Terraria

They are actually rather rare. They won't spawn in a world that has a yggdrasil tree (the huge tree with the living wood), they won't spawn within x distance of corruption, yada yada, lots of restrictions. Best bet is to just keep spamming medium worlds and checking the deserts. I've yet to have one not have a surface tunnel visible. Just spawn and run either left or right, if desert is there check for pyramid, if you hit a yggdrasil just make a new world.

I feel like a total retard, but I spend the last 2 hours trying to build my first house. Followed the wiki: got background wall, walls, ceiling and floor. Housing tool says I need light source, chair and table. Added a door to because what's a house without a door, right?
'No sir, this is not valid housing. Can't give you more details, but this is not it.'
Removed parts and added them, rebuild the whole house from scratch except the background wall and STILL no valid house.


Can someone tell me WTF is wrong with this house, because I must be missing something obvious, but I'm not seeing it and all the above adventuring stories sound great, but I'm stillstuck building a fucking clay hut for the last 2 hours.

Yup, that was it. Thanks.

And thank you housing tool for not telling me but suggesting I put a table and chair or so.

I'm surprised there's not much discussion on ranged versus melee. It seems with chlorophyte bullets and minishark/rocket launcher/stynger, there's not much need for melee except for the scythe from the invasion.

Ronne_sl said:

They are actually rather rare. They won't spawn in a world that has a yggdrasil tree (the huge tree with the living wood), they won't spawn within x distance of corruption, yada yada, lots of restrictions. Best bet is to just keep spamming medium worlds and checking the deserts. I've yet to have one not have a surface tunnel visible. Just spawn and run either left or right, if desert is there check for pyramid, if you hit a yggdrasil just make a new world.

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They do seem pretty rare, I think it took me 6 worlds to find one, but living tree is not exclusive with them, this is my latest world where I finally found them:

Ive made 8 worlds. 3 small, 5 medium

only 1 had corruption, not crimson.
2 had trees. 1 had a visible pyramid tomb.
Think they all had ice.

Plaid_sl said:

I'm surprised there's not much discussion on ranged versus melee. It seems with chlorophyte bullets and minishark/rocket launcher/stynger, there's not much need for melee except for the scythe from the invasion.

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One of the things talked about a bit. esp on Neogaf.
Balance in this game is pants on head retarded at times.


Like, I pushed the world to hardmode.

ran around quarantining, and in general gathering mats for upgrade.
cobalt and mythril ores. Chloro is there, but cant be collected yet. same with orichalcum and titanium.

but, have an ice biome. As someone here noted, ice armor from ice golems, which are cake to kill, and spawn ON THE SURFACE, is FAR better then cobalt, mythril and hallowed. hell its on par with chloro.
mage helms kindof suck, with really shitty armor on them. that armor is far more important the the small magic damage buff. and the +mana is pointless with damage-mana, and infinite mana pots anyway.

So everyone probably runs around with the high armor melee armors, but uses ranged/magic weapons..

Weapons also have this nature of most being really shitty.
Like, I ran around collecting all the magic weapons I could pre-hardmode. I had them all. Aquasceptor, fire flower,demon scythe, beegun, space gun, etc.
But my diamond staff was far better then all of them. The easily crafted one, was far stronger then the farmed stuff.

move to hardmode, and start looking for upgrades there too. Got lazer gun from wall. Flower of frost, crystal storm, poison staff, and frost staff.
Frost staff is a direct upgrde to diamond staff, and more or less far better then the others. and is a random drop from ice elems. also can be farmed on the surface like golems...

I think the main problem is the developers wanted everything in the latest update to be worth going for, so just about every 1.2 item is superior to earlier items, even if they're easier to get. It's the same as with expansions in MMO's. Do you spend hours getting classic raid gear, or spend moments getting superior expansion quested gear, etc.

It is annoying that what was once a full , required progression of cobalt -> mythril -> adamantine -> hallowed is now instead go spend 10 minutes in 1.2 frost biomes for superior armor. I don't think the game needs absolute linear progression though. One of the great things about Terraria is the ability to leapfrog tiers if you want to metagame kind of.

They've tried to fix it somewhat in the latest hotfixes by making the hardmode dungeon not activate until you beat Plantera, and by making Plantera not activate until you beat a mechanical boss. You can still start hardmode, luck out with a biome key a few minutes in, and break the game from then on. It's a nice idea, having rare super drops, but is the game really better if a first time player randomly gets vampire knives right away, and misses out on the enjoyment of progressing through hardmode the proper way? I don't know.

side progression is great.
But I am pretty sure it also means you dont need to destroy any altars.

kill wall, kill golems. farm mechanical parts. summon devourer. get hallowed pickaxe. get choloro. kill plantara. farm dungeon.

The ice armor isn't really side progression, when its so easy to get.

Unlocking hardmode only unlocks it for the map you kill the wall of flesh on, and not for the character you do it on, yes?

got to kill a mechanical boss to get the steampunker, to get teleporters.

yeah, brikker, its a per map basis.

you cant even use the pwnhammer, on pre-hardmode worlds.

you can however, use hallow seeds iirc. and things like that.

DiddleySquat_sl said:

I feel like a total retard, but I spend the last 2 hours trying to build my first house. Followed the wiki: got background wall, walls, ceiling and floor. Housing tool says I need light source, chair and table. Added a door to because what's a house without a door, right?
'No sir, this is not valid housing. Can't give you more details, but this is not it.'
Removed parts and added them, rebuild the whole house from scratch except the background wall and STILL no valid house.


Can someone tell me WTF is wrong with this house, because I must be missing something obvious, but I'm not seeing it and all the above adventuring stories sound great, but I'm stillstuck building a fucking clay hut for the last 2 hours.

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How do you get the game to tell you whether its valid housing or not?

I bought Terraria a good few months ago, and played it for probably around 2-3 hours, just couldn't get into it. However i started it up again a couple of weeks ago, and i can't stop playing it. Over the 2-3 weeks playing it, i must of put in a good 100+ hours. In the evenings when i would normally finish up on some work, i find myself loading the game and forgetting about the evening. Today i figured i would play for an hour at lunchtime before getting some stuff done - it's now 7:30pm and i had no idea i was playing for so long (even turning on the lights due to it get dark didn't register in my head about the time).

I haven't even triggered hardmode as yet, killed Eye, Skelly, Queen Bee and Eater of Worlds and now getting ready for the Wall of Flesh.

As you can see i'm taking my sweet time over this game - exploring bit by bit.

Going to be hoteling it for work for the next two weeks and that means nights stuck in a hotel with nothing to do but playing this game - can't wait.

Pyros_sl said:

Esc, on the right side there's a house icon above your equipement, click that and it lets you check for housing requirements and also move NPCs to other valid houses.

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Oh man, thanks. Helps a ton.