I don't see how this would work either. I think the just make a giant platform trail through hell method is better

>>14089980

Yoyo. Preferably with the accessories. Just hold it in his face for a safe, fast and easy kill.

>>14099099

Tried that before with some string, a counterweight, and a Cascade before. Didn't work well at all, the Hungry are overwhelming and the Cascade just doesn't have long enough reach.

>>14099643

New jungle?

>>14099852

See

>>14098449

>on track to kill Wall of Flesh in record time, probably at only 6 hours

>decide to enter the underground jungle for a bit to find some Moonglow seeds

>step on a dynamite trap

Wow fuck this game. Every time I think I've learned my lesson not to spelunk without a Dangersense potion or wire-seeing accessory I get overconfident and obliterate myself on a trap.

>>14099903

It's dead Jim. You killed it.

>>14098736

Glad I haven't been left too far behind by timezones, some good chests left unfound for me to loot, and I found the goblin tinkerer, so people can start upgrading their hermes boots

How in the goddamned fuck do I get Pinky to spawn with Calamity + Thorium? I've killed well over 1500 slimes and never seen the bastard. I want to kill one before advancing since it's a Tracker quest and it's probably going to be even harder to find in hardmode.

>>14101084

Even in vanilla, you can go an entire playthrough and never see it.

>>14098736

Getting "Invalid operation at this state" when I try to join.

Also what bosses are down?

I just got into this the other day. I've beaten all the pre-Hardmode bosses except Wall of Flesh, haven't explored much of the map yet as I foolishly selected medium world for a solo game. How aggressively does the Hallow and Corruption/Crimson spread in hardmode? Do I need to jump on it with the Cleantamaminator as soon as possible or is it not too ridiculous?

Also I assume the Hornet Staff + Bee Armor drop off soon? They seem to be ridiculously strong at the moment as I can just do stuff while letting the Hornets murder everything that approaches me. Bee Gun is pretty damn strong too.

Why would you play this ancient game when Starbound is objectively better?

>>14101909

Something does seem fucky. the login system isn't working properly, but I don't know how it works. I wasn't there for it, but as far as I know only eye is down, definitely not farther than eater.

>>14101919

It depends on where they are. if they're near the jungle or even overlapping it parts of the jungle are going to disappear (hallow doesn't do this though). Also, unless you do a lot of fishing, accessing the hardmode ores means placing random blocks of hallow/corruption in the world

>>14101948

There was a modded server a few months back that had this problem too, if I recall correctly, HERO'S MOD was the problem.

Now something really strange is going on. I keep joining an empty server, chat doesn't work, noting spawns not even objects when you break them, and the game thinks I'm a mod.

>>14102208

Sorry, but I'm not the server host, just another sufferer. I might have more time to play in about an hour or two, hopefully this is fixed by then

>>14102238

The only thing I know of HERO is >>14102208 pic and his broken mod. Anyone want to tell me what his deal is?

>>14102257

To be honest, all I remember is there was a long ass video of him throwing a shitfit while pacing around in Terraria which ended with him crying.

>>14102257

He's a (former?) Terraria youtuber that always wore the Link outfit and is famous for the other Terraria wiki. He had a complete fucking meltdown during the release of 1.3 where he, along with one or two other people, were given the release early to stream as a preview.

>>14102337

I don't think I've ever seen someone give there side of the story and come off as badly as this before.

So, is anyone actually in the server?

>>14102923

Right thanks.

>>14102306

Not an argument :^)

>>14098003

Sounds like it takes away more from the base game than it adds.

>>14098736

> "HEROsMod",

Didn't we establish that was the mod fucking things up last time?

>>14103516

I wasn't there last time. so I didn't know. It's no longer being used on the server now.

What did HERO have a breakdown over? It's been a few years so I don't really remember.

>>14104361

He got early access to the massive 1.3 update so he could stream it, his stream turned to shit quickly because he stalled for an hour to get more viewers, stopped every half hour to put ending and opening introductions to break up the stream into videos for his youtube channel, purposefully played horrendously in order to drag the video on longer, cursed out a viewer for donating (with an encouraging message) during the stream and it got so bad, and everyone got so pissed at him, that Terraria's dev retracted permission for him to stream the unreleased version.

He then did a youtube video sperging out over it at length, before breaking down in tears while saying he's awesome.

>>14104361

>>14104394

I remember there was also something about him having a breakdown because he thought one of the other streamers who got early access to 1.3 was a close friend for some reason, but it turned out that guy didn't actually like him. Or something like that. He ranted for over an hour about so much random shit. Here's a highlight reel. It's missing one of the best lines, though;

>no, my girlfriend didn't leave me, I have a humongous dick and I'm good looking and I make decent money, of course she didn't fucking leave me

>>14104334

pls respond

>>14104334

4-5, just come by them every now and then to make sure shits not growing

I'd say make some non-corruptible material is used for the walls

>>14104334

https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Guide:Maintaining_world_purity

>>14104971

Yes, I know, but other sources gave differing figures and i'd rather keep them narrow as possible.

>>14104961

Thanks friendo.

>decided to install a JoJo wavebank

>accidentally wake up the Buried Champion Thorium mod boss while exploring a marble biome

>this starts playing as the boss music

I am thoroughly amused by these events.

>>14105338

Expert is meant for people really good at the game, if you're having issues you're just not good enough.

>>14105345

There's probably a mod for it.

>>14105342

XD

>>14105350

Anon, I'm not shitposting. I'm not saying your bad, I'm saying expert mode is tough and most issues you'll have with it will stem from the fact it's meant to be tough.

You didn't even tell us what items you were using so if you want a more detailed answer you should post your setup.

>>14105338

>without resorting to scummy shit

Isnt that the whole point?

>>14105356

To be fair skill has nothing to do with it. I play expert all the time and all you have to do is find the right build. After that you're usually not doing anything much in the way of actual combat skill and you're more just holding M1 while making a few easy evasive maneuvers.

>>14105050

>melee hardcore

If you find the enchanted sword and focus on yo-yos later on I think so.

Yo-yos are basically the cheat weapon anyway, plus you end up getting the vampire knives for survivability.

>>14098236

But there is bunny hopping in the base game too.

The frog legs.

i've had this game in my library for years and i don't know what the fuck i'm supposed to do in it. what is the appeal here, besides cool pixel block castles? cause i can do all this shit in minecraft.

>>14106012

more variety and depth + modability

>>14098195

Giving extra damage to attacks you do while moving towards enemy sounds cool, but if it's made requirement for dealing significant damage, then it won't work.

Reminds me of EU4 where only coastal provinces provide you with sailors. This results in relatively common situation where mostly landlocked nation is able to wield tens of thousands of troops with tens of thousands in reserves but struggling to recruit 100 sailors for their navy.

>>14101090

>>14101084

I did eventually get it when I remembered that Zerg potions exist. Spawn cap raised to 50 + 10 spawns a second will get you any rare enemy you need.

And anyone who's playing Thorium should try out the post-Plantera throwing set (Shade Master). The free teleports are hilariously broken and let me survive Pumpkin Moon wave 15 first try.

so how do i mod my game and what would be great for a solo or muti player playthrough.

im looking at overhaul thorium and calamity any others? basically a way to extend the progression process a by a lot.

I'm probably too late to join this match and going by how long it's been up compared to my SP game I'm too fucking slow anyway but is Terraria forgiving of high ping or will I have a bad time trying to connect to burger servers from bumfuck nowhere?

>>14109895

They might do some tweaking in future, balance changes are mentioned for 1.3.6. The fact Yoyos simultaneously have the greatest versatility and range on top of the highest damage after getting the Yoyo Bag is a pretty glaring balance issue.

Since the server is now in hardmode, I moved the witch doctor to the jungle for easy access to wings.

Goddamn Mothron can kick your shit in before you even know what happened.

Is there any way to get tmodloader working on GOG versions of 1.3.5.3? For some stupid reason the developers don't release a GOG version (which as far as I'm aware would just involve stripping SteamAPI calls out of the executable), and instead some other guy deals with GOG builds but it's lagging behind at 1.3.4.4.

>>14114419

Couldn't you shave a good amount of time off by not making the Molten Set?

>>14116227

And replace it with what? I fight the wall of flesh itself with a robe and hat, but I feel like the armor is super important for surviving most other enemy encounters.

>>14116241

Fair enough, I guess if you're blitzing it you can't reliably obtain any accessories with a good defense bonus without losing time.

>>14116263

I usually do a bit of reforging once I get the Goblin Tinkerer. Get a Warding Shield of Cthulu at the very least. A Mythical Demon Scythe is also cheap to get and very nice. You are making me wonder if skipping the Goblin Tinkerer may actually be worth doing however.

… Although fighting a goblin invasion in hardmode is something I typically try to avoid. Would be quite a long time to go without a Tinkerer's Workshop before I felt strong enough to summon a goblin invasion in hardmode.

>>14093761

Just got myself a laptop so no reaction image for either of us.

>>14091390

I recognize that tune. 1:00

Has anyone ever actually completed the Mining armor set? I've played through Expert to hardmode shitloads of times. In all my playthroughs, I've only seen the Mining Shirt drop maybe once or twice, and I've never seen Mining Pants.

>>14121468

But you have to do it on Hardcore Ironman now.

overhaul calamity and throium are in what is the progression for this

>>14121595

I have officially reached the point in my Terraria career that I just want to build comfy structures.

>>14121989

Never speak to me or my family again.

>>14121114

I actually did once. I had to grind it out with a lava trap though. It took forever.

>>14122555

With only vanilla methods? Yeah, it'll take forever. Even with Calamity's Zerg potions it's far from fast. If you think Nymph is bad though, Rune Wizard is 10x worse. Nymphs actually don't spawn nearly as rarely as you might think, but people often miss them since they don't attack or move towards you by default.

Holy fucking shit…?!

http://archive.fo/Ym2fW

>>14125513

At a guess, Terrarian with a yoyo bag. High attack speed, billions of extra projectiles and a second free yoyo with more projectiles.

>>14124582

Don't know who that is but that sucks, memory and vision are two things I wouldn't be able to live without.

>>14126038

pretty much the first terraria lets play get ur knowledge from early in the terraria days

>>14126276

Yeah, only Terraria youtuber I ever watched was Yrimir.

>>14126499

Will this react to what biome you're in now? That would be handy.

Final boss of Thorium was disappointing. No sense of scale or flashy attacks, just flying around in circles for 20 minutes avoiding the projectile vomit until you do 900k damage or whatever.

>>14127568

So just like the Moonlord then.

>>14127733

Moonlord was harder and less of a damage sponge.

The same could be said for any endgame boss. It's naturally what the game's going to degenerate into when players have far too much mobility. If there's one way I see mods fucking up the power curve really badly it's by giving you pre-hardmode wings, or shit like the Cryonic ore wings from Calamity which you can get before any hardmode bosses and are better than ALL the wings in vanilla. Movement is the core of the game so removing limitations on it messes with fighting way too much.

>>14127807

Really there's never going to be such thing as a "fair and engaging" boss in Terraria. You're given to many tools and mechanics to cheese them. But if I had to make a small list of things to check off to reduce the cheese effect (and some of the fun as a result) then I would do a few simple things such as

>require the summoning of the boss to kill the nurse in a similar fashion to the guide with the WoF so you can't spam her heal effects in a small room while dragon takes the boss out

>make all electronics useless so you can't spam heart statue's

>give the boss buffs to all world effect damage from traps and such so the only damage inflicted can be from the player

>require the area be completely devoid of any blocks what so ever, essentially requiring the UFO mount of Fishron

>make the boss have hard hitting attacks that can be dodged without the discord rod

>add more mobile flying mounts that are just reskins of the UFO

Honestly once you get the UFO mount it's fucking gg. At the very least I'de like to see some better looking mounts to add to vanity autists.

OR

>remove the ability to use mounts during the boss and force the player to build an elaborate arena for the boss just like the first bosses.

Either way combat in Terraria isn't exactly it's strongest asset. I'de argue every mechanic in Terraria isn't very strong tbh. It just gives you all of them and tells you to have fun.

>>14130080

>>14130113

What happened in these images?

>>14130270

Blood Moon right after party time, then this giant mechanical nigger from the Tremor mod phases through the ground and gibs my tavernkeep.

>>14132405

Were you playing in Revengeance mode? Because I am, and it's fucking miserable, and the mode exclusive drops aren't worth it at all.

>>14133159

No, haven't tried Revengeance. I was thinking about it but if it's just retard hard with no payoff then I won't bother.

Attempted Yharon many times now. He's less frustrating than DoG if only because I have no idea what I'm supposed to do besides get hit less. He's basically a mega Fishron with more complicated patterns.

>>14133631

What's the 5th row? I've farmed bosses for weeks and haven't seen that one.

I've got everything but the bear costume now.

>>14092425

I offered a few times in a few different threads to host a dedicated server with a couple mods, but no one ever replies.

Oh god Normal mode is so boring. How can people not play Expert mode?

>>14138646

Yes.

Sometimes you can get pyramid in mini-sand biome.

Some anon here had pyramid spawning on sand just ten blocks before tundra.

>>14139080

>>14138646

I still say they should make pyramids full structures with their own mini biome instead of just loot houses.

>>14139177

Deserts should have more going on in them in general. The antlion lair should have a boss or something.

man all these bard/healer gear would be awesome with a party to bad im playing alone.

should i get spirit mod to add to my mess of idk what im going for thorium and calamity mod plus overhaul

>>14132405

Good post, from the sounds of it I'll pass on Calamity and just play Thorium after my vanilla expert run, your description of Calamity doesn't really appeal to me but as far as I can tell from browsing the Thorium Wiki it's a pretty fleshed out mod that adds stuff everywhere. Are there any other worthwhile mods besides utility/QOL mods like recipe browser, 9999 stacks, etc? Though if anyone knows of some other QOL mods worth grabbing I'm all ears.

Can't use mods until the tmodloader team puts out a GOG version so I'm just compiling a list of mods to slap together for a run I'll do once it's up.

>>14139342

IMO Meteorites should be set to always land in deserts, it can be annoying if they land elsewhere but the meteorite landing in the desert isn't really an issue, and on Thorium it adds a bunch of Meteorite enemies to the place as well. As it is they seem to land in deserts 90% of the time anyway as the algorithm that places it avoids water and prefers solid areas without caves.

>>14142132

The algorithm is designed to avoid not just water, but NPCs, chests, and sunplate blocks.

>>14142243

Is that just some fan/concept art? The meteorite biome being expanded could add some variety. Though I'm not sure how it would be handled, another spreading Biome would just be a pain in the ass. A possible compromise could be that it will spread but has an upper limit for total converted blocks so that you end up with a decent meteorite biome but it doesn't threaten to pozz the place up like HC&C.

>>14142338

On the subject of issues with the power curve, are there any mods that try to iron out some of the imbalance in pre-hardmode? There are a fair few downright broken items. The Falcon Blade for example can be obtained really early by fishing and is easily in the top 4 for pre-hardmode swords. The only other ones you might consider upgrading to being the Beekeeper, Enchanted Sword or Arkhalis, and the latter two are so rare you might as well consider Falcon to be one of the top two. It's particularly strong as if you give it a Legendary modifier it has a nice sweetspot of knockback and speed where most ground mobs will be juggled in front of you as you advance, unable to hit you or escape. The Arkhalis is even more broken I guess but it's not really an issue since it's so unlikely to find one.

>>14142243

I would prefer that they add corruption and crimson jungle biomes already.

>>14143130

I don't think anybody cares too much about pre-hardmode anything because it's only like the first 20% of the game. It's basically the tutorial for the real game.

>>14142338

I don't remember the cloud waifu looking like that.

>>14143583

> It's basically the tutorial for the real game

That's arguably a problem in and of itself.

If you want balance, don't get Kalciphoz's RPG Mod.

4 hours in and I have 500 health and a teleport spell, it adds way too many weapon drops so you'll be swimming in gold, ammo and enchanted weapons.

May as well share my thoughts on thorium and calamity mods now that I've played them. Thorium gives a lot of options for weapons (like crafting guns directly from hardmode ores) and shows a lot of love for underused playstyles (throwing gets armour sets for every part of the vanilla game up to luminite and has a helmet for the melee set of thorium's postgame armour). Some of it is definitely redundant (valadium and lodestone ores are basically just for post-mech, pre-plantera, illumite not really worth mining because it's unlocked the same time as chlorophyte). If you're running any kind of content mods, you may as well throw in thorium to flesh out the vanilla game up to and a bit after moonlord.

Calamity is pretty good in pre-hardmode with the bosses it adds. The early part of hardmode is definitely easier, especially with the gear slime god drops in pre-hardmode. I like how the mod fleshed out the underworld, even if only a little, with a mini-biome at the edges of the world and some new enemies (but only one boss that's basically just an annoying progression wall with no real drops of its own). The crazy powerful post-moonlord gear is kind of fun, but my favourite part of the post-moonlord content would have to be the plague boss and related items. It fits the jungle perfectly and the gear is good for fighting the celestial pillars/ML a bit easier the second time around. The other post-ML bosses are quite hard, considering the actually crazy gear is locked behind beating almost all of them, but I guess it is supposed to be THE DARK SOULS OF MODS with its edge and even-higher-than-expert difficulty. Last minor complaint with the mod is that the last armour sets are just overall stat boosts and aren't split into multiple classes, so every post-game character is only different by the weapon they use most.

One last thing I noticed, maybe even the most important: Thorium's sprites are simple, with black outlines. They fit the artstyle of the game well. Calamity mod sprites have more washed-out colours and coloured outlines. This is most noticable on the post-game weapons, which are even larger than players are too.

>>14143762

I feel like RPG elements would be good combined with enemy buffs like in >>14136357 and adjustments to all the vanilla bosses, so the game would basically be a diablo clone with lots of trash mobs, some minibosses, and damage sponge bosses to finish it off.

In my experience playing through Calamity was fine up until near the end, but it really can't be stressed enough that it trivializes nearly everything from vanilla or more balanced mods all throughout progression, as well as eventually anything that isn't named Supreme Calamitas (which is bullshit for its own set of reasons). I'm glad I did seperate playthroughs for Calamity and Thorium+Spirit, because it wouldn't have played nice with anything else. Ultimately when I did either playthough I didn't care about vanilla or balance any more, after already putting hundreds of hours into the game. Any one else bored to death of usual progression will probably enjoy themselves the same way.

>>14145323

This is a pretty decent break-down, but I feel like I should point out that the Plaguebringer Goliath is post-Golem, rather than post-ML, which is why you're noting it was very easy compared to the other Calamity post-ML bosses.

>>14143130

>A possible compromise could be that it will spread but has an upper limit for total converted blocks

Add to that the mechanics of chlorophyte spread except on surface level and I think the biome would contain itself quite well.

>>14146539

>that entire fucking inventory

Jesus fuck anon favorite your favorite shit and cut the fat. Why would you need that many weapons?

Is the set effect of Titanium Armor good or not really? It doesn't seem too impressive based on the description, 2 seconds of invuln every 30 seconds doesn't seem significant enough that it's worth using compared to Adamantite's attack and movement speed buffs.

>>14089980

Dynamite

>>14149118

>Is the set effect of Titanium Armor good or not really?

Kinda. I'de argue it's great for bosses as that 2 seconds can do well to deal a bit more dps. If you're going for that armor just do what I do and judge the actual armor rating first compared to other armors. The additional perk might just be a little extra. It is early hard mode armor keep in mind. There's certainly better armors you can farm for at this point. But crafting that armor now might ease that farming.

>>14149014

Multiple weapons is often due to some having significantly different functions that work better in specific situations more than others.

>>14149526

>I never use shift click and I rarely quick stack

Your loss tbh. There's nothing wrong with either. Once you move past drag and drop the tedium in inventory management is cut down immensely. Other than that your trough is full of such useless shit. If you have the UFO why bother with the ninja gear? Why have 1 bucket of every liquid? Why not replace the water bucket with infinite water bucket? Why have gold in the safe instead of platinum? Is it really that much of a loss if you lose 80 gold in hard mode? Also there's plenty of these items that would go better in a safe such as the summon events considering that if you're going to trigger one you're well prepared anyway. Your piggy bank inventory should primary be for items that you want to get quickly without much hassle due to the trough.

>>14088473

all i've ever done in this game is create drainage pipes. my goal is to consolidate all the above-ground water in the world into one central underground lake

i have 170 hours logged just digging pipes

i have standardized systems, patterns and procedures i use for my pipes.

i probably have the autims

i've heard other people talking about their pipes before so I know this isn't too unique, though

>>14149704

You could always just use world edit?

Curious how much effort people normally put into mining once hardmode is unlocked. I have never actually gone through the full progression of ores to titanium/adamantite. It takes too long and feels too dangerous. I always just fish a shitload of crates and then make some Frost Armor when the opportunity arises. Once I get a Daedalus Stormbow and a Nimbus Cloud I feel pretty comfortable killing the Destroyer… And once I can kill the Destroyer a few times I can immediately upgrade to Hallowed Armor. So, how much worth is it really to bother at all with those six initial hardmode ores? How much effort does anon usually put into that?

>>14150071

I've used an adamantite/titanium repeater and armor before, that's about it. There have been several worlds where I never even broke any altars, since it can be an annoyance to have random patches of corruption/hallow to deal with later on.

>>14150134

>There have been several worlds where I never even broke any altars

Yep, that's what I do. I almost never break altars. It's nice having one less random daily even to not have to worry about and summoning the mechanical bosses on your own terms instead of needing to hide underground when you get a spooky feeling because you're not ready for them yet.

I tried going through the ore progression in my last playthrough and got careless and died in Palladium armor.

>>14150160

one less random daily event* (no pirate invasions)

>>14150071

Since the introduction of fishing I completely skip mining the early hardmode ores, with the exception of this last playthrough. I don't even break alters anymore. Obviously I still have to mine chlorophyte but that's all the mining I do in hardmode. I sort of wish there was some side progression at the chlorophyte stage so I wasn't compelled to mine it every time. I guess Technically there is with Spookywood Armor but good luck taking down the Moonlord with that even in non expert worlds.

There Really feels like there needs to be some Martian armor or something.

Strategies for early Expert Queen Bee? Or simply fighting it in general I guess. It drops some pretty useful stuff but I always feel like I'm not ready to fight it until I'm strong enough to defeat Skeletron, at which point its loot isn't quite so useful and I don't even bother.

>>14150206

Heart lantern + campfire and make use of the honey buff and use all the potions you can make. Arguably you should just make a small artificial jungle on the surface neat your home and use her summoning item rather than fighting her in the hives. If you're lucky enough to find a bezoar equip that to deal with the poison. You could even sneak down to hell and get just enough hellstone to make an imp staff.

I've actually found expert Queen Bee to be in many ways easier than the normal mode version since expert randomizes her attack patterns. Which means if you have a lucky fight she can get stuck in an easy to deal with attack mode for an extended period of time.

>>14150272

google it

>>14150277

Yeah, good idea. We nearly discussed video games on /v/.

Close call.

>>14150160

I'm so used to summoning pirates with maps I had completely forgotten having an altar broken allows them to trigger randomly.

>>14150206

Fighting her in the hives is a bad idea like someone else said, she'll spend a lot of time in blocks and the honey can be a hindrance. An arena on the surface is definitely best. Don't worry too much about attacking during her ramming phases, just focus on movement.

>>14150236

I usually fight the Queen Bee in its hive making use of campfire + dips in honey and end up close to death with 400 health near the end. I have great difficulty dodging the stings and without a Bezoar it only takes one hit to fuck your shit up. I'm wondering if there is a smarter way to fight it.

>>14150272

https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/magic-storage.56294/

Lets you maximize storage while minimizing physical space needed for it.

>>14150206

Main thing is to fight her at the surface using an Abeemination, most hives are simply too small and don't give you enough breathing room to dodge things. If you find a big, relatively vertical one then it might work so go for it, but surface is the most reliable spot.

If you got hit by a goblin invasion already dropping a bunch of spike balls on platforms is good since she'll ram through them during the charging phase, so it's free damage when you're otherwise mostly unable to hit her much. Frostburn Arrows are also a great idea to keep the damage going, even if you're not big on ranged, 8 damage per second adds up over a 5-10 minute fight if you keep it up for a good chunk of the time. The time you want to attack most is when she's spawning Bees, if you have a good (ideally fast) melee weapon you should jump up and start swinging, this will shred the bees before they can damage you, probably heal you up thanks to the hearts they drop and you should take relatively little damage. If you dropped it from Gobbos a Harpoon works pretty well as well, its fire rate is only capped by the return of the projectile so if you can get close it has some pretty gnarly damage output.

If you have all the buffs i mentioned up you don't really need to worry about poison in the spines phase so you can try to hit her rather than focusing entirely on dodging, but really since the fight has no time limit you might as well take it slow and just focus on not dying.

Besides that set up Campfire+Heart Lantern+Honey Bath+Sunflowers in the arena you build for those tasty buffs. You might want to pass on the Heart Lantern if you don't already have 400HP but it's up to you. I usually just make one from the first heart I find, if you make lots of Spelunker potions and keep the buff active while exploring underground you'll find tons of them anyway.

>>14150327

>spoonfeeding is discussion

Don't ask stupid questions.

>>14150160

>>14150204

Only thing that can be frustrating about this sometimes is getting enough titanium or adamantite ore to upgrade your furnace in order to smelt chlorophyte.

>>14150134

I suggest just editing your world in TEdit to get rid of the random HC&C. In its current state where it can completely ruin your jungle and be impossible to fix it can be considered an incomplete game mechanic. At the moment once I enter Hardmode I remove the two diagonal stripes and place a big band of Hallow/Corruption where I want them. Away from the jungle and usually overlapping Desert/Underground desert for the unique mobs, then make a wall down each side from grey brick with gaps in any tunnels I see.

You'll need to use terrafirma to locate the randomly placed hallowed/corrupted blocks, as TEdit doesn't have a search function. One thing to remember is it can only effect stone blocks, so you only need to search for Pearlstone and Ebonstone/Crimstone, and it only occurs in the cavern layer.

If you're worried about spoiling the map for yourself it isn't really an issue, if you just focus on setting up your map you'll forget where anything was. I'm trying to locate a Granite Biome manually at the moment even though I saw tons of them while editing.

>>14150071

You can pretty safely get enough ore by Mining along the top of the underworld, you only have to contend with the pre-hardmode mobs and Mimics+Tortured souls. There's always plenty of it, and you can usually get enough Titanium/Adamantite for a set and a weapon or two in about an hour or two of mining. Note that I always break 6 altars, you might have a harder time if you only break 3.

>>14150160

I usually fish at least enough to make an Adamant/Titanium repeater then make a bunch of Holy Arrows to deal with the pirates. If you have half decent armor and stack some potions you can go on strafing runs bombarding them with holy arrows and thin them out pretty fast. Another method is if you have a house that's suspended off the ground (which is a good idea to keep Wraiths/Reapers out) the pirates will probably mob under your house. Make some platforms on the right side of your house, place a boulder on them then whack it with a pickaxe, it will fall then roll left and deal a shitload of damage to all the pirates under your house. Boulders are pretty effective weapons even to carry around while exploring, they completely mince things if they can roll far enough.

The one obnoxious thing about the pirate invasion though is that the Flying Dutchman can spawn 3+ times if you're unlucky. So i guess wanting to avoid it occurring randomly is understandable. Though at least it's easy to cheese.

So I thought I'd just let the water flow freely in my hellshaft because I wanted some extra water for lava pools so I don't need to fart around making my own obsidian. Does water simply not drain when it because too many screens tall? Because the top of the water column has been going absolutely nowhere for a while now. Why bother emptying an ocean when you can make an infinite water source any old place?

>>14156456

At some point (probably dependent on your system specs) the game will simply stop bothering to try settling liquids in real time when there's too much going on. In most cases, it'll re-settle everything all at once after some delay. Or maybe in extreme cases it won't happen until you reload the world, dunno.

I just opened almost 300 treasure bags and I still did not get the goddamned Skiphs outfit. Is there a Terraria inventory edit tool because I'm done with this fucking shit. Oh and tedit just will not launch on my computer so that's a good fucking bonus to this shitshow.

>>14157894

>granite and pearlwood

Very nice.

Also that link helped immensely.

>>14157894

>spiral stairs

It's shit

>>14158238

no u

>>14158335

>>14158238

I wish they would implement actual spiral stairs as a furniture item that actually functioned appropriately. Ladders and elevators too. And angled rope.

>>14158335

I agree you're shit.

I want to get cool Terraria mods.

How?

>>14160146

By installing tModLoader on Terraria forums and then installing mods that you want.

Just make copy of your vanilla game exe. or entire catalog somewhere else.

Check out Terracustom, it doesn't require tmodloader but lets you set mapgen parameters, you can make a world with corruption and crimson, make a really hilly one, make on with shitloads of caves, a billion Sky Islands, etc.

>>14161268

Would it let you make a full desert world?

>>14161587

You could give it a shot by disabling other biomes and maximizing Beach size. Its options are pretty limited but it can do a fair bit seemingly, one map I made had an ocean high enough to spawn harpies and a neat snow biome that was really mountainous.

I'll stick to my vanilla world at the moment but I'm probably going to autismally try and generate a perfect world to play in for a future modded playthrough.

>>14158336

Solutions mod.

>>14164187

If you're just rushing WoF and not going to hardmode you can beat him in like 30 minutes by massing bombs, grenades and dynamite, digging to hell with bombs, using grenades to fend off mobs, then dumping Dynamite on the WoF.

>>14166126

If you get lucky with a Pinky you can make molotovs too.

>>14166126

I've considered the dynamite strategy before, but I'm still a little shaky on pulling it consistently, and don't like that it destroys my walkway. I like the fight the wall more than once to get multiple emblems. Plus with that kind of preparation (or lack thereof) I think I would die very quickly in hardmode. I still do as is–I died about 30 minutes after that screenshot because I bumped into a Ichor Sticker while descending my hellshaft. Those fuckers will kill you fast, was dead before I even realized what happened.

>>14166192

I should also say that I'm starting to really not appreciate how this game gives an advantage to people with wider screens than I have (I use the Lord's aspect ratio of 5:4). That's a real fucking bullshit design issue.

>>14166202

By which I mean people with more screen to their left and right can actually see what is happening when trying to dynamite the wall of flesh. All I can do is guess.

>>14166202

Not a perfect solution but could you try letterboxing the game to get a wider view?

>>14166192

Have you ever thought about boulders for fighting the WoF?

>>14166348

How would you use them?

>>14166774

Nigger, it's the building grid in the UI options

>>14166715

Looking comfy anon.

Here's some inspiration for you. Maybe you can adapt some of it.

>>14166801

>Snow and collideable treetops

Gosh

>>14166577

Shit that's nice. I was wondering if you could do it without wires and switches.

>>14166884

Without doing any of that shit because that would require putting in extra time to fight Skeletron and get the Mechanic. That lava platform break timer is a nice trick.

>>14166935

You technically don't have to actuate. He does it to make the honey platforms and the sunplate blocks match with the rest of the brown when he paints them. Depending on your block, wall, and paint choices you might not need to actuate anything.

Personally I wouldn't see anything wrong with bringing in a grand design and a stack of wire and actuators in from another world for a new playthrough. It doesn't give you any gameplay benefit.

>>14166992

>It doesn't give you any gameplay benefit.

lolwut Grand Design is one of the biggest power advancements in the whole game. No longer needing to slowly spelunk with a trap in hand or constantly drink Dangersense potions because you can spot traps a mile away is a major change in the gameplay. Another very useful thing it lets you do is setup two spawn points once you have a Tinkerer's Workship. Finally you can devise all sorts of powerful traps of your own of course. Attaining the Mechanic and wire usage is one of the most important advancement points in the whole game.

It's too bad boulders always roll left though. Means you can only fight the wall of flesh in one direction with this.

>>14167113

Spoke too soon. Guess you can force them to roll right with some wall on their left. Will force you to have far lower density and need to have a lot more blocks if you wanted to do a right-rolling contraption though.

>>14167596

thanks doc

>>14167596

I think you should /agdg/ on and start making this yourself. It's a good idea.

>>14167599

Fuck, the purple was supposed to be corruption. Can't escape the memes

>>14167604

I am currently in the middle of a project, but I was just tossing out an idea that was interesting to me to gauge tentative interest. I would like to do an autism block game at some point.

I would want to make it class-based, or at least change your starting equipment and progression to a degree, as it could open up different play styles. It would still be comfy crafting and item based, though.

>>14167700

Video's fucked anon.

Also, are you rerolling pickaxe bonuses to get a faster attack speed?

>>14167700

Why not use actuators with a one block drop?

>>14167763

Still corrupted.

>>14167763

>This video is a little clearer.

You seemed to have misinterpreted the word "Fucked" in the previous case as if the webm could even be played back in the first place.

>>14167777

>>14167785

Works fine in my browser (Pale Moon), can't yours handle H.264 video with AAC audio? What codecs do people usually use for uploading MP4s?

>>14167828

He's right you know. Nothing wrong with the video itself. Download it and play it back in a proper media player and it's fine. Little blurry

>>14167021

>>14166842

I only now realize that you were replying to this >>14166577 post and not this >>14166801 one. I feel very slightly stupid.

>>14167870

Definitely don't try this with a Reaver Shark, it's nowhere near fast enough even with a mining potion.

>>14167952

>>14167870

Couldn't you do a hybrid approach where you do about half it's life in boulders, the rest in explosives?

Anyways, what's the advantage of using boulders instead of a weapon? Dungeon skip?

>>14168115

>>14167952

And since you'll have that knob behind every stack, which every bunch of boulders is going to run into and disintegrate, you have to space stacks out far apart and make them very tall for it to be worth it. A straight line of boulders just seems better.

>>14168645

What's that RPG mod? What other mods do you use? Also, how do I make HP hearts golden like in >>14150147 and other screenshots with golden hearts? What mod do I use for that?

>>14168746

Golden hearts aren't a mod, you use life fruits that grow in the hardmode jungle in vanilla terraria.

>>14168757

>>14168755

Thanks a lot! I'll try these mods out!

>>14168814

>Dryad lives in a greenhouse

Very nice.

>Clothier in a dungeon room

FUCK

ServerAnon, I think I crashed your server by using a zerg potion and spawning too many items and enemies.

Just a heads up for anyone trying and failing to join the server.

>>14168899

That's nothing compared to crashing the server console using the infinity omni bag and dropping too many items. And then crashing the server shortly after it gets rebooted the 1st time by doing nothing special and then causing someone else(you lose nothing) to lose an item. And, yes, all of that really did happen. QUALITY netcode right here.

>only now find out that someone has actually started up a server even though i've had the thread open all along

>it's already hardmode

>someone already managed to crash it with zerg potions

oh

>>14168899

>>14169421

Are they actually called Zerg potions?

Is the name that generic now, or what?

>>14171055

>Are they actually called Zerg potions?

No.

It has another name, but I don't remember it right now.

>>14169335

More like Fargomod just has literal broken items when you get far enough. It really extends the game as well with how much more shit can kill you too.

>>14172729

>>14172736

>accidentally trash starting items into a clear inventory

I don't think it's possible to even do anything if you literally have nothing but your hands.

>>14172812

You can usually find bars in chests, provided you can access the chests. You can break jars with your hands and find some bombs to blow up trees I guess.

>>14171055

>>14171219

Zerg potions are calamity mod's upgraded version of battle potions.

>>14173573

Frost Armor, Cutlass and Titanium Repeater, I just killed the Destroyer. Been trying to get the Uzi, not sure what armor I want next.

>>14169421

The server isn't just in hardmode, it's post moon lord or at least WAS post moon lord until I crashed it, and up the the very final superboss of the calamity mod.

>>14173686

up to the*

I need to proofread things before I post them

>>14172555

The server I was on, didn't use Fargomod. It only used RecipeBrowser, Thorium, Calamity, Tremor and JPAN's Bag of Holding.

>>14173686

Wow, you guys are super fast!

>>14173692

The server has been up ever since this post >>14098736

Though most of the progression was done by >>14134178 , especially post moonlord, where he was the only one online during american hours, and I just leeched loot whenever I got on the server.

>>14173686

oh well fuck me in the ass then i'm really late

>>14173573

Silver chainmail and greaves with a molten helmet, about to be completely replaced by molten. Got close to harvesting enough silver for a full armor set this time, but not close enough. I have almost never gotten enough ore to make an armor set before getting something better.

>>14173686

shit i kinda want another server now

New thread soon™

>>14175551

>>14174700

Could do 'em up together too

Modless server when?

>>14177472

to be fair at least adding thorium would be nice, it's basically just a vanilla expansion that's pretty polished

>>14177529

No thanks fam, I still need to beat the game without mods for once.

>>14178692

>>14178692

>>14178692