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What does this spider do? Also I’ve already found another demon altar in a jungle cave a while ago
The spider is an enemy mob. It will attack you. In Pre-Hardmode, the spider is not very useful, but they'll get an upgrade and mob drops in Hardmode.
Also just one more question, what’s a reliable way in pre-hard mode to farm hunter potions? (the enemy revealing potions)
I've never really needed to farm Hunter Potions because I only use them to find the Goblin Tinkerer. The most rare material is probably the Shark Fin. Sharks are a more uncommon enemy, so I'd say just stand in the ocean and wait for them to come to you.
Oh, well I did find a beach to the right of a corruption biome
How does the spider hit me though is it just melee? Also at this depth what ores should I expect to find and use as a summoner who’s already farmed the flinxes to a necessary amount for both the armor and summon weapon?
Spider.
Summoners don't really need to use the ores. Just craft whatever you can with the highest defence and as soon as you can either switch to Obsidian Armour or Bee Armour.
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Just broke a shadow ball in the corruption caves, who did I just anger?
No point of me spoiling the game for you. If you discover new things, you'll also discover new ways to die. Just go and explore.
Oh well someone else did tell me that after breaking it I can now go through the COC tutorial experience, X100
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I meant this photo, also I’m on a corruption world, this is the deepest I’ve ever came down and this is on my first played world
is all hope lost for December update ? my first time being part of an update
It seems highly unlikely at this point. I would expect a release date in the December state of the game though
I don't know how to handle this.
The V of evils' crimson side is running underneath and right next to my starter village, and Hallow is going to wreck my desert base extremely quickly. I'll post close-up shots below this
Do I try to kill Plantera first, or attempt a mech fight for the Clenteminator. I've never done either before.
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I wouldn't worry about the hallow since it won't kick out NPCs.
Like 10 dynamite to the left of that hill next to your base should keep the crimson away long enough to beat a mech for the clentaminator.
You can't fight Plantera until you've beaten every mech.
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Hello, as I understand, there’s been an update that changes the sound design of picking/crafting an item. I don’t really enjoy the new sound. Is there a mod that changes it back to the old one?
Vanilla Terraria has a planned update pretty soon (likely next month), but it has been years since the last update. If you are experiencing altered sound design in your game, it would be due to some mod or resource pack you installed.
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Xbox first playthrough here. I can't find my hallow biomes 😭
Have you defeated The Wall of Flesh yet? The hallow biome does not spawn until after that.
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Why this won't turn into mushroom biome?(
Glowing mushroom (tile) doesn't count towards a biome. You need mushroom grass.
I’m playing the game for my second time ever and have no clue what to do. I played once, 4 years ago and got carried through the game so I’m playing it for real solo and don’t know what my first task is, can anyone help? Is there a list of things I should be doing first?
Basically to start with I think just explore. See what all the biomes in your world look like. See what the different enemies do. See what happens when you die. Collect some loot from chests. Etc.
Once you feel like you're acquainted with your world I'd start digging to try to find some interesting caverns or treasure rooms. Once you've defeated enough of each enemy you'll be able to see what items they drop when you look in the beastiary. Some of these are really good (like the depth meter, dropped rarely by all kinds of bats).
Finding ores and making metal bars and upgrading your tools, weapons, and armour is also a good idea.
Eventually you'll be able to summon bosses to fight, and some of them will just spawn themselves once you meet certain conditions, so just be prepared for danger.
Also just have fun. Be creative. Build cool things.
Before you know it you'll start realising what things you want/need and go after those.
Why am I struggling to kill the mechs with whats supposed to be the best set pre mech kills. Me and my buddy got titanium armor and and the sunfire and nothing seems to keep us alive long enough to kill the mech bosses we've tired the world eater and the eyes and nothing seems to kill them/keep us alive long enough to kill them
I assume you mean the Sunfury. That's a Pre-Hardmode weapon. It also doesn't have the range and DPS you'd need for the mechs. Are you both playing melee or ? One of you could go ranged.
Me and my buddy haven't figured out what class we want to do. What would you recommend we have alot of crap just dont know whats good and whats not
I really like the Flying Knife for Destroyer because you can drag the knife through all of the Destroyer's segments.
i saw someone use a mod that makes enemys level up when you kill them, one kill, = a stat boost for that mob type.
but they ofc, negelected to share the mod name and im too dumb to google it apparently.
anyone know it?
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why don't they grow? also, is the nights edge better than adamamtine sword? also, is there a way to zoom out more?
Underground layer only, no walls behind nor light near the saplings
About the same I guess
It depends of your monitor's resolution
thanks! but changing res didn't work for me. is there a mod for zooming out more?
Better zoom is the best one afaik
The light doesn’t actually matter for it. Its just the layer and not having walls immediately behind it.
Hey what’s this?
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Demon Altar. It's used to craft some boss summons and the Night's Edge.
Also can I handle the hive area with all the bees with this gear?
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You are pretty underpowered to fight the hive's boss. Come back when you've beaten the boss in the Corruption and are wearing some combined accessories.
So I went and fought her and she just tackled me to death, I’m trying to be a summoner and my armor is plat helm, flinx chestplate, and ninja boots, how should I go get better gear, also when farming flinxes and mining I saw another demon altar and a spider
Deadly Spheres or Raven Staff?
Deadly Spheres are really good against big hoards of enemies and they’re really aggressive too, but they kinda have a shitty AI compared to Ravens, imo they are faster and smarter, way better than the Deadly Sphere, but what do y’all think? Again, imo, Raven staff is just way better.
On paper, Ravens for single target and Spheres for crowd control, but Golem is the next boss and it has multiple hitboxes, so the only use case for ravens IMO is pregolem Fishron or EoL, who ravens struggle to hit and I wouldn't bother with until the Xeno Staff.
I say Deadly Spheres are the best postplantera summon.
Is there a mod that I can use to clear events that isn't TEdit? Some event is happening that is preventing me from summoning bosses or using pylons, but despite standing at the original spawn in my world for a few mins nothing is happening. I can't use TEdit as this world has both Calamity and Magic Storage and AFAIK TEdit deletes those from the world even if I only clear the event flags.
Fargo's Mutant Mod's Abominationn can cancel events.
I'm in a randomizer run so sadly he wouldn't be available for me.
Creative Tools mod by NotLe0n has event toggles.
Thanks, seems a Goblin event got stalled somehow.
Collecting quest fish.
I have all the quest fish possible collected in one world (crimson) with the exception of the corruption fish.
I have started a new corruption world. I need eater of plankton, infected scabbardfish and cursed fish. Should I activate hardmode right away for the chance to get a cursed fish since I can get the others too? Or does that increase the pool of possible quests too much meaning I should get the prehardmode ones first, then activate?
I would activate hardmode first
Pressign M no longer pulls up a map and nothing happens when I click on a pylon. When I press Tab I hear a clicking sound like the game knows the button should do something but my minimap doesn't come back. I've restarted my laptop and have reinstalled the game. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Check if the map is enabled in the main menu settings.
It was disabled (oops). Thanks you soo much! I was so frustrated walking from one place to another
My NPCs keep leaving the doors open and getting themselves killed. Is there any way to raise their IQ?
Unfortunately, no. Best you can do is stop giving them access to doors.
Is there a mod that allows you to easily change the zoom% without going into the settings?
You don’t need a mod, just press and hold + or -
Ah I see, thanks so much!
Is it best to have all your crafting stations in a big clump, with as many chests filled with materials surrounding them as you can fit within range?
I tend to split them into several clumps with space between, to avoid giant crafting menus: basic crafting (workbenches, forges, anvils), advanced crafting (sawmill, heavy workbench, tinkerer), utility (alchemy, cooking, imbuing), specialty (dye vat, crystal ball, autohammer), furniture (ice machine, living loom, solidifier).
It is generally a good way to do jt
I need help with some maths: Terra Blade 18 use time after legendary reforge = 16 after melee speed bonus of 173% = 6 use time but I should add 1 for the reuseDelay right? or did I messed up and it's supposed to be applied elsewhere?
I think that is the right place to the delay
Oh so I was right I saw someone do some maths and they forgot the delay I guess
Do you get every biome in small worlds? / Can you just create every biome? I'm thinking of switching to a small world. I originally chose large because of the "long term progression" comment, but after playing for nearly 100hrs now I realise how long it's going to take me to make the whole world nice like I want it and I really don't have that kind of time.
The size of the world doesn't matter.
In a drunk world you naturally get both evil but on any other world always generate with all the biomes but one evil.
The dryad has the seed for the other evil in her shop if she's in a graveyard in hardmode. So you can build the biomes you're missing.
You only naturally get one of the world evils (unless using a secret seed), but that is no different than other world sizes. All the major biomes will be present. Microbiomes (like desert oasis and pyramid) may be less common.
For single player, medium size feels optimal to me. Small worlds fell more like a way to boss rush/speed through content.
Just beat the wall of flesh and I saw that the V biome spread has started and my golems dungeon and most of the jungle is now half jungle half corruption what is my next course of action? Preferably not smt extremely tedious? Or do I wait to get clataminator? NEED HELP
You could mine around the biomes with a three block gap to stop the biomes from spreading uncontrollably. Typically what's next though is to beat one of the mechanical bosses (I found the twins to be the easiest) You could also fight queen slime for some better armor. After beating a mechanical boss, you'll be able to get the clentaminator.
Clentaminator is your best bet. Once you get that and lots of purifying solution you can purify the Jungle back to normal.
(It used to be that the Clentaminator would "purify" the Jungle back to forest, which is why it was so important to keep Corruption out of the Jungle in the first place, but that is no longer true. The Clentaminator will now fix the Jungle properly.)
Also, the Jungle can "defend itself", so to speak, against further Corruption through Chlorophyte deposits (they block Corruption). It won't get completely taken over.
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what should i change before fighting the destroyer. its my first mechanical boss
Fairy, Harpy, or Frozen Wings are better than Angel.
Combine your Mana Flower with a Star Cloak to make a Mana Cloak.
Amphibian Boots are better than Lightning if you're willing to fish.
i just beat it with my current gear and some potions lol. but good to know the wings thing
I'm interested in doing a playthrough of a large, well integrated modpack and it seems like Infernal Eclipse of Ragnarok is what I want, but I'm a bit scared of Infernum. I've played Calamity Revengeance before, on two occasions (though not to the end either time), and I remember it going OK, but I haven't touched Death mode, and prior to starting a playthrough with Thorium and Spirit recently, I hadn't touched any other mods.
Thus do I ask : is it possible and worthwhile to play Infernal Eclipse of Ragnarok without being in Infernum difficulty?
Also, should I even consider it without having played Homeward Journey and Secrets of the Shadows separately before? How much does the experience of these mods change in the modpack compared to otherwise?
Brome is covering this mod pack on YT. He dropped the Pre-Hardmode vid today and also has another to help with installing the mods in the description. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks real neato.
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I would ask more in their discord or the modding discord. It is a very new mod pack I believe and right now is kind of one of a kind in the fact that it is a modpack that was designed to be cohesive. Most other mod packs kind of just throw a ton of mods together.