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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I want a magic mirror dang it!

    I would be really happy if they changed the death penalty to dropping all resource objects in your inventory and made the magic mirror craftable. It's a penalty you actually give a damn about without dropping random equipment drops and objects requiring extensive work to create. The magic mirror would give players more choice in succeeding or failing, and if expensive enough would help keep players in the pre-demonite tiers.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Eh, I don't know. That's one of my biggest gripes with Minecraft. I don't like spending hours trying to find diamond, crafting a sword, and then dying 2 minutes later and losing it.

    That isn't challenging. It's just annoying.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That Skeletron wasn't so hard! Shadow Gear, fully upgraded health, Blade of Grass, lotsa potions, easily took him down.

    Dungeon spawn rate is crazy times but makes it manic fun.

    First dungeon chest.

    Muramasa.

    Awwww yeah.

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  • ArtereisArtereis Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    A bloody good update would be one that makes some use of all these frigging Angel Statues which are all I can ever find in normal cavern chests.

    I want a magic mirror dang it!

    I'd love it if the statues were placeable.

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  • RikushixRikushix VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    anoffday wrote: »
    I'm on a single player small world. I guess I'm just having bad luck so far.

    I'm on a small world and by far the hardest part of hell was the ledges and cliffs right before hell itself, where the imps just start showing up. Once you're down there, the imps aren't too hard to fight off. Try to make a long flat ledge so you can reach them easily.

    Sometimes up to four (and maybe five) spawn for me but usually it's one or two, maybe three.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Just methodically cleared the entire dungeon and no magic mirror there either. The game really wants me to keep saving and quitting in order to warp back to base.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    I have two :(

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Artereis wrote: »
    A bloody good update would be one that makes some use of all these frigging Angel Statues which are all I can ever find in normal cavern chests.

    I want a magic mirror dang it!

    I'd love it if the statues were placeable.

    How about a gun that takes 10 angel statues and a minishark to craft, and uses angel statues as ammunition?

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited May 2011
    A bloody good update would be one that makes some use of all these frigging Angel Statues which are all I can ever find in normal cavern chests.

    I want a magic mirror dang it!

    Sorry, they all moved to my server. I have a chest with five of them.

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  • RikushixRikushix VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Dude. I have about eight magic mirrors. Do you want one?

    edit: and I haven't found a single angel statue yet.

    I've found
    • 1 feral claws
    • 1 shiny red balloon
    • 1 cloud in a bottle
    • 4 regeneration rings
    • 1 band of starpower
    • 1 flippers
    • 3 hermes boots
    • and something like seven or eight magic mirrors - I've sold a couple

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  • GarthorGarthor Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    anoffday wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    A "Princess" NPC would be awesome.
    Needs a golden room with chandelier, flower pots and books. When she moves in, you can give her gems. Once you have given her 50 gems she will give you a crown (which does whatever when you wear it) but a Dragon boss will spawn to take her away. If you kill the dragon, he drops cool stuff, but if you fail he steals the Princess away to an underground lair where you have to rescue her to get her back.
    Send this in!

    And then when you get to the final boss to rescue her, it turns out she's in ANOTHER cavern. Except she isn't, and the developer can then just free up the memory the princess object once was instantiated in, and we can all laugh about it. Win/win.

    That's not possible.
    Objects in the game world are not allocated new memory. They ALL are just crammed in the same array allocated at startup.

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  • ColorlessGreenColorlessGreen Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Garthor wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    A "Princess" NPC would be awesome.
    Needs a golden room with chandelier, flower pots and books. When she moves in, you can give her gems. Once you have given her 50 gems she will give you a crown (which does whatever when you wear it) but a Dragon boss will spawn to take her away. If you kill the dragon, he drops cool stuff, but if you fail he steals the Princess away to an underground lair where you have to rescue her to get her back.
    Send this in!

    And then when you get to the final boss to rescue her, it turns out she's in ANOTHER cavern. Except she isn't, and the developer can then just free up the memory the princess object once was instantiated in, and we can all laugh about it. Win/win.

    That's not possible.
    Objects in the game world are not allocated new memory. They ALL are just crammed in the same array allocated at startup.

    How dare you implicitly disparage the extensive coding abilities of these fine developers, good sir? I demand satisfaction.

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  • Edward FapEdward Fap Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I've gotten to the point where imps don't bother me and I've gotten full Molten armour. Should I take on ze skeletron?

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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Edward Fap wrote: »
    I've gotten to the point where imps don't bother me and I've gotten full Molten armour. Should I take on ze skeletron?

    Yes for sure, you probably could have done it sooner. Take a stack of big pots with you.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I wanted to elaborate something on the unofficial PvP talk we had.

    Here's what I had in mind: Two teams of four. They each have their own server. Each time builds a base / arms new characters over a certain period of time (not minutes, I mean days). This allows more elaborate base construction / design. Then two rounds commence where the other team 'invades' the home team's server. The raiding party can carry whatever supplies they want / need to conduct the raid. They have a certain amount of time to either find a macguffin OR to destroy the other team's base. The latter idea I think is better, because there's actually something at stake for the defending team (defending your glorious base). We'd, of course, need rules of honor about not setting up traps at the world spawn point or anything like that. But we're a cool-headed community and don't see that being a problem.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited May 2011
    Garthor wrote: »
    That's not possible.
    Objects in the game world are not allocated new memory. They ALL are just crammed in the same array allocated at startup.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    man, my merchant is stuck in a ditch

    I even built him a ladder, but he just won't get out

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  • lostprophetlostprophet Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Is there any way to pause the game?

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Right, having reached hell and crafted a few hellstone bars I'm calling a halt to my play for now until they add new content. Sure I could craft up a full hellstone set, but what for if I have no new boss or area target to aim for ? Plus hell mining is dull compared to the dungeon. The dungeon was fun.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    man, my merchant is stuck in a ditch

    I even built him a ladder, but he just won't get out

    Go a few screens away and he'll warp to the house while you're not looking.
    Is there any way to pause the game?

    In single just click off the window. In multi, no.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Is there any way to pause the game?

    Nope, you just lose it.

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  • NerdtendoNerdtendo Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Is there any way to pause the game?

    It pauses for me when I alt-tab to another window.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    man, my merchant is stuck in a ditch

    I even built him a ladder, but he just won't get out

    Go a few screens away and he'll warp to the house while you're not looking.
    Is there any way to pause the game?

    In single just click off the window. In multi, no.

    no dice, he's been like this for a few (real life) days no matter how much travelling or quitting and restarting I do

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    man, my merchant is stuck in a ditch

    I even built him a ladder, but he just won't get out

    Go a few screens away and he'll warp to the house while you're not looking.
    Is there any way to pause the game?

    In single just click off the window. In multi, no.

    no dice, he's been like this for a few (real life) days no matter how much travelling or quitting and restarting I do

    Does he have a house to go to? Did you 'break' the house that summoned him in some way?

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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    man, my merchant is stuck in a ditch

    I even built him a ladder, but he just won't get out

    Go a few screens away and he'll warp to the house while you're not looking.
    Is there any way to pause the game?

    In single just click off the window. In multi, no.

    no dice, he's been like this for a few (real life) days no matter how much travelling or quitting and restarting I do

    Tip lava on his head and wait for them to send you a new one.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    nope, his room is fine

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  • ShimshaiShimshai Flush with Success! Isle of EmeraldRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I like that lava suggestion.

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  • RikushixRikushix VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That goddamned guide.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    man, I wish there was a way to get more accessory slots

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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Adda wrote: »
    Tip lava on his head and wait for them to send you a new one.
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    Fuck it's not working!

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    why do people hate the guide so much

    he's chill

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  • MadpandaMadpanda suburbs west of chicagoRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    How are people getting hellforges out of hell? Also lava?

    Do you have to construct some sort of elaborate path pushing it up a few rows at a time or what?

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    Adda wrote: »
    Tip lava on his head and wait for them to send you a new one.
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    Fuck it's not working!
    What a badass.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Madpanda wrote: »
    How are people getting hellforges out of hell? Also lava?

    Do you have to construct some sort of elaborate path pushing it up a few rows at a time or what?

    Destroy the ground underneath hellforges to collect them. also you can collect lava in buckets, I believe.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    If you have at least a Meteor Hamaxe, you can just break the Hellforge directly as well.

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  • Helios127Helios127 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I gotta ask becaues I am new here, who here hosts games? Singleplayer is kinda stupid imo

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  • RikushixRikushix VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    anoffday wrote: »
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    Adda wrote: »
    Tip lava on his head and wait for them to send you a new one.
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    Fuck it's not working!
    What a badass.

    Haha I should have guessed it wouldn't work, in my first world I made in the first five seconds he jumped right into a pool of water and stayed there forever without budging

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I dropped into Hell safely for once, ran around a little bit and found a building with a chest and hellforge. On my way into the building I smashed a block that let a single block of lava loose to drop down. I waited a bit. So I get the forge, I go for the chest and right when I land in front of it I fucking splat dead because apparently there was a teeny-tiny bit of lava present. Fuck that shit.

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  • bobAkirafettbobAkirafett Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So I've had two worlds now where I talked to the old man at night and got killed by Skeletron. After that the old man never respawns, effectively barring me from ever exploring the dungeon.

    Is that by design? You only get one shot at fighting Skeletron?

    I've heard that if you go into the dungeon and pull one of the skeletron heads outside and kill it at night it'll unlock safe access to the dungeon. If the old man won't respawn. Supposedly.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Henroid wrote: »
    I dropped into Hell safely for once, ran around a little bit and found a building with a chest and hellforge. On my way into the building I smashed a block that let a single block of lava loose to drop down. I waited a bit. So I get the forge, I go for the chest and right when I land in front of it I fucking splat dead because apparently there was a teeny-tiny bit of lava present. Fuck that shit.

    Well, I mean, to be fair, If you actually stood in a really shallow puddle of lava it would still be pretty unpleasant.

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