HATE YOU SO MUCH

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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.

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.

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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?

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.

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

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?

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.

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...

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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:

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.

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

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.

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~

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

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

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.

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

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.

People generally shuriken eyethulhu to death the first time.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Game just updated:

yayness

Also some server issues apparently were fixed.

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

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?

Multiple, at least one though

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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...)

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.)

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

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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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That is a meteor.

That is also the dungeon.

What the fuck. I need help here.