Terraria (2d Minecraft)

[Coren]

Wanted to show off my failwhale that I made for the druid to live in as well as a few other odds and ends. Spoilered for too-wide screenshots.

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failwhale
http://corenffxi.com/terraria/screenshots/1.jpg

shroom farm and merchant, potion storage, etc
http://corenffxi.com/terraria/screenshots/2.jpg

more shroom farming
http://corenffxi.com/terraria/screenshots/3.jpg

shroom terrarium!
http://corenffxi.com/terraria/screenshots/4.jpg

gunsmith's hideout right above hell
http://corenffxi.com/terraria/screenshots/5.jpg

[Imitarate]

Found two floating islands right next to each other, so I made a house-type dealie up there.

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I still have to fill in a LOT of detail, but I'm not sure what i want to do with it yet. Guess I'll wait til there's more furniture or something strikes me.

[Overburn]

That's pretty awesome. Didn't even think of that when I saw that multiple floating islands could spawn together.

Only problem I can see with it is Meteors have a pretty high chance of hitting it, which would be annoying to clean up and repair. It'd probably be a good idea (if you don't need meteorite since it will basically prevent it from forming on the island) to make a thin wall around the entire area to prevent it from getting hit. I guess if you wanted to still have a chance at meteor you could make a thicker wall too but it might start to look a little weird with a 5-6 layer thick wall around the entire place.

[Atreides]

seeing those screenshots has inspired me to renovate my house too. I kept the workshop/storage area mostly the same so far, but my plan is to have a big open courtyard in the center with rooms off to the side:

http://i53.tinypic.com/23kp7gp.jpg

So far ive only done the armory and dining room, I'm still going to add a temple/throne room, a treasure vault, a laboratory, and a library, and some guest rooms if they add any more NPCs, and an apartment up top for myself.

[Coren]

One of my maps I actually put a bar of dirt/stone way above my castle in the sky to prevent that shit. I've got a couple stacks of meteor left, so I couldn't care less if they land.

[Imitarate]

I'm probably going to do that, yeah. I don't care about meteors on my main map, I have other maps for meteor farming if I want more meteor shot (which is the only thing I use it for anymore, though I suppose I COULD make every color of phaseblade...).

I'm planning on putting a swimming pool in there somewhere, probably on the rightmost side, next to the glass garden. I'm not really impressed by the "chair and table" options for rooms at the moment, I'd like to see more decorations... but I'm patient, the dev team is very content-focused, so if it's a choice between new bosses, new items, new biome types, and new invasions.... versus some couches and wall paintings? Yeah. Pew pew, kthx.

[Brimah]

Bleh... been killing things in the jungles for hours and hours and cannot get a single pair of greaves...

Also... am I odd for not really wanting to build a really nice house? I just like to explore and kill things and collect, which the greaves and seeing a goblin invasion is all I really want to do as of now. At least til tomorrow's update.

[Overburn]

I started working on my house once I started to run out of things to do.

After spending multiple hours just sitting in the Underworld/Jungle waiting for monsters to spend forever spawning/not dropping anything, actually doing something that you can see the results of instantly is a nice change.

It starts out slow as a hobby but starts to pick up after awhile. Also good to work on between updates, since getting things from the update only really takes 1-3 days to complete.

[miokomioko]

Yeah, building for fun is something that most people probably won't bother with until they've exhausted the existing content. Not only is it good to kill the between-updates time, it's also likely that you won't have all the materials/decorations/tools you would prefer for your dream fortress/castle/dungeon/house/etc. Also, it involves a lot of terraforming sometimes, and that can be daunting to even get started.

[Imitarate]

Maybe this is a well-known concept, but I took the single-form liquid splitter and put gears on it. It really helped with filling my pool, and I think it has great applications for higher gear settings. I'm gonna play with that, I think!

[Coren]

I tried various forms of this, and either it didn't work, or it didn't seem to fill any faster. Still, not a bad idea at all. I want to get one of the infinite water pools to work (the ones that you don't have to stand there clicking for hours). They were just so damn slow, and I was impatient.

They need to add some kind of fountain or water-movement item. I want to create waterfalls and fountains!.

[Trichocyst]

We decided to restart our world since the update is coming. I'm going to build a castle made of hellstone and glass.

[Atreides]

more work on my new house!:

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Laboratory, Library, and Throne Room/Temple
http://i55.tinypic.com/10d9mo9.jpg

Greenhouse, Treasure Vault, Armory/Workshop, and Dining Room
http://i53.tinypic.com/2r2ry1i.jpg

[Atreides]

ugh, no wonder the demolitionist won't move into my lab... apparently you can't use dungeon background walls (green/blue/pink) for NPC rooms That sucks

At least this lets me use blue/green for my personal apartment without worrying that an NPC is goign to ditch their room for mine.

[Yuri-G]

wow, the game sure picks up after getting your nightmare pickaxe. took forever to get there, but after I made one the game flew by. suddenly I had a set of molten armor, fiery greatsword and various other goodies faster than I could blink.

making obsidian is so fucking tedious though. liquid duplication is a nice shortcut but it still takes forever. click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click

seriously, who would have thought that farming hellstone while being assaulted by fire imps and bone serpents would be less frustrating than making obsidian?

[Atreides]

Patch notes are up, holy shit so much stuff. Can't repost at the gym but they're over at http://www.terrariaonline.com/thread...7/#post-366713

Yay bunnies and costumes!

[Doombear]

Patch notes are up, holy shit so much stuff. Can't repost at the gym but they're over at http://www.terrariaonline.com/thread...7/#post-366713

Yay bunnies and costumes!

Items
Added Feature! - Social Slots. All normal armor and vanity items can be placed here to use their graphical appearance in place of equipped gear without overriding their stat gains.
New Vanity Items - Tuxedo Shirt and Pants
New Vanity Items - Plumber Outfit and Hat
New Vanity Items - Hero Outfit and Hat
New Vanity Item - Bunny Hood
New Vanity Item - Fish Bowl
New Vanity Item - Top Hat
New Vanity Items - Archaeologist's Outfit and Hat
New Vanity Item - Ninja Outfit.
New Vanity Item - Red Hat.
New Vanity Item - Summer Hat
New Vanity Item - Robe
New Vanity Item - Robot Hat
New Vanity Item - Gold Crown
New Item - Leather
New Item - Green Dye
New Item - Black Dye

You can now wear the Jungle Rose in your hair.
The Water Candle’s enemy spawn rate increase effect now works correctly when held
Some items that were missing ‘lore text’ in their tool-tips now have them.(Breathing Reed,Grappling Hook Jungle Rose.)
Ammo items are now listed as Ammo in their tool-tip and Equipable Items that offer no stat bonus list as Vanity Items in their tool-tip. Items used in any recipe now list as Materials, in their tool-tip.
The Magic Hat now offers 2 Defense to its wearer and the Empty Bucket now offers 1 Defense to its wearer.
Dungeon Blocks now require at least a Nightmare Pick to mine, unless they are near the spawn location, where they can be mined by any pick.
Phoenix Blaster has had a reduction of stats to balance better with other items of its tier.
Gem, Mushroom and Bottle sell values have been reduced.
Hell Forges above the rock layer can be moved with any hammer, but below require a 60% power hammer or stronger.
Angel Statues are now more rare of a find.

NPCs
New NPC - Bunny
New NPC - Goldfish (Is also an Item)
New Enemy - Corrupt Bunny
New Enemy - Corrupt Goldfish
New Enemy - Piranha
New Enemy - Harpy
New Random Mini- Boss - King Slime
New Enemy - Bat
New Enemy - Jungle Bat
New Enemy - Jungle Slime
New Enemy - Snatcher
New Rare Enemy - Dr. Bones
New Rare Enemy - The Groom
New NPC - A Clothier will now move into your town when the conditions are met.
Enemy spawn distance has been pushed back to the maximum resolution to ensure that they will never spawn on the screen.
Enemy spawn rates have been adjusted to account for the increased spawn distance.
Enemy projectiles no longer drop hearts or stars when killed by the player.
The Eater of Worlds now has Higher HP, Def and Dmg, making battling him more difficult.
Hornets no longer appear as if they are about to flip over while flying.
The Dead Miner is now a bit stronger.
Tim’s spawn chance has been reduced.
Player
Players now have 1 second of invulnerability after they spawn.
The eat/drink animation now plays correctly.

World-Gen
Surface Jungle’s are now possible on mud that is on the surface. Jungle trees will auto-grow on their own, as acorns are not usable on the jungle grass.
Chasms are now less frequent to appear, but always have an orb.
Mud now ‘blends’ graphically with dirt, rather than stone to add for a more crisp look in Jungles.
Jungle plants now grow underwater.
Multiplayer
Increased client side security.
Selecting summon items will no longer cause monsters to summon.
Players with a name over 20 characters will now get booted from the server.
Added some minor anti-grief protection.
Fixed a bug that would cause the client to attempt to summon an NPC during a multiplayer game and crash.
Added the -host command line parameter to the client.

Server
Improved server timing, which should help reduce lag.
Added several new command line and config options. These are listed in serverconfig.txt
Servers will now output to crashlog.txt before crashing, allowing for more specific bug reporting.
Clients will now output to client-crashlog.txt before crashing, allowing for more specific bug reporting.

Misc.
Screen resolutions now have limits of 800x600 minimum and 1920x1200 maximum.
Added an option that will pause the game while talking to an NPC or opening your inventory in single player. It defaults to off.
Added an option to automatically save the world every 10 minutes. Defaults to on.
Added a prompt to load a world backup if the current world is corrupt.
Added a check to determine if a world file was loaded successfully.
Attempting to Launch the game from the Terraria.exe, will now inform you to launch via Steam rather then doing nothing at all with no indication of why.
Backing out of the port selection screen now plays the correct sound.
Setting options now correctly align with the center of the screen in all resolutions.
The settings menu has been reorganized. All video related options have their own menu
The “Tink” sound now has a more dull sound.
The Re-Logic splash screen, now scales correctly in other resolutions.

I am liking the option to pause when you open inventory or talk to an NPC. I know I died a few times to Cthulhu because I wasn't ready inventory wise when he spawned on my ass. My fault, but still, not a bad option. If you think it is easy mode then just leave it turned off.

[Qalbert]

But are there bunny costumes...

[Doombear]

Cave bats are so fasssssssssssst.

I like that the Costume Slots also allow you to carry a second set of armor if you want, and can just swap them out right next to each other. Frees up 3 more inventory slots anyway, until I have a bunny costume.

[Coren]

So now that the patch has been live for a whopping hour or so, anybody know how to get a goldfish NPC? I found one swimming in the ocean at the end of the map, but it's not attackable, pickaxe-able, or hamaxe-able. Maybe I need a net or something? lol