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[Din]

Because I haven't spammed this thread enough...

http://www.terrariao...rom-devs.80085/

It seems that Terraria is on hiatus. The reason for this hiatus, however, is more reasonable than his previous hiatuses. Redigit's having another kid.

[Nathaniel]

Well, all I have to say to that is...

Congratulations to him!

[Moosh]

Discovered clowns. I quit.


A sandbox game stops being fun when enemies have the ability to wreck your intricate creations like that. It spawned in my herb farm.

[Nathaniel]

Discovered clowns. I quit.


A sandbox game stops being fun when enemies have the ability to wreck your intricate creations like that. It spawned in my herb farm.

Luckily they are rare. They only appear sometimes on blood moons during hardmode. The best way to avoid your stuff getting wrecked is to stay away from your home during that time. Go spelunking or whatever, and don't die while doing so. Besides, the swarm of gastropods are bad enough to deal with during a blood moon, even with the best of protections.

[Din]

Don't forget the damn wyverns.

Blood moons are very difficult in early hardmode. Like Nathaniel suggested, your survival rate will be generously increased if you stay underground during a blood moon.

[Moosh]

At the level I'm at I can pretty much tank wyverns. I have like 70 defense...The clowns on the other hand are a pain. One blew up my farm when I wasn't even nearby...

[Nathaniel]

Hmm, I think they can spawn somewhat off of your view. I don't know what the range is on that. But they will only spawn either in your view or a certain distance from it. If you are quite far from your home, there shouldn't be a problem.

[Orithan]

Discovered clowns. I quit.


A sandbox game stops being fun when enemies have the ability to wreck your intricate creations like that. It spawned in my herb farm.

Thank god that they aren't as common as the Creepers in Minecraft. Like what the others have said, they appear on HM bloodmoons. Their spawn rates are so low that you only get one or two per bloodmoon (on that subject, where the heck did the Groom and Pinky go? ), but they wreck havoc on your constructions if you are unprepared.

Tips on how to prevent them from wrecking your constructions:

1. Like what the others have said, go underground. They shouldn't be around to wreck your stuff there.
2. Put up a barricade made from Dungeon Brick or any ore that withstands bombs (Cobalt/Mythrill/etc.., NOT the brick versions of them) around your structures.
3. If possible, install active stone blocks and make sure that the tunnels are too small for them to spawn in, and leave them active whenever you leave your home.

A bloodmoon usually prompts me to return home, regardless of where I am when it rises (Mages, even with full Adamantite, don't like HM bloodmoons that much). I love slaughtering the mobs that come at me from the safety of my house, for the sake of money. I have a special firing hole in the wall so I can pick them off w/ Crystal Storm or Demon Sycthe. I still have to watch out from Wraithes, though.

I never had much trouble with Clowns, although I was shocked when I found out they throw bombs...

[Moosh]

So I've decided to move my herb farm to an easymode world because blood moons have the potential to wreck it on hardmode. I also beat the Twins for the first time and got my second piece of hallowed armor. I tried Skeletron Prime but just BARELY failed.

Edited by Pokemonmaster64, 16 February 2012 - 09:14 AM.

[ShadowTiger]

Wait. How the hell do you have 70 defense, but didn't have hallowed armor yet?

[Moosh]

Wait. How the hell do you have 70 defense, but didn't have hallowed armor yet?

I had adamantite melee helm, hallowed chest piece, adamantite feets, all trinkets reforged for +4 defense and was loaded up with ironskin potions. I now have the hallowed helm from beating the Twins.

[ShadowTiger]

Yeah, I was decked out in full Hallowed with all five trinkets having the +4 Defense "Warded" prefix, but I guess in the end, it's all about the helmet. The Hallowed mask has 24 defense. The Hallowed helmet has 9. Go figure.

[Moosh]

I find it funny how you need the 3 masks to craft the helmet and the 3 helmets to craft the mask.

[Nathaniel]

Yeah, I have wondered about that myself.

I don't know if I ever had 70 defense either, but at the same time, I don't know if I have ever checked while under the effects of Ironskin potion.

I'm also the kind of person who likes having everything on one map. The only exception to that might be for resources that become very hard to get once you have been in hardmode for a long while, due to certain biomes being eliminated due to the spread of both hallow and corruption. The first that comes to mind is shark fins, as it seems that sharks don't spawn in corrupt or hallowed oceans. They really should change that in the next update, whenever that is. Also, in corrupt or hallowed surfaces, there aren't nearly as many demon eyes, and the large ones, if I recall, don't drop lenses. And you need those to craft the mechanical eye. Otherwise, it would be a good idea to collect plenty of lenses before either hardmode or before you spread hallow over much of the surface.

[ShadowTiger]

Looks like development has stopped. Redigit's having a kid, and has even moved on to another project. He's the sole programmer as well. Even Tiy has moved on, more or less. He's got his own game.

It's only the custom fan-mods that are going strong now, thanks to tConfig.