Hello everyone!

I think we need a Terraria thread!

I have currently collected all the way to beetle armor and I have the Scythe, And paladin armor.

Anyone want to share their builds? (Also Luna update is coming!)

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I saw this game being played for the first time over at my buddies house. It looks pretty neato. I might check it out next paycheck.

It's not bad for a 2D version of Minecraft with more RPG elements. I like the wave fights but you really need a team for that. Progression is rather simplistic but has at least a stopgap to the hard-mode stuff so at least there's varying difficulty.

The last thing they put out was the Fishing update so that kills time if want to kill it

 Juvieus Kaine wrote:
It's not bad for a 2D version of Minecraft with more RPG elements. I like the wave fights but you really need a team for that. Progression is rather simplistic but has at least a stopgap to the hard-mode stuff so at least there's varying difficulty.

The last thing they put out was the Fishing update so that kills time if want to kill it

And Duke Fishron. Don't forget him. He is quite a hard boss. And not a joke.

ITs quite an enjoyable game. Reminds me of old school RPGs. But it has far more content than Minecraft.

Its more fun and you can get through tiers of armor pretty quickly if you put your mind to it. It took me a few months to get hardmode because I really didn't want to rush. And then I got into hardmode and immediately died. Took me another few months to beat all the bosses up to plantera, and then the hunt for the greatest weapons began. (The Scourage, Vampire Knives, Frost hydra began)

That took me a few weeks to get the keys except for one, The scourage. It took me a day to get the scourage. (I was very lucky) It is probably the most OP Weapon I have ever used XD.

It's always a cute little 2 or 3 distraction for me and buddy whenever they update. The core premise and solid and it is quite charming in a way. Still It never quite comes off feeling like a complete experience. Like it's got a good volume of content it's just lacking a bit in the depth department. Feels a bit like a prototype for something greater in some ways.

I like it. But I still prefer minecraft. For Minecraft when you get bored there are a zillion mods to add and either play around with, or to play as it's own game. Mods like Pixelmon and Orespawn add in so much content, or just even change the entire game so much, that's it's generally impossible to get bored with.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
I like it. But I still prefer minecraft. For Minecraft when you get bored there are a zillion mods to add and either play around with, or to play as it's own game. Mods like Pixelmon and Orespawn add in so much content, or just even change the entire game so much, that's it's generally impossible to get bored with.

Yeah I am the opposite I enjoy RPGS in general and think they are probably one of the best things about gaming.

I really enjoy Terraria, though I'm having a tough time "getting into it" again. Probably has something to do with wanting to terraform an entire world to be "perfect" and easy to move from biome to biome for fishing...

Eh, someday I'll probably do it.

I don't rush Terraria when I do play (I prefer building to the more "gamey" aspects) so it takes me a long time to actually get to the end-game stuff. I don't think I'm ready to go back to that yet. Maybe one day.

 daedalus wrote:
I don't rush Terraria when I do play (I prefer building to the more "gamey" aspects) so it takes me a long time to actually get to the end-game stuff. I don't think I'm ready to go back to that yet. Maybe one day.

The end game stuff is actually quite cool. But currently hardmode is a joke. Its not really that hard if you rush to adamanatium or hallowed sets.

Alright so Terraria 1.3

HAS COME OUT!

How has everyone's journey been?

It's... interesting!

Some of the new items seem to drop way, way too often. Good for gold, not so good otherwise. Some of the new monsters are pretty nice looking, and I've noticed that vultures and jellyfish have new sounds, which I like.

Are we avoiding spoilers in this thread, or no?

 toasteroven wrote:
It's... interesting!

Some of the new items seem to drop way, way too often. Good for gold, not so good otherwise. Some of the new monsters are pretty nice looking, and I've noticed that vultures and jellyfish have new sounds, which I like.

Are we avoiding spoilers in this thread, or no?

just put it into a spoiler

Ah, yes. The sensible and obvious thing to do. No wonder I forgot it.

In that case

I always start over for every major release, so I'll be catching up for a bit. Really excited though

Do we have a steam group for dakka dakka?

Gone through the game, got up to platinum tier... whoo, boy, was the king slime hard to kill . Much better than he used to be in terms of ability to counter strategies.

Rain of slimes is fun!

 Melissia wrote:
Gone through the game, got up to platinum tier... whoo, boy, was the king slime hard to kill . Much better than he used to be in terms of ability to counter strategies.

Rain of slimes is fun!

I love the martian madness event. Drops the best wings in the game

I still have just lead tier in my new game. I am a slow gamer.

I have, however, tried out bouncy dynamite. It, uh... bounced.

 toasteroven wrote:
I still have just lead tier in my new game. I am a slow gamer.

I have, however, tried out bouncy dynamite. It, uh... bounced.

It killed you didn't it?

I got killed while hunting down some platinum ore. I've been playing for a long time, but yeah getting killed by the new mobs was kind of bs.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 toasteroven wrote:
I still have just lead tier in my new game. I am a slow gamer.

I have, however, tried out bouncy dynamite. It, uh... bounced.

It killed you didn't it?

Honestly, I would have been disappointed if it didn't kill me.

I notice they've got more in the Crimson now! Crimson goldfish, for one, just like corrupt goldfish. And a version of the spiky vine things. The Crimson's still easier to breeze through in the early game when compared to the Corruption, though.

 toasteroven wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 toasteroven wrote:
I still have just lead tier in my new game. I am a slow gamer.

I have, however, tried out bouncy dynamite. It, uh... bounced.

It killed you didn't it?

Honestly, I would have been disappointed if it didn't kill me.

I notice they've got more in the Crimson now! Crimson goldfish, for one, just like corrupt goldfish. And a version of the spiky vine things. The Crimson's still easier to breeze through in the early game when compared to the Corruption, though.

They really made it more fun to play thats for sure. I have been building underground now, because it ensures that my damn npcs don't die every damn night.

Just made it to hard mode after dying to the wall of flesh countless times and expanding the bridge everywhere on an expert world. Pretty happy, because the world has titanium

Trying to find the damn shadowkey... this dungeon is bizarre in its layout, even for a dungeon.

 Melissia wrote:
Trying to find the damn shadowkey... this dungeon is bizarre in its layout, even for a dungeon.

Yeah the dungeon is a pain in the arse.

I wish that it felt more like a dungeon...

Found a new npc!

Found them as well, I think.

Oh man, the marble layer enemies. I wasn't even sure where I was when I first got to one of those areas. So I was just walking along, checking out the sights, and then bam! Instant death. (Due to falling, mainly, but also the enemy).

Marble looks real nice as a building material, though.

Yeah, the marble area is glorious.

The summoner is the hardest class to play as. As I have discovered recently. You have to get a ton of defense and regeneration for health or else you are going to melt pretty quickly.

Yeah, it is very tricky to do. I normally do a ranger oath, because I love the guns, and don't forget the stake launcher. That is fantastic to use.

Doeesn't the stake launcher go in a straight line rather than a parabola?

 Melissia wrote:
Found them as well, I think.

Spoiler:

Seems that new NPC is in marble layers along with a lot of the new enemies. But they never settle in a builidng, they're like the traveling merchant. I hate the damn medusae though.

That npc wanders, and can appear anywhere underground (found him in the jungle, jungle temple, near hell, granite, etc)

 Melissia wrote:
Doeesn't the stake launcher go in a straight line rather than a parabola?

Yeah, cross map PvP snipes are hilarious

Huh, only found him in two different marble regions, myself.

I found him in a mushroom cave the first time, marble the second. Maybe he likes mini-biomes?

Did some experimenting with the banners. So it turns out that yes, a bunny banner will give you added defense against bunnies.

 toasteroven wrote:
I found him in a mushroom cave the first time, marble the second. Maybe he likes mini-biomes?

Did some experimenting with the banners. So it turns out that yes, a bunny banner will give you added defense against bunnies.

Like all banners

I know, I just got a kick out of added defense against bunnies.

Though now that I think about it, corrupted bunnies are totally a thing. Maybe it's not as silly as I thought.

Does the bunny banner help against corrupted bunnies though?

I'm assuming corrupted bunnies have their own banner, but I don't know

Only one way to find out! I've got the bunny generator, just need to get together some vile powder.

It turns out that yes, there is a corrupt bunny banner! So I guess the bunny banner only helps against the vicious attacks of normal bunnies.

It also turns out I could have looked at a wiki instead of spawning bunnies, corrupting them, and killing them, but that's hardly science.

 toasteroven wrote:
It turns out that yes, there is a corrupt bunny banner! So I guess the bunny banner only helps against the vicious attacks of normal bunnies.

It also turns out I could have looked at a wiki instead of spawning bunnies, corrupting them, and killing them, but that's hardly science.

Hey thanks for trying it out!

By the way guys.

My terrarian summoner. Is epic. I have been farming the final event. And I got something quite interesting. I keep losing to the final boss on purpose so that way I can wait for my friend to catch up to me. He's a melee class first time playing and we did a game together, I had a hardcore character at the beginning but he accidently summoned the destroyer on hardmode and i had to start over. :/

I'm glad they added more to the summoner class, it's much more fun to play one now considering before you just got tikis and that was that.

Also, I started a single player playthrough, featuring Leman Russ as my character, and I intend to build the Fang in the snow taiga biome (don't know it's official name).

Found something interesting in the jungle the other day. Apparently there are now massive underground trees! They're quite nice. I'd build a house in one if it weren't, you know, in the underground jungle.

They also always have a chest in them, containing LivingWood treasure similar to oak giant trees... but these place mahogany stuff.

I'm loving the Steam integration for multiplayer, it helps a lot for servers with just my friends and is an upgrade from the unreliable mix of LAN and hamachi. Also, is it just my crappy internet, or did hard mode get a bit laggier for connection/block lag issues.

Yeah, I concur. I really do not miss hamachi at all, I hate that thing.

I beat the EoC on expert! It's an accomplishment for me.

Currently doing a normal playthrough with Meli. Been putting up every banner we get so far and after about 600+ slimes it's starting to seem like a mistake to do it but too many banners up so far to turn back.

Just got up to mythril set almost have titanium armour going with melee still since I like having the higher defense but been running around with two bananarangs as my main weapon for a while now. Keep trying to go ranged but doesn't feel as worth it once I get into the caves because boomerangs.

That said, melee is very hard to do with bosses, even with the increased defense, unless you do spears. It feels like your bananarangs don't 'do enough damage.

Tried this game out for the first time the other day. It was just the tutorial but man it was fun. It was on the PS Vita. I can easily say this will probably be my next game purchase... and possibly yet another game I'll end up owning on multiple systems.

 djphranq wrote:
Tried this game out for the first time the other day. It was just the tutorial but man it was fun. It was on the PS Vita. I can easily say this will probably be my next game purchase... and possibly yet another game I'll end up owning on multiple systems.

highly recommend the PC version over the PSvita version, more content on the PC version, and imo better controls.

Agreed, the PC version is generally superior, as the consolized and tablet versions are both lagging behind in content... and aim-assist for mining or construction is really bad when you want to build gak.

 Melissia wrote:
Agreed, the PC version is generally superior, as the consolized and tablet versions are both lagging behind in content... and aim-assist for mining or construction is really bad when you want to build gak.

Ugh tell me about it. For the mean time I'll play on the vita until I can get my desktop set back up.

So i finally got started on the actual game... previously I had been fooling around with the tutorial... I'm definitely going to have to study up on stuff. I wasn't sure how the zombies were able to get into my little hut house thingy... then again it's just a simple thing like they show you in the tutorial: Stone blocks on one side... stone blocks on another... wood platforms for a 'roof'... and a wall.

Also got a star and put it in a jar... still have to see what that's for. One thing for sure... I'm definitely going to play this on a PC... the Vita just proves to be difficult to deal with.for a game like this.

Also I'd love to see what mods are available.

Oh also kind of OT or non-Terraria but is Starbound like this?

 djphranq wrote:
So i finally got started on the actual game... previously I had been fooling around with the tutorial... I'm definitely going to have to study up on stuff. I wasn't sure how the zombies were able to get into my little hut house thingy... then again it's just a simple thing like they show you in the tutorial: Stone blocks on one side... stone blocks on another... wood platforms for a 'roof'... and a wall.

Also got a star and put it in a jar... still have to see what that's for. One thing for sure... I'm definitely going to play this on a PC... the Vita just proves to be difficult to deal with.for a game like this.

Also I'd love to see what mods are available.

Oh also kind of OT or non-Terraria but is Starbound like this?

Starbound (imo) is far far worse. Exploring is alright, but the combat feels the same, but playing a ranged char is much harder due to using energy (which regens and is used for other things like double jumps) over actual ammo.

As for mods, iirc terraria isn't very mod compatible, but there are some out there.

Starbound is pretty similar. It's doing a bit with a storyline and I found it pretty fun, but I feel like the company has been shoving the paperwork aside foe updates, but promises some cool ways to progress through the game and if they come through it is going to be something that is worth the time for IMO. As of now, be cautious with the game, but I found it enjoyable, but settling isn't what it should be as of now.

Went to the steam store... took a gander at Terraria'screenshots... wow looks incredible compared to the vita... the price of $9.99 is pretty cool... Steam trading cards is a nice plus... one review mentions some numbers as far as stuff vs. Minecraft (basically Terraria has more 'stuff'; also mentions Minecraft might be the better sandbox but Terraria is the better adventure)... The nail in the coffin though (aside from having played and enjoyed it on the vita)? ... this one line from a review:

You can be a werewolf riding a unicorn while shooting rainbows from a gun.

I think I found my endgame goal for Terraria.

Purchase made.... now to build a hut that zombies can't jump into...

I don't think you'll regret it. I've got a lot of fun out of Terraria, far more than I thought I would when I first heard of it.

 djphranq wrote:
Also got a star and put it in a jar... still have to see what that's for.

Being near it gives a mana regen buff, range is about a screen's width in radius. Certain items drain the mana bar on the right hand side.


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 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Starbound is pretty similar. It's doing a bit with a storyline and I found it pretty fun, but I feel like the company has been shoving the paperwork aside foe updates, but promises some cool ways to progress through the game and if they come through it is going to be something that is worth the time for IMO. As of now, be cautious with the game, but I found it enjoyable, but settling isn't what it should be as of now.

Starbound is still in development. It's a complete game, but they're currently fleshing it out more and more. That said, Starbound does harvesting and liquid manipulation FAR better than terraria does, or ever will do.

Combat, really they're both good and it depends on taste.

Building, Starbound is far superior in terms of its UI for building, but Terraria has more content in that you have a reason to build more than one room other than "I'm out of space"-- Starbound is still developing its villager system and villager AI for human-built villages.

Starbound does have better events, though, because their events aren't just "random enemies invade your home area". The Floran Party is glorious, and their boss battles have arenas specifically built for each boss, making them far more enjoyable. The game could use more of them though, but that will come in time-- they have the enemies already coded and in game, but not accessible because they're developing the content of the arenas themselves.

One thing Terraria does better though I think is progression. Starbound needs more balance in its ore distribution, and the way it's set up you just sort of scout the surface of worlds to try to scoop up easily accessible ores. It's not a good system I feel. And the fact that ranged weapons are almost entirely given to one race of seven pisses me the feth right off.

So I got the zombies to stop jumping down from the ceiling... had to put blocks along the platforms that I had as a roof... but now they just open the front door haha.

Still need to play on the PC. Installed it last night but today I accidentally chose to install win 10... so I'm waiting for that to finish.

 djphranq wrote:
So I got the zombies to stop jumping down from the ceiling... had to put blocks along the platforms that I had as a roof... but now they just open the front door haha.

Still need to play on the PC. Installed it last night but today I accidentally chose to install win 10... so I'm waiting for that to finish.

Build a pit that's ~10+ blocks deep by the door. You can jump over it, but zombies won't, they'll walk into it, which also makes it easier to kill them if you want too.

 Wolfblade wrote:

 djphranq wrote:
So I got the zombies to stop jumping down from the ceiling... had to put blocks along the platforms that I had as a roof... but now they just open the front door haha.

Still need to play on the PC. Installed it last night but today I accidentally chose to install win 10... so I'm waiting for that to finish.

Build a pit that's ~10+ blocks deep by the door. You can jump over it, but zombies won't, they'll walk into it, which also makes it easier to kill them if you want too.

Thanks I'll try that.

Win 10 finished infecting my computer with its presence... gonna try Terraria on the PC now yay!

Who is 'The Guide'? Is that your character?

Not sure if this is a joke or not, but the guide is your earlygame friend who can tell you what you can all make with material x. I I found iron, I can take it to the guide and see a list of everything that uses iron to make.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but the guide is your earlygame friend who can tell you what you can all make with material x. I I found iron, I can take it to the guide and see a list of everything that uses iron to make.

Ah okay... so I guess its that other NPC that's there when i start? Okay cool. On the Vita there was a guy named Scott and on the PC I guess he's Maxwell (or maybe they just randomize the name when you start?)

Yeah, names are randomly picked from a list.

Every NPC has a random list of names.
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/NPC_names

So, I made a new guy, new world. I started walking and Queen Bee made a certain person's innards become outards. Anyone else have this happen?

No, though I can guess how that happened... doesn't make any sense though. Queen bee is a boss so it shouldn't have been summoned without you doing a specific thing...

Yeah, she just flew by, killed me, and returned to her normal state. I was rather surprised at this.

The best, least spoileriffic way to explain it is that there's a special block in the bee hive area in a certain part of the map, that when broken summons the queen bee. There's actually several of these, I think. And apparently, the way map gen worked on your map, it was broken right at the start.

Ok, that makes sense. A shame that's one less hive in the world, but I can make do. Poor Inquisitor Mordrey (my character), he never stood a chance.

Got me a copper broadsword!

And I got lenses! I was looking for the recipe in my craft menu for goggles but they aren't there... but then I realized I have the recipe on the Vita but not on the PC...

But yay a broadsword!

Also died a bunch to some desert creatures... one was a grasshopper/locust thing and the other one was like a giant centipede/snake thing (I couldn't see it too well because I didn't have a torch out.

Yeah, the desert is... quite a bit deadlier in the early game now, compared to earlier versions. More fun too, of course.

Yeah, those bugs are deadly. Probably closer to 3rd/4th tier (using wood as 1st and copper as 2nd) at least.

I put in a whole lot of time this evening into the game. Totally loving it.

I managed to get up to a Golden Broadsword and got my first heart smashed. Got an eyeball to summon a boss too... I'm working on my armor though so just digging around for ore. And I have access to explosives now! yay!

Be sure to build rooms that have artificial blocks and backgrouns, plus enough space, plus a light source, a chair, and a table, and a door.

Build... four of them, you'll see

Should wood walls be okay? I built like 4 but maybe they need to be all on the same level? So far some folks have been staying in the rooms which is kind of neat.

Yeah, wood walls are fine.

Yep, wood walls are ideal really.

Congrats on having people move in Each person moving in has their own requirements. One guy moves in if you have enough money. Nurse moves in if you have gotten your first health upgrade. Demolitionist moves in if you have explosives in your inventory. Et cetera. Each person needs their own room.

Ah cool!

Best get to building Casa de Frank!

So... can monsters use minecart tracks now? Because I just had a bat zip at me at crazy fast speeds along one.

Apparently so.

Suggestion for the new player- get to mining. Always upgrade pickaxe first. Usually hammer next. Armor over weapons.

Has anyone beaten the new endgame content?

 jmurph wrote:
Apparently so.

Suggestion for the new player- get to mining. Always upgrade pickaxe first. Usually hammer next. Armor over weapons.

Has anyone beaten the new endgame content?

Why hammer? As a weapon? Eh. As for the endgame content yeah, pretty tough now, especially since they more or less prevent all non potion based healing (the nebula armor HP regen still works though)

Aside from the special hammer you get from beating the monster that enters you in to hardmode which is necessary for plot reasons, you really don't need to upgrade your hammer that much aside from the convenience of breaking down walls. Which, if you're building a tower rather than a bunker, is not that big of an issue.

I do agree on upgrade pickaxe first, as the faster you can upgrade your pickaxe the faster you can mine later ores. For me, it goes pickaxe, armor, weapon, other tools.


n0t_u and I beat the end game content together, including in expert mode.

I'm at gold right now for sword and pick axe... so hammer will eventually need to get up there? I stopped at a lead hammer because I found I wasn't using it. For my axe I forget where I'm at... maybe silver.

For armor, I'm at silver except for my helmet... for my head I've got some helm that helps with vision or something.

You use hammer for only a few things, and aside from breaking background walls, you only really need the one you get from a certain boss.

 Melissia wrote:
You use hammer for only a few things, and aside from breaking background walls, you only really need the one you get from a certain boss.

Cool beans. I'll focus my ore/bars towards the other stuff.

 djphranq wrote:
I'm at gold right now for sword and pick axe... so hammer will eventually need to get up there? I stopped at a lead hammer because I found I wasn't using it. For my axe I forget where I'm at... maybe silver.

For armor, I'm at silver except for my helmet... for my head I've got some helm that helps with vision or something.

No, ignore hammers, eventually you'll get a special hammer from a boss (you'll know it when you get it). Other than that, there's not much point to it, I find a wooden hammer suits me easily.

Upgrading axes is annoying for me because it's not justifiable to worry about, but its annoying for when you do need wood because it takes forever to get it because my axe is two tiers behind everything else.

 Wolfblade wrote:

 djphranq wrote:
I'm at gold right now for sword and pick axe... so hammer will eventually need to get up there? I stopped at a lead hammer because I found I wasn't using it. For my axe I forget where I'm at... maybe silver.

For armor, I'm at silver except for my helmet... for my head I've got some helm that helps with vision or something.

No, ignore hammers, eventually you'll get a special hammer from a boss (you'll know it when you get it). Other than that, there's not much point to it, I find a wooden hammer suits me easily.

Yeah... that's what I gathered Mel was telling me...

Mhm. Upgrade axes and hammers are your convenience, not as high-priority. Armor I find is actually the most important thing to upgrade after picks.

Armor is incredibly useful, and I find getting a ranged weapon (IE bows) is also a nice bonus for boss fights, even if they don't necessarily do a whole lot of damage.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Armor is incredibly useful, and I find getting a ranged weapon (IE bows) is also a nice bonus for boss fights, even if they don't necessarily do a whole lot of damage.

I still haven't tried a range weapon yet... maybe I'll give it a go tonight. I had a flare gun but sold it since I wasn't really using anything ranged.

The flare gun is more for screwing around and annoying friends by shooting it everywhere in their chest room. At least, that's what they interpreted its use to be...

Did a quick Terraria session tonight. I tried to record the game using the Windows 10 game dvr thing. It didn't work though... not sure what happened... I did a couple Hearthstone sessions and it recorded those fine.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
The flare gun is more for screwing around and annoying friends by shooting it everywhere in their chest room. At least, that's what they interpreted its use to be...

It's also good for raining flares down on your friends from the skybridge you secretly just built.

I had to reinstall Terraria... (I restored my laptop and have my desktop setup and installed terraria to that).

So I started terraria assuming that somehow my stuff would be in the steam cloud or something and sync with the game... but nothing is there... I had to create a new character and world. Is there a way to get back my old stuff? I didn't see any option where i could download from a cloud or something.


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ack... i figured it out... I don't think i had it set to save to the cloud. Ah well. YAY get to discover stuff again! and now I know a little bit of what I need to do.

I keep having goblin invasions. Like, far more often than I remember them happening. I think I've had five or so happen in less than ten days in the game.

It's not a huge problem; more of a nuisance at this point, but man, have I got a lot of spiky things now.

I sell them for money, myself.

 Melissia wrote:
I sell them for money, myself.

I do to, but it's never all that much. But every little bit helps.

Funny thing, just after I posted that, I got yet another goblin invasion, my first one in hard mode. I guess it's better to have this one than any of the others, because I am super unprepared.

Maybe less so now, as I got "godly shadowflame knives" out of it. That's a new one for me.

I'm kind of caught up now since reinstalling terraria in that I have a gold pick axe and a gold broadsword. and I found that eye ball thing to summon a boss... just need to find more heart containers ...with the previous game I found like 4 or 5... so far with this game only 1.

I've found heart containers seem to be most common in the jungle. I don't know that for certain, but it feels like I find a lot there.

In my game, I just got two fun messages at the same time!

You feel vibrations from deep below...
The blood moon is rising...

Come on Terraria. Why you gotta be this way?

Ouch, both eater of worlds and blood moon at the same time. Good luck.

There was a golden rabbit... or was it a squirrel... I meant to right click on it... instead I whacked it with my golden pick... was it for anything special? I also discovered the usefulness of cobwebs... sticky explosives are fun!

If you catch it you can sell it for ten gold pieces. that's the advantage of gold critters.

Oh and their terrariums are fancier.

I've lost count of how many golden squirrels I've killed by accident. It's a shame there isn't a golden squirrel banner, really.

 Melissia wrote:
Ouch, both eater of worlds and blood moon at the same time. Good luck.

Sadly, I did not have good luck. And I forgot I was holding... rather a lot of money.

Got a neat golden gravestone out of the deal, though.

oh man.... There was a medusa thing... dudes in gold armor... javelins... many a deaths... until I dropped sticks of dynamite on them hehehe. and I got a snowball gun! soooo fun!

Yup, they have added lots of fun stuff!

Yeah, they've been adding a ton of content quite regularly. It's nice to see devs actually care about their game post-release.

 Melissia wrote:
Yeah, they've been adding a ton of content quite regularly. It's nice to see devs actually care about their game post-release.

Not only that, but it they started updating because after their "last" update (1.2), pretty much the entire community wanted more, and they delivered quite nicely.

There's several options for throwing-weapon based armor, actually, but throwing weapons sort of die off in the mid-game.

Also, the food options in Starbound are consumable buffs now.

I was only aware of one armor set for throwing, so thank you for that. I think it'd be cool for it to be able to go throughout the entire game, but we already have a nice bit of classes, I guess.

And, yeah, I knew they gave buffs, but its still a bit of a slap to the face to me.

I wish they at least let it be a toggle-able option.

I like how the game can still surprise me at times. I just found an enchanted sword for the first time. It's... useless to me now, but the way it's placed is kind of neat.

Indeed. Imagine finding taht really early on.

Platforms... how I scoffed at you... now I scoff at myself... self-scoff if you will... so helpful are you when doing deep excavations... all hail the wooden platform!

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Platforms... how I scoffed at you... now I scoff at myself... self-scoff if you will... so helpful are you when doing deep excavations... all hail the wooden platform!

HERESY, all glory to the grappling hook god and his mighty servants, the rope!

I have a fondness for platforms myself. That or flying mounts.

Platforms are also pretty essential for some of the boss fights. Wall of Flesh would be pretty tough to do with just hooks, but I guess enough ropes would be doable.... Does anyone know if there is any armor better than adamantine that doesn't require hallow bars?

Titanium is better than hallowed in many ways.

I got a wedding dress and veil! yay! So badass chopping mobs with an axe plus wearing that dress.

Did some nice expansion work... pretty much increased my storage room and work room since I got a couple new pieces of equipment that can craft stuff (something called a solidifier and a neato thing that turns silt/slush to stuff like ore).

Also figured out how to keep my NPCs from leaving (muwahahaha).

I started a 2nd character and another world too. Still softcore but now its a medium world.

My favorite part about the wedding dress and veil is that they don't cover your character's beard.

Holy cow, titanium armor is pretty neat. 1 Def less than adamantine but way better set effect. With Star Veil for longer post hit invuln, that's a pretty tight setup! Now just need to get warding on a set of wings.... So expensive to reforge frost wings :-/

Yep, the Titanium Armor is one of the best armor sets in the game.

So, it turns out that the traveling merchant is really good at falling into water filled pits and drowning. Which I was unaware npc's could do.

On an unrelated note, I now have a snazzy new hat.

Yep, that guy is the bane of all people who like to have moats.

I've decided to get rid of the crimson in my world. I'm so sick of those tick things.

But I'm going to use explosives.

It might take a while.

Amusingly, the steampunk flamethrower si the best way to get rid of the crimson.

Yeah, explosives might not be the most efficient way.

But I feel like they might be the most emotionally satisfying.

I always liked the clentaminator, it reminds me of a book I read, where most of the Earth was oxygenless, and it was mostly due to a select group of people who went around spraying chemicals on practically every plant. The only places with oxygen were biodomes, and those were run by tyrants.

Playing Terraria while listening to Welcome to Night Vale is a pretty neato trip.

Ok so the rate of dungeon slimes to everything else seems... off. I've killed 293 angry bones, 60 or so of the caster guys... and 2 dungeon slimes.

I need golden keys. More specifically, I need my cobalt shield!

Still blowing up the world, in the meantime.

That's odd. I quickly acquired a surplus of keys. RNG and all that.

Maybe try a water candle?

Oh, I had plenty of water candles around, and a battle potion to boot. Like you said, the RNG must have just hated me. Did finally get the shield though.