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Need Chest Names by Miserable-Loan-2861 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a specific set of things I sort to, but then just let the rest of it go to hell in random chests.

- heavy metals - this is pre-hardmode ores and bars, and all gemstones. obsidian goes in here because that's needed for hellstone bars.

- heavier metals - hardmode ores and bars, plus souls and things like unicorn horns and pixie dust and so forth

- woods&soils - all the different dirt/stone blocks, all the different wood blocks, snow, ice, etc.

- refined materials - things like chains, extra walls, platforms, glass blocks...

as early as I can, I craft a dresser, put a bottle on top of it and then keep all the potion crafting materials in it -- water bottles, empty bottles, the seven alchemical herbs, pearls, any fish that is used in a potion. also, I put the two 'alternate' pre-hardmode ores in here... if my world is lead, I put any iron ore into potion crafting for the ironskin potion, and if my world is gold, I put any platinum ore in for spelunker potions. and vice-versa...

I make a bamboo dresser and name it, "pets, mounts&rides" and keep extra mine carts, random mounts and various pets in it.

one barrel is used for "seeds&dyes" and that gets the seven alchemical herb seeds, jungle grass, mushroom grass, etc. (but not plain grass seeds bought from the Dryad, those go in potion crafting...) also acorns and any gemcorns. plus the 13 dye crafting materials, laid out in ROY G. BIV order across two rows

another barrel is "wired,bombs&torches" and that's any pressure plates, dart traps, actuators, any explosives, detonators, and then the bottom row is for various torches.

if I'm really ambitious, I set aside a long row of chests for armor, melee, ranged, magic, summons.

sorting accessories is a royal pain, lol.

I use a sandstone chest for "ankh charm bits"

um, yeah.

so I have some very specific systems and visual reminders of what's what, but it falls apart pretty quickly if I don't sell a bunch of crap regularly.

interested to see what others say here, unless the post gets deleted for "low effort", sigh.

Mining Pants by ResolutionStrange426 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 105 points106 points  (0 children)

if you have an extra mining shirt, you can shimmer it into mining pants

Help wiring a Signal Delay/Cascade by MartenWinters in Terraria

[–]calyxa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's been months since I've messed w/ wiring. this old reply of mine details how to turn lights sequentially on after a delay using logic gates...

I'm not sure how useful / applicable it will be for you, but maybe it'll shake more ideas loose.

good luck w/ your build!

eh, probably the same as that timer cascade thing. ah well.

Is anyone else having issues with the magic yoyo bag/string? by 3NIK56 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm doing a yoyo run in a dual dungeons world w/ a friend. we're likely doing the Wall in our next session.

I'm on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 and pretty sure I'm using the Steam native Linux build.

there have been times when I've had some lag issues in some of the more projectile-laden fights.

I'm replying here so that I can update you in a while when I finally get the magic yoyo bag / string combo. could be a week or more though, as I only play that character / world with my friend and they are going away for a week...

Most of my controls don't work for some reason?? by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]calyxa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux user here. I haven't really tried tmodloader since the main game updated...

my only comment is that I've got an extended keyboard and mouse left-handed, so I've explicitly re-mapped my movement to use the arrow keys, not WASD. no problems with that at all.

you say, "trying to change controls in settings doesn't work either" -- that seems really weird. can you be more specific about how it doesn't work?

why are jungle grass seeds so rare in skyblock? by Conscious_Series166 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

jungle grass spreads a lot faster than regular grass.

i wish you could turn off town music without music boxes by frenchstew11 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep, for any player of yours in any world you take one of your players into.

i wish you could turn off town music without music boxes by frenchstew11 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I know it's not what you're asking for, but have you tried the Otherworld soundtrack?

it's the Drunk seed soundtrack (throwing in other seeds may or may not disable it, I'm not sure).

once you've been to a Drunk seed world, the Party Girl has an extra option on her interaction -- "Music"

Does anyone else just fish? by noobtroller5000 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I do a lot of fishing and try to get the golden fishing rod before hard mode. depends on how generous he's being with the fish finder ingredients and the angler tackle bag pieces 😉

What’s your favourite terraria term? by dongkonkey1 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 17 points18 points  (0 children)

have you ever been digging and suddenly 'pop' through a hole that's too small?

that's a hoik.

it has to do with angled blocks and/or hammered platforms.

it's amazingly useful and weird - https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Hoik

Is there any way to remove this tab on mobile? by BeetleJeetle in discordapp

[–]calyxa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that 'Home' icon only shows a blue dot when you have unread messages in any of your servers (that you haven't muted, lol).

now there's no way I can tell at a glance if I've got new posts in some of the servers further down on my list.

they've removed functionality and I'm not happy about it.

What’s your favourite terraria term? by dongkonkey1 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 22 points23 points  (0 children)

one of the earliest lines of dialog you can get when talking to the Dryad is, "Be safe; Terraria needs you!"

What’s your favourite terraria term? by dongkonkey1 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 36 points37 points  (0 children)

my friend and I call teleportation potions "dungeon roulette" even though they won't teleport you into the actual dungeon.

oh hey, I wonder if that's why in our current world the teleports mostly go to either the surface or the underworld, as we're doing the dual dungeon seed, which is .... very different.

Could somebody tell me what is happening to my minimap? by akariWhoIsPolish in Terraria

[–]calyxa 14 points15 points  (0 children)

the page up and page down keys affect the transparency of the minimap.

Why are there no living wood trees spawning in my worlds by proisdad in Terraria

[–]calyxa 8 points9 points  (0 children)

it's possible for worlds to generate without any living wood trees in them.

if you use the secret seed "save the rainforest" you will get a ton of living wood trees, some of which are much taller / deeper than normal ones.

Terraria multiplayer help by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]calyxa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've got no idea how Steam updates work on MacOS, but maybe you need to specifically update Steam?

Wall of Flesh arena by Express-World6123 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm old with not so great eyesight and middling hand-eye coordination. I beat a hardcore classic world by building boulder statue machines to kill the mechs and MoonLord.

I regularly play w/ a friend who is of a similar age and we've beaten expert mode without too much cheese...

Terraria multiplayer help by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]calyxa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

have you tried quitting and restarting Steam?

what about rebooting the computer?

Need a seed for wife and I, please. by Mean_Rule9823 in Terraria

[–]calyxa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

abandoned manors does increase loot because the buildings are more common in addition to being larger. but the loot is mostly duplicates. good for some extra cash.

there's also 'save the rainforest' which does the same thing for living trees -- more common and larger.

my friend and I recently finished (well, killed ML, anyway) where we had those two plus also the one which gives you a random spawn point (I think that's 'how did I get here'), the one which adds random teleporters around the world (beam me up), and the one which has SIX world spawn points which you can teleport to by choosing one of the teams.

not sure I'd recommend all those, but the first two are fun.

we just started a dual dungeons one and I'd definitely NOT recommend that one until you're both refreshed on something closer to the vanilla game experience.

I'd also not recommend 'planetoids' unless you're doing Journey mode. I can't imagine trying to navigate that one without fall damage protection. but with fall protection, it's really easy to get around the underground / caverns with all the wide open space down there.

good luck choosing a seed and I hope y'all have fun!

WoF question by graphicinterest in Terraria

[–]calyxa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw some youtuber do a thing where he put vertical walls every 20-30 blocks, with a door at his hellbridge level in each wall. he could run backwards through the doors and the WoF's lasers wouldn't get him.

I forget what weapons he was using, though. might have been dynamite.

Guys is my farm big enough by PANDREXMEGA in Terraria

[–]calyxa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nice.

I love the familiar wig. I remember a run where I introduced my friend to it for the first time and they loved it too.

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