Hey folks, quick question--

Since there are going to be a lot of people in the server, what do you think about the starter area? Should we divvy out equal space to lay claims to before launching, or just let it flow as it will?

If we did this, we'd make 8 sections marked off as plots for building, and separate it with dungeon brick or something.

Even with our previous servers, some people get relegated to the fringes where the building situation isn't ideal, and this one will probably be more populated. This could help with fairness and cooperation, but it hinders creativity a bit in the compromise.

What do you think?

Something interesting I just learned, and look away now if you don't want any item spoilers: We may want to eventually start a second world with the same characters.

There are world-exclusive ores in 1.2. For example, if you have iron in your world, you'll never see lead. If you have platinum, you'll never see gold. If you have crimson, you'll never see corruption.

No, they aren't exactly equal. Platinum is better than gold, lead is better than iron. They're closer than silver and gold, but not the same.

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/242/631/382.gif

The game just started updating for me. 18.8 MB, a few minutes early!

How tricky was the brain? I loved the mechanics of the EoW fight, kinda sad we don't get to fight him.

Tonight I tipped over to 201 hours played. Bethesda games are now the only ones beating Terraria in terms of time played.

I love this game.

jaelte, I already mentioned this to you on Steam, but to anyone else, Jon isn't home to restart the server but he should be soon. Sorry for the inconvenience!

So I've really been digging the new houses people have been putting up in different biomes. Tonight I turned the dungeon entrance into a house for our delving needs. I guess beach houses and cactus houses are next, though they provide less utility.

I've been obsessing over collecting stuff, and finding beehives. Farming some materials for the dungeon tonight made me realize that there's still some challenge there, so I might hang out down there a bit. Jaelte, how are you doing on gearing up for hardmode?

Yes, lets wait until after that. It's always good to explore new content when you're geared up for the world. Looking forward to the creeper costume!

As for the teleporter, you can connect any two locations together with wire. So we should be able to go from main base to other bases, but probably not from say the dungeon to the jungle, because of the 3000 block limit on wire. I guess you could have teleporter waypoints.

Ah, sorry jon. You have to be in hardmode to make the teleporters. Otherwise I'd be all over that :)

There's also a hardmode item that lets you instantly teleport to any open spot on screen. I'm really looking forward to that.

Luckily we only need to beat the first hardmode boss to get the NPC who sells them, so we should be able to get it pretty quickly.

So I was building a shack on the beach, since I'm building shacks everywhere lately. I killed a ton of enemies out there, including a lot of ocean life (Just call me BP... heyo!) and happened to notice that I had an item called a "pirate map." So I thought, what's this? And used it.

Oh boy, bad idea.

Well, good idea. But it was a struggle. PIRATES INVADED. We now have a new NPC, Blackbeard the Pirate.

Thing is, that item isn't supposed to drop pre-hardmode. I suppose it bugged out.

At any rate, if you want a set of pirate clothes or a cannon, he's your guy. If you want a parrot pet, make him live in the beach shack and he'll sell that there.

I did some work on the NPC housing. It seems like I've been unofficially in charge of that on each server and I was getting bored with wood houses with wood walls.

Going to start prepping the world for hardmode, putting down some dungeon brick to prevent major damage from the clowns in hardmode and the spread of crimson.

Oh, and there's some corruption now, safely away from other stuff. You can now farm the pieces to spawn the Eater of Worlds, unfortunately I can't seem to get him to spawn.

I take that back. Jon got on and we were able to get EoW to spawn but he's a bit tricky to keep to the artificial biome and keeps leaving. I guess we're going to need a bigger biome.

In the pursuit of things to do while waiting for Halloween/hard mode I built an arena for hard mode bosses to the east of town. Look for a rope next to the greenhouse. Nothing to do there for a while but it's ready for us.

I wish I knew when the Halloween update was coming.

Yeah the Night's Edge-- you need the fiery greatsword (which I assume you have) the crimson/corrupt sword, which you probably have, the muramasa and the blade of grass. The muramasa is in Dungeon chests, and I think there are a couple still there, we've been leaving stuff we don't need. The blade of grass is pretty easy to get materials for. You should get extra so you can make an ivy whip too.

Other than that, I recommend the star cannon and the Phoenix Blaster for the Wall of Flesh fight. Star Cannon has very limited ammo, obviously, since it uses stars , so use it sparingly. The Phoenix Blaster isn't automatic like the minishark but it makes up for it in damage done.

I got some of them from our first server, actually. :) But yeah, I crafted a few at a crimson altar.

As for phoenix blaster vs. minishark, the shark does 6 base damage compared to the blaster's 23, but it's much faster. For me it seems to work out to about the same dps for less ammo, BUT if you need to spray and pray the shark is your best bet. The phoenix blaster will hurt him hard but the shark will get through the hungry better.

Bring both :) Or spawn the Eye of Cthulu and try them both out and see what you think. Reading around it looks like they're equally recommended.

Either way, make some meteor shot for them.

I bet the bee gun would actually do pretty well with it, helping to get rid of the hungry, then swap to the real gun and pop some caps.

The star cannon can seriously do some damage though. I've been hoarding stars like a squirrel for it, but it isn't really sustainable for many fights.

Melee is basically right out though.

"the clowns no longer damage blocks."
WHAT?! Well, at least it will keep the Crimson at bay when it starts spreading, since after hardmode the crimson/hallow V might get really close to base.

That's something else to bring up. Jon, you should consider backing the server up right before WoF, since our base could be totally ruined by the initial deposit of crimson/hallow.

" How on earth did you find all those heart statues?"
I went into our previous worlds and took the heart statues from the boss arenas there, two from my first personal world, and two from this world. If anyone considers that cheating I'll totally pull some of them up. :)

" It will start spawning corruptors which can infect the area around our base."

I forgot about the corruptor spit. That's an excellent point. I'll move it somewhere else. It wasn't working for what I wanted to accomplish anyway-- EoW doesn't exactly cooperate. Jon and I were trying to spawn every pre-hardmode boss at once the other day.

OK, removed the corruption and moved the mushrooms up to the next level, so the jungle has more room. The trees weren't growing well.

If the jungle enemies start annoying anyone (especially you, Jaelte, since you're on that edge) let me know and I'll knock out some of it.

So tonight I built us a shack at the far end of the platform in hell, so we can set our home point and such. Put a lava sacrificial shrine on top to summon the wall. And extended the platform a bit. We should be all set to get there and kill him.

So what do you all think about this weekend? Any plans to get in the way of us taking him down? Ideally all four of us kill him together, though I can only remember once when we were all on at the same time.

If I'm doing timezone math properly, 4PM EST sounds great for me.

I realized we were missing something important:

http://i.imgur.com/OpMHtsC.jpg?1

Hey good news, the corruptors no longer spread corruption: http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Corruptor

I guess they no longer live up to their name.

In addition, the Steampunker sells a weapon called the clentaminator that uses different solutions to cleanse corruption or crimson, or spread it. So it seems we can more easily fight the crimson/corruption in hardmode now. I was considering digging trenches like I'd done in the past but I think I'll let it ride and see what we end up with Saturday.

I put a base on each end of the Wall of Flesh bridge so regardless of which side we're on we can spawn the Wall and get a bed while we're there. Yeah, I'm filling time :) It may save some farming time, though, since we can just go to whichever is closest.

I stocked a chest in the first one you come to with some goodies for each of us, buffs and potions. Any other suggestions? I have another night to mess around :)

Oh man, why am I at work and not at home farming pumpkins and shit.

*cough* I think I'm coming down with something *cough*

Convincing?

Yeah we gotta gear up before Nov 10 so we can take out the Pumking! Most of that stuff in your second comment up from this one is dropped by him, and I've read that he's tough even in badass gear.

I've heard the Golden Shower is particularly effective against Mourning Wood.

That's a totally serious statement, I'm not joking at all, and I love that redigit has enabled me to use that sentence in a factual manner. Golden Shower is a top-tier 1.2 spell.

OK, I have yet to play this update, won't get to dive in til tonight, but how have you found so many costumes? Holy cow, that's a lot.

Are goodie bags just random loot from any enemy or specific ones?

And yeah, the mushroom enemies are pretty awesome. I hope hardmode doesn't come with really hard mushroom enemies or I might have to relocate it.

So tonight WBS, Jaelte and I farmed the hell out of some goodie bags. I've made comments before about how I don't understand people's obsession over costumes in video games, but I spent hours farming for items so I could play dress-up. Go figure.

WBS made a horrible genetic experiment gone wrong by mixing a unicorn head with a ninja turtle body. Excuse me, karate tortoise.

Terraria makes me get the "gotta catch em all" mindset like no other game. I MUST HAVE ALL THE COSTUMES.

I've made a pretty effective goodie bag farm to the West of town, past the biome farms. Using pressure plates, a timer, and dart traps, you can sit safely enclosed in brick and especially with a water candle and the slime pet, rack up the bags.

Since getting hit with multiple dart traps at once only counts as one hit, I'm using the pressure plates and the timer together to stagger the shots.

Feel free to farm the hell out of it!

So in one blood moon, my bunker thingie racked up over 6 gold and 7 goodie bags, along with 14 shackles and 4 zombie arms. Easy pickings!

I got a ton in hell below the hallow. The surface hallow is small but deep underground it's pretty big.

Also, when I spoke to you earlier on the server I had some reservations about fighting the hardmode bosses in just Palladium armor. I have full Mythril armor right now, and the Destroyer just showed up at random while I was at home organizing chests. Totally unprepared, I was able to take him out. So, consider me convinced. I think they must have tweaked the damage he does or something.

Finished out the titanium armor set and dove into the jungle. The jungle is the place to be. The spawn point for Plantera is down there now since a hard mode boss has been defeated, the life fruit are all over the place, and there's chlorophyte to collect. One thing to note about chlorophyte is that it grows back as long as you leave one piece of it there. So when you mine it, be sure to leave one. We are going to need so much chlorophyte to finish off all the items we can craft.

So after you get the pygmy staff from Plantera, the Witch Doctor starts selling armor and accessories geared toward a summoner-type player, kinda like the Witch Doctor in Diablo III. The Pygmy Staff summons pygmy minions, like the slime minion but way more effective, and with all the gear from the the Witch Doctor, you can have six minions active at once.

This makes summoner viable. If you're down mining in the hallow or whatever where there are hard enemies around, the pygmy army actually takes care of things for you so you can do what you want.

I took a screenshot as well: http://i.imgur.com/5K4cVMo.jpg?1

The jungle is my favorite place, period. Seriously, so much going on there now.

I fought him a few times and with the platform you had up top, I was barely getting hit until the head splits off. With some buffs, the first part will probably not net you any life loss. The second wave when the head separates is a pain but quite doable.

But yeah, I've seen some farms for this guy where it's just spawning him and watching him die due to all the traps. Or making him spawn above you and shooting him from below. There are a lot of possibilities.

With a pickaxe that you get from him, I think you can even move the altar if you're so inclined, so we could make him spawn exactly where we want him.

So I've been dungeon diving for ectoplasm all day, seriously for about 5 hours. I ended up with nowhere near enough to make the Spectre Armor. So insane.

But in the process I noticed that I only lack 4 items to make the Ankh Charm.

http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/terraria.gamepedia.com/1/1b/Ankh.jpg

This has to be the most complex item in the game, but I still think I'll have it before I have all the ectoplasm I need :)

Yeah I got two Bezoars a while back, if anyone needs my spare. I also have two extra bandages from my trip to the dungeon today.

I made a Golem "arena" below our hardmode boss arena.

I use "arena" in quotes because it's really just a matter of hitting the timer, activating the altar, and running back and forth when the lasers start firing.

I urge you all to fight this boss legitimately once before you use this, because this method is very cheap, and the boss fight isn't that bad. I made a quicker path to his chamber as well, so you can get to him more easily.

We're wired up now to get to the snow house and the dungeon quickly. There's a teleporter at the east end of town. The first hop is the snow house, the second is to a waypoint (no wire connection can be more than 2000 wires long) and then to the dungeon. I can't think of anything else noteworthy on that end of the map, but I'll wire up one on the west of town going to the jungle, lihzahrd, etc.

I considered one to the underworld but we don't really need it much at this point. It kinda sucks that you can't get teleporters til hard mode, because they'd be way more of a help about halfway through pre-hard mode.

Yeah you can do that. Definitely worth considering for sure. It almost eliminates the need for safehouses

I wonder if hell below the jungle counts. I fought her down there the other day and it worked well.

That's odd about the teleporters. I probably won't be on today at all, so if anyone wants to take a crack at it, be my guest!

So we got the new patch today. I've noticed a few things because of it. You don't have to be anywhere near a campfire for its effects. Standing right to the left of Jaelte's house, I still get the effects from my campfire.

Also, apparently placed water candles do increase spawn rate. WBS, standing under your house causes the buff to show up, and your water candles are placed a few floors up.

Jon, as for the teleporter issues, they all work just fine here. Not sure what you were seeing.

Just saw these comments, I didn't see any lag issues with the rainbow brick. I made a park in that empty, unused space and decided to spruce it up with some rainbow. I'll totally get those out tomorrow.

I'm supercharging the traps to the west of town but I'm not done. Feel free to play with it but be warned, I don't have anything labeled yet and it may be dangerous if you do things out of order.

OK, cleared up the rainbow brick. If you still get lag I'll move the whole thing. Depending on what's taxing your laptop. I doubt the fountains are using effects, most likely just basic animations, but I don't mind prying up the whole thing.

Having gotten tired of hopping to other worlds to get stuff from the hallow, since ours is so tiny, I made a small patch between the two crimson areas to the east of town. I extended it slightly underground so you can go there for souls of light, etc.

If anyone wants to expand it, all that it will require is making a house over there and putting the Steampunk in it so she sells the hallow solution.

Just be careful with it and keep it somewhere containable.

I found a Nazar in the dungeon, I *may* have an extra.

That sounds like a blast! I'm game.

The chlorophyte bullets are a lot of fun, but kinda suck for some bosses. I've messed around with them. Skeletron Prime, for example. You can't really target the head, because it auto-targets the closest enemy, so fights take longer than they should. Crystal bullets are a ton of fun though.