I've got a House. Now what?!

"When in doubt: Dig." ~Survival 101


Terraria Armors by *deadinsane on deviantART

You've got a house! (If you don't, here's part one of this Survival 101 posts) What now? You need to prepare for the Corruption by upgrading your ARMOR!

Q: What's the corruption? It's a Biome that spreads wherever there's an abundance of Ebonstone. Normally, each Terraria world have two Corruption Areas, one on each side of the map. The normal spawns are replaced with nastier Eater of Souls and Devourers, thorns grow in the land and only the higher tier pickaxes can mine Ebonstone.

Q: Why would I go there? Two things: Shadow Orbs (contains treasure) and Demon Altars (can create boss summoning items, which drop treasure.) Also, the high spawn rate of monsters there can be quite profitable. So, let's get to it~!

1.) The first step is to get the Merchant NPC. Just build another house, preferably connected to your first one (The guide's house). Don't forget the furniture (Chair, Table and Light Source) as well as the walls. Now, while we're waiting for the NPC to spawn..

2.) Stock up on gels and wood. You're gonna create a bunch of torches and a ton of wooden platforms, so chop down those trees! Kill those slimes! Try to plant some acorns too so that you won't run out of wood.

Q: The Merchant won't spawn! If you have built your house correctly, then you'd just have to be patient. He won't spawn when you're near (NPCs are shy), so let's just continue to the third step!

3.) DIG!

Q: What? DIG!
Q: Really? Yeah! It's easier to dig down near your spawn point for easy access, but here are a few things to looks out for:

• A steam engine-like sound. That's a Giant Worm. Many characters have died to this beast, but here's a technique to help: Don't try to follow it. Instead, stand your ground and don't stop swinging your preferred weapon. This will lure the worm to you, and hopefully you'll bash it's fragile head in when it shows up.
• Pots. They contain coins and BOMBS. These are very useful in sticky situations. speaking of sticky situations: Bomb + Gel = Sticky Bomb.
• Chests! These are quite uncommon, so keep an eye out for these. Also, red stone hearts will increase your total HP, if you've got a hammer to chisel it out.
• Ore! We're aiming for Iron and Silver. Copper is not really a good upgrade since I found out that silver is a lot better. Try to get the Gold Ores too, but don't expect to craft armor out of those anytime soon.
• And last but definitely not the least: Cobwebs!

4.) When you get at least 50 Cobwebs, find a nice level ground preferably near a resource such as glowing mushrooms. Build yourself an outpost, which will serve as your secondary respawn point when adventuring near the area.

You can build a bed (respawn point) by creating a workbench, then turning your 50 Cobwebs into 5 Silk, which can be crafted into one bed. Don't forget to right click the bed to set it as you current spawn location.

Q: My Merchant has "moved in"! Yey! Journey back to the surface then! Here's a checklist of things that you'd craft:

• Workbench (reuse your first one if you can.)
• Furnace (20 Stone Blocks + 4 Wood + 3 Torches)
• Buy an Anvil from the Merchant, or craft one if you think you have excess Iron Ores (15 Iron Ores to 5 Iron Bars to 1 Anvil)
• Your priority is Iron Pickaxe (36 Iron Ores to 12 Iron Bars + 3 Wood) and an Iron Broadsword (24 Iron Ores to 8 Iron Bars). Save your more precious ores for Armor.
• If you have a lot of Silver Ores (300, to be exact) you can skip the Iron Armor upgrade and just smelt 300 Silver Ores into 75 Silver Bars, into a full set of Silver Armor.
• Iron is a lot more common than Silver. You only need 225 Iron Ores for a full set of Iron Armor.
• Try to create a Gold Pickaxe or a Gold Broadsword / Gold Bow if you have enough Gold Ores.

5.) If you don't have enough ores, just go down to your underground outpost and start digging. When you have decent armor and weaponry, we'll head out to the corruption!

Ok, that's it for this post~ A very long one at that :( Anyway, see you tomorrow!

#YeA #Terraria *signing out*

Survival 101: First Timer's Checklist

noob: Yay! I installed Terraria
*creates a new world and character*
noob: Now what?
*after a few minutes*
noob: This is boring
*a few more minutes.. Night falls.*
noob: WTH?! This is hard!
*noob's character is slain*
*Guide dies.. Laughing.*

The transcript above is a typical first timer's experience in the worlds of Terraria. Here's a step-by-step checklist on what to do the first time you create a character and a world. Experienced players: Please read on and review this post, you might pick up a trick or two ^^;

1.) Familiarize yourself with the controls. Specifically, learn how to move while switching items. You can either use the number keys or the mouse wheel to do so- pick one and stick with it.

2.) Take a good look around. This is your initial spawn point: when you die, you will respawn here.

Q: Can I change my respawn point? Yes, when you gain access to Cobwebs. Right now, not yet.

The guy with you is the Guide NPC, and its your job to protect him. He will assist you with various tips by clicking on him. The initial spawn point is ALWAYS at a Forest Biome, which means that there should be trees (and bunnies) near you.

3.) Press Esc. That's your Inventory. You can move things around, but only the top set of boxes are usable while playing. On the right side of the screen, you can see your Social and Equipped Helmet, Shirt and Pants, as well as 5 Accessory slots.

Q: What's the difference between the Social and Equipment Sets? The Social Set are for looks only- it overrides the look of your Equipment Set. HOWEVER! The Equipment Set provides the stats (such as defense, +% Atk speed, etc.) So you may encounter someone wearing Copper Armor who can tank bosses, since he's got Meteor Armor equipped beneath!

Notice that when your inventory is open, things still move in the background. Terraria is not meant to be paused. There's a way to freeze the game when you're playing Single Player, but not on Multiplayer.

4.) Gather resources. The first order of business is to create a House before nightfall.

Q: Why? Because Zombies and Flying Demon Eyes spawn at night, which might kill you or the guide.

Ok, how do we do this. First of all, chop some wood. Equip your Axe, and swing at the bottom center part of the trees. It will take a few swings because of the level of your axe, but it'll go down. Repeat until you have a hundred or so wood (check your inventory). While chopping trees, you'll notice some slimes. Kill them- you'd need the gel that they drop for torches.

Q: I found some Acorns and Mushrooms! You can plant acorns to create trees, as long as it is two blocks away from anything else (both sides) and have enough vertical space. Mushrooms heal you for twenty HP (a whole heart).

5.) Start building a House. A House is defined as a fully enclosed 4x8 space with background walls with a chair, table and a light source. Begin by laying down the floor, then a wall going up to the ceiling, and a space for a door. The door is exactly the same size as your character (3 blocks). Nothing fancy.

Next, place a workbench outside the house- you'd need all the space you can get inside. If you check your inventory, you'll notice that the crafting panel at the left side suddenly has a lot of new stuff. Craft a set torches (one set has three torches, you only need 1) a door, a chair and a table. Create Wood Walls and start walling off the inside background of your house, before placing the door, chair and table in. Place a torch inside the house.

If done correctly, your guide should move in before the zombie arrive.

Q: Help! The guide is NOT moving in, and its night already! Check for cracks in the background wall, make sure that the torch is inside the house, and that nothing is blocking the door from the inside OR the outside.

I guess that's that for this Survival Guide. I'll post more later.

#YeA #Terraria *signing out*