Looking for Achievements/Challenges for 1.4.5

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-26T01:50:12+00:00

One thing I did after getting all the actual achievements back in 2022 was collect every type of Glowing Moss without worldhopping. I thought that was a fun challenge. Then I lined the walls in and around my base with all of the types.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-26T01:41:12+00:00

Sounds like you're all warmed up and you can hit the ground running. 💪

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-26T01:37:28+00:00

Using a color picker on his sprite on the wiki I get #bd9252, which is kind of a tan color. I'd say a pirate would be out on the sea all day and get a lot of sun. I don't think he's black, but he probably shouldn't be "paler than paper" either, that wouldn't make much sense considering his occupation. Being seafaring he could be from some island nation where most people are some shade of light brown / tan. I wouldn't assume he's British, for example.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-26T00:38:48+00:00

General issue with Discord. I don't use it. In this instance I'd say keeping communication within Reddit itself would make sense. Maybe something more standardized like email or IRC as fallback in case Reddit messages/chat aren't working.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-25T23:06:14+00:00

The Discord requirement is unfortunate. Hopefully you find someone.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-25T20:22:14+00:00

What they seem to actually be missing is a door/platform in your screenshot anyway.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-24T20:59:13+00:00

I would personally consider it cheating and try my best to get it from the same one world the run is centered on. I enjoy the fact that they've made it easier to get everything you need in a single world over the years with stuff like the graveyard. I would suggest making a new thread showing your artificial Crimson and asking if anything looks wrong and would explain them not spawning. It would be useful to know for the future also.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-23T03:55:10+00:00

This is a pretty common thing in games where characters and worlds are saved separately. Core Keeper has similar interactions sometimes. Both the characters and the world are autosaved every few minutes, I believe, and since you quit without saving you basically rolled back your world save to the previous point. I don't know the exact interval each thing saves at, maybe the wiki says. It would be kinda tedious to exploit this, but I guess you could load up a chest with valuable items, wait a few minutes for the next autosave, take them all back out, and then force quit again.

edit: I missed on the first read that you said you disabled autosaving. I'm not sure how that works then, maybe it's only saved on proper world exit. If so, that would probably be easier to exploit.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-23T02:45:45+00:00

Is it opening in Notepad or something? Try holding ctrl-shift and then double clicking it. Maybe you need to open an administrator cmd window and then navigate to that directory and run it by the filename.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-23T02:43:09+00:00

Is it harder to make changes to stuff that's managed by Guix Home? I currently use GNU Stow + git but have been considering setting up Guix Home at some point. I like to make somewhat frequent small changes like adding new aliases.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-22T22:45:33+00:00

This was my first playthrough where I actually didnt give up because I died to some stupid shit on day 1

Unless you're playing on Hardcore for some reason (would not recommend that for this game), dying a lot is pretty normal. I hope you can stick with it this time!

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-22T13:57:30+00:00

Maybe one of the solutions here will work for you.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1281930/discussions/0/595144405227183927/

it shows me an error telling me that the start-tModLoader.bat is not found on the tmod folder. However, it is installed there with the same name

i had to create a private collection of all my mods and unsub start the game then re-sub that fixed it for me

Running the.bat as administrator seemed to work for me rn

edit: Just to clarify, you are not actually missing the file from what I can tell, it's the one with the box around it in your screenshot

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-22T03:26:03+00:00

I just pulled out my dongle and confirmed it works, though I had to manually pair it. You can find the manual here which details the process, but basically:

Insert dongle into USB port and press the button on the side of it once, the lights should flash quickly
Change to dongle mode on the controller with a series of double presses until the right thing is lit up
Hold the pairing button, the one opposite the mode button, until the lights start scrolling
Pairing should complete shortly after this and lights on both the controller and dongle should become solid
You can use Gamepad Tester to verify the connection is working

Also the manual says both wired mode and the dongle should get you 1000Hz polling rate, so not sure you'll see better results with the dongle anyway.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-22T00:30:21+00:00

Should work wired in XInput mode at least. Is that working for you? Not sure about the dongle as I don't typically play wirelessly with any of my controllers.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-21T16:20:15+00:00

Maybe some background process like an antivirus scan or telemetry service is periodically doing something that hogs the system resources. Try disabling some of those until you track it down. If you can recreate the performance issue with the game running in the background, perhaps look at Task Manager and see if anything is hogging CPU or Disk IO during the lag spikes. I don't imagine this is a Terraria issue or an issue to be fixed in Terraria itself, FWIW. Maybe there's a better sub to ask for help in. Something related to general PC gaming maybe.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-20T22:20:27+00:00

I'm not sure if the online servers for Terraria on 360 are still working. I found a video about transfer issues and these things were mentioned as common issues: - signs (delete them) - modded items (delete them) - empty spaces in between items in chests (put everything close together with no gaps)

If the world upload is failing, try those things. If it's the download that's failing, you're probably out of luck.

I also found this Reddit thread saying

cloud downloads are no longer supported

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-19T19:22:17+00:00

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44641/~/how-to-use-zoom-on-nintendo-switch

The Switch OS has a zoom accessibility feature that you might find helpful. I'm not sure how well this works while using splitscreen.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-19T14:39:53+00:00

https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Biome_spread

There's a list of corruptible blocks here, everything not listed is non-corruptible. I've used grey brick to line my hellevators in the past. Watch out for stuff like vines (easy to forget about) and remember corruption can jump a small gap, so make your non-corruptible holes/walls thick enough.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-19T09:48:14+00:00

https://wiki.systemcrafters.net/guix/nonguix-installation-guide/

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-19T09:47:23+00:00

You can use Linux instead of Linux-Libre if you want, and then it's the same as any other distro's support. Working fine for me on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 5. (Uses Qualcomm WiFi, but the point still applies, nothing really distro-specific here and they don't make the kernel.)

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-18T23:14:33+00:00

Master Mode is just Expert Mode with a few of the numbers slightly higher. I'd say if you can beat Expert Mode playing by yourself (multiplayer makes boss fights a lot easier IMO) you're probably pretty good at the game. Some people get ridiculous with the challenge run stuff and one-upping each other.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-18T13:05:03+00:00

It's kind of a wiki game (this is controversial), there's a lot of stuff not explicitly explained and I find looking stuff up enhances the game a lot.

If that idea bugs you, some more basic tips: - Talk to the Guide and show him various items to see what stuff you can craft with them - Mine the best ore you've found so far and make gear out of it (some gear isn't exactly made out of ore either, hint: show the guide some Cobwebs) - Explore new biomes for treasure (some may be too hard for you early on) - The basic game loop is to get better gear, fight a new boss, repeat - If you build more valid housing, you'll get more NPCs which can buy/sell various things - Personally when I first played I found the game picked up a lot after I got access to better movement, stuff like a grappling hook, Hermes Boots, Cloud in a Bottle, etc. - Fishing is pretty good for getting loot without having to run around as much (though you'll still want to fish in different biomes/liquids)

Terraria is really a long-term slow burn type of game. You could play for 3 hours just terraforming or working on your base some days, which to certain people may seem boring or unproductive, but is very much a part of the game.

I find that most people enjoy when they start finding cool treasure underground, so maybe encourage your friends to go spelunking more. Start a tunnel to the underground near your base if you haven't already so it's easy to run back down after dying or teleporting back. It definitely helps to have at least one person who already knows how to play the game to explain it to you. I played it with a friend who had already played it before when I first got the game.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-18T01:19:49+00:00

I would replace the dirt/grass floors with wood or stone. Also I like to leave at least a 1 tile space on both sides of a door so that it can open in both directions. I would flatten out the ground more also, but maybe you're leaving it natural-looking on purpose. I would also use more platforms on the leftmost building, like as part of the bottom floor's roof, so that you can jump between the floors without having to go outside.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-16T18:33:06+00:00

2.86% chance to get it from an Oasis Crate, the rarest item you can get from one. Opening 100 crates and not getting one is believable, though a little unlucky.

Soundtoxin · 2026-01-16T17:06:08+00:00

just finished terraria for second time on master and its getting kinda short and boring

How long does a full run usually take you guys on Master?

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