Terraria - It's like Minecraft, but not really. Hamachi info p4, server is (hopefully) up!

Moriveth

Hey guys, I'm here to tell you about Terraria. What is Terraria? At first glance it looks like a 2D Minecraft. And in some ways it kind of is - it's block-based, and you use said blocks to build yourself a home. However, that's where the similarities end. Terraria is much more focused on fighting monsters and getting cool loot so you can fight even tougher monsters than building a really cool home or making a computer in your videogame or something nutso like that. It's also tons of fun. And you keep your stuff after you die (unless you choose not to)!



Monsters!



Houses!



Caves fulla mushrooms!

The most fun you can have this game is multiplayer, and honestly I feel like it's the only way to play. I've only ever played multiplayer. It was me and @FlatEric most of the time, and man, it's plenty fun with two people, and I'd love to regularly play with more. But what platforms is this available for?

Well, it originally came out on Steam, which is what I mainly played it on. And this week the XBLA/PSN version came out, which is apparently pretty good! And this summer there's even a Playstation Vita version coming, which excites me to no end and makes me glad I'm one of the six people that have a Vita, because of course I'm gonna buy it for that.

The PC version has a ton of content. The XBL/PSN version apparently has even more, which is cool! I never even unlocked hard mode even after 60+ hours of the PC version, so even more content is both awesome and terrifying.

I'll compile a list of Steam, XBLA and PSN people that want to play it here.

Steam:

L4Mori (Moriveth)
TheBetman (The Betman)
shock gee (Shock G)
MrMonroe (MrMonroe)
ValveJunkie (ValveJunkie)
TheBlindPeople (Duke 2.0)
superdichotomy (Dichotomy)
jpremium (premium)

Xbox:

Moriveth (Moriveth)
Paperluigi44 (Paperluigi44)
Aegeri (Aegeri)
Dug Danger (Mulletude)

PSN:

So c'mon guys. Play Terraria with me. I am down for both Xbox and PC, and maybe even PSN because I'm insane.

PaperLuigi44

Yo add me, gamertag is my name here.

My first merchant was slain by a zombie because he walked outside at night and I panicked a built a dirt cocoon for him. I didn't add any walls.

Moriveth

I often tried to kill the guide, because that guy just sucks. Though he's actually a bit more useful now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjk3lQ0fe2g

Seriously

Apparently whatsisface has actually started working on PC content again

that's probably a few months down the road though

Doobh

He is?! I just coming in here to express my disappoint that he stopped!

PaperLuigi44

I've got 2 stars of mana, but how do I get use it?

Dichotomy

I will probably buy this on xbox at some point during the weekend




also I hope starbound hits xbox sooner than terraria did

Doobh

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

I've got 2 stars of mana, but how do I get use it?

You need to be able to hold mana, first!

Grab 10 of them and you can combine them into something that boosts your mana pool.

Moriveth

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

I've got 2 stars of mana, but how do I get use it?

You've gotta find spells/items that use it.

Also the guy stopping development sucked, but I mean it's not like there wasn't a whole lot of post-release support. He did support it for a good while afterward, anyway.

Seriously

Dubh wrote: »

Dubh wrote: »

He is?! I just coming in here to express my disappoint that he stopped!

yeah he started tweeting somesuch a month or two ago

here's an article on it

SaraLuna

and here's a list of confirmed/hinted changes

Moriveth

That's really cool.

PaperLuigi44

Moriveth wrote: »

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

I've got 2 stars of mana, but how do I get use it?

You've gotta find spells/items that use it.

Also the guy stopping development sucked, but I mean it's not like there wasn't a whole lot of post-release support. He did support it for a good while afterward, anyway.

Ah ok, I just found my first heart crystal too, so momentum is picking up for me. Dart traps are really cruel, I had no idea how I was being shot until I made cover and observed the environment.

Doobh

wooooooo hooray woooooo

Moriveth

It's interesting that he's working on an update now. The XBL and PC versions may have some quite different stuff (though I don't think there's gonna be more added to the XBL version).

The Betgirl

If we're playing PC, are we all rollin' new dudes? I'd be down for that. Add TheBetman to the PC list!

Moriveth

I intend to roll a new dude for sure.

Duke 2.0

The developer had a lot of stuff going on in his life when he decided to end the project, and he ended it with a pretty dang massive content release. People can be justified in feeling sour about things, but I still find them either shortsighted or greedy. Post-release support needs to end somewhere.

Really cool to hear about more work being done. And with Starbound around the corner he doesn't even need to add particularly complex mechanics. Just churning out more monsters/items/bosses/dungeons/caves would be fantastic.

Seriously

pablo_price wrote: »

pablo_price wrote: »

and here's a list of confirmed/hinted changes

oh cool!

Dichotomy

it kinda bugs me that I hear the news that terraria is over, which is kind of a bummer but it runs finicky anyways so I can deal

then terraria is coming to xbox! which will run it way more smoothly! with more content! I am looking forward to a better version of the game being made accessible to me in a playable way




then woops the PC version is alive again and getting all sorts of neater new stuff

Moriveth

Duke 2.0 wrote: »

The developer had a lot of stuff going on in his life when he decided to end the project, and he ended it with a pretty dang massive content release. People can be justified in feeling sour about things, but I still find them either shortsighted or greedy. Post-release support needs to end somewhere.

Really cool to hear about more work being done. And with Starbound around the corner he doesn't even need to add particularly complex mechanics. Just churning out more monsters/items/bosses/dungeons/caves would be fantastic.

Yeah, there was a lot of rage over when he decided to stop development, and I was like... why? I mean it sucks, but it had to stop sometime, and it's not like he stopped immediately after releasing the game. That would have been kinda shitty (though I still had loads of fun with the game on release).

PaperLuigi44

I've started encountering bats, hopefully skeletons aren't too far off. Gotta have my grappling hook.

Aphostile

You ain't dragging me back to the land of fighting corruption with rainbow unicorn grenades.

AIN'T HAPPENING.

Moriveth

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

I've started encountering bats, hopefully skeletons aren't too far off. Gotta have my grappling hook.

Skeletons are SUCH assholes in the early game. Then after a while they ain't shit.

Moriveth

Aphostile wrote: »

You ain't dragging me back to the land of fighting corruption with rainbow unicorn grenades.

AIN'T HAPPENING.

C'mon, man.

C'moooooooooooooooooooooon.

Dichotomy

nothing will ever be as bad as the mouth plants that go through the ground in the underground jungle

Duke 2.0

Before you learn how their trajectories work large slimes can be problematic. Just swarms upon swarms of mother slimes being huge and shadow slimes making everything dark.

Moriveth

Yeah, those sucked.

I think my least favorite enemies are slimes in the early game. I'M JUST TRYING TO DIG STOP JUMPING INTO ME

blood moons are really fun when you have decent equipment, though. All goin' zombie shootin'.

Moriveth

I think one of my favorite things I did in this game was FlatEric and I summoning the eye of cthulhu like six times in one night

I imagine he was like "AWW COME ON YOU GUYS AGAIN?!?"

Doobh

Seriously, Ryan

you're getting back into this game

PaperLuigi44

I noticed how even early slimes and zombies require some finesse, you can't just spam attacks, that was nice. A corrupted zone is a short walk from my house, that was a nightmare to stumble into early on.

Moriveth

Once you get the minigun and some meteor shot

it is on when the blood moon comes

Aphostile

Dubh wrote: »

Seriously, Ryan

you're getting back into this game

HELL. NO.

Seriously

wraiths are the thing I hate


it's not that they're hard

it's that they can show up anywhere, even inside your home

PaperLuigi44

I really want a phasesword, but I imagine I am a long way away from meteorite bars.

The Betgirl

You'll probably make it to the underworld before you start reliably farming meteorite

Aphostile

I will say that beating the wall of flesh in hell and then the subsequent hard mode bosses was awesome (as @lexxy can attest to) but nope nope nope on fighting the corruption creep again. Nooooooope.

Moriveth

I know there was one point when my world was just lousy with meteorite. It was crazy, seemed like every night a meteorite would fall.

End

character info is stored locally right

I vaguely recall I had a pretty good set of gear, but it's really hard to remember and I think the data would be on my old computer

The Betgirl

The corruption creep was too strong on hard mode, but things like T-Edit work for that (because it just spreads so fast, good luck doing it in game)

Moriveth

Yeah, I'm glad the guy is apparently adjusting the difficulty in Hard Mode. The corruption sounded ridiculous.