Terraria (2d Minecraft)

[Atreides]

Interesting, apparently you can get a Nature's Gift from cutting roses in the underground jungle, they actually appear as a blue flower growing on the dirt (as opposed to red flowers which become Jungle Roses when cut). I am pretty sure this is just like the Water Bolt book, which always has the same unique book sprite when it shows up in dungeons.

I really wish you could re-place healing and mana potions on shelves the way they appear in dungeons, too. Having 2 other varieties of bottles to place would be really nice.

Anywho, I totally understand why they made it so Hellstone now requires a Demonite or better pick to mine, but I kinda wished they had kept it so Obsidian can be mined by at least Gold tools. The only thing you can make out of pure obsidian is the obsidian skull, which is really useful for mining Meteors well before you can start thinking about heading to the Underworld.

Also acorns needs to grow faster.

Do the devs keep a blog/twitter like Notch does? I'd be interested to see what kinda stuff they talk about with future plans for the game.

edit: is it excessive to craft 1 of every phaseblade? lol

[Mots]

They need to change the staff of Regrowth so it can make tree's insta-grow as well as putting grass on dirt. I need to make a Obsidian farm on my main map soon. I'd like to make a house out of it at some point.

[Tonko]

9th goblin invasion
Finally a pair of rocket boots.

[Atreides]

Anyone else need Rocket Boots? I got a 3rd pair from another goblin invasion.

I also have 3 extra cobalt breastplates and 2 extra greaves, would really be nice if this fucking helmet were to drop

[miokomioko]

It looks like only jungle grass can grow at the depths I'm at (the border between the first and second strata). Even normal grass won't spread on its own in the same room. Damnit.

[Atreides]

are you trying to build a jungle rose farm?

[miokomioko]

I was originally trying to make a Vile Mushroom farm, but the Corruption wouldn't spread. Then I tried to make it a lame little normal Mushroom farm, but the grass wouldn't spread. Since I have the room all built, now I'm just going to make a Jungle Rose farm by leading it all the way here from the jungle via a strip of mud... It's going to be a long time coming.

[Atreides]

just afk waiting for goblins/meteors!

I have been busy stockpiling materials and finishing off items, I have a really nice path leading all the way through the underground jungle and started putting all sorts of platforms to make it easier to explore. I also slightly terraformed the surface so I can run more easily across with hermes boots. I'm contemplating raiding other worlds to get 5 feral claws and 5 anklets of the wind but eh, I already have 4 or 5 bands of starpower though.

Finally got my Cobalt Helm, now I have 3 extra cobalt breastplates and greaves lol. Only item I still need is a Sunfury, I hope I get that while I make the Underworld more exploration-friendly

I guess I still need to build my vile mushroom/glowing mushroom farms...

[Minardi]

How do you get Mushroom farms going? I've heard of the glowing (blue?) moss, but i've yet to see any. Sounds like there's a ton of materials and things to grab in this game.. Too bad my friend and I seem to love flooding everything if we happen to find water underground.

[miokomioko]

First, you'll have to find a naturally occurring patch of Glowing Mushrooms. Glowing Mushrooms, naturally pop out of the blue, glowing "Mushroom Grass" as long as it's deep enough underground and there's no artificial light. Either cut and harvest all the mushrooms there (warning: the tall ones will not grow back) in hopes that they'll drop Mushroom Grass Seeds to plant in mud in your farm or make a trail of mud leading from the patch to where you want your farm and wait for it to spread there (it spreads incredibly slow).

If it's not deep enough, the Mushroom Grass will not spread and (I'm pretty sure) Glowing Mushrooms will not grow from the grass, even if you plant enough via seeds.

I'm just sad that apparently Corruption and normal Grass cannot spread at these depths. I was hoping to have just about all my farms/rooms at about the same depth.

[Priran]

Grass stops growing at -1 foot. Glowing grass starts growing at -5 feet. (According to my depth meter).

Problem solved

[miokomioko]

Wow, I never actually checked the depth of my home's surface area... it must be like 200 ft. above sea-level as I have a lot of caves nearby just completely filled with grass and (annoying) vines. This changes a lot of things regarding where my farms have to be. Hmm.

[Atreides]

well sadly, even with a full Cobalt Set, Rocket Boots, and 4 Bands of Starpower you can't fly upward indefinitely, although it does regen MP fast enough that you can essentially hover by using puffs of boost. I have been toying around with a few things actually, I decided to go out with full Shadow armor and 3 feral claws, which turns your Muramasa into a flailing cloud of death lol.

I still only have 2 anklets of the wind but I'm really interested to see how fast you can get with full Necro and 3 or 4 of them, I know the effect doesn't stack with Hermes Boots but IMO Hermes Boots max speed isn't all that spectacular... they really need to up it, or at least let you build even more momentum like Metroid (maybe even bust through walls? Hmm)

Also I'd love to see a super hard to get accessory that lets you swing any weapon automatically like the Muramasa.

[miokomioko]

After a brief little test, it's looking like jungle grass won't spread any higher than -512 ft. (large map). I'm about to AFK for a while to double-check it though.

[Minardi]

Thanks for telling me what's up with the mushrooms Mioko! Earlier I dug so deep I found Mother Slimes and Skeletons for the first time. It was crazy!

Worms are also stupid. Stupid stupid stupid <<.

[miokomioko]

No problem~

After a brief little test, it's looking like jungle grass won't spread any higher than -512 ft. (large map). I'm about to AFK for a while to double-check it though.

Something keeps changing my active window while I'm afk, but the jungle grass did go up to 510 ft. while I was gone, it might not have a depth requirement.

[Atreides]

I don't think there is, on my world the jungle comes up almost to the surface... like just below desert level basically, looks like it stops where the stone strata meets the dirt? According to one of the wikis the entrance to the Jungle can come up to the surface, although this is rare.

I don't see the point of a jungle rose farm, at least for me. My horizontal path from the vertical shaft to the jungle continues all the way through most of the jungle itself, so if I need roses I can just run while swinging my sword and I get a shitload of them... not to mention the metric fuckton I have in my basement from farming cobalt.

I finally finished the left half of my underground horizontal highway of sorts (I always carry Hermes Boots now), which travels from the vertical shaft all the way from the dungeon in the west through the jungle to the east, and half of it is paved with glowing mushrooms. Sadly I think it's too far down for an underground bunker, but I hear it's really annoying to get your own backdrop walls because of the way removing underground dirt back walls works.

Kinda wish I had kept my Floating Islands relatively pristine with gold/copper brick houses/backdrops, even though one of them got nailed with a meteorite yesterday. Now I'm using them as tree farms... oh yea, I totally didn't even realize you can chop off individual tree branches. I really hope I don't nerd out and trim every tree on my world...

[miokomioko]

I had just assumed that the jungle grass would spread a lot faster than it did... Usually, when I'm mining around in the jungle, the grass is regrowing like half as fast as I'm breaking mud blocks. It's just taking ages to crawl down a line of mud.

So, I abandoned my world, started a new SMALL one, and placed my new house on stilts over the ocean. It's looking pretty sweet already, but going back and forth between worlds to transfer a bunch of my loot is getting tiresome.

[Atreides]

Ya, large worlds seem WAYYYY too big, I guess I'd only use one if I wanted to build something with a bigger ceiling or something. Small worlds are pretty perfectly sized, and you can always raid another world if you need more crap. Small worlds are definitely enough to mostly terraform the dungeon/underworld/jungle, or at least trim the caverns and add platforms/torches to make them easy to navigate, which is what I've been working on as I farm.

[Coren]

We decided to build out a "large" world before we realized just how fucking large they are. It feels like you're tunneling for-fucking-ever whenever you're going someplace. I have to use hermes boots to get to my underground jungle in any kind of useful time. As it is, if you happen to die, it's about 5 minutes to run back; it's a shame you can't wear 2 or 3 of the boots to go faster. I don't want to start over though .