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Terraria (PS3/360) |OT| Who needs a mouse anyway?
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DeathGlobe
Member
I took out the first three bosses with ease now to use my trusty pwnhammer
I never 'reforged' anything, though...?
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Sometimes you can get a modifier when you first make something, without having to reforge.
yeah items have a chance to spawn with an attribute or not. you can change it by reforging.
also, slow should be giving you -xx% speed not + lol
Yea, that didn't make sense to me, either.
Finally got the merchant. I want that miner's helmet, but man, 8 gold is quite a bit! I've got like 3 and something now.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
For all the talk of how good the Miner's Helmet is, I've never actually used it. There's plenty of other ways to light up darkened caverns/tunnels (the obvious torches/glowsticks, weapons that provide light like phasesabers, potions, etc), and it never seemed worth the defensive hit anyway.
Also, I'm a bit sad that I'm almost done with the game. Only have two more bosses left to go counting the new boss that was added for the console version (though I'm sure
is going to kick my ass six ways from Sunday).
Also, I'm a bit sad that I'm almost done with the game. Only have two more bosses left to go counting the new boss that was added for the console version (though I'm sure
Skeletron Prime
sneakypete
Member
Miners hat is great for exploration in the less dangerous areas, just make sure you have a decent helm for boss fights or scary places
sneakypete
Member
Someone brought that up with 505 on the reddit bug talk, so hopefully they get it sorted out in the next patch. I've had the same problem though, both with Slow being a positive % and Violent(or maybe some other modifier, cant recall atm) giving negative %.
Question about hardmode. Is that just a new status laid over your world? Or do you start over in a new world?
I guess I'm curious about whether I should do any kind of prepwork for hardmode before taking down
. Stuff that might be harder to do once/if that world changes.
I guess I'm curious about whether I should do any kind of prepwork for hardmode before taking down
the Wall of Flesh
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Welp, beat all the Hardmode bosses, including the new console-exclusive one. I guess I've technically "beaten" the game. 
Of course there's still more to do (there always is with Terraria), but yeah, game beaten!
Of course there's still more to do (there always is with Terraria), but yeah, game beaten! Ocram is kinda a lame new boss. He's just EoC with some new attacks and more health.
Thanks for these, this is really helpful. Me and my wife are totally hooked on the game, but I was getting kind of lost on progression and I've been trying to use the wiki but it seems like one of those things that only completely makes sense once you've already done it. What wasn't helping was friends (including my wife) dropping into my game and trying to give me crazy shit, I'm trying to make sure I understand how the game works first
. Like last night I was finally about to get the last gold ore I needed for my final piece of gold armor, and my wife drops in and gives me
Necro
So I'm guessing my best move here is to get more demonite/scales to get the new pickaxe and gear, then with that I can mine through the corruption blocks (ebonstone) then use that better armor to deal with that first boss guarding the dungeon? I've got friends that could destroy it, but I'd like to at least attempt going through a proper progression first
. Also is the powder the best way to deal with being able to mine the corruption blocks until I have the Nightmare pickaxe? I have no idea if Ebonstone is even used for anything, if not am I better off just farming for the two ingredients needed to make the item to summon the EoW on my own to kill for ore/scales as opposed to going through corruption to get to orbs? Also at this point if I need Demonite am I better off using my eye items (I have 2-3) to summon that enemy to kill for it? Is there any other purpose to summoning the eye?Hey chaps,
For some reason, I cannot get the option to craft gold armour to pop up - I have 90 bard of gold, but the opening the crafting interface over the iron anvil only goes so far as silver - is it a tierig thing, whereby the option will only come up one the previous material has been used...?
It is as I feared, though - far too many hours are being spent on the title!
For some reason, I cannot get the option to craft gold armour to pop up - I have 90 bard of gold, but the opening the crafting interface over the iron anvil only goes so far as silver - is it a tierig thing, whereby the option will only come up one the previous material has been used...?
It is as I feared, though - far too many hours are being spent on the title!
Hey chaps,
For some reason, I cannot get the option to craft gold armour to pop up - I have 90 bard of gold, but the opening the crafting interface over the iron anvil only goes so far as silver - is it a tierig thing, whereby the option will only come up one the previous material has been used...?
It is as I feared, though - far too many hours are being spent on the title!
I had the same problem when I went to craft the meteorite gun and I found toggling between show all, and show available fixed the problem.
Aha, cheers for that - shall try that as soon as I get back. Hopefully - if it is a wee bug - it can be squished soon enough.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Had issues connecting last night to a friend. I don't know if anyone else was experiencing that.
theDeeDubs
Member
I was thinking about starting over in Hardmode, but I'd be very upset if I lost everything I had. Half the time I die, its not from an enemy killing me, but from getting knocked into lava, and its not like Minecraft where most everything is as easily replaceable.
Anyways, finally got the grappling hook and its a game-changer. Love it. Took me a while to realize its automatically mapped to the left-trigger, too. Thats pretty nice.
And I found a blue mushroom area with a gold chest. Wasn't much there, but the chest had a gold coin, which is cool.
I'm getting pretty far down(medium size world) and the map says I'm close to the bottom, but I haven't come across any dungeons or bosses or anything like that. I've only mapped out a pretty narrow slice of the earth, though, so I should probably start to branch out sideways more.
Anyways, finally got the grappling hook and its a game-changer. Love it. Took me a while to realize its automatically mapped to the left-trigger, too. Thats pretty nice.
And I found a blue mushroom area with a gold chest. Wasn't much there, but the chest had a gold coin, which is cool.
I'm getting pretty far down(medium size world) and the map says I'm close to the bottom, but I haven't come across any dungeons or bosses or anything like that. I've only mapped out a pretty narrow slice of the earth, though, so I should probably start to branch out sideways more.
Dungeons are either to the far left or far right of the world; if you reach the ocean without spotting the entrance, it's in the other direction. You'll definitely recognize it when you see it, it's right at the surface and pretty formidable-looking.
Bosses all spawn at or close to the surface with one exception (which is in the Underworld). You won't find any of them by digging (well, one you'll activate while underground, but not very far).
Live Free or Die
Banned
Welp, beat all the Hardmode bosses, including the new console-exclusive one. I guess I've technically "beaten" the game.
Ocram is kinda a lame new boss. He's just EoC with some new attacks and more health.
Wow, you beat it already? I haven't even beat any of the bosses yet. I'm still trying to get all gold armor. lol Maybe it because I'm playing it by myself, its slow going. lol
Ok, thanks. Haven't traveled close to the edges yet.
Screenshot feature would be great in this.
I don't remember if you can mine ebonstone with a gold pick or not. I know you can blow it up with dynamite, though that can be costly earlier on. Ebonstone isn't used for anything besides easily and automatically spreading the corruption, if you wanted to do such a thing. Yeah, if you still need Demonite, summon more eyes to kill, orSo I'm guessing my best move here is to get more demonite/scales to get the new pickaxe and gear, then with that I can mine through the corruption blocks (ebonstone) then use that better armor to deal with that first boss guarding the dungeon? I've got friends that could destroy it, but I'd like to at least attempt going through a proper progression first
break the orbs at the bottom of corruption areas to summon the Eater of Worlds and kill that a few times.
Hardmode "happens" to each world individually in which you
beat the Wall of Flesh.
That's kind of disappointing. I don't have the console version, but I looked it up on the wiki just to see what it was, and it didn't sound too bad. Just looked at what you can make from the souls.. and wow. You have to make a new cobalt/mithril/adamantite item on top of your hallowed item to combine with about 20 souls. That's a lot more farming. Appropriate for the best of the best gear, I suppose.
nope, requires demonite to mine ebonstone, hellstone, obsidian and the dungeon bricks. molten pick to get the first tier of hardmode stuff.
what do you mean by starting over? when you activate hardmode, you keep everything you have but the world just gets harder. tougher enemies, tougher bosses, different ores.
honestly I wouldn't activate hardmode until I had molten armor (if melee; one of the other 2 sets for ranged/magic), molten pickaxe, and a couple good weapons
minishark, night's edge, phase blade, thorn chakram, flamarang, sunfury, star cannon. just to name a few.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
I think he's confusing Hardmode and Hardcore difficulty, which are two different things. Heh.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Hey, I played by myself too, haha.
I'm actually a bit sad I beat it in just over a week. It really does kinda feel like there's nothing left for me to do, besides farm bosses to make more of the post-game stuff. I don't want to start a new character, but starting a new world with my current character seems like it'd be a waste too, since I'm so powerful at this point. Hrm.
EDIT: Shit, double post, sorry.
^why not craft the new armors and fill out the wiki with their info?
oh. right. haha. yeah fuck hardcore in any game. not for me.
oh. right. haha. yeah fuck hardcore in any game. not for me.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Hmm, well, you have to farm
Ocram
A Skeletron Prime summoning item, two The Twins summoning items, and 20 bars of Adamantite. Also 10 Souls of Night, I think. So you have to do a shitload of farming of Souls just to fight him once.
I mean, sure, it'd give me something to do, but farming
Souls of Night
Underground Corruption
try summoning the eater of worlds in the underground corruption. at the point you are, it would take all of 30 seconds to kill him and he drops ~10 souls per kill. the rest of the stuff to summon o-ceezy...you're on your own haha.
20 bars of adamantite for ONE summon on top of all that other stuff? Holy crap.
If you place enough ebonstone or pearlstone blocks down in hell, you will fight hell mobs, but you'll get light or dark souls from kills depending on if you're around enough ebonstone or pearlstone. I made a large flat area in hell with ebonstone on one side and pearlstone on the other, 3 bricks in height.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
I've got the absolute best pickaxe available in the game, and I still can't mine them. I think it may be a bug.
I'm confused reading the wiki; does the safe allow you to access items cross-world (aka if I have a safe in my world and a safe in my wife's world, I can access it's contents on both)? I know the piggy bank as well is character specific, but I don't think it carries across worlds (?). If not, what's the point of the safe versus the piggy bank then (since it's so expensive).
The safe and piggy bank are identical (except, of course, the price). What you put in one will always be there regardless of where you're at.
So if I put a safe or piggy bank down in my friends world, I can access it's contents in my world?
Edit: Unrelated, but I'm at a Tinkerer's Workshop and have both the Rocket Boots and Hermes Boots, but not seeing the option to make Spectre boots anywhere. Trying the toggle available items on/off trick to see if it's bugged but still nothing. Can someone confirm if that's correct, or at least tell me what tab it should be under?
Edit 2: Oooh fun, just got my first single-player crash to dashboard; was hitting X in the crafting screen to toggle available items on/off to re-check for the Spectre boots and it crashed me to dashboard.
Yep, or just use theirs. Another neat trick is to buy two piggy banks and carry one with you. Just plop it down somewhere, fill it up, use the hammer to break it down, and keep going. Acts like an extra 20 slots.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
So if anyone gets up to the new final boss
and needs some help with him (his second form can get a little ridiculous due to
, here's how I beat him, with minimal loss of life (I used one potion the entire battle). A Megashark with Crystal Ammo is recommended here, though other ranged weapons with a high DPS could probably work. I don't think I'd recommend melee for this strategy though (or
in general):
Ocram
his demon scythes doing absolutely ridiculous damage and having homing properties
Ocram
So to start, I just used my Eye of Cthulhu/Skeletron Prime arena:
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The sides and bottom are wood blocks and the platforms are wood platforms. Just a really basic boss arena. The bottom is wood in my case because I made it over a slight dip in the terrain, but yours can be flat land on the bottom, it really doesn't matter. But anyway, this should be fine for the first half of the fight. Just treat him like Eye of Cthulhu. But for the second half, after he transforms, you'll need a bit of modification. Under the bottom platform, build something like this:
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Where the opening is a two block wide opening, just big enough for a player to fall into, and the tunnel is three blocks tall, just tall enough for a player. When Ocram transforms and starts spitting out demon scythes in addition to the lasers and minions, just drop down here. The walls of the tunnel will almost completely negate the demon scythes, which are his only really damaging attack. Additionally, this will keep his minions in a relatively straight line, so you can just shoot right through them. Stay near the entrance to the tunnel and when Ocram flies right above you, just fire upwards at him until he moves. As long as you have a high DPS and started the fight right at nightfall, you should be able to finish him off long before daybreak.
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The sides and bottom are wood blocks and the platforms are wood platforms. Just a really basic boss arena. The bottom is wood in my case because I made it over a slight dip in the terrain, but yours can be flat land on the bottom, it really doesn't matter. But anyway, this should be fine for the first half of the fight. Just treat him like Eye of Cthulhu. But for the second half, after he transforms, you'll need a bit of modification. Under the bottom platform, build something like this:
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Where the opening is a two block wide opening, just big enough for a player to fall into, and the tunnel is three blocks tall, just tall enough for a player. When Ocram transforms and starts spitting out demon scythes in addition to the lasers and minions, just drop down here. The walls of the tunnel will almost completely negate the demon scythes, which are his only really damaging attack. Additionally, this will keep his minions in a relatively straight line, so you can just shoot right through them. Stay near the entrance to the tunnel and when Ocram flies right above you, just fire upwards at him until he moves. As long as you have a high DPS and started the fight right at nightfall, you should be able to finish him off long before daybreak.
Hmm, so I guess the only point of the safe is then to just give you two storages (that and the piggy bank) that are cross world?
Also is there any goddamn way to safely descend into the underworld? I can't find a way down there that doesn't involve me falling several screens, and then usually crazy shit is going on down there and I just get destroyed before I can clear everything out and get my bearings. I've explored about 3-4 fully zoomed out map screens right above the Underworld (the ash level) trying to find a safe descent and nada. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong or what, I've got full health, a full set of the Shadow armor, etc and have already cleared the dungeon so I feel like I should be fine going down there now.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Are you talking about taking fall damage when descending to the Underworld? If so, a Lucky Horseshoe or Obsidian Horseshoe will negate that. Or just double jump just before landing, if you have the Cloud in a Bottle. Rocket Boots are also a big help, especially for avoiding lava. There's always going to be a long drop before hitting the Underworld, though. Unless you build a makeshift staircase or something going down there. As far as dealing with the enemies down there...yeah, they can be tough at first. You'll just have to tough that out. Also, be sure to never kill a Voodoo Demon when he's flying over lava. You may accidentally end up summoning Wall of Flesh, and that's probably the last thing you want to do right now. :lol
So all the contents stay in the piggy bank when you break it down? Why do you need to buy two? :/
Every piggy bank links to the same storage (unlike chests) so you carry one with you (and hammer to pick it up) to access your mobile storage.
Ok, so even in single-player, I can just put one down in my house, fill it up, then take another with me and use those contents whenever I need to? Thats pretty cool.
that's what it sounds like, although I didn't know you could break it down with stuff in it. learn something new every day I guess!
JakkuFurosu
Member
My favorite feature of the piggy bank was using it across worlds. So nice starting a new world with cash and supplies.
Well, one to leave in your home base so it's always accessible, one to take with you. I suppose you could just use one, but every time you wanted in it at home you'd have to plop it down.
At a certain point, money doesn't really matter that much. I used to carry a safe and a piggy bank with me, effectively giving me 70 slots of inventory space instead of 30 (not counting the hotbar, which is for vital equipment, weapons, etc.). Yeah, it's a pain to drop it every now and then, but it beats traveling around a lot, especially if you're way down there and haven't dug a hellevator yet.