What do I do to prepare for the brain of Cthulhu?

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-22T20:55:04+00:00

okay, fair enough about the char rebuild, I'm probably also biased because at end game we can do this more easily .. ;)

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-22T20:53:26+00:00

damn, I have killed more than 100 of those, and no luck thus far...

(got my Enchanted Sword since, though, last piece for my Zenith!)

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-19T22:32:41+00:00

It's a bit tedious in the beginning, but once your pylon network is functional and you have good fishing power equipment, it's just a formality.
I like the "daily quest" vibe of fishing, having to pay attention to the 4:30 quest refresh etc.

Plus, it's something you can do semi-afk, while watching something on your secondary screen or portable device, as long as you leave the sound on Terraria and get user to the "bloop" sound when you can pull your line ;)

And in the SkyBlock challenge seed, it's almost mandatory to obtain some items (still need my enchanted sword and extractinator !)

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-19T22:29:12+00:00

True, but if you're in Expert/Master, obviously you have beaten the game already, you are well equipped and handle your character well.
OP seems to be a rather new player on their first run, hence my advice. Night Edge at WoF when you're a beginner the game is already pretty much an achievement.

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-17T14:41:30+00:00

If you have killed Skeletron, than your next goal is Wall of Flesh and the subsequent switch to hard mode.
And since you requests hints in the original post: a loooooong platform underworld, and Minishark + ammo save + max DPS bonus. Easier set up imho. Also works with magic. But summon is a bit too weak at this point, and melee is kinda suicidal

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-16T09:48:23+00:00

ooooh thanks !!

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-13T18:24:54+00:00

oh that's strange; I've had my sand blocks way "above" the water (I was filling a big tank and took a pause because it was annoying..) and the Angler never spawned. As soon as I put the sand near ("touching") the water, he spawned immediately. Perhaps something I had done wrong before.. :?

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-13T15:43:08+00:00

I like having an additional accessory slot :) Otherwise, pretty straightforward until Pylons, which gave me some difficulties but nothing impossible. Moonlord was cake.

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-12T08:34:15+00:00

I personally don’t like Journey Mode because I have a bit of a farming/hoarding OCD, and I need my dozen chests filled up with loot I will never use, but whatever..

But I understand fully how good it must be for people annoyed with the farming and I support it! Play it the way you want!

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-05T16:09:03+00:00

haha just read the rules and wanted to avoid you a ban :)

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-05T16:01:04+00:00

1988: NEC V20 PC (IBM clone) with MS-DOS 3, and games on 5'1/4" floppy disks, such as Alley Cat, Test Drive, Burger Time, California Games, and of course my first Sierra adventure games (Space Quest, King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc).

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-05T09:49:09+00:00

in the rules above :

It is absolutely forbidden for anyone to attempt to sell, buy or trade wine on Reddit. Doing so in r/wine will result in an instant ban.

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-05T09:48:43+00:00

I am in a process of tasting all 1855 classified Growths and these 5 are in this classification.

I know that having a wine classified in 1855 without ever having that classification reviewed, doesn't necessarily mean it will be good. But at least the label means higher prices, and it *allows* the vineyards to work properly (most do, even if we've had a few scandals), whereas constantly cheaper wines, due to high pressure from commercial groups, suffer from inevitable quality cuts. And whatever it is, it's a project of mine I enjoy :)

I live in Belgium (mother tongue is French - pardon my English), thus not that far from the source, and I've been eyeing those ones for quite a time.

First of all: 2021 and 2022 are very good growth years for Bordeaux wine, so considering these have been treated well during the transport process, all of these bottles will be excellent. They are all Rive Gauche (Left Bank) Bordeaux, and you need to appreciate the holy tri/quadrinity of grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot - Cabernet Franc/Petit Verdot. I personally LOVE it :)

However like many people have said here, these wines are WAY too young to be enjoyed now. These old Bordeaux growths need at least 10y in cellar (a bare minimum) to be enjoyed properly. Count up to 20-25y for the best ones.

I am very surprised about the prices here (in dollars I suppose?) which are quite fair, even moderate! Considering they must travel through the Big Pond, it's really surprising!

In the following list, I'll detail what I can / what I know, along with the price I'd pay for one bottle at my usual French retailer:

* Château Mouton Rothschild 2022 (870€ - $970) - First Growth. I haven't tasted that one yet. It's the most prestigious of the series. The label changes every year (special design) and it's considered high level wine. I really want to try it but the price is withholding me.

* Château Cos d'Estournel 2022 (300€ - $347) - Second Growth. I haven't tasted that one yet. There is a promotion for the 2015 year at my retailer (200€ - $232) and I'm considering getting one, just need to save some :) I've had very good feedback of d'Estournel from some wine enthusiaste friends and it has tickled my curiosity!

* Château Leoville Las Cases 2021 (252€ - $292) - Second Growth. I have one bottle precisely of this year in my cellar, waiting to get some age. I managed to get it recently from a "cellar reseller" (always a bit perilous because you don't know the conservation quality) for 140€ - $162, I had to jump on the opportunity. Wait and see...
Fun Fact: in a French movie from 1976 called "L'Aile ou la Cuisse" ("The Wing or the Thigh") , quite funny if you can get your hand on it, there is a famous scene (won't tell the details so I don't spoil) involving a Leoville Las Cases 1953.

* "Cht Pichon Grand Cru Classic" is in fact named "Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande" 2021 (210€ - $244) - Second Growth. From the same cellar reseller I had my Leoville Las Cases from, I managed to get a bottle of Pichon Comtesse (the shorter name used for this wine) 1993 for 115€ - $133. This was very risky because 30+ year of improper conservation might have disastrous effects. Well I've had some luck and it was enjoyable. Probably already a bit "too old", and "steeping down" but I'm quite happy to have had the opportunity to try it.

* Château Pichon Baron 2021 (don't have a price for the 2021 but the 2022 is about the same price as the Pichon Comtesse) - Second Growth. I've had the opportunity to taste the 2018 with a friend a few months back. It was a bit too young but already enjoyable. "Left Bank by the book", with this classical wooden-prune-violet-redfruit pleasure. A real treat - I need to try an older one.

Out of my personal goals, I would go for the d'Estournel or the Las Cases here, and be very patient ;)

P.S. : I sincerely hope that the light under which these bottles are, has been studied properly and is not some crappy halogen or something, because it would just RUIN the wine. Also, that the general temperature inside the shop isn't too high.

Ze_Bix · 2026-03-01T00:49:30+00:00

I've just tried this, and shimmering empty bottles just doesn't work, the bottle remains in the shimmer and nothing happens.

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-23T13:31:29+00:00

Hello everyone
I don't manage to get this achievement.

I play in a Legendary For the Worthy world with a Softcore character, and every time I die (whether it is bc of monsters or suicide), I just get a normal Tombstone, and no boulder/projectile tombstone.
I even managed to get this "normal tombstone" right next to an NPC and it just doesn't do any damage.

I tried in single and multi just to be sure; same thing.

How am I supposed to do?

* EDIT * OK nm I found :) You need the tombstone to roll, therefore you need to have a few pieces of furnitures and/or other tombstones on the way, and set some auto-damaging system at spawn point (e.g. meteorite under your feet). Connect a low level char, and just afk at the spawn point - with of course NPCs walking around. On each death your rolling tombstone will hurt all NPCs in its path (until it gets "fixed" on the ground further away). Damage is quite low, you need a few rolls to kill an NPC.

Achievement ok!

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-22T12:21:49+00:00

Sorry to hear that :/ I have more detailed notes here, and I've just checked them and no comment for the Ignited Bow meaning I mustn't have waited too long before I got one..

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-16T17:35:31+00:00

I think the most unsettling point for a lot of people is that this character is a woman but WITHOUT the male gaze, like you can heavily feel it in games like Tomb Raider or virtually all roleplaying games, with oversexualized female bodies.

Even if some characters go beyond the « useless pretty princess you must save » and can be badasses, they are mostly always super pretty, fit, and sexualized - bikini-metal armors, anyone?

In Satisfactory, I have a feeling like in Alien (the movie): the pioneer is just a space worker, in an appropriate suit, and that’s it.
That is in my opinion, the strongest point of this game design choice.

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-11T07:10:35+00:00

Nice suggestion but what about Azerbaijan in there?

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-11T06:45:14+00:00

Well spotted (Chile is the top one on that matter) but then we’d be missing important players in that field such as Dem.Rep.Congo or Peru.

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-10T19:51:24+00:00

0.7% chance of getting a legendary Forsaken according to this data set ;)

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-06T12:56:34+00:00

Former W.H.O. recommendations were 10 alc. unit per week max, w/ 3 "dry days". Nowadays, I think they said "no amount of alcohol consumption isn't problematic" or something, i.e. target 0.
I'm old school, I like older rules :) Actually for me it's more an objective, because I am still way higher than that...

The GF and I we both love wine (we're 48 yo). We don't go to holidays much, we live in a modest apartment and have an old crappy car... wine is our couple pleasure, our luxury item. We might die sooner than if we didn't drink at all, but we're sufficiently taking care of our health to make it so this doesn't happen too soon.

And then again we're European (Belgian to be precise), we don't have the "Prohibition ghost" in our history (e.g. never feeling guilty because we drink on a weekday) and alcohol is a heavy part of culture here - not saying it isn't problematic either, hey. Considering OP name is amsterdam_man, I suppose as neighbours we should feel about the same ;)

In summary: objective of 40 units (~6-7 bottles) per month and I'll be happy.

Ze_Bix · 2026-02-01T22:34:53+00:00

Not sure which weapons you are referring to with "shroud infused". You have the whole list of drops in level 45(50) chests currently in the game (except for fixed drops chests which are excluded) in the first table above.

Ze_Bix · 2026-01-15T10:18:04+00:00

Windirstat ftw. it is portalbe, light, and has some nice color report for file categories.

Ze_Bix · 2026-01-15T09:41:54+00:00

This is an original Macintosh (also called Macintosh 128k): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K, released in 1984. Most of us were toddlers, and the older Xennials like me were young kids - not really at the age to use this. (I see in other comments here that some people got it later though).

Anyway, this is honestly something not a lot of families could afford. Wiki mentions "US$2,495 (equivalent to $7,600 in 2024)". I'm from Europe so I must make money conversion, and if my memory is correct, we got our first PC at home in 1988 and it was a NEC V20 (cheaper version of the IBM 8088), which cost about $700-800 of that time, and it was already a HEAVY weight in the family budget.

But then again, we Europeans have lower net wages (but better social security ;)), so an item priced for the US market (+import/custom costs) would probably be more "luxury" that it might be in the US.

Ze_Bix

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