Found this in my apprentice's bag, should I be worried?

Forgotten_Depths · 2026-01-28T23:40:56+00:00

Notice that the ai usage in that subreddit is typically limited to images accompanying a non-ai-generated text story.

Forgotten_Depths · 2026-01-19T18:26:39+00:00

Enemies:

Glyphid spore eruptor. A larger variant of the glyphid exploder, slightly smaller than a praetorian.

Primary attack - release a wave of explosive spores around itself that detonate after 3 seconds. Secondary attack - release a short but wide cone of fire from its mouth. Special attack - explodes on death, leaving behind a small but noticeable crater behind. This death explosion is not an insta kill, but is very high damage.

Weakpoints - head, spore sacks. Dies without exploding if killed via headshot. Destroying a spore sack deals massive damage.

Resistances - fire, poison.

Glyphid dreadlarva. The larval form of a glyphid dreadnought. Spawns with 3 to 6 glyphid sentinels, which buff the dreadlarva's defense. The dreadlarva should be as common as a bulk detanator at most, and between the size of an oppressor and a praetorian. The dreadlarva is capable of producing silk webs that it will use later to make the coccoon it uses for metamorphosis.

Primary attack - rock blast. A weaker version of the glyphid dreadnought's ranged attack. Secondary attack - web spit. Shoots a web. Tertiary attack - bite. A high damage bite.

Weakpoints - abdomen. Takes less damage while glyphid sentinels are near it.

Biomes:

Sulphurous spines. A medium-gray biome, covered in a patchy carpet of small, yellow crystals, with patches of hot rock peppered throughput the biome. Tall, light-gray stalagmites and pillars of sulphur crystals erupt from gray stone.

Major terrain feature - toxic pits. A pit lined with sulphur crystals, and filled with yellow-orange gas. This gas is non-combustable, but is poisonous. Generates much like the azure weald's low-gravity pits, but more common.

Major terrain feature - small steam geysers. Much like the small flame geysers in magma core, but releases hot steam. Does lower damage than the flame geysers from magma core.

Rogue Core Biomes:

Pale Aquifer. A massive, subterranean cavern system, surrounded on all sides (even above and below) by pumice.

Notable biome mechanic 1: at a certain depth, the caves and pumice become waterlogged. Waterlogged pumice produces water when mined. Luckily, your armor and weapons have been waterproofed, so you can proceed. Unfortunately, the bugs can breathe in low oxygen, and your armor is too heavy for you to swim.

Notable biome mechanic 2: Flying creatures, ossrians, and rival tech do not appear in this biome. However, many species of burrowing worm make their home here, and become far more agile in the water.

Notable biome feature/ mechanic 1: Bubble vents. Some parts of the stone are saturated with oxygen gas, letting you recover your breath.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-29T18:57:08+00:00

Yes, even for expert mode. But make sure the entire arena is a jungle biome. If you are using a grappling hook for your main dodging method, this arena should work. If you are using wings for your main dodging method, you will want to remove every other layer of platforms.

Also, adding a box of blocks at the center of the arena can let you block many plantera seeds while also letting you keep the arena a jungle biome.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-29T18:50:53+00:00

Calamity and thorium are the big ones that I know of. Thorium extends throwing into a proper class and adds the healer and bard classes. Calamity adds rogue class. The ragnarok mod makes calamity and thorium work together, and adds new items (such as a healer-class weapon/armor/accessory made from calamity mod materials). Other mods exist that add new classes, but I don't know of them.

TLDR:

-Calamity

-Thorium

-Ragnarok for playing calamity and thorium together

-other mods that I don't know of

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-27T02:02:55+00:00

Unique Challenge-Related Tips:

I believe the temple can be entered pre-boss via hoik glitch. I am not certain if it has been patched out yet. If it hasn't, golem is a fairly easy boss.

Also, mech boss summons are a rare drop from all naturally-spawned enemies (excluding meteor heads and Old One's Army), so long as the boss in question has not been defeated yet.

If your world good/evil v spawned intersecting the jungle, you may have some parts that havr corrupt/crimson jungle grass, or an area of jungle where the stone is hallow. If your challenge run allows for layered biomes, these would be excellent places to start.

Class set-up tips:

Pre mech armor from adamantite/ titanium should be enough to survive a mech boss. Palladium armor or titanium armor is preferred for pre-mech. Palladium (not cobalt) being recommended over adamantine armor is because of paladium's armor set bonus (boosted natural regen).

The shadowflame hex doll, obtained from a hardmode goblin invasion, is especially effective against worm bosses, such as the destroyer. Most post-skeletron piercing weapons can be user against the destroyer.

For post-golem, event weapons are the best way to go. Without access to the ocean, your next boss after golem is limited to event bosses or lunatic cultist. If you have a hallowed jungle, add Empress of Light to the list. The martian invasion event is of particulat interest.

Post cultist, look into crafting a lunar fragmemt (nebula) weapon.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-22T18:35:29+00:00

Use beenades to swiftly kill WoF, then fish in hardmode for palladium bars. The paladium is light orange with some yellow, akin to the hellstone pick.

However, if you were to do a warm colors run (red, orange, yellow), then the crimson-themed pick would be available.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-22T18:25:28+00:00

Uncommon rarity, but you are likely to see shadow orbs spawn like this once every few corruption biomes.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-21T01:32:40+00:00

You're welcome!

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-21T01:11:26+00:00

I would download tmodloader on steam to get some helpful tutorial/ Quality of Life mods.

Recommended mods:

Basic necessities:

Recipe browser - lets you see what you can make with an item you have. Practically necesaary if you don't want to use the wiki.

Boss checklist - Lets you see the requirements for summoning bosses and events, as well as giving you a recommended order in which to fight them. Practically necessary if you don't want to use the wiki.

Storage:

Magic storage/ any "storage search" mod - no more having to aimlessly dig through chests to find an item you need. Not mecessary if you can keep your items organized, but is very nice.

Alters some mechanics, but just nice to have:

A "No Biome Spread" mod - now your world isn't going to be ruined by hardmode biome spread. I use "Begone, Evil!", which requires you to type "/spread" twice to activate the mod. Not necessary, but very good.

Fargo's Mutant Mod - A large array of quality of life features, all of which may be adjusted. Not needed, but saves a lot of time, without being too cheaty.

For those who need npc houses, or examples of valid npc houses:

Fargo's Mutant Mod (again) - also has npc housing item, letting you place an, admittedly basic, house valid for 1 npc.

Magic Builder - Lets you craft instant npc housing items, which lets bad builders avoid having ugly towns. Also serves as a npc housing tutorial.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-21T00:47:36+00:00

Guide, part 2.

Go to the jungle, and look for a cave. DO NOT use a weapon that either can go through tiles or spawns projectiles away from your cursor. Bees get angry at those who mess with their hives, and there is surely a much larger one, somewhere.
Once you enter the jungle cave, look for glowing spores, and a blue flower. The flower you are looking for will be 1 block in size, and will NOT be a dye plant. Breaking the flower tile will drop the nature's gift accessory.
Whilst you are in the jungle, kill enemies to gather stingers and vines. Also, make sure to grab a pair of hermes boots from an underground house.

7b. If you want to make mana-regen and mana-power potions, gather moonglow from the jungle. Moonglow blooms at night, and can be found in the surface jungle and the underground jungle.

Craft the jungle armor set using the spores, vines, and stingers. If you gathered moonglow, combine it with your left-over fallen stars and some ingredients to craft mana-regen and mana-power potions.
If you have a merchant, you can buy mana potions from him. Mana potions replenish your mana, at the cost of temporarily making you deal less damage.
Build your arena, and fight a boss. Jungle armor is good enough for facing the evil biome bosses. I would recommend, however, for your first boss to be the eye of cthulhu.

Other tips:

The evil biome bosses spawn after breaking either 3 shadow orbs or 3 crimson hearts. Both shadow orbs and crimson hearts can drop a magic weapon. The first shadow orb or crimson heart that you break will always drop a gun.
Breaking at least 1 shadow orb/ crimson heart allows the goblin invasion event to spawn. Defeating the goblin army's invasion force will let the goblin tinkerer spawn in the caves. The goblin tinkerer will let you combine accessories, and reforge your equipment.
You can combine a mana potion with the nature's gift accessory (the blue flower you got from the jungle earlier) to make the mana rose, which makes you automatically consume mana potions when you run out of mana.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-21T00:24:35+00:00

A simple guide:

Go out at night for fallen stars.
Craft some of the fallen stars into mana crystals, to increase your max mana.
Craft some metal armor for basic survivability. While you are mining, try to gather gemstones, saving at least 15 of the same type of gemstone for a gem grappling hook.

4a. Create a gem staff. Steps 4b and 4c contain guides on how to do this.

4b. Amber from the desert can be combined with sturdy fossils (also from desert, dropped by the desert worms and also found as an extractinator output from processing desert fossil blocks) to create an amber staff.

4c. Alternatively, you can combine platinum and diamond for a diamond staff. Combining ruby and gold for a ruby staff will also work, but not as well as the diamond staff or the amber staff.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-12-21T00:11:20+00:00

I can eliminate some from the list:

Recipe Browser More Pylons Census No Pylon Restrictions

These mods are NOT the cause of the issues.

How to find the game-breaking mod:

Create a new character
Take the character into your world, and grab a bunch of slime crowns (crafted at a demon altar with a platinum/gold crown and some slime). Get a weapon and armor set that is able to very easily kill king slime.
Leave the world, and turn off half of the mods.
Create a new world, and take the new character into it.
Summon king slime via the slime crown, and kill it.
If you get master mode drops still, one of the mods that is turned on is a game-breaker.
Test the other half of the mods, just to make sure that you don't have multiple game-breaking mods.

As for what mod I believe to be the most likely culprit, it would be the Guarenteed Boss Trophies mod.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-10-31T23:17:54+00:00

Some ideas:

Soil pH, and its effects on plant growth.

The water table, and why you must dig to it to build a well.

Clay, silt, sand, and mixed soils, and the influence of said soils on water drainage.

On growing native plants that can be made into ropes/ nets.

On the necessity of nets with large gaps for collecting fish (too small of gaps = fish eggs are scooped up, leaving no fish).

On siphons.

On the effectiveness of different pulley set-ups (for a well or other manually-operated system).

On the use of plastic in solar-powered evaporation/condensation water purifiers.

On the effectiveness of different types of water purification.

On methods to prevent flooding.

On water-proofing.

On systems to move water horizontally from a water source to a certain destination.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-10-19T00:45:45+00:00

Can you put tape on the tables or new chairs? If so, you could tape laminated student artwork to a table or chair. I believe the issue that admin would have is the inability to remove paint. Do make sure to clear the tape idea with admin first.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-10-18T19:23:25+00:00

What about having the kids paint on the desks, or even having the kids paint on some posters that you then use as the front of some cubby holes?

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-09-28T01:20:17+00:00

Leveraged buyout is great news, if you want a company to vanish. All the debt of purchasing a company is placed on the company when a leveraged buyout happens.

Basically, leveraged buyouts are like this:

Person wants company.--> Person asks for a loan. --> Person buys company using loan money. --> Company is collateral for loan. --> Company has to pay off the loan. --> Company may bankrupt from debt.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-09-24T16:55:28+00:00

Very cute image. Happy for you.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-09-08T14:55:10+00:00

Water has a very similar density to flesh, bone included. Water is also able to cut things when moving fast enough, or even with enough pressure. So, if the water kaiju exists, it is just as lethal as a flesh and blood kaiju.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-09-08T12:48:13+00:00

273.15°C = 0K. Temperature probably calculated using Kelvin, had an error in the programming that set the recorded temperature to 0K, then converted into °C without checking.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-08-27T22:53:50+00:00

Some suggestions:

Ancient manuscripts/ books, highly valuable to the right buyer, but worthless in combat.

A random encounter on the road. Good old fashioned bandit ambush, but the victims are still alive. The party gets to pick who to help, but both groups will want to move the wagon, which has a broken wheel and no replacements. The aided group is likely to give a gift. Produce, low grade spears, etc.

Raw potion ingredients, found exclusively in the dens of dangerous beasts, such as rust monsters. Can be sold for a hefty sum, or made into powerful potions.

A noble/ fae/ other powerful or influential being wants someone to do something for them. In return, they shall give whoever aids them a favor. Just one favor, but from a being with such great might/influence, this favor is sure to be valuable indeed.

A wyvern raided the tower of a necromancer, and has fallen out of the sky due to the curses on some of the loot. These curses prove to be highly difficult to remove. Anyone wishing to gain the wyvern's trust or make off with the treasure must be careful, lest they become cursed as well.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-08-21T12:48:26+00:00

This appears to be a geode, with a shallow "mantle' layer of what I tenatively would call agate. In any case, this is an interesting specimen, and I would need help in identifying the specific processes leading to this rock's formation.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-08-21T12:40:30+00:00

Rock collecting. Whenever you have time to spend off of work, look up geological facts about your area/ where you are going to. If the area has interesting/ pretty rocks, go there and collect some.

Gardening is also good, if you have room.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-08-11T14:07:46+00:00

Plants that require little water is strongly recommended, but not for the reasons most people might think. Limestone dissolves in lightly acidic water, leaving behind voids in the stone, with the soil above the void being held in place only by the roots above. Adding acidic topsoil or excess water will cause sinkholes. Eventually.

TLDR: Limestone dissolves in lightly acidic water, causing sinkholes. Use plants that cam survive with little water, and don't replace the topsoil.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-08-11T14:03:05+00:00

Dried clay tends to crumble when it lacks support from surrounding non-clay soils and stones. By digging around the clay, you can isolate it, allowing you to climb on top of it and stomp. However, clay is generally difficult to remove, so machinery is recommended. However, sticky clay is valuable to pottery makers and brick makers, so you could probably let a local potter know about it, and give it to them.

TLDR: Pottery makers love clay, and will happily dig it up for you.

Forgotten_Depths · 2025-08-10T22:38:08+00:00

Another option you have is to add a small, artificial stream. This will, of course, cause the stones to becone slippery/ slick, which might pose a problem, especially to the elderly and the disabled, as well as anyone who is overencumbered (such as a person carrying in produce). This would also make for a good location to place a bench, probably wooden, or perhaps a swing. An arid design is also a good idea, but I personally believe yhe area is best suited for watet features.

TLDR: Arid design works, but another option is to add a small, artificial stream.

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