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[Prpl_Mage]

Terraria. is the topic,

I insisted on going to the blasted underground jungle and got enough vines and spores to get the upgraded grappling hook, It's kinda cool but also a bit annoying 'cuz ou get stuck and I preferred to fly like the wind. Also, I realized that there was a sword to craft using stingers and spores. That blade of grass is awesome. Got one with + size and it hits everywhere. Useful.

The eye of chuthulu is beaten, as cerb suggested, Bows and arrows are not to be underestimated. My huge sword also helped a lot. And the fact that i just paved an area outside my spawn that I could use to fight it on. Lots of demonite. But then I needed shadow scales to get cooler gear with it.

So I ventured down into hell again, realized that hellbricks hurt you when you touch them and that demons are a pain in the ***. Then a dryad moved in and offered purifying powder to fight of " corruption", didn't know what that was.

Anyway, the guide suggested looking for shadow orbs 'cuz they spawn meteors. I made the conclusion that those are probably those balls stuck in the purplish unbreakable crap. So I set out once more, down into the depth and found those blocks and realized that I could blow them away with bombs. My failure last time was using grenades, they don't break tiles...

Broke the first orb and got a gun, then I defended my "town" against the gobling invasion it triggered, that was a mess. they like broke my ****. Not cool.
Got one of them gunslingers to the town after that though. Minishark, awesome weapon idea.

After stocking up on new bombs I tried to find new shadow orbs, dug my way around and found a bound goblin by sheer luck, I'm guessing he spawns after the goblin invasion since he said that he got tied up when he pointed out that they were going the wrong way. (Oh also, found a magic mirror. That thing is the ****, always wondered what all that mana was for.) Anyway, bought a pair of rocketboots and the game just rose in awesomeness by another 200%. Also, since Cerb mentioned that "trick" with things labeled "material" I checked it out and paired it with my hermes boots at a very expensive tinker station.

Found another shadow orb surrounded by those petrified sandworm heads and tried to blow up said sandworm heads. Didn't work, can't mine underneath them either. And when I hammer them I get damaged. Anyway, think I got a flail from that orb and expected a new goblin invasion but it was cool.

Finally got to a third orb and I expected my meteor to arrive, but instead I got a humongous devourer attacking me. And I'm not completely sure what happened in this fight but loot dropped left and right, including hearts that kept me floating, and then It kinda duplicated or split up or something. Not sure. The grass blade did wonders though and it eventually died.

Got a message about meteor fall and remembered that I got a load of demonite and shadow scales so I created my new mining pick", apparently it could mine those annoying purplish blocks that I recently concluded are "corrupted", since demolition guy said something like "why purify when you can blow it up?" makes sense.

I searched for my meteor but found a dungeon instead, went inside and got totalled. Continued over it the second time and ended up in the sea with sharks and stuff. Found some flippers, those are neat.

Went the other way and found lots of "corruption" and a hill with a floating harpy-infested island over it only containing a locked chest. Eventually found my meteor and started mining while fending off meteor heads. Went back to the guide and realized that I could make lightsabers with my meteorites. but the damage is lower than my grass blade.

Also found lots of new statues and my castle is getting kinda crowded. Decided to lock in the guide by placing statues on both sides of the door 'cuz he kept jumping off the ledge and getting killed during the nights. And since crafting the armour and tools in gold I'm not sure what to do with all my bars. Or gems for that matter. Ended up making lots of unnecessary decorations like a throne and trashcans.

I think I'm supposed to go to hell now, this new miningpick should be able to get me those fiery hellstones if it could get meteorites, maybe those things in hell were meteorites btw... Anyway.  Also need to try it on the lava (as in "frozen" that appeared when I accidentally poured water on the molten lava. Just wish I could get some of that molten lava to surround my town for any future goblin invasion or bloodmoon.

So yeah. This game is awesome.

[Archem]

The Blade of Grass is one of the top tier (before hard mode) weapons, and can be crafted into an even better sword (one of the best in the game) if you take the time to get the other top-tier swords.

Also, underground jungles are a bitch, but the gear you can make from spores make it worth the trip. I used to rock a sweet full jungle armor set before hard mode came around and handed me my ***.

[fruckert]

Also found lots of new statues and my castle is getting kinda crowded. Decided to lock in the guide by placing statues on both sides of the door 'cuz he kept jumping off the ledge and getting killed during the nights. And since crafting the armour and tools in gold I'm not sure what to do with all my bars. Or gems for that matter. Ended up making lots of unnecessary decorations like a throne and trashcans.

Fun Fact: Pulling this stuff on the console version would get your doors destroyed.
because glitches

[SaiKar]

It's interesting seeing someone play who's not using a wiki. You definitely did things in a different order than I do.

I could give you a bunch of hints and stuff, but you seem to be doing okay on your own. Though I will say that the dungeon contains some hella good loot.

[Meiscool]

For a sec I thought the second one came out and this was about it.

Sounds like you had a good day with all the meteor huntin' though.

[Prpl_Mage]

Just a quick update, kinda scouted the entire hell region and pulled out loads of obsidian and hellstone bricks, also obsidian walls. Kinda cool, although the hellfire still hurts. Can't make houses out of that. Been thinking about using it to create a wall around my "town" though to keep out baddies. Might just work.

Anyway, I got hellstones but according to the guide guy I need obsidium as well to actually get a hellstone bar. Now, I went from my entrance of demonville all the way to the left(west) while mining and avoiding demons. Didn't find a single obsidium mine. Just the usual, hellstones, ash and those "appartment buildings" made of either obsidium bricks or hellstone bricks.
Also, got a demon scythe-spell, kinda cool but pretty slow. And loads of those voodoo dolls, they sell for 2s a piece though.

Still need more demonite and shadow scales for the shadow helm btw, I got it from that devourer of worlds (although I had some demonite from before). I think I saw something about rotten meat earlier that could summon it just like the suspicious looking eye (I've found like 4 in chests so far) could summon the eye.
But I still haven't found one of those demon forge, I remember the guide telling me to bring lenses to a demon forge to summon the eye. But the only thing I find in hell are those hellforges. Maybe in the dungeon then.

There was this guy outside the dungeon who told me to come back during night, I didn't, and went in. It went bad, maybe if I just heed his advice things will go better if the dungeon holds good stuff.

Also, hamaxe is awesome. An axe and a hammer in one, one more inventory slot free for loot.
Also, got attacked by an undead magician called crazy tim or something. He was kinda easy compared to the demons and dropped a neat hat.

And then just a quick question. Potions, and buffs and stuff. How useful are they? I've kinda stacked a bunch of materials in a barrel because I can't seem to have the right furniture to make potions and such. The guide shows me ton of recipes but even with all those items on me it never shows up. So it's probably something like the Tinkerer's station I assume, something to brew potions.
Anyway, the question was. Will it be worth making them and stuff?

[Momeka]

Are you playing on a mediumcore character? That's way fun, specially with a friend. It really changes the way you play; you just don't dig straight down. Instead you always make sure there is a quick way up and down in your cave system in case you would die. And hell- hell is ****ing scary; you **** up you can lose all your items.

[Archem]

Potions can be crafted at a table or workbench that has a bottle sitting on it. You need a bottle filled with water and the correct ingredients.

Potions are definitely worth it, especially if you have access to a magical mushroom farm. Adding cooldowns on potions sucked, but they're still a good thing to have.

[Prpl_Mage]

Are you playing on a mediumcore character? That's way fun, specially with a friend. It really changes the way you play; you just don't dig straight down. Instead you always make sure there is a quick way up and down in your cave system in case you would die. And hell- hell is ****ing scary; you **** up you can lose all your items.

Might try that when I feel finished with this character. Kinda feels like there can't be much left to this game. Unless there are more hidden stuff out there. But then again, if I can summon all the bosses in the game then there is supposed to be some more bosses like that mechanical eye "the twins" and mecha skull "skeletron prime" . We'll see.

Potions can be crafted at a table or workbench that has a bottle sitting on it. You need a bottle filled with water and the correct ingredients.

Potions are definitely worth it, especially if you have access to a magical mushroom farm. Adding cooldowns on potions sucked, but they're still a good thing to have.

Oh so that's what I needed. Kinda like I could only create the depth meter and the clocks at a table with a chair next to it. Didn't work with a lone table or a workbench with a chair. Some odd conditions in this game.

Just curious, how do one get access to/ make a magical mushroom farm?

[Cerebus]

Two things:
1. Obsidium isn't found like other minerals.
2. Demon Altar, not Forge.
Hint for both: You already saw it.

Devourer of Worlds can also be spawned again by destroying more Orbs. I suggest farming Demonite from him since he's easier to kill than Eye of Cthulhu, at least in my opinion. Or perhaps "less annoying" could be more accurate.

Potions and buffs are especially useful against bots. But other than that, you don't really need them. Except perhaps Gravity Potions to reach those flying islands. I know they can also be reached by building a pillar under you, but they're easier to find with the Gravity Potion.

As for a farm, I think you pretty much need to recreate the environment in which they naturally grow. For this, you'll need seeds usually found by cutting grass in specific areas. Be careful if you plan on recreating Corruption area, as it can actually spread.

Also, by the way, if I recall, Lightsabers have a higher speed, so they're still pretty good. However, I still suggest using the Blade of Grass, or the one you can build with it and the other three.
And yes, you really should  go to the dungeon. Some good stuff down there.

I hate Goblin attacks. They may happen again. I hate them.

[SaiKar]

Might try that when I feel finished with this character. Kinda feels like there can't be much left to this game.

My friend, you have not even REALLY begun the interesting parts. The true battle between good and evil is waiting to be unleashed.

[Archem]

You can find mushroom farms underground, and sometimes they can drop seeds. You need to plant seeds on mud blocks at a certain depth or lower. I don't remember what the exact depth it, so you may be better off just making a safe passage down to the one you found and expand it over time. They make your lesser potions into standard potions, and pixie dust (hard mode) makes your standard potions into greater potions. By the time you hit hard mode, you'll find potions are far more valuable, as the game really ramps up the difficulty.

[Apex]

Whoa, Terraria!

Hey, let's all play together when the 1.2 patch comes out.

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[Prpl_Mage]

So, right. Progress.

Got my hellstone bricks but accidentally killed myself with the lava that spawns when you mine it all the time. Also tons of ash, and luckily I kinda closed off all the lava pools down there. Seeing how everything kept knocking me into those blasted pools of lava. More on that later.
Realized that cooled lava equals obsidium ore. Great hint there. Kept mining it and it just created more and more. Kept digging down until I reached hell. But apparently water can't stay on ash. It just.... dissappeared actually. But I got like 8 stacks of 250 obsidium so I think i got it covered.

I went to the dungeon and found some neat stuff such as shadow keys for those chests in hell, and gold keys for that one chest on that floating island. Also lots of skeletons that dropped bones (finally) as well as books, pink bricks and waterbolts.
The skeletron boss felt easier than the eye of C, eater of worlds also got his slimy *** handed to him one more time to complete the shadow set, and also go create a lights' bane for that future crafting. Might've been because I had already made myself a fiery greatsword that dealt even more damage than the grass blade ever did. Also burn instead of poison.

Anyway, the dungeon was kinda small so I ended up digging my way to the bottom and out in hell. Was I supposed to look around in all those brick walls for more rooms? I kinda assumed that everything would be connected in that place.
And then disaster kinda struck. I was kinda working my way back to where I had previously been in hell and killed one of those blasted demons, one labeled "voodo" and it droppped the loot in the lava as per usual. Then a message appear and a wall of flesh starts working it's way towards me while shooting lasers and clawy-jaws and spawning giant worms and stuff like that.
I'm glad that I got some stuff with me such as magic and my bow 'cuz my fiery greatsword might as well been a toothpick. Also, realized that the eyes were the weakpoint... Yay.
Killed me one time so I stocked up on ironskin and manapotions and restorationpotions and went back. Got about halfway before he dragged me in and I finally came to the places where I had covered the lava. managed to defeat it but the only cool loot was the pwnhammer and laser gun thingy. Better than water bolt me thinks.

And after that the difficulty seems to have risen. Some of the ebonite turned into pearlstone and also pearlsand. And that's when I finally realized what the demon altars were. I could finally hammer the things i assumed to be petrified sandworm heads. So I have released cobolt and mythril and adamantine at least 2 times each. Only found cobolt so far though. Lots of it. None of the others.
Could anyone just tell me the colours of them? I know that cobolt is bluish so that was cool. Also, lots of new enemies. With tons of health, phantom armours, wraiths and a friggin unicorm just dropped on me from above and stabbed me.
Anyway, spawned a third eater of world. But it kinda went right through me and dissappeared. Could it have something to do with the fact that there was barely any ebonstone around the shadoworb? 'cuz kinda all of that has turned into pearlstone by now.

So I suppose this is the whole "conflict of light and dark" going on now. Maybe... Also found a wizard.

Btw, I need a murasame for my new sword. Is that something I make with mythril or adamantine? 'cuz cobolt only had one that looked like it but wasn't it.

[Cerebus]

I see you finally found the Voodoo Doll's second use. I personally recommend trying to kill the Wall of Flesh a couple more time later on, as it drops pretty good Accessories.

Cobalt is blue, Mithril is green and Adamantite is red. I suggest keeping at least one Demon Altar, by the way. Preferably close to your home, but it's not a necessity; just convenience.

I'm pretty sure you have more Obsidium than required for the Molten set, although there are other stuff you can craft with it. I suppose you can keep the excess for walls or something. At this point you don't really need the Molten set as much, though, since you've got Cobalt and stuff available. By the way, you'll find that these sets work differently than previous ones, which I think is pretty neat. Just remember that a full set offers a bonus.

Fiery Sword is good, but it's a tad bit slower, which is why some people prefer Sword of Grass.
I suppose at this point you won't mind the "spoiler" since you're on your way to Hard Mode stuff, so... the Muramasa is actually found in the dungeon's locked chests. Just keep farming keys and hope for the best. The blade you'll craft with it is still actually pretty good, even for Hard Mode, especially if you get lucky with enchant.
There's also the Cobalt Shield in there that can be really useful, and I recommend trying to get your hands on it.

As for Devourer of Worlds, yes, you do need to be in the corruption to summon him, or at least have a decent amount of Ebonstone around. No Orb required, though. But There's no real point killing him now, assuming you've got the Armour set and the Light's Bane.