I made a thread here saying I wasn't getting the point of terraria (had wandered around and found queen bee and that's it) and that even for a sandbox game it felt kind of weird and empty without using the wiki as a guide and I got some tips
Gotta say swapping to expert mode + looking shit up online to have a vague idea of things (and watching some random challenge vids to get an idea of what early progression is) made this game a lot more bearable
Expert mode making enemies kill me really hard forced me to work on things slowly so I finally had some goals on what to do aside from "wander around", I had to make a whole plan to even get to my ocean
All in all I just wanna say, turns out this game's alright.
It's 100% a wiki game btw and anybody who says otherwise is a filthy fricking liar the game tells you nothing. You can figure out most things but it takes literal hours of tedium.
Frick no I'm not gonna just wander around until I find a good summoning staff, look that shit up if you ever buy this.
Minecraft is better than this slop
what?
Kys troony
uhhhh ok
still don't see the minecraft comparison tho
yeah the crafting UI has too much shit
stupid homosexual. shit thread. die, b***h.
uh no?
kek these brown teenage boys must be mad as frick the thread didnt die
zoomzoom please, mineycrafta hasn't been good for a decade.
2D Minecraft
bloatslop
I killed him yesterday and it was weirdly easy, I thought bosses at expert mode would stay hard but full jungle armor + demon scythe and vilethorn BTFO'd him
I'm sure hardmode will put me in my place tho
demon scythe is sequence breaking
Fuuuck I was trying to keep the challenge at a reasonable level but the space gun is too homosexual for me so I just farmed the scythe
I got the aqua staff thingy now and it seems really fricking strong so I might've powerskipped a good bit of the game oh well
Only OG remember the cheese strat with infinite rotation arena and a single boomerang for Skeletron
real OG remember going into the dungeon early to grab a head and skip the hands
or just rushing the dungeon anyways and ignoring the heads and spamming potions
LITERALLY POSSIBLE!
if you already have meteor armor set, try to get gray zapinator from travelling merchant (you can kill him and throw his hat into the shimmer to get extra slot). it's unreasonably broken.
I think I saw that but didn't buy it, interesting
And how do you kill npcs again?
lava trap or attack them with flymeal (gold broadsword + 5 stinkbug on honey)
Garbage Mary Sue boss
Play
Calamity
Why are calameme gays like this?
Because they're playing a shit game
99% of them are twitch viewers, need I say more?
You get guided by achievements + the LITERAL guide npc who tells you everything you can craft with whatever stuff you find. You don't NEED the wiki
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What class do you people like the most by the way, melee seems to be the easiest to get tools for given my gear and trinket options so far, but I'm doing mage
But the mage weapons are kind of underwheling / not as cool as ranger
on modded Mage since mods add some cool spells
on vanilla Melee since I like the progression with terra blade and zenith
So far as melee I've gotten swords that explode, swords that shoot beams, night's edge, a cool purple spear, ranged has been a shotgun, exploding and piercing bows, this stuff is cool
Meanwhile the little water staff and scythe I can shoot as a mage is kinda underwhelming, I hope you're both right
I want some sickass attacks
yeah early mage is lame with the dinky little staves and the lame-ass books but it really gets better
like, a lot better
melee and ranger are very balanced classes, perfect for 1st playthroughs
Mage is for when you want something else
Summoner is hardmode's hardmode, but gets easier the more you play it
point is, stick to melee for now
mage is definitely the most fun class to play in the latter half of the game, it has incredible weapon variety while melee and ranged are just the same shit with bigger swords and faster guns.
Mostly mage and summoner. Mage gets a lot of random shit that is pretty fun to use. Summoner just for being a different take on the game, but I also tend to use sentries more than most. Ranger is my go to for the early game if I am not limiting myself - frostburn arrows are such a huge boon at the start.
I always keep a summon out to know if theres enemies near me or not
Mage simply because lot of variety. Ranger is too braindead to me, especially post-mechs.
Mage > > > Melee > > Ranged
Mage gets more tools and effects than the other two combined. Its silly and a poor design choice imo. Melee is fun because its a bit harder than the other two and requires some level of build and thought to work. Ranged is just downright boring, you hold M1 and win from a distance, 0 thought or effort required. There is also limited variety in range even vs melee.
brown "people" game
>'s 100% a wiki game btw and anybody who says otherwise is a filthy fricking liar the game tells you nothing
Everybody who says otherwise has already played the game so much that they can't even fathom not knowing the basic shit the game fails to explain to you at all. Any player who doesn't use the wiki will eventually hit a wall in progression.
I still don't understand why people think this game needs a wiki. I liked that you had to discover stuff by yourself, and using the NPC for recipes was enough.
You can play it without wiki but you'll be missing out on items.
For example, how the frick could you ever figure out that you need to combine 3-4 other swords to make a better sword? You would only see it as an option if you already have those items which is unlikely.
Also, having to use wiki is not a bad thing imo.
>For example, how the frick could you ever figure out that you need to combine 3-4 other swords to make a better sword?
Every single item that can be crafted into something else has the word "material" in its item description. Once you realize that, this lets you know that you can figure out an items crafting tree with the guide. It even tells you what crafting station you need.
Don't spoonfeed a moron that cant even be bothered to read anon.
It's not like he's going to bother reading your post anyway.
It's good info to post regardless, incase people actually believe him.
>It's 100% a wiki game btw and anybody who says otherwise is a filthy fricking liar the game tells you nothing
yeah one of the weakest points is that the game does very little to get info across to you.
boss checklist and recipe browser solve 99% of the wiki problems.
The npcs give you every tidbit of information you need to beat the game.
You literally can ask the Guide what can you craft using an item you show him.
An example, how do I know how to start hard mode?
Arms dealer tells you there's a doll of the guide in the underworld, equipping it allows you to slay the Guide and Nurse tells you the Guide keeps getting lava burns. Piecing that together you summon the wall of flesh.
That is a huge fricking stretch my dude.
moron
Ok got the flamelash, now this is kino
Mage is officially cool
Mage is the most fun class, completely outclassed by meele and re-logic's moronic balancing desitions
Use the guide kid.
excuse me wtf
You can put bastet statue into impossible position by abusing desync. After that you can overlap it with opened door and whenever you activate Bastet statue it will increase ID of the door fragment which is overlapping it.
that's some serious zelda speedrun shit
>playing terraria mobile in the living room on my kindle on a rainy day back in 2013
take me back pls
You dont need to look things up for Terraria, you cheated yourself out of a superior experience.
>superior experience of not knowing what drops what and having to run 50 different items through the guide
Frick no
Is there a mod that fixes the god awful crafting GUI or bloat issues?
Magic Storage
wow wtf that build is trash
That one is the first base I've made, I've been thinking about remaking it since I found granite but yeah, shrug
If that's what you meant by build
soulful build
1.1 ruined the game by adding bloat reskin bosses and hardmode
fr
What do you do pre-hardmore terraria, frick around?
You BUILD, anon. That said if all you're capable of is common blocks, I can see why one would rush hard mode.
You actually spend time exploring the world instead of grinding mobs for poop souls to summon Skeletroon Past Prime so that curry ore spawns so you can craft the Joe Biden boss summon.
Sorry for my autism OP. But I'd like to make a creative recommendation for your setup.
I'm gonna rebuild it as a granite and obsidian tower later and it'll have a foundation don't worry autistbro
>Granite and obsidian tower
Never thought of using that before. Do keep us posted in the future. Would like to see the result when you finish it.
master mode is where the real boys at
Yeah it's a great game. Enjoy. Personally I have no regrets about using the wiki, extensively.
I don't know why people call this a wiki game. The guide pretty much gives you all the info you need.
Zoomers will shit and piss themselves the second the game lets go of their hand.
exploration scares kids nowadays
Terraria won
UPDATE WHEN
>the guide gives y- ACK!!!
How do you learn to craft boss summoning items
How do you learn the shimmer exists
How do you learn about how fishing works
How do you learn how to fish in the underworld
How do you learn why your pickaxe can't go through certain blocks
How do you learn about the world evil bosses
How do you learn about NPC housing
How do you learn about events like the blood moon or the goblin army
Etc etc etc etc etc
The guide just gives you crafting repices and it requires having a material in the first place
>boss summoning items aren't necessary, as every boss can spawn naturally without them
>the shimmer is optional for completionists who need to collect every item (shimmer makes it easier to get rare drops since you can transmutate one item to another)
>fishing is completely optional
>see above, you can beat the whole game without even knowing about the lava fishing reel
>this should be a given, considering that your pickaxe has a strength value, indicating that blocks are tied to how strong your pickaxe is
>you explore and find out about them, naturally. Again they're optional IIRC
>you can beat the whole game without ever housing a single NPC. might need the guide to summon WOF, but that's pretty much it
>those events will come to you naturally, and you'll learn via experience
Seems like the game gives you a ton of optional stuff that you never need to interact with. However, nothing stops you from putting hellstone into the guide's checkbox, and seeing a bunch of items that you can craft, or crafting your first fishing pole and seeing what you can fish up. It's almost like the game rewards curiosity.
>n-not necessary!
Stopped reading there
Why isn't that an argument? The game encourages you to experiment and explore. Why does it need to constantly hold your hand and spoil every single secret of the game?
>core game mechanics are "secrets"
>fishing is a core game mechanic
Both of you are moronic and clearly never actually interacted with the Guide NPC. He tells you everything in order of your own progression. Of your highlighted greentext bait, he will not tell you how to break through the corruption/crimson blocks, but he will tell you how to unlock the Demolist, the Demolist will tell you how to break through the stone with bombs if the condition is not fulfilled yet. And shimmer is a secret optional feature. All items of interest have Material in their description.
Progression is only a problem if you lose the Guide on your first night without getting the information of building houses from him first.
I suppose you're right. Though the guide dying early is mitigated by the player naturally feeling a desire to build a house for themselves, and it stands to reason that they'd want to put some knick-knacks down. All they need is a light, a table and a chair.
>Guide tells you and what crafting station
>Guide luminite bar for endless bucket if you never find the natural spawn
>Angler teaches you biome fishing, Fishing power is a stat
>Mining power stat
>Guide rotten chunk and summon or try tools on orb
>House query button above equipment
>Guide summon material, again
>etc etc etc
Imagine not getting excited about finding a new material to ask the guide about
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK the flamelash feels so good to use it's stupid
amazing weapon
bump
Best game ever.
i'm down for any game that lets me use minions