Wormophobia support group, or the Terraria thread of all things Terraria

[Aldurin]

Website (http://www.terraria.org/)

Youtube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/demilogic)

I first found out about this when Zetaplays favorited one of the dev's LPs for this. At first I thought "Awesome, it's a 2D minecraft with more combat.", but it's actually awesome in it's own way. Everything about it is generally awesome and as PaperBatVG (the only guy they've given the game to LP so far) says, it does seem to appeal in the many aspects that minecraft doesn't. Apparently the game is ready and will be released once the release preparations are ready.

I recommend at least watching the dev's LP, then if you aren't satisfied they have another person's LP in their playlist. Also episode 23 of PaperBat's LP has the Terraria public relations guy answering more questions about the game.

I am going to try to buy this the day it comes out and I hope you guys think about doing that too.


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McTahr edit, 'cause I'ma do what Krylo said:
There is a Nuklearforums Terraria server per the following credentialsials. (Ials.)
1) Get LogMeIn Hamachi.
2) Complain about having to get LogMeIn Hamachi.
3) Connect to the network NPF Bits with the password FPN.
4) Open up Terraria and connect to the IP listed for grabblenab.
5) Enter password FPN.
6) ???
7) Cocaine overdose.

[Marc v4.0]

Sort of a cross between Minecraft and Miner Dig Deep

Yeah, gonna waste so many hours on this

[TDK]

Another LP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeBrOp5XW3I&feature=channel_video_title)

This game looks incredibly fun.

[Aldurin]

Yeah, the guys made a smart move by letting some of the well-known LP guys take an early crack at it. I'm also somewhat amazed at how quickly they gained hype. I think Blue said something about how on the day they released the trailer there were like 5 fan forums and a wiki about the game.

[phil_]

Couldn't they have at least made their own sprites instead of just recoloring Butz? That's some really lazy stuff right there.

[Loyal]

Couldn't they have at least made their own sprites instead of just recoloring Butz? That's some really lazy stuff right there.So it's not just me, then?

It still looks pretty cool, mind you. 5-20 dollars doesn't seem too bad depending on what progress they make between now and release.

[Aldurin]

Couldn't they have at least made their own sprites instead of just recoloring Butz? That's some really lazy stuff right there.

Apparently that was put in place before they hired the new art guy, so hopefully they'll change it to something better soon.

[rpgdemon]

Yeah, in the other thread where this was linked, I mentioned that I didn't think a single one of their sprites was original. Hopefully they fix that, as it really looks... Uncohesive right now.

[Aldurin]

Saw this on Blue's twitter.

Hey Guys!!!. . . .'Terraria, Coming to your Windows PC, June, 2011'.

It's sooner than his maximum guess earlier, and at least it won't interfere with anybody's education work when it comes out.

But when it does come out I will build castles. Out of gold. In the sky. Multiple times.

[Aldurin]

Update from Blue's twitter, Terraria should be on Steam on May 16. Still no information on price, but it's nice to know that it's only 4 days away.

[Thadius]

It will exist. For ten dollars. On Steam. By the sixteenth.

All in favor of this becoming the next big thing, say 'Aye.'

[Aldurin]

The new trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7uOhFTrrq0&feature=feedu), now with less blatant copyright infringement. I can't say that the sprites look better, but it does look nicer with the rocket boots and it sounds like as though the devs will release alternate sprite packs for Terraria.

I may just buy this later as I know I will fail my classes if I buy this now, I'll buy it toward the end of the week when school shit stops flying at me.

Damn you, educational system.

[Marc v4.0]

Dammit, come out already! It's Monday!

Technically!

Dammit!

[Kerensky287]

Anybody bought it yet? I'm really tempted.

Reeeeeally tempted.

Just not sure if I can justify buying it. It's cheaper than a TF2 hat but maaan I don't know, I feel like the novelty will wear off kind of quickly.

If we could get an awesome server going like Fifth has with Minecraft then I would invest for sure... pending somebody else's feedback on the game itself.

[Marc v4.0]

I am having fun so far, has a bit of a curve to it. Get used to dying horribly over and over until you can spirit enough stuff back to get tougher

[Solid Snake]

So are we going to have an NPF server world, or what?

[Aldurin]

It's steam hosted, and one of the LP videos said you need twice the memory needed to run Terraria normally in order to run a server.

But I would like a server.

Also KERENSKY WHAT ARE YOU DOING SITTING ON THAT FENCE THERE GET OFF YOUR ASS AND BUY THE GAME.

EDIT: The only reason I haven't already bought it is so that I can get most of my school shit done instead of failing and/or going into a sleep-deprived work craze. BUT I WILL GET IT THIS WEEKEND AT THE LATEST.

EDIT2: I doubt the novelty will wear off quickly, and even if it does Redigit cranks out shit for the game so fast it makes Notch look comatose in comparison, so boredom should be temporary at worst.

EDIT3: So server's aren't run through steam and there's a bit of stuff that needs to be worked out with adding certain necessary features (fortunately they're saying it's only a couple of weeks for this stuff to be done).

[Fifthfiend]

Killing Fiendcraft, hosting this

[Aldurin]

Yessssssss

EDIT: In case you're still on the fence for whether or not you'll buy this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOxuIWfvUnM&feature=feedu)

[Kerensky287]

Aldurin you are such a hypocrite

Terraria doesn't even list you in the "other people who have this game" section

Jerky-jerk jerkface

EDIT: oh I see you have a reason not to buy it


well

pooh pooh to you

[Donomni]

I got this game instead of Minecraft, mostly because it looks like my computer can run this easily, as far as I can tell, anyways.

It's pretty good, actually! Took me a few hours to figure out how to build a damn house properly, but I got it.

I'm trying to find enough materials to make a better pickaxe at the moment, because holy crap digging anything but sand can be slow going.

Of course, it's just one day of play, so I'll probably get better at this soon.

[Kerensky287]

This game desperately needs a proper tutorial instead of that useless Helper guy, but once you get into it it's awesome. It feels like Minecraft with more of an emphasis on adventuring.

I've already gotten a magical glowing boomerang, boots that increase my maximum speed to incredible heights, a bottled cloud that allows me to double-jump, and a wicked sweet set of goggles.

The best part is that your characters seem to be persistant as far as I can tell, so if someone DID get a server going then we could show off our fancy duds.

[Aldurin]

The best part is that your characters seem to be persistant as far as I can tell, so if someone DID get a server going then we could show off our fancy duds.

A character's inventory does carry over between maps and servers, which will be nice since we can have official nights of "How many times can we murder the Eye of Cthulu before the sun rises?" and similar things.

[Donomni]

Friendly warning: Falling sand hurts.

Uh, anyone know how you can multimake items? Clicking hundreds of times to craft stuff one at a time is gonna do horrible, horrible things to my hands.

[Specterbane]

I'm kind of torn about weather or not to buy this. The trailer looks fun, and it certainly sounds like it from what I've read on here. But all the LPs are of the Alpha and make the game seem unfinished. Are there any LPs of the finished game? Cause there's no way to get a demo by the looks of it.

[Vauron]

Friendly warning: Falling sand hurts.

Uh, anyone know how you can multimake items? Clicking hundreds of times to craft stuff one at a time is gonna do horrible, horrible things to my hands.

Are you refering to making things like bars of metal or torches? Just keep clicking, you can forge a bunch at a time. Now, sadly that doesn't work when buying from the merchant, but crafting is no issue.

[Kerensky287]

Are you refering to making things like bars of metal or torches? Just keep clicking, you can forge a bunch at a time. Now, sadly that doesn't work when buying from the merchant, but crafting is no issue.

If I want to make a giant wooden house, do I really have to click each time I want to make 4 wood walls, though?

It'd be great if you could use something like the right mouse button to just craft the maximum possible. It'd save a lot of time.

[McTahr]

I wish. Making arrows is bad enough, and you have to do that twice to be productive.

Sidenote: Devourers wreck your shit if you happen to still be at "what's armor?" stages of the game.

[Donomni]

If I want to make a giant wooden house, do I really have to click each time I want to make 4 wood walls, though?

It'd be great if you could use something like the right mouse button to just craft the maximum possible. It'd save a lot of time.

This. After getting a literal fuckton of sand, I tried turning it all into glass and then into bottles.

...I've pretty much just left all the sand in a chest after awhile.

[Aldurin]

I'm kind of torn about weather or not to buy this. The trailer looks fun, and it certainly sounds like it from what I've read on here. But all the LPs are of the Alpha and make the game seem unfinished. Are there any LPs of the finished game? Cause there's no way to get a demo by the looks of it.

This game isn't unfinished in the way that Minecraft is unfinished. This is "unfinished but rapidly cranking out awesome shit on a regular basis" and not "unfinished but periodically releasing updates that may or may not be awesome". And if Steam has guest pass set up for Terraria you may want to pester a friend for one.

[Marc v4.0]

Jury is still out on if they are going to really hold to the promise of rapidly pumping out super awesome updates or not, I'd like it to happen but not gonna hold my breath over it.

[Kerensky287]

I wish. Making arrows is bad enough, and you have to do that twice to be productive.

Sidenote: Devourers wreck your shit if you happen to still be at "what's armor?" stages of the game.

I got lucky and found 3 mid-level magic items almost immediately so I'm at the "Monsters can't touch me but if they do I die" stage of the game.

I also just summoned a meteor, which is cool but I can't do anything with it because it burns me to touch it.

[Vauron]

This. After getting a literal fuckton of sand, I tried turning it all into glass and then into bottles.

...I've pretty much just left all the sand in a chest after awhile.

If you are making something that can be stacked, such as walls, arrows, bars, potions, glass, bottles, chains or bars, that you can just keep clicking on the icon until you have made enough. Items that don't stack, such as a pick or sword, can only be made one at a time.

Edit: If you are near a meteor, it'll keep spawning Meteor Heads to a max of 5 out at a time. You need at least a gold pick to mine meteor metal. If you mine enough of the meteor it'll stop spawning heads. I think the metal tiers are GOLD<METEOR<DEMON<?.

[Kim]

We are n desperate need of an NPF server for this.

[Kerensky287]

If you are making something that can be stacked, such as walls, arrows, bars, potions, glass, bottles, chains or bars, that you can just keep clicking on the icon until you have made enough. Items that don't stack, such as a pick or sword, can only be made one at a time.

We know that. Thank you. That's not what anybody's complaining about.

It's just that if you want to turn all of your sand into bottles, for example, then you take a 250-point stack of sand, click 125 times to turn it into glass, then click 125 more times to turn it all into bottles.

A simple right-click to go straight to max would be MUCH more appreciated.

[Aldurin]

I thought you could hold down the left-click to make it craft automatically, but I may be confused from what I saw in the pre-release LP's.

[Kim]

Just tried that. No luck.

Also: Fuck worms.

ALSO ALSO: FUCK. WORMS.

I found one of them demony things, but I don't have enough lenses yet.

[Donomni]

Eh, worms aren't so much of a problem. I just keep swinging and they literally jump to their deaths.

Unless you mean something other than Giant Worm enemies, because those are the only ones I had to fight right now.

[Marc v4.0]

Bone Serpents can eat my Bone Serpent

[Ryong]

And now I don't know if I'm getting this or not. Since the main focus is on multiplayer - even more than minecraft - and I lag terribly playing with NPF people...

Is there a demo or something?

[Kim]

I don't think there's a demo, but I'm pretty sure if you can run Minecraft you can run this. ALSO: The single play is still pretty fun, too.

[Aldurin]

Minecraft is hardware rape compared to other games, so you should definitely be able to run it.

[Kim]

There are some things that make me feel like Notch is not as clever as he'd like people to believe. Minecraft lagging on ANYTHING despite being ugly and made of boxes is one of them.

[Aldurin]

It took him forever to add an option to remove buried blocks from the active memory, and Notch is a bit of a douche, especially when he was throwing around the ideas of "only obsidian can make blocks float" or "torches should be made temporary". But it's just one of those downsides.

At least Blue (Terraria's PR guy) has said that they're trying to go for the features that people will like, and not adding annoying bullshit like creepers (that was forgiven 99.999% though) or animals that hijack your minecarts.

[Marc v4.0]

Minecarts would be nice.

As well as some monster spawn scaling that will make singleplayer seem less like it requires more people to actually play once you get down far enough. Keep getting cluster-raped by forever spawning Imps that shoot fire through all walls and hordes of Bone Serpents

[Kim]

Yeah, I saw a discussion between Mr Podunkian and Notch where the former was criticizing Notch for not implementing something to let people mod Minecraft more safely, despite using user created code in his game, and Notch called him a troll and just generally came off as kind of a jerk.

[Pip Boy]

I have just confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that the dungeon hates you and wants you to die, regardless of how well geared and prepared you are. That said, I am well geared and even have a lot of items I would just love to give away to anyone who is up for some shenanigans. If anybody can run a server, I would love to just throw all this free shit at them just to motivate them to run said server.

Among these free things are*: 1 Heart Crystal, 3 Mana Stars, 1 Flaming sword of doom, 1 molten bow, 1 whatever the fuck else I feel like I don't still need or have dupes of.

*subject to change based on whether conditions and what mood Im in at the moment.

[McTahr]

Re: Meteorz, dig deep, lead water to lava, or bring buckets. Get 20 obsidian and craft them into a skull. Should make meteors not wreck your face.

Eye of Cthulhu is annoying, but easy. I've got like four summons saved up, just gonna blow them all and shoot straight for demonite. If you just build a giant sky road at say, 800 height, you've got all the room in the world to kite him around, and it's great for blood moon/star farming.

E: Also I have a spare grappling hook if someone doesn't have one yet. Freebie etc.

[Solid Snake]

I just purchased Terraria it is officially time to party.

By which I actually mean it's time for me to die repeatedly until I get the hang of things.

EDIT: My character's name is Pinkie Pie and her homeworld is Equestria.

AUTOMATIC VICTORY

EDIT 2: Heeeey they actually got the genders right, she shouts in a feminine tone when attacked!

...Also DEAR GOD I SUCK AT THIS WHAT AM I DOING AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SLIMES AND MY ATTACKS ONLY DO 1 HP OF DAMAGE AAAAAAHHHHHHH

[Pip Boy]

Dont worry, everybody gets killed a lot by the slimes when they're a newbie. Someday you'll be like us pros and get killed a lot by giant lava snakes instead.

Seriously though, I've got like 600 hellfire ore. If anybody wants to just host a thing for NPF guys to play on, I'll give them a piece of that.

[Solid Snake]

Like I don't even know how to make a torch or build a house or whatnot

Right now I've holed myself between two giant walls of wood just to survive my first night

Also that was the shortest day ever seriously WTF

[Kim]

Like I don't even know how to make a torch or build a house or whatnot

Right now I've holed myself between two giant walls of wood just to survive my first night


To build stuff, just press esc and there should be a list of things you can build with what you've got. Torches are made of wood and something blue thing slimes drop. You'll also want to get enough wood to build a workbench thing. Figure out where you're going to build your house, and put it there.

Building a house is just stacking bricks or stone or what-have-you in the shape of a room, and then making some for of "wall" (it's an item type you can create at a workbench) and using that on the background to keep shit from spawning inside. Then make a door, make a hole in the side of your house where you're going to put your door, then put it there.

If you need any help beyond that, the Terraria wiki is a great source (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki). There's even a getting started section.

[Aldurin]

Holy fuck, you guys make it hurt more and more to read this thread. DAMN MY STUPID SELF-DISCIPLINE!

[Donomni]

So, encountered Devourers last night.

Noncon is totes right. FUCK WORMS.

[Solid Snake]

So if I create a new world but keep my old character, does she maintain her inventory from the previous world?

[Marc v4.0]

Yes

[Pip Boy]

Devourers aren't all that bad in perspective. Allow me to demonstrate.

http://images.wikia.com/terraria/images/f/f1/Ss4.png

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110507002339/terraria/images/4/4c/Bone_Serpent.jpg

Granted, I took a few artistic liberties when I phrased that last bit. If "fighting" means the same thing as "Being repeatedly reamed by", then its totally spot on.

[Ryong]

I have no doubts I can run Terraria, but I've a feeling playing it online with you guys will involve lag. I'm always lagging on L4D2 and TF2 on NPF steam nights and my time playing Minecraft online had many hours of me not being able to do anything. Being more action-based means I'm even more screwed.

[Kim]

I think that it takes less to run Terraria means internet lag would be lessened. Less data to carry over. I'm no interbuttz expert though.

[Revising Ocelot]

I'd think it wouldn't matter if the data amount's smaller, it's still got to travel a long distance if it's going America - Brazil. Lag's unavoidable. That's why I don't go in the monster areas on NPF Minecraft.

[Marc v4.0]

Devourers aren't all that bad in perspective. Allow me to demonstrate.

http://images.wikia.com/terraria/images/f/f1/Ss4.png

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110507002339/terraria/images/4/4c/Bone_Serpent.jpg

Granted, I took a few artistic liberties when I phrased that last bit. If "fighting" means the same thing as "Being repeatedly reamed by", then its totally spot on.

Like I said, Bone Serpants can eat it

[EVILNess]

This game is the bastard child of Minecraft and a Metroidvania game, and God help me, I just bought this.

I'll probably bring up a temp server like I did with Minecraft, and keep it up until someone else gets something more permanent.

[Kim]

I got a pair of Hermes Boots, which are nifty but not nearly as useful as I'd like them to be, due to the nature of most of the game's terrain.

[Solid Snake]

I created a female character with light pink skin, dark pink hair and blue eyes named "Pinkie Pie."
I have decided that it is her destiny to eventually join an Equestria server with other characters modeled after the other ponies.

And we will construct Ponyville together.

And defeat monsters.
With the power of magical friendship

[Aldurin]

This thread needs a better title. Could it be changed to "'FUCK WORMS!', and other Terraria stuff."?

[Kim]

I feel like I've been digging downward forever with no real progress. I haven't even found any of those health increasing thingies.

[Marc v4.0]

try a smaller map, if you can, or randomly bumble down natural caves

[Solid Snake]

I feel like I've been digging downward forever with no real progress. I haven't even found any of those health increasing thingies.

On large maps, I suspect digging down might be a bitch.

On a medium map, I will say reaching the "solid rock background" level -- where I've found tons of skeletons to smash and hearts to hammer -- isn't all that difficult.

Part of the key is to find open crevices underground so that you can avoid actually digging the entire way down, though.

[Donomni]

They do take some time to find. Took hours to find my first one.

I think you just need to explore the open areas underground that are already there, and if you find another open spot with some blocks in the way, just dig those up and keep looking.

Granted, it is a LOT easier with the grappling hook, since you don't normally have to futz with making steps for yourself so much(Also, hang-mining). The more skeletons I smash, the more it looks like the hook is rare as hell. Of all the time I've played this game, I've only had two hooks drop.

[Aldurin]

I have the idea for the first server project we can do.

Listening to Blue when he was on one of the LP's, he said that each map would have a dungeon of a random color. Assuming there is a wide enough range of colors, we could take advantage of the large map dimensions and build ponies out of dungeon wall.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Just bought the game. No clue how to play yet but I'd be glad to join one of your servers if you'd shoot me the details pretty please.

[McTahr]

Why is it every time I crack my third shadow orb it happens to be in a pit that reaches into the very depths themselves and is very cramped and results in me getting beaten like a red-headed step child the entire way out?

I couldn't possibly be bothered to plan these things. Map, do it for me.

E: I have a giant purple dungeon. Ponies ain't purple. They brown, yo.
I got a pair of Hermes Boots, which are nifty but not nearly as useful as I'd like them to be, due to the nature of most of the game's terrain.
Solution: Rocket boots + grappling hook. Accelerate with the hook trick, then hover over any terrain. Traveling took like actual days in a large world before I started doing this.

[Aldurin]

E: I have a giant purple dungeon. Ponies ain't purple. They brown, yo.

Twilight Sparkle is purple, what are you talking about?

[McTahr]

Twilight Sparkle is purple, what are you talking about?

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/JimJimtheInfernalJanitor/Random%20NPF/pony-8670.jpg
This little pony does not approve.

[Aldurin]

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/JimJimtheInfernalJanitor/Random%20NPF/pony-8670.jpg
This little pony does not approve.

http://ponibooru.413chan.net/_images/251e22b328c63f21bfc100ccefe7b6e8/1917%20-%20hoof%20human%20macro%20meme%20posting.jpg

[rpgdemon]

I keep mis-seeing that image as a dude with pink sleeves, whose hands have become deformed and melting around his keyboard, and it's hard to unsee, even knowing what it's supposed to be.

[Marc v4.0]

mining helmet takes some cave exploring pain away. Once you break a few shadow orbs, a Light Orb will replace that helmet.

Then you can craft a badass set of armor that lights your darkest hours

[Melfice]

mining helmet takes some cave exploring pain away. Once you break a few shadow orbs, a Light Orb will replace that helmet.

Then you can craft a badass set of armor that lights your darkest hours

Now, I know you're not responsible, but since you just made the reference... if that armour doesn't turn out to look like Optimus Prime, I'm going to horribly beat you.

[Ryong]

I was thinking of buying Terraria but:
1) Lagmonsters!
2) I'll end up playing on my own, like minecraft, because I'm just like that.
But even then maybe I could buy it, maybe it wouldn't be so ba-

*sees ponies*

Okay seriously, this is getting annoying, guys.

[Solid Snake]

...I somehow found a total of seven heart upgrade thingys in about forty five minutes of digging down a single cavern system. Not even shitting you, that actually happened.

EDIT: Make that eight heart upgrade thingys in about fifty minutes. O_o

[Kim]

...I somehow found a total of seven heart upgrade thingys in about forty five minutes of digging down a single cavern system. Not even shitting you, that actually happened.

EDIT: Make that eight heart upgrade thingys in about fifty minutes. O_o

HATE YOU SO MUCH

[Marc v4.0]

*sees ponies*

Okay seriously, this is getting annoying, guys.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4549162/ScruffySecond.jpg

[Donomni]

Found Obsidian today, made the skull needed to mine meteorites or whatever. Now if only a meteor actually fell...

Eye of Cthulhu showed up, and has basically been a pain in the arse since. Tried to fight him, but I either die before I kill him, or morning comes and he just bails. Probably gonna try and fight him again today.

[rpgdemon]

Is this game fun/worth buying? The combat looked very not-good, in the demos.

[Solid Snake]

Is this game fun/worth buying? The combat looked very not-good, in the demos.

I wouldn't say the combat is phenomenal or awe-inspiring but in a sandbox game of this nature it's not really why you play the game. I will say that I personally find the combat refreshingly superior compared to, say, Minecraft, which despite being the objectively more influential game felt more hollow to me in that area.

The difference between Terraria and Minecraft for me so far has been the root of my sense of accomplishment. In Minecraft, surviving the first night was a huge deal, but then all my sense of awe more or less exclusively came from building things. In Terraria, I haven't been nearly as interested in building wonders of the world, but I've enjoyed adventuring a lot more. Combat's a part of that picture, but the main thrill has been finding all kinds of treasure chests, artifacts, better minerals to mine and corrupted areas to restore. In Terraria there's a greater sense of you gradually growing stronger and more capable compared to Minecraft, which adds a bit to the fun.

</opinion>

[Token]

*sees ponies*

Okay seriously, this is getting annoying, guys.

This. So much.

So, I have steam, and a friend who says he'll get me any game I want for it. Should I go for this?

[Melfice]

So, question.
I built a little shack to spend the night in, but had to quit halfway through the night (literally and in-game).

When I loaded up the game again this morning, I was outside and immediately, and repeatedly raped* by four zombies and two flying eyeballs.

Does this game not save the location where you were when you log out, or did I run into some sort of bug, or something?
'Cause, damn.


* Apologies to anybody who may be offended. But this is the only way to accurately describe dying three times in a row until sunrise, because I kept being spawn-killed.

[Marc v4.0]

It reloads you at your spawn point. You can change the spawn by making a bed and using it in a safe building on the surface

[Specterbane]

This. So much.

So, I have steam, and a friend who says he'll get me any game I want for it. Should I go for this?

If there's no price cap you should go for something like Portal 2 or Deus Ex: HR. Just for being economical. I'm torn on this, from what I've been keeping up with hear it sounds like a lot of fun. But everything I see in LP's make the game seem less fun than it sounds from here. WHAT SHOULD I DOOOOOOO!?!?!?!

[Melfice]

If there's no price cap you should go for something like Portal 2 or Deus Ex: HR. Just for being economical. I'm torn on this, from what I've been keeping up with hear it sounds like a lot of fun. But everything I see in LP's make the game seem less fun than it sounds from here. WHAT SHOULD I DOOOOOOO!?!?!?!

Roll a die!
1-3 is a buy.
4-6 is you staying away from the game.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

[Specterbane]

Roll a die!
1-3 is a buy.
4-6 is you staying away from the game.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

You know, I might consider a d20, but what skill modifier would I use? And for that matter what's the DC? These are important questions to use before any die is rolled. After all, we're not talking about boggle here.

[Kerensky287]

Finally got down to the underworld, spent ages just mining hellstone. Now I have a flamarang (best weapon!), a molten pickaxe and a molten hamaxe.

It kind of makes my phaseblade really useless though. I should've spent those meteor bits on more armor...

[Melfice]

You know, I might consider a d20, but what skill modifier would I use? And for that matter what's the DC? These are important questions to use before any die is rolled. After all, we're not talking about boggle here.

Roll a d20 against Will.
DC is... 15, since you're very much on the fence.

EDIT: 1 = Buying the 4 pack (if that's still available)
20 = Con somebody else into buying it for you. (Roll Bluff against their Sense Motive)

[Kerensky287]

My biggest complaint about the game so far is the fact that the difficulty curve just kind of... plateaus. I mean, you hit a certain point and suddenly nothing can touch you. My Flamarang let me take down the Eye of Cthulu in about a minute, and then I went straight over to some corruption to kill an Eater of Worlds, again with no trouble at all. Now I have demonite armor too which compounds my unkillable-ness.

I haven't even found a Jungle biome yet. The wiki tells all kinds of stories about awesome items you can find in there. Of course, the only one I really give a damn about at this point is the Ivy Whip, since I literally have every other item in the game that matters to me, but it's the principle of the thing.

I have about 10 heart containers that I can't use because I'm at max health.

This is after 10ish hours of play. I think I've gotten my money's worth out of the game now, but dammit I want to see some new content soon.

EDIT: Maxed out Mana. My current loadout is the Meteor Set, which gives me mana boosts, and I also make lots of use of Starfury and Vilethorn. Flamarang is still the best weapon of all time though the Minishark with Meteor Shot is pretty sweet.

Just made Skeletron my bitch. Thinking of fighting the Eater of Worlds for a 4th time to see how quickly I can beat it. Anybody know if the difficulty scales with the number of players? Because they really need to do something about the difficulty curve... honestly, your starting gear is useless, you find new stuff through sheer luck, and by the endgame nothing poses a challenge to you at all. My pickaxe does more damage than the starter sword. THE PICKAXE.

[Solid Snake]

Finally got down to the underworld, spent ages just mining hellstone. Now I have a flamarang (best weapon!), a molten pickaxe and a molten hamaxe.

It kind of makes my phaseblade really useless though. I should've spent those meteor bits on more armor...

I keep going to the underworld and getting my ass handed to me by fire Imps that can teleport. I own all the gold armor and whatnot, don't know what I can or should do to improve my survival chances.

[Kerensky287]

I keep going to the underworld and getting my ass handed to me by fire Imps that can teleport. I own all the gold armor and whatnot, don't know what I can or should do to improve my survival chances.

The great thing about fire imps is that you can shoot their fireballs out of the air with any weapon. I was just sitting pretty, swinging a golden pick in their general direction while my mouse cursor was pointed behind me mining the hellstone.

Of course when you actually have to kill them all you need to do is keep attacking them, since they're stunned for a second or two after each hit. Keep swinging your sword and they can't teleport away.

[McTahr]

I keep going to the underworld and getting my ass handed to me by fire Imps that can teleport. I own all the gold armor and whatnot, don't know what I can or should do to improve my survival chances.

Fight the bosses for demonite, or find a meteorite and get meteoric gear. Either one is a step up from gold, and eyethulhu is a cakewalk in an open area. Just bring some kind of ranged weapon and lots of ammo. (Edit: If you have starfury from any of the floating islands, it's better than him. He cries little demon tears all over the landscape.)

Demonite gear will also require shadow scales from eater of worlds. It's a melee oriented set that has more defense than the meteor stuff, which is mage oriented.

[Flarecobra]

So Zetaplays is doing a LP of this game... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxrIaeS22v0&feature=feedu)

[McTahr]

Hey so if anyone stumbles across a cobalt leggings, I'd gladly trade stuff and things for it, including the other two pieces. I've been committing nothing less than hornet genocide to no avail.

[Donomni]

So I've kinda proven myself to myself by finally beating the Eye of Cthulu and the Eater of Worlds. Having lots of Healing Potions helps.

Got waaaay more Demonite than what I thought possible, so now I have a full demon set of tools/weapons(Not armor, as not only did I get those as drops, the Mining Helmet is still really useful).

Ended up finding a Musket while smashing Shadow Orbs and used my gold to buy a Minishark. Gonna probably make Meteor Shots for ammo(because holy crap it is ultra-tedious to buy musket balls).

Oh, right, meteors! I've made a Hamaxe from that junk, and I'll probably make a Space Gun, too, now that I know how. I'll probably make some armor of it, too, since the Space Gun uses Mana, I think.

[Pip Boy]

If you want good mana regening armor, its not the meteorite stuff that you want, but the Cobalt set dropped randomly by Man Eaters in the Jungle. Good stuff.

[Kerensky287]

(because holy crap it is ultra-tedious to buy musket balls).

When you're buying stuff from vendors, hold down the right mouse button to automatically keep buying more.

It's kind of stupid that that same thing doesn't work for crafting, actually.

EDIT: Speak of the devil! They made it happen in a patch. Hurray!

[akaSM]

This game sounds really fun but, I got some games in my "stop getting new games until you play this" list. Seriously, I got 4 DS games, 1 GCN game, 3 Wii games and a lot of PC games that I haven't played even once. And many more which I haven't finished/completed yet :wtf:.

Who knows, a sale might come before I get the game :3:

[McTahr]

If you want good mana regening armor, its not the meteorite stuff that you want, but the Cobalt set dropped randomly by Man EatersHornets in the Jungle. Good stuff.

Man eaters drop the ivy whip. I declare shenanigans and misinformation.

Both drop cobalt gear, my bad. Just got a fourth cobalt helm from a man eater.

Hats: 45
Chest pieces: 35
Pants: 0

It's like a regular Sunday off up in this jungle.

[Kim]

Finally got a meteorite to land. Not sure if I'll prioritize a piece of meteorite armor or a meteorite weapon or what, though.

[Aldurin]

I'm having to prioritize my money right now, which means it'll be unlikely that I can get Terraria soon. If anybody bought the four pack and has an extra I would appreciate one.

[PhoenixFlame]

Got Terraria a few days back, gave it a whirl, then two whirls, then many-more-than-I-realised whirls, having a great deal of fun with all the adventuring. Recently finished the meteorite armor suit and killed Skeletron with liberal application of minisharking.

Man, dungeons are horrifying. That... never-ending horde of murderdeath skeletons. I hope you don't need to do anything like stop for two seconds or reorganize your inventory, the skeletons sort of take offense to that. Luckily I can pierce them with my space-gun and shoot all thirty-six that pile up in a doorway at the same time.

Managed to get the Muramasa and Blue Moon, though. Neat-o~

[Marc v4.0]

Someone get a server up, I need to build my tower of Hellstone bricks and Spikes

[McTahr]

Blar, this server thing fails. Having the same issue as Ness.

[EVILNess]

I've looked into getting a server up as a temp meeting place.

The server software for this game is... less than ideal...

Like in the fact that most of the servers are using Hamachi to connect to each other. Also, I can't even connect to my own server, on the same machine. Like I said... less than ideal.

Yeah. I'll keep looking for a better solution.

[McTahr]

Try joining NPF Bits // FPN on Hamachi. Server password will be the same. I can self-connect.

[Kim]

Blugh, I could probably kill the Eye of Cthulhu if I could do decent damage to it. Gonna have to wait till I've got a much better weapon, I think.

[McTahr]

People generally shuriken eyethulhu to death the first time.

[Kim]

That's probably it. I've been using the boomerang. I think I'll set up a bit of an "arena" of platforms next time I face it and go hog wild with my shurikens, then.

[McTahr]

Yeah. I used my starcatching road and just shuriken'd the hell out of him and his minions. A bow with unholy arrows doesn't hurt, or a gun that pierces. Really, the important thing is that when you're shooting at him you also clear out his little summons in between you and him too.

E: Of course first time I did it I also had a lucky floating island find in the form of starfury.

[Donomni]

I managed to win against it with a bow and fire arrows(I'm not sure if it was a gold or demon bow, though...), the main trick is to use the 200 HP healing potions so you don't spend a lot of time yutzing around with healing items.

Got Terraria a few days back, gave it a whirl, then two whirls, then many-more-than-I-realised whirls, having a great deal of fun with all the adventuring. Recently finished the meteorite armor suit and killed Skeletron with liberal application of minisharking.

Man, dungeons are horrifying. That... never-ending horde of murderdeath skeletons. I hope you don't need to do anything like stop for two seconds or reorganize your inventory, the skeletons sort of take offense to that. Luckily I can pierce them with my space-gun and shoot all thirty-six that pile up in a doorway at the same time.

Managed to get the Muramasa and Blue Moon, though. Neat-o~

The spawn rate in dungeons is positively redonkulous. After finally beating Skeletron yesterday, I'd think it couldn't get worse. IT DID.

[Kim]

Man, are there any accessories that give off light? I'd much rather swap out a crystal skull than have to not use a better helmet just so I'm not constantly putting torches down.

[McTahr]

Man, are there any accessories that give off light? I'd much rather swap out a crystal skull than have to not use a better helmet just so I'm not constantly putting torches down.

Break you some shadow orbs. You'll get an orb of light eventually. Spell that tempo summons a floaty glowy thing.

[PhoenixFlame]

Meteor and Molten armor will also illuminate you when you move, you just have to jink a bit to keep it going.

@Donomni: LOL yes, I got into a situation where I had managed to sort of stem the horde by laying down a pattern of suppressing fire with my minishark, but once I'd gone through 750 rounds without any appreciable ground gained, I thought to myself... "I... May need a bigger gun... Bigger than a minigun."

I also found (and love) Starfury. The only aggravating part of Starfury is it fails terribly whenever you go underground, which is about 90% of the game.

Edit: Found my bigger gun. The Phoenix Blaster with Meteor Shot is a terrifying force indeed.

[MuMu]

Game just updated:

-Right clicking and holding on a crafting recipe will craft multiple of the same item to a max of the stack and/or until you run out of materials.

yayness

Also some server issues apparently were fixed.

[Aldurin]

Somehow managed to get enough spare change to get Terraria, so now I get to join the epic wormslaying/building/exploring/everything-ing.

[Donomni]

Due to the recent update, I am now the proud owner of nearly an entire treasure chest full of bottles.

Yay!...?

Also, I had to find out online about the Alchemy Station. No indication whatsoever on how to make one. Much like the floating island.

Speaking of, there's only one island per world, right?

[Marc v4.0]

Multiple, at least one though

[Aldurin]

The amount varies with the map size. Also large worlds pretty much require rocket boots and mana boosting items to find them with the height limit there is.

[PhoenixFlame]

Due to the recent update, I am now the proud owner of nearly an entire treasure chest full of bottles.

Yay!...?

Also, I had to find out online about the Alchemy Station. No indication whatsoever on how to make one. Much like the floating island.

Speaking of, there's only one island per world, right?

Set (place) a bottle on a table.

Not terribly intuitive, but there you go. You can also place some other items on tables, like potions, or blue candles...

I think you can set them on wooden platforms too. It's handy, because you need an alchemy station to make greater health potions, which are two lesser potions and a glowing mushroom from glowing mushroom-land.

[Nikose Tyris]

I have seen as many as 3 floating islands a map.

[PhoenixFlame]

Bigger maps naturally, have more of them. They are of course, also bigger, which is more of a downside than it's worth most of the time.

[Aldurin]

My only issue with this game is that it won't keep my position when I quit and then I go back to my spawn where I destroy whatever I built there, which forced a modification on my house in order to prevent that (I have the screenshot on my Steam profile but I'm too lazy to post it). Or at least some actual way to pause so that way if something interrupts you aren't forced to go back to spawn and/or hope you don't die.

[Kim]

You have to build a bed to change your spawn point.

[Kerensky287]

My only issue with this game is that it won't keep my position when I quit and then I go back to my spawn where I destroy whatever I built there, which forced a modification on my house in order to prevent that (I have the screenshot on my Steam profile but I'm too lazy to post it). Or at least some actual way to pause so that way if something interrupts you aren't forced to go back to spawn and/or hope you don't die.

If you make a bed (requires silk and wood I think) you can set your spawn point to wherever your bed is.

And I play windowed, whenever I click a different window from the game it automatically pauses for me. (Not saying I like this part though, I'd much rather have a manual pause and let time pass while I read comics or something...)

[Donomni]

Managed to complete the dungeon, got Hermes boots and Muramasa.

Then goblins invaded, I fought them off, and found out I had Rocket Boots now!

Yes, I did fall to my death after goofing off with the Rocket Boots on the first try.

[McTahr]

Yes, I did fall to my death after goofing off with the Rocket Boots on the first try.

What else are you supposed to do with Rocket Boots, really? Goblin tinkering at its finest.

[PhoenixFlame]

Ah, the wonders of the lucky horseshoe... Although I've recently traded it for bigger and better things, and end up killing myself from fall damage occasionally, there's a little trick you can do with the grapnel that can save your life if you have time.

It's a bit counterintuitive, though... Bear with me, you're falling at terminal velocity, right? Fire your grapnel at the ground rapidly approaching to draw yourself towards it at high speed!

Higher speed, actually.

It won't kill you though! In fact, you'll be just fine. PHYSICS!

[Aldurin]

That would be great except I have yet to get a hook from the skeletons I keep genociding. I also became victim to the glitch where breaking a shadow orb summons the Eye of Douchebag, of course I had kill myself by being right on the edge of the explosion from the dynamite so I was taken by surprise back at my house.

And my temporary non-progress goal is to not die when I try to get to a third shadow orb.

[Donomni]

It took me about 9 Shadow Orbs before I could get an Orb of Light. Must be payback for getting the grappling hook easily.

Found both the jungle and underworld today. I also seemed to have caused a glitch where if you link too many sources of water together to flow down, the game kinda forgets how much water is supposed to be there, and just keeps flowing.

The game eventually caught on to the problem and made most of the water still dumping out vanish(like, literally went from underwater to mid-air), but the underworld is still partially flooded.

Considering all the lava, NOT complaining.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Finally built my gaming PC. If anyone could shoot me either the details for NPF's Terraria or Minecraft servers (Fifth or Nikose I'm assuming) I should be all set by tomorrow night.

For anyone interested:

AMD Phenom 2 X4 975 3.6Ghz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
40GB SSD
1TB 7200RPM HDD

[Donomni]

I'm pretty certain we don't have a Terraria server in the first place, actually(or I am dumb and missed something).

[Aldurin]

Would flooding the underworld with water make the excursion easier? Because I have a fuckton of water that is not that far from it at all (the result of getting pissed of when little pools of water didn't make the lava fields easy to harvest obsidian from).

[Kerensky287]

I think there's probably some point at which the game decides "This water's been flowing for too long. Is it flowing out? Is there still more than half of it left? Fuck it, let's estimate." And then it just skips to the end.

I managed to flood a massive lava-filled pit once by accident this way. I drained 3 good-sized chambers of water into a single massive basin, and then started dumping it toward the lava I was going to farm. Then the game lagged, and about 10 seconds later the entire chamber went from a slowly-filling pool to completely flooded.

Considering how draining water physics must be (lol pun), I'm okay with the compromise. And I mean, it's exploitable, assuming it actually exists and isn't just my imagination.

[McTahr]

Well, I have a hamachi server I keep running in the background because it ain't no thang.

Just join NPF Bits / FPN on Hamachi, then use that IP listed (I'm Grabblenab on there) to join the server in-game. Password should also be FPN.

I can self-connect/etc. but I don't think anyone's tried to connect that I've been around to notice.

(Large world, universal NPC/crafting hut set up to the right of the spawn. There is an "elevator" (re:long long fall) that leads straight down into the underworld to the right of that. The landing should end in a bowl of water and not kill you. If it doesn't, someone's been'a griefin'.

Rest of the world is fair game.)

[Aldurin]

I'll try the server once I get done with my hellworld and dungeon shenanigans.

[Thadius]

So hey, a little thing I discovered. Just a little thing.

Namely.

Breaking a shadow orb sends reverberating waves throughout the world. And if you are of decent health and the time is nighttime, then these waves go wake up a particular eyeball.

And if you don't know what the message "You feel an evil presence watching you" signifies, then you just might be completely SCREWED.

Especially if you decide to summon him all on your own before he can wander over. Cause then you'll be fighting two. And it's not exactly the best thing to be doing.

[Aldurin]

Same thing happened to me on my second attempt (first try was orb triggered and put me completely off guard). I just thought that using the suspicious eye reset the natural spawn trigger for the boss and all would be well.

Then I was dead a few minutes later.

Also no home is complete without a Hellforge.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Well, I have a hamachi server I keep running in the background because it ain't no thang.

Just join NPF Bits / FPN on Hamachi, then use that IP listed (I'm Grabblenab on there) to join the server in-game. Password should also be FPN.

I can self-connect/etc. but I don't think anyone's tried to connect that I've been around to notice.

Yeah, this is all jib-jab to me, can you just post the IP here?

[Krylo]

He can't, because then you wouldn't be connected to him.

ANYWAY, you have to download a program called Hamachi, then join an existing network, then use the name 'NPF Bits' and the password 'FPN'.

It wasn't working when I tried it just now, but it's 6 am, so there's possible reason for that.

[McTahr]

I'm pinging you just fine through Hamachi, Krylo, and port forwarding is set-up. Hm hm.

Basically, Shy, Hamachi creates a VPN for us, which allows us to act like a network, kind of as if we were LAN'd, except across the interbuttz and with encryption and passwords and stuff. Once you're connected to the Hamachi network you should be able to connect to me through 5.247.134.192, but Krylo's having issues so I'ma jank around with it.

E: Krylo, they changed the server port in the last update, which I apparently didn't have even though I shut the server down after a power outage and yelled* at Steam the day after they released it. Doing stuff and then should be good.

Asked nicely for the update.

EE: Patched, updated, rebooted. Self-connecting fine and showing the right port now. That was prolly it. >.>

EEE: And it kinda has to use all the jib-jab stuff, sorry. Basically, they don't have any good support for multiplayer aside from "It's there!" right now because we got an early release and even just host-names is out of the question. Steam integration would be a plus but they didn't get around to doing it before the release.

I'm also noticing tiny desyncs now. No me gusta.

[Pip Boy]

I still seem to be unable to connect to the terraria server. I got hamachi connected okay, but terraria is timing out when I try to join your server.

[Fifthfiend]

Finally built my gaming PC. If anyone could shoot me either the details for NPF's Terraria or Minecraft servers (Fifth or Nikose I'm assuming) I should be all set by tomorrow night.

For anyone interested:

AMD Phenom 2 X4 975 3.6Ghz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
40GB SSD
1TB 7200RPM HDD

Look in the minecraft thread for minecraft info, da-doy

Terraria is hilariously a minecraft ripoff but it's ALSO super fun so IDGAF, voting goodgame.

[McTahr]

All firewall, port forwarding, and everything else is set up. I've set up exceptions for anything on Terraria ports and checked with a bunch of troubleshooting thingers. If it's not working at this point after this then I'm not sure.

[Fifthfiend]

Well, I have a hamachi server I keep running in the background because it ain't no thang.

All firewall, port forwarding, and everything else is set up. I've set up exceptions for anything on Terraria ports and checked with a bunch of troubleshooting thingers. If it's not working at this point after this then I'm not sure.

hahahahaha, server hosting

[McTahr]

Pretty much every game that doesn't have a built-in multiplayer system has been an unending pain in the ass, but its generally worked long before this point, I mean, I set up the port forwarding and exceptions when I first did the Hamachi server, and then they changed the ports, and now it hates life. Such is hosting!

You'd think if they were on steam they would have done a steam multiplayer integration, but noooo.

[Kim]

Actually, they're planning on doing that eventually, but the game was leaked early, so they released early, so it's not set up yet.

[Krylo]

Don't have time to do anything (going to work) but I tested and CAN connect to your server now, Tahr, so it seems to be working.

[McTahr]

H'okay. Barring an internetsplosion it'll be up pretty much always. If it's terrilaggy or such for a lot of folks I might can it, but we'll see. My nets supposedly aren't too bad, I just imagine the up-speed is what'll kill it potentially.

[Krylo]

Played for about three hours after work with CJ.

Map has none of the features you mentioned that we could find, but I have a house to the right of where CJ and I spawned in down the hill. Sign outside calls it my fortress of solitude and points out we are subleasing to dryads. It also has a door to a mine shaft CJ and I rolled through quick. Not well designed, but anyone is welcome to go down there and fix that/make it more navigable/take whatever resources they like (but not from my chest. I emptied it this time, but if I DO leave stuff...).

CJ has a house basically right on the spawn point.

We both live in holes in the ground (though hers is more natural, mine is more underground castle).

Edit: Found the town. Just a bit further than I had checked before. To be fair it was night, and I'm not well equipped yet.

[Aldurin]

Meteor armor is awesome for providing 37 defense as a set, the only drawback is the created illusion of invincibility (I died from not paying attention to health during another routine Eater of Worlds duel).

I want to take on Skeletron but I keep putting it off because I want the sun flail from the bone serpents that never appear in hell.

Also that fuckton of water I have is apparently glitched into infinity so I just "left the faucet running" so it's a constant trickle into hellworld right now. I hope it looks ok in hindsight.

[Ryong]

So, I just started out and played for like, a couple of hours then stopped for a bit and then played for 3 hours. Then I had a power outage. My character is fine, my world is not.

[Toastburner B]

For anyone who gets on McTahr's server, I'm building a tower past the NPC town, across the first bit of water. It has a bed/spawn point and crafting stuff, so feel free to use it if you want.

[MuMu]

Err, I logged in and apparently there was a massive Goblin invasion going on. Most things are fine, I blocked the entrances with rocks and took them off before disconnecting...but the Dryad fell into the hole :(

Frackin' Sorcerers kept teleporting in...

[Thadius]

http://i53.tinypic.com/302qt5y.jpg
That is a meteor.

That is also the dungeon.

What the fuck. I need help here.

[Krylo]

Considering how long ago that is, I'm guessing you got it.

Easy mode is lots of sticky bombs and running around though. Dynamite where applicable.

Edit: And if they got the dryad that means they were at my place. Darn those goblins. Double darn them 'cause I've been jonesing to kill them, and missed it.

Edit 2: Read that PM on accident. You might still be at it. If you are I'll be on in a sec.|

Edit 3: Goblin invasion was still going. Awesome. Finished them off.

...Why doesn't my house have a door though?

[Aldurin]

How long until the server structures get demolished by meteors caused by a bajillion orbs of shadow breaking over the weeks?

[Krylo]

I'm pretty sure orbs of shadow only spawn at world gen. We'll run out of shadow orbs before it's a problem.

[Thadius]

I am become Thadius, underminer of HELL ITSELF.

Pretty damn fun. Now all I need is to take down Skeletor and find me an underground jungle.

[Marc v4.0]

I am finding the Underworld a royal pain in the flying ass to mine because of the CONSTANT IMPS

[Thadius]

Trust me, you haven't seen the worst of it yet.

The worst part is when you find the jungle and decide to just keep exploring it.

Until you find that you end up in hell again.

Ever been gang-raped by a man-eater, two hornets, and three fire imps?

It ain't a pretty picture.

[Marc v4.0]

Most of my jungles end before the Underworld line, as does the one in the MP map. I apparently built my tower right on top of an underground jungle

[Aldurin]

I thought shadow orbs could be created by letting corruption seeds do their thing unhindered. Also it would be cool to have a multi-map set up so we could have one world that is only corruption (e: and meteor crash sites).

[Thadius]

Well now that Skeletron is dead and his pad raided, I feel confident in saying that with a sufficient amount of potions, my character is reasonably unkillable.

Yes, I got THE blade. And even THE flail. But there is something I did not get, and I will not consider myself to have finished acquiring stuff until I find it.

What does it take to get a pair of rocket boots?! Who do I have to sacrifice, huh?

[Aldurin]

I just went and got all of the jungle equipment and did the whole "The rape train does not stop for Skeletron" deal, then I went through the dungeon, coming out with multiple magic items, THE flail and a shitload of gold.

WHERE ARE THE ROCKET BOOTS?!

[Marc v4.0]

In the sky

[Krylo]

Floating islands or drops from goblin armies. To be more specific.

[Marc v4.0]

I cannot stay connected anymore to the NPF Bits server. I long in just long enough to see myself standing there, but No welcome message pops up in the chat and then I just get disconnected

[Krylo]

Same here. I think maybe Tahr needs to restart the server. Was getting some lag last night too.

[CelesJessa]

It seems like every time I log on I get attacked by horrible monsters. Yesterday, just as I was working on an addition to my house, a goblin army attacked, then today, when I was going through my treasure, the Eye of Cthulu attacked. Still, I think my house is pretty cool. (http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8643/29886643.png) (and my secret summer home, (http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8404/45539219.png) which was just a small building on floating island I found and stole the chest out of.)

[Thadius]

COBALT ARMOR.

FUCK YES.

Word of advice to anyone who is having trouble finding it all:

Bring an aqua candle with you. The hornets will LOVE you then, and your grinding time will go from days to merely hours.

Next project: Sunfury and Flamelash. This will be marginally easier than my last project, due to the accidental flooding of hell.

[Jagos]

Dammit, I just got this game.

All you fuckers are evil...

-E- What the fuck am I doing? I can't talk, can't make shit and those damn eye balls are pissing me off! >_<

[Aldurin]

I just got on the server earlier, but since I'm tired I'll build some shit tomorrow.

[Krylo]

Dammit, I just got this game.

All you fuckers are evil...

-E- What the fuck am I doing? I can't talk, can't make shit and those damn eye balls are pissing me off! >_<

Suggestion: Either play single player first and talk to the guide to figure it out, or get a time with someone else when you can log into multiplayer and be shown the ropes.

[Donomni]

Oh hey new stuff. (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/1-0-3-change-log.19653/)

I'll check it out more later, but unlimited SPAAAAAACE GUNZ PEW PEW looks pretty cool.

[Aldurin]

Oh fuck yes the guide can die now.

[Aldurin]

Can't get on the server because it needs to upgrade.

[McTahr]

Upgraded. My bad, didn't notice the update was out.

[Thadius]

Okay my plan to terrorize hell itself was interrupted slightly due to me wanting to have a goddamn CLOSER underground jungle. And as such, I went to go get...

A seed. And with this seed, I shall finally have a local underground jungle!

Terrorizing of hell shall commence shortly. I want Tim's hat.

[Doc ock rokc]

Ok how do i get on the multiplayer server?

[Krylo]

BLACK MAGIC. (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpost.php?p=1130029&postcount=140)

[Revising Ocelot]

Just randomly came into possession of this yesterday, thanks to some spontaneous generosity from someone I don't even know. *shrug*

Now to figure out how Hamachi works, assuming cross-continent lag doesn't screw me over like Minecraft does.

[Doc ock rokc]

BLACK MAGIC. (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpost.php?p=1130029&postcount=140)

Thank you for answering the question WITHOUT ANSWERING THE GOD DAMN QUESTION! WHATS THE FUCKING IP!

[Kerensky287]

Yeah, this is all jib-jab to me, can you just post the IP here?

He can't, because then you wouldn't be connected to him.

ANYWAY, you have to download a program called Hamachi, then join an existing network, then use the name 'NPF Bits' and the password 'FPN'.

Basically, Shy, Hamachi creates a VPN for us, which allows us to act like a network, kind of as if we were LAN'd, except across the interbuttz and with encryption and passwords and stuff. Once you're connected to the Hamachi network you should be able to connect to me through 5.247.134.192, but Krylo's having issues so I'ma jank around with it.

Since you didn't feel like checking anything at all, apparently.

And for the record, your question was "How do I connect to the server?" Krylo answered that perfectly fine. The quotes above should answer any other queries you have.

[Doc ock rokc]

Since you didn't feel like checking anything at all, apparently.

And for the record, your question was "How do I connect to the server?" Krylo answered that perfectly fine. The quotes above should answer any other queries you have.

The reason im so ticked off is that I tried this same IP twice and it says it doesn't exist and there is no fucking list of names because IM NOT ON A NETWORK. So i can't go to Step B with out Step A and I can't go to step A because I DON"T HAVE THE IP.

[Krylo]

You don't need the ip. You download the program called hamachi. You connect to the server called NPF Bits on that, with the password FPN. This will show you all the other people connected to that server, including McTahr, whose IP will be shown.

Hamachi doesn't use IPs to connect to networks.

[Doc ock rokc]

I have Hamachi And it says i need a IP
maybe i got the wrong verson or something but it keeps requesting a IP to see networks.

[MuMu]

Me and Ald went left until we found a sea. Then we reached it's bottom and there was nothing, so we kept digging downwards for treasure but he had to leave. :(

Wonder if a Terraria Steam Night could work.

[Krylo]

You should have LogMeIn Hamachi 2 (http://hamachi.en.softonic.com/).

When you start it up it should ask you to put in an ID for your computer, this can be whatever you want it to be. Then it should ask you if you want to join a network or start a network. If not you'll have to go to the network menu at the top of the window and select join an existing network.

When you click the join button it should come up with a box that lets you put in a network ID and password.

This screen:

http://i54.tinypic.com/f4myrl.png

Under Network ID you put in NPF Bits.

Under Password FPN.

[Aldurin]

Oh yeah, my excursion with MuMu gave me a (bad) idea.

Who's okay with draining the ocean into hellworld?

[CelesJessa]

Krylo beat me to explaining it but I just made a lovely picture guide. (http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4575/23276843.png)

Fill in the password as necessary, of course.

[Krylo]

Oh yeah, my excursion with MuMu gave me a (bad) idea.

Who's okay with draining the ocean into hellworld?

The area under Tahr's hellevator is already pretty flooded.

[Aldurin]

More water couldn't hurt.

[Krylo]

Oh speaking of: If anyone needs buckets for things like water moving or obsidian creation or whatever, I have two chests just about full of them at the entrance to the mines. You may BORROW them. Please return any you use. If you accidentally drop a few in lava or something like that, replace them or leave me some 3 iron per if you can. If you can't, it's cool so long as it doesn't happen too often.

ALSO: Whomever left a suit of shadow mail, and some other stuff presumably (I think a fire flower and hermes boots EDIT: Apparently also a demon bow), in the chest by the foot of my bed, I have moved it to the first chest in my study. Reason being that I use the foot of my bed chest for my gear, and I like to have room for when I'm taking off/putting on stuff. And CJ has already been shlubbing THAT chest as extra storage so...

[MuMu]

Sorry, that was me, thought all the chests were for donations.

[Marc v4.0]

And at least 3 of those were due to Krylo's giant worm. >.>

Krylo, quit lagging people off the game with your dong

[Krylo]

Haha, no, they're for my stuff. Except the one left most chest in my study which I don't really use for anything.

ANYWAY, yet another full set of scale mail has been moved to the furthest left chest in my study. Anyone can take stuff out of there if they like.

[Revising Ocelot]

Lag vs. Ocelot = about 8-0 in favour of lag.

And at least 3 of those were due to Krylo's giant worm. >.>

[Krylo]

Krylo's giant worm. >.>

Ladies

@Marc: It's not my fault if the 'packet' is too big for trans-atlantic travel.

[EVILNess]

Ladies

@Marc: It's not my fault if the 'packet' is too big for trans-atlantic travel.

That was terrible and you are a terrible person.

Shame on you. Shame.

Seriously. Shame.

[Thadius]

It turns out that with meteor shot, it doesn't take long at all to find flying islands! I am now the proud owner of a golden horseshoe and a shiny red balloon thanks to them.

Coupled with the rocket boots the goblins were so kind to give me and my jungle suit, I'd have to say that there is no distance I cannot travel.

Except the ocean. Where are the flippers and breathing reed? I need them for mass transport of water to the underworld. Plus it would help when meteors decide to crash into the ocean.

I only now require Tim to make an appearance so that I can steal his hat, and for the Bone Serpents to give me the Sunfury. Then I will be done getting stuff. It will then be time to BUILD stuff. I'm thinking a giant floating palace on the nearby flying island with all the bricks I've stolen from shrines...

[Krylo]

Except the ocean. Where are the flippers and breathing reed? I need them for mass transport of water to the underworld. Plus it would help when meteors decide to crash into the ocean.I have a bunch of flippers I never use. Maybe I'll toss some in the left most chest in my study.

However, the breathing reed is completely useless. It only doubles your height for purposes of breathing, and you can do nothing else while using it.

I only now require Tim to make an appearance so that I can steal his hatHe spawns at the dark grey rock level (between 'beneath sea level' and 'underworld'). Pretty commonly at that.
and for the Bone Serpents to give me the Sunfury.You and me both.

[Revising Ocelot]

So I was running around in gold armour, and now I'm running around in Ominous Evil purple stuff. It's like a reverse Final Fantasy IV.

Let it be said that I will not be cowed by giant worms in the comfort of my own home (Or the large wooden platforms 50 feet above it), when I am equipped with a long... flail.

And that bloody guide decided to respawn after dieing. What a bastard.

[Krylo]

Put three donation chests at natural spawn (right above CJ's cave). Moved all the stuff from my left most study chest to them. It was getting a little over full.

Also put in some stuff of my own I don't need (second light orb, staff of regrowth, etc.).

[Thadius]

Tim has been slain.

The giant worms of the Underworld have given unto me both their rare drops.

I am now in the process of making a flying island my base.

When it is done, expect pictures.

[Kim]

Got a decent amount of demonite. Gonna try and get some shadow scales next time I play so I can make some better pants and shit. After that I'll begin my quest for Hellstone, cuz I've got a shit ton of obsidian.

[Aldurin]

It's funny how you'll view demonite soon, since once you have all of the tools and armor you'll head straight to meteorite and in the process you'll kill enough World Eaters and Giant Eyes that you'll have hundreds of ore and no reason to use it.

Though it'd be nice if a brick could be made from demonite ore, then I'd be happy with my thousand or so amount.

[Thadius]

No, see, that'd be a bad thing. Clearly someone tried to make bricks with demonite ore already. That's why we have corruption and eyes and giant dongs worms all over the fucking place.

Do not seek the power of the gods, Aldurin. Especially evil ones.

[Aldurin]

Too late.

[Pip Boy]

If anyone can help me resolve the connectivity issues I've been having, I will dispense large amounts of goodies including some rare weapons and items available only in certain places, and lots of ores and hellstone obsidian and things.

EDIT: Those connectivity issues being that I am totally unable to connect.

[Doc ock rokc]

If anyone can help me resolve the connectivity issues I've been having, I will dispense large amounts of goodies including some rare weapons and items available only in certain places, and lots of ores and hellstone obsidian and things.

EDIT: Those connectivity issues being that I am totally unable to connect.
http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpost.php?p=1132117&postcount=194

also I just got the grappling hook...how the hell did I manage without it

[Thadius]

I thought that way too, Doc.

Then I got the Ivy Whip.

And then I got the Rocket shoes. And the lucky horseshoe and the red balloon.

I feel like I should star in a goddamn Lucky Charms commercial.

[Krylo]

Got an underground jungle right under my house. Don't mangle the mud too much, but if you want to expand it, add more mud, make rooms larger to enable more hornet/man eater spawns, that kind of thing, feel free.

Also feel free to farm it for jungle seeds and other jungle drops.

Edit: Also thinking of making a wooden platform skyway at about 5-600 hundred height with towers leading to/from significant land marks (spawn, dungeon, town) and signs marking other less important ones (corruption). Note: Wooden platforms do not catch meteorites. However, this is gonna take about ten million wooden platforms, so anyone wanting to drop wood in any of my chests will find their efforts appreciated.

[Melfice]

so anyone wanting to drop wood in any of my chests will find their efforts appreciated.

... Welp. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmHgdLKwU8U)

[Krylo]

First tower is nearly complete. It is known as the 'Pillar of Corruption' and is made out of Demonite and Ebonstone.

It has enough ebonstone that you can summon the Devourer of Worlds within (which I have done once and will do again soon to get more demonite to finish it). I also made a small corrupted area around it, as that it is right on spawn if this makes it too difficult for new players, you can purify some of that. I don't think it should be much of a problem, however, given they can just hop into the tower and take an express elevator to the mines under my house, or walk a few feet to the right and be free of the corruption.

Also figured it might be convenient to have a place to spawn the devourer without walking.

Edit: Thinking of making a 'world tree' the theme for the town pillar, as that the town itself is already a wooden tower that could be easily converted into a 'trunk'.

[Flarecobra]

... Welp. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmHgdLKwU8U)

"Video is unavalable in yout country."

[Melfice]

"Video is unavalable in yout country."

... BWAHAHA!
Seriously? The tables have been turned, then.

It was a video of Queen's Innuendo. It just seemed appropriate there.

Carry on as you were.

[Pip Boy]

Anyone wanting to drop wood in any of my chests will find their efforts appreciated.

*snicker snicker*

[Pip Boy]

http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpost.php?p=1132117&postcount=194

also I just got the grappling hook...how the hell did I manage without it

I've connected to hamachi just fine, its the game server I can't access.

[Doc ock rokc]

I've connected to hamachi just fine, its the game server I can't access.

I had to Change permissions on my firewall. try that. Also Which person are you connecting too.

[Aldurin]

There is a tower of unhindered corruption that was apparently made by Krylo. All I have to say is Have you heard of sunflowers?

[Thadius]

So hey, I found the build limit in my world.

Now I'm building a Hellstone building up there. Once it's done, I will call it the Prometheus Station.

[Krylo]

There is a tower of unhindered corruption that was apparently made by Krylo. All I have to say is Have you heard of sunflowers?

Edit: Wiki lied to me. Will fix it now.

Sunflowers ruined the decor.

Also I corrupted the ground on purpose.

Edit 2: There fixed, Whiney pants. Wasn't supposed to be able to grow past stone. Guess it just slows it down, not stops it.

[Toastburner B]

Edit: Wiki lied to me. Will fix it now.


It seems to do that. It says Bone Snakes are rare, and yet I end up fighting two of them at once every time I go hellstone hunting.

[Thadius]

You do that and you DON'T blow them up for their rare drops?

Figured I might as well type it out here: Every segment of the bone serpent has a 1/100 chance to drop either of their rare drops.

Let that sink in. Every. Segment.

So what do you do to ensure that you get a rare drop? Well, nothing. But you can improve your odds tenfold.

Step 1: Go to hell.
Step 2: Mine out a bit of hellstone.
Step 3: Make a stage about 25-30 blocks long. You may want it longer. Ensure that you are not floating over LAVA, but rather solid ground.
Step 4: Within reasonable jumping distance, lay down a similar length of wooden platforms. You need to be able to jump onto it from your stage at a moment's notice.
Step 5: Either find something to do or hold an Aqua Candle.
Step 6: When a serpent shows up to play, ensure that it is burrowing and jumping as vertical as possible near your staging area.
Step 7: Equip your dynamite.
Step 8: TIMING. I find that as the serpent's head is just about to clear the platform going down is an ideal time to toss the dynamite at your feet. After of which comes jumping for your life and waiting for the serpent to walk into your trap.
Step 9: BOOM
Step 10: Profit!

Small note: DO NOT USE HELLSTONE BRICKS. Those ARE perfectly destroyable. Regular HELLSTONE is not.

[Krylo]

Multiplayer servers spawn way more bone serpents water candle or not. You can get up to five on you at once.

[Krylo]

Also: They are common as fuck when you are trying to just mine up some hellstone or get some bricks for your entry way or whatever, but rare as a son of a bitch when you want to farm them.

Bone Serpents exist purely to troll you.

[Thadius]

Sorry, you'll have to speak up. The sound of my Sunfury killing things in two hits tends to drown out cynicism and vitriolic hatred. Along with the sound of the Flamelash, but that's merely because it's an awesome fireball spell.

[Krylo]

/Assuming I don't have a Sunfury.

Edit: http://i56.tinypic.com/2a16l0.png

[Krylo]

The skyway now reaches over town, toast's tower, and out to the corruption. Starting to build the second tower over town.

Not really very far along yet, and this one will probably take me a few days, because it's going to take a lot of dirt and wood, and I don't keep stockpiles of either normally (and any wood stockpile I HAD went toward the skyway).

[Aldurin]

I would prefer if the skyway avoids my place (approx. 900's elevation) to the west of your tower. You can pass underneath it by a bit, if you need.

[Krylo]

Skyway is about 400 feet below where you built your place, so it shouldn't be a problem. Also I'm building out to the right first so you won't have to worry for quite awhile.

[Aldurin]

400 feet below is fine, especially since it leaves downward expansion as an option.

[Marc v4.0]

Update! Vanity Slots!

[McTahr]

Server is updated.

[Toastburner B]

For the curious, the Clothier has taken up residence in the ground floor of my tower.

[Jagos]

Can someone please tell me why I always start the game having to rebuild my front door and floor?

[Aldurin]

You need to make a bed, place it in your home and right-click it to set it as your spawn. Any non-background items within your spawn area are destroyed upon reloading.

Or if you're lazy you can just move your door and floor out of the way.

[Kerensky287]

I've started building my place of residence in the server!

...It's kind of near/underneath somebody else's, and the entrance is split off from the Hellavator route, though, and I could see both of those as problems people would complain about. If you want me to cancel it and build elsewhere, I absolutely will, but I'd prefer if somebody told me sooner rather than later...

EDIT: I can't figure out who that building belongs to, it's the crazy gorram sky pillar next to the Hellavator.

[Toastburner B]

EDIT: I can't figure out who that building belongs to, it's the crazy gorram sky pillar next to the Hellavator.

If you are talking about the one made out of wood, that is the NPC village.

If you are talking about the one made out of stone, that is my tower.

[Flarecobra]

I wonder if The Groom is also a little nod to L4D's Bride Witch...

[Marc v4.0]

If you are talking about the one made out of wood, that is the NPC village.

If you are talking about the one made out of stone, that is my tower.

It could also be the Ebonstone Tower, I think, or even My castle

[Thadius]

Base Prometheus of the UAC corporation has been established in my single player world.

http://i54.tinypic.com/15yt2tf.jpg

It's a pretty rad place.

[Doc ock rokc]

Is anyone else getting 6 bone serpents and 9 fireimps at a time in hell? because every time I enter hell there is 6 fucking bone serpents and 9 fucking fire imps every 5 god damn seconds. AND IM NOT HOLDING AQUA CANDLES!

[Aldurin]

Quit whining and start sunfury farming.

Also if anyone is willing to trade rocket boots for one platinum please let me know so we can meet up on the server and trade (I've lost my patience with trying to find it).