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Credits ******************************************************************************* o. VERSION & CONTACT ******************************************************************************* ===== Version History ===== Version 0.6 (May 26th, 2011): +Wrote entire Bosses & Events section +Wrote entire Weapons section Version 0.5 (May 24th, 2011): +Created the FAQ +Wrote Version History & Contact +Wrote Introduction +Wrote Game FAQ +Wrote The Basics +Wrote Getting Started +Wrote Setting Up +Wrote Shelter +Wrote Crafting +Wrote Houses +Wrote Mining +Wrote Preparation +Wrote Digging +Wrote Upgrading +Wrote Helpful Information +Wrote Credits ===== Contact ===== If you spot any errors, have additional information to give me or just wanna say hey, you can email me at [email protected] PLEASE NOTE that this FAQ is not finished and that some additional information will be added at a later date. Please also note that this game is STILL IN BETA which means anything in the game can be changed without my knowledge making this FAQ somewhat obsolete. I will try my best to keep it up with the times. If you wish to have this hosted on your site, please also send me an email. This FAQ is only to be used by GameFAQs and verified websites who have emailed me and that I have allowed to host them. This means you need my permission. Please don't sell it or all of that other crap, although I don't know anyone stupid enough to buy a user written FAQ. ******************************************************************************* 1. INTRODUCTION ******************************************************************************* Hey there everyone, welcome to my FAQ/Walthrough for Terraria! Terraria is a 2D exploration game which takes the player into a world that is his or hers to explore. Seeing that this is an exploration game, I would suggest that you play around with the game before reading the FAQ. If you need help feel free to reference this FAQ. Onward! ******************************************************************************* 2. GAME FAQ ******************************************************************************* Q: What is Terraria? A: Terraria is a 2D exploration game created by Re-Logic which is featured on Steam. Q: What is this game like? What's the gameplay? A: You create a character which can then play in randomly generated worlds that currently come in three sizes (Small, Medium and Large). You then build houses for yourself and NPCs, mine for ores, create items, fight monsters, and so on. Q: So... this is Minecraft? A: No, not really. Terraria and Minecraft do have a lot of similarities but the games are pretty different. Minecraft is 3D, focuses more on crafting new items and exploring. Terraria is 2D, focuses more on action and finding new items. In my opinion, Terraria has the tendency to be more "fun" and hold my attention for longer, where I can only play an hour of Minecraft without getting extremely bored. Q: Is there a storyline? Can you "beat" the game? A: No, no storyline (that I'm aware of). You can technically explore your entire map through and through, in which case you can easily create a new world for the same character (or another one) and continue playing. There is no "end" to the game. Q: Is there an age range to the game I should be aware of? A: Not really. Anyone can get enjoyment out of Terraria. I guess you could say that some of the enemies may be a little scary for someone younger than 12 as there are flying eyeballs, zombies, skeletons and other enemies that "break apart" when killed. Q: Online play? A: Yep, anyone can host a server or play on another server as it's all integrated into the game right out of the (digital) box. Q: I need help with ______! A: First, that's not a question. Second, if this guide does not help, you can either ask on the GameFAQs board for help or you can go to the following website which has LOADS of information on the game: http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki ******************************************************************************* 3. THE BASICS ******************************************************************************* This section covers how the game is played moreso than how to "win" the game. PS; I just lost the game. ============== 3A. Controls = ============== The game is best played with a keyboard and mouse, so if you're the kind of person that enjoys using a joystick, I guess you could, but I'd stray away from it since the mouse is pretty needy during the game. ===== GAMEPLAY ===== (I changed my keyboard settings on startup, so I believe these are the original keyboard settings, but I may be incorrect on throw/inventory) All of these are changeable (aside from the mouse) in the settings W: Up (You know, I don't think the UP key does anything) S: Down (Same with Up. If there is a use, I haven't found it) A: Left (Move your character left) D: Right (Move your character right) Q: Throw (Throw the object in your hands onto the ground) E: Inventory (Brings up the inventory menu) Space: Jump (Lets your character jump) ========== 3B. Menu = ========== ===== MAIN MENU ===== Single Player: Lets you start a single player game. Pick/Create a character and and a world for you to play on. Multiplayer: Lets you start a server for your friends to play on, or allows you to connect to another player's server. Settings: Loads up the settings menu where you can change things such as volume and keyboard settings. Exit: Duh, exit! ===== SETTINGS ===== Windowed/Fullscreen mode: Changes between fullscreen and window. Cursor Color: Lets you change the cursor color. Volume: Lets you change the volume for the music and sound effects. Controls: Lets you change the controls of the game. Parallax: To be completely honest, I don't know. Just leave it alone Frame Skip: Lets you enable/disable Frame Skip ================= 3C. Display/HUD = ================= The top left ten slots are your useable items. This expands in the inventory menu when the inventory button is pressed. The top right hearts represent your health. The right side (invisible until unlocked) is your mana meter. The bottom left is for crafting items (visible in inventory menu). The right side (in the inventory menu) are your equips. ******************************************************************************* 4. GETTING STARTED ******************************************************************************* Getting started in the game is overwhelming to say the least. If you've played Minecraft then you have somewhat of a sense of what to do. However, if this is your first "just start doing stuff" explorer game, you're going to be lost and confused, as there is no intro to the game; you just start. ================ 4A. Setting Up = ================ At the very first second you get launched into your newly created world you are given a Copper Axe and a Copper Pickaxe. The Copper Pickaxe is on your first slot, which is activated when either you click on the picture of the pickaxe or you press the "1" key on your keyboard. The Copper Axe is on your second slot, which can be activated by the "2" key. This is where you'll learn the fundamentals of the game; you activate one item at a time and use it with the left-mouse button. There is an NPC who will walk around you named Guide. Right clicking on him will open up a chat dialogue which will give you help about starting up the game. This isn't mandatory, but it is insightful. Gameplay on Terraria has a 24 hours time span, which revolves just like our time span, however for every hour in the game is one minute in our time. This means that one full day lasts 24 minutes. Upon starting off in your world you will be placed just a couple of minutes into the day. This gives you about ten minutes to start doing what you want. During the day you will be attacked by slimes (and other monsters but for right now just worry about the slimes). Clicking with your pickaxe on the screen will swing the pickaxe. The pickaxe is your most basic tool. You will use it to attack in the beginning of the game as well as mine for the rest of your game. At night time, however, you will face harder creatures; zombies and demon eyes. These monsters come at night and leave at dawn and may be intimidating for you since you're new to the game. To save yourself from this you must build a shelter. ============= 4B. Shelter = ============= Equipped with your Pickaxe, roll your mouse over the ground around you and right click and hold. You will notice after a couple of swings the ground will be destroyed and a block will be placed into your inventory. Every time you mine a block, it will be placed into your inventory which can then be placed into the world around you. This is also one of the most basic building blocks (pun intended) of Terraria. If at any time that a slime comes up to you (which it will) just swing with your pickaxe to defeat it. It should only take about four hits to kill it. If you pick up coins, keep them, you'll need them later. The ground around you should be either dirt with grass, or stone. You will be unable to mine on the ground directly below a tree. Mine around the area with your pickaxe until you have about 30 dirt/stone blocks. Don't dig straight down but instead try to "smooth out" the land so that you have one flat plateau. Once you have finished this, start chopping down trees with your axe. Chop at the bottom "trunk" of the tree and don't let go until the tree is destroyed. When the tree is finished, it will drop plenty of wood and possibly some acorns. Gather up 100 wood, which should only take about six or seven trees. Keep the acorns; they can be planted in dirt to make more trees later on. Now that you have the blocks and the wood, it's time to make your first shelter, which will keep you safe for the coming night. If you happen to die, you only drop half of your coins. Dropped items never disappear unless you save and exit the map. You will spawn in the same location. Also, if night happens to fall before you can build your shelter, don't worry. Continue building and try to fight off the zombies, but if you die repeatedly, there's no penalty other than losing the coins. If you want, just keep dying until day comes. Everyone dies when they first start off. Make the dirt or stone blocks your active equip (like you would the pickaxe) and find a nice flat area, preferably the one you made getting the blocks. With your mouse, go near the ground, and left click. The dirt/stone block will be placed back onto the map. You should then build a wall around you with the blocks so that you are "trapped" inside of them. Illustration; B: Dirt/Stone Blocks X: You G: Ground B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B X B B X B B X B GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Congrats, you've made your first shelter! If you wish to get out, all you have to do is use your pickaxe on the wall to get the block back. Your character is three blocks tall and two blocks wide, so to get out the hole in the wall would have to be at least three blocks high. Now it's time to decorate. ============== 4C. Crafting = ============== Now that you're safe within the comforts of your own shelter (well, jailcell) its time to start crafting. Crafting in Terraria is the process of taking one item (or many) and combining it into another item (or many). You may craft extremely basic items on your own, but to craft more items you'll need some base items. The very first item to help you craft more items is the Work Bench. Open up your inventory. You will notice on the bottom left a Crafting menu. With the wood that we chopped up earlier you will have at least two things on the menu; Wood Platform and Work Bench. Click down to the bottom item which should be the work bench. The Crafting menu has a specific layout. You will have one column of clickable items that are the outcome of the crafting process, and to the right of this column you will see another column with a set amount of items. These are the items needed to craft the item on the left column. The work bench needs ten pieces of wood. Since we have about 100, craft one by clicking on the Work Bench. If done correctly, you will lose ten wood, and a work bench will be placed on your mouse. Clicking multiple times will craft multiple benches (don't do this yet). Once the work bench is on your mouse, however up to your inventory (more specifically the top row of items) and place it there. Close your menu. Like before, when placing the blocks on the world, make the work bench active and then click in the world (inside of your shelter) to place the work bench. With the work bench placed, walk up to it (you do not have to be directly over it) and open up your menu. You will notice a lot of new items to craft. This is how the work bench, and other craft "helpers" work. When you are near them they will left you craft new items, assuming you have the amount of items needed to make it. For now we only need the work bench (mainly because we do not have access to the others). When you are finished looking through all of the new items, there are a few we should craft right away. These are a Wooden Sword, Wooden Hammer, Wooden Door, Wooden Chair, and a Wooden Table. You may make an extra wooden door if you would like (to have two exits to your future shelter). I would also recommend that if you haven't killed a slime yet, you go out and kill one, or quite a few for that matter. Slimes drop Gel, an item used to make torches, which are worth their weight in gold in Terraria. Once you have a few Gels, combine them with the wood to make a few torches. ============ 4D. Houses = ============ Now that we have all of the basic necessities to build a house, it's time to actually make one! Let's start off using our shelter. Now, before we start, we should go over the guidelines on what a house really is in Terraria. A house must meet all of the requirements; - A door placed to the outside - An encased area, meaning fully surrounded by blocks other than the door - A chair - A table - At least four blocks tall - At least seven blocks wide - A source of light - Walls on the background Note, if you made your shelter out of dirt, you must replace the dirt with stone or wood for it to qualify as a house. Dirt walls do not count :( We have all of these things except the walls on the background, which isn't needed until the house is near finished. First off, break off a few pieces of the wall, three blocks tall. You should be able to walk from the inside of your future house to the outside without jumping. When this is finished, equip your door to your mouse, and place it underneath the remaining part of the wall. It should logically go where you would imagine the door would be. When placed correctly, a right click on the door will open it up allowing you to walk in and out of your shelter, while right clicking on it while open will close it, keeping out enemies. Next, take your chair and equip it to your mouse, and then place it somewhere. It cannot be in the first block after the door, meaning it cannot block the door from opening. The chair is placed the way your character is facing, so if your character is facing the right side of the screen, the chair will also face the right side. After you've placed the chair, place the table next to it. The light source can be a number of things, but the easiest one is simply a torch. Place a torch on the inside of your house. With that done we only have the walls to worry about. Go back to your work bench and start making wood walls. Note that you may have to go out and mine more wood. You'll need a good amount, so shoot for at least 100. Once done, equip the wood walls to your mouse. Walls go on the background layer of the map, so its much like "painting" the back of the house. Slowly start "painting" on the wood walls into the back of the house. Once completed you should have a wooden/stone house with a smooth background that does not have any cracks and is all one type of background, as well as a table, chair, light source (torch) and a door. You will probably also have a work bench as well. If you've made it correctly, your NPC will claim it "his" house. You two can share the house, but each NPC will need his/her own house. When you have finished your house, you should make another one. The two houses cannot share the same walls. Illustration of a sample house; G: Ground O: Outer Wall (Made of Wood/Stone) D: Door .: Background (Made of Wood/Stone) C: Chair T: Table L: Light Source (Torch) O O O O O O O O O O O O O L . . . . . . . . L O O . . . . . . . . . . O D . . . . . . . . . . O D . . . . . C T T . . O D . . . . . C T T . . O GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG If you notice an NPC moves in, go up and build another house. The goal is to always have one house for each NPC and then one extra house. ******************************************************************************* 5. MINING ******************************************************************************* Ahh, one of the greatest joys of Terraria; mining! Mining is the act of digging into the ground in search for basically anything. The act of mining can either be fun or boring, depending on how you look at it, and it's time for use to make the most fun out of it. Anyways, grab your pickaxe and lets go! ================= 5A. Preparation = ================= Before we get to the good stuff we've got a little preparation to do. We're going to need to grab a few things in order to make our mining time worthwhile. There's nothing worse then getting deep into the caves you've built and then dying or losing light and having to start all over. The first essential item we'll need are torches. Torches are essential when mining because the light from day cannot break through to the core of the world. Placing torches and carrying torches are going to be done all of the time in the world so we've got to stock up. Start killing slimes until you have about 15 Gels. Also, make sure we have at least 50 Wood. Use the Gels we have to make 45 torches. Make sure to keep the extra wood. The second thing we'll need are potions. How to make potions, you ask? Well, we'll need sand and mushrooms. Starting at your spawn point, go either left or right until you hit sand. You should find it semi-quickly. Sand will look like (well, obviously) bright yellow and sandy. NOTE: If you run into dirt with a purple blue grass, STOP and TURN AROUND. This is known as corruption and is going to be too difficult for you yet. If you go both ways and hit corruption without getting sand, don't worry, we'll find sand later. If you do find sand, grab about 50 blocks. Sand is simple to mine; just stand at the bottom on a pile of it and dig. The sand will compress and you'll gather up hundreds in literally seconds. Now that we have some sand, it's time to look for some mushrooms. If you do not have sand yet, don't worry. You have probably passed them on the way to find the sand. We'll need about ten, but if you find less, that's fine. When you've got the ten go back to your house. Before we start making potions we're going to need a furnace which can be crafted with 3 torches, 20 stone and 4 wood. So make sure we've got this before continuing. We're also going to need more Gels, so go out and grab as many as you can. 20 should be good. Back at our house, we need to make a furnace, which should now be in the crafting menu assuming we have the materials mentioned above. Once the furnace is created, we're going to place it into our house. Once the furnace is placed, it works just like a work bench, and can craft new items when near it. The first thing we're going to craft is some glass. Glass is made from two sand. We should have 25 glass assuming we use all of our sand. Now with our glass, we're going to flip them around and make bottles, using the furnace again. One glass makes two bottles. That means that through the conversions, each piece of sand made one bottle. When we have our bottles we're going to make yet another crafting "helper". Take one of the bottles and place it on top of your table. This is an alchemy stand. Open up your crafting menu. You'll notice that with one mushroom, two gels and two bottles, we can make 2 lesser healing potions. Make as many as you can. If you've got less than 50 wood, 10 gels or 45 torches, go out and gather some, because it's time to start that mining. ============= 5B. Digging = ============= Mining doesn't have to be straight downwards. Some people search the world to find natural entrances into the underworld, some people just pick a spot and dig, and some even dig upwards into the floating islands (but more on that later). We, however, are going to dig downwards near spawn. Go to where your house is and go just a tiny bit out of your ways. This is just to make sure we don't make it difficult to get into your house. Once you've reached the spot you think is going to be a good place to start, let's start! Begin by digging downwards. DO NOT dig straight downwards yet. Your character can only jump so high (seven blocks high) so anything more than that will be out of your reach. You're going to want to dig in a diagonal. Since this is your first time digging I don't think you'll want to go all out on design, just dig. As you're digging you're going to want to place down torches on the ground or walls to keep the light. If you run out of torches or one of the ingredients to make torches, go back up to the surface and get some more. You will also find slimes in the caves you're digging, which will supply you with gels. This is why you shouldn't worry about gels while digging and worry more about your amount of wood. While you're digging you'll notice quite a few different blocks. Along with the dirt and stone we've been seeing, you'll also see clay, iron and copper. We don't really need the clay right now so there's no point in grabbing it all. We do, however, need as much copper and iron as we can get. Copper will look like stone but will be copper colored, as in a brownish orange color. We also need iron (moreso than copper) which will be a pale brown color. You may also notice some pots along the way. If you see them, break them! Pots contain goodies such as bombs, coins and potions. If you get any bombs it's good to keep them. When you get about five or six, the NPC "Demolitionist" will move into one of your houses. He can sell you bombs! Remember, if an NPC moves into one of your houses, go up and make another spare house so you can get the next NPC when it's time. While digging you may also come across some chests. Chests are rare and usually contain a couple of items and one rare item. These rare items are mostly accessories that you can wear to improve your character, such as giving your character the ability to heal over time, double jump, run faster, and even weapons. If you see a chest, empty its contents into your inventory, and then use your hammer on the chest to break it and put it into your inventory. You can then place it wherever you want (like in a house) and use it to store your items! Another thing you may come across in the underground is a crystal heart. It will look like a stone heart. Use your hammer on it to break it, in which you will get a life crystal. When you use this, you will gain an extra 20HP to your max health! Not only that, but after you use your first one, the Nurse will move into one of your vacant houses. The nurse will heal you for a small price (normally just copper). Since we're on the subject of NPCs, you will also get a Merchant NPC to move into one of your houses when you reach 50 silver. You must keep the 50 silver in your inventory until he appears. The Merchant will sell you some useful items. When digging, you may notice the background wall turn into a stone color. This means you're getting deeper into the mine. Turn around for now; you're not strong enough to continue. =============== 5C. Upgrading = =============== As you gain up ores you will want to return back to your house or crafting station and start improving your weapon/armor/accessories. This will not only help you survive longer, it'll help you fight harder enemies and mine faster. With your copper and iron ore than you've grabbed from mining, return to the furnace. For every three copper/iron ores you can make one copper/iron bar. These bars are used for crafting stronger items. We're almost ready to make these bars into wonderful new equipment. Now it's time for you to pick one or the other. If you have 5 iron bars, you can craft an Anvil, which is needed to craft our bars into other items. If you do not have five iron bars, or you choose not to use up your bars on the anvil, you can purchase an anvil from the Merchant for 50 silver coins. Either way you choose is up to you. I personally bought the anvil. Once you've obtained an anvil, place it in one of your houses. Now, when near it, you can craft more items with your bars. It's time to talk about the progression of the ores. Some ores are stronger than others. The lineup is; (Weak) "Common" || "Uncommon" (Strong) Copper -> Iron -> Silver -> Gold -> Demonite -> Meteorite -> Hellstone Copper is the weakest of the ores. You can find copper relatively easily. Iron is a little harder to find than copper yet is a little stronger than iron. Silver and then Gold continue on this scheme. These four metals are considered common because they can all be found naturally and mined with ease. Demonite, Meteorite and Hellstone are considered uncommon because they either only appear when defeating a boss (Demonite), appear when a meteor falls (Meteorite), or are found in the depths of Hell (Hellstone). It should also be mentioned that while Demonite is weaker than Meteorite, they each have their own bonuses which is more on a style of preference to which people prefer. Anyways, back to our guide. Since we more than likely have a bunch of copper and iron bars, let's make some stuff out of it. If you're using copper, keep in mind that you already have a copper pickaxe and a copper axe. It's up to you what you want to craft. You can make some armor if you wish for more defense. You can make some tools if you want to upgrade them. But before you make anything, we're going to look at examples and definitions of what everything is, since it can be confusing with lots of choices. Pickaxe: Your pickaxe. You use it all the time. Used for mining. Axe: Used for chopping down trees. Hammer: Used for breaking down certain items. Helmet: Used to add defense points. Goes on your head. Chainmail: Used to add defense points. Goes on your chest. Greaves: Used to add defense points. Goes on your legs. Shortsword: Fast weapon, small range, attacks only in front. Broadsword: Slower weapon, large range, attacks both in front and above. Bow: A weapon that uses arrows. Arrows must be found/forged. I would suggest that you leave the hammer and the axe at what you have now. Unless you're going extreme woodchopping, or you want to go extreme house building, there's no real need to upgrade them. I would also suggest to skip the bow, since you need arrows and right now you should work on getting better equipment than worrying about arrows. Shortsword/Broadsword is up to you, I prefer broadsword. As for the armors, the chestplate gives one extra point of defense compared to the other two but needs more bars to make. Once you've picked out what you want, you've really learned the basics of the game. If you want better equipment, you mine for it. You'll continue this for hours, with exploring, and keep getting better equipment. With future updates of the FAQ I'll provide more information about things to do, such as getting rare equipment and fighting bosses and such. ******************************************************************************* 6. HELPFUL INFORMATION ******************************************************************************* There are a total of 7 NPCs in the game, 6 of which will move in with you. +Guide: Spawns at the beginning of the game. Gives you helpful hints. +Merchant: Spawns when you have 50 silver in your inventory. +Arms Dealer: Spawns when you have a gun in your inventory. +Dryad: Spawns when you have killed any boss. +Nurse: Spawns when you have used your first crystal heart. +Demolitionist: Spawns when you have bombs or dynamite in your inventory. +Old Man: Lives at the dungeon. Talking to him at night will spawn a boss. Each NPC needs their own house to live in. The Old Man lives at the dungeon. To spawn the Eye of Cthulhu, a boss monster, you must used ten lenses at a Demon Altar. He may also show up randomly at night. To spawn the Eater of Worlds, a boss monster, you must break three Shadow Orbs. To spawn Skeletron, a boss monster, you must talk to the Old Man at the dungeon at night. To make a meteor fall, you must break a shadow orb and wait one full day. If a meteor does not fall, you must break another. To gain mana, you must gain 10 fallen stars and craft it into a Mana Crystal, which will give you 20 Mana (max at 200). Demonite is only given to you when you beat the Eye of Cthulhu or the Eater of Worlds. Meteorite is only given to you when you mine where a meteor has landed. You need the nightmare pickaxe or dynamite to mine the ore and an obsidian skull to withstand the heat from the ore. Hellstone is only found in Hell, the lowest layer of the world. If traveling in Hell is too annoying with the fire imps, you can place down 50 pieces of Meteorite. This will cause Meteor Heads to spawn instead of any other monster in the area, which are a lot easier to deal with than the fire imps. ******************************************************************************* 7. BOSSES & EVENTS ******************************************************************************* Terraria has a few bosses and events that happen either randomly or after certain in-game events. This section outlines these events ==================== 7A. Eye of Cthulhu = ==================== HP: 3000 Attack: Varies P1 Attack: 18 P2 Attack: 30 Time: Night Where: Surface Summoned: Suspicious Looking Eye Drops: Demonite Ore Unholy Arrows Crystal Heart Corrupted Seeds The Eye of Cthulhu is basically a giant Demon Eye. It spawns either randomly, after the player uses a Suspicious Looking Eye (which is crafted by 10 lenses at a Demon Altar), or rarely when a user breaks a Shadow Orb. The Eye of Cthulhu will only spawn at night; using a Suspicious Looking Eye will do nothing if used during the day. If the Eye of Cthulhu is still alive when day starts, it will run away. If you spawn it while underground, you will get the message "You feel an evil presence watching you". When spawned you will get the message "The Eye of Cthulhu has awoken!". The Eye of Cthulhu has two phases; ===== Phase One ===== In the first phase, the eye will float around you while summoning Servants of Cthulhu. These are little Demon Eyes that will attack you while you try and attack the Eye of Cthulhu. After firing off about four of these guys, the Eye of Cthulhu will rush at the player three times. It will then repeat the cycle. After getting it down to 1500 HP you will enter the second phase. Servant of Cthulhu HP: 8 Attack: 23 ===== Phase Two ===== In phase two, the Eye of Cthulhu will open up showing it's teeth (because eyes have teeth). It will stop spawning Servants of Cthulhu but will start moving faster. The damage of his attacks will increase and he will rush you faster than in the first phase. When his HP reaches 0 you've won. ===== Strategy ===== You'll want to stick to ranged weapons. The most common strategy is to buy a lot of Shurikens and continually fire at the Eye of Cthulhu. Guns are also a good idea. Constantly shoot at the eye until it's dead; pretty straight forward if you ask me. ===================== 7B. Eater of Worlds = ===================== Head HP: 120 Body HP: 200 Tail HP: 300 Head Attack: 40 Body Attack: 15 Tail Attack: 10 Time: Anytime Where: Corruption (Initial) Summoned: Shadow Orb (Broken) Worm Bait Drops: Demonite Ore Shadow Scale Shadow Scale Armor (Piece) Ball O'Hurt Coins The Eater of Worlds is much like a Devourer except it's huge in size. It looks as if it's made out of multiple Eater of Souls that are linked together. The exact amount of body segments it has is currently unknown. To completely defeat it you must destroy each and every part of it's body. It is the ONLY boss that will continue to attack you after dying. The Eater of Worlds will bury itself into the ground and will pop out to attack you. It doesn't necessarily have any attacks, as it does only touch damage, but its ability to track onto the player and follow it across the entire map is dangerous enough. Every time you destroy a middle segment it will split into another Eater of Worlds. This means that you can be fighting multiple smaller versions of the boss at the same time, with the same amount of attacking power. Each segment must have a head and a tail, which means that if you destroy all of the parts except for one, the extra one will die. When you finish it off you will receive a message saying the Eater of Worlds has been defeated. The Eater of Worlds has been subject to a few glitches. If the Eater of Worlds is alive when an Eye of Cthulhu spawns, sometimes the Eater of Worlds will instantly be destroyed. Also, sometimes at dawn the Eater of Worlds will instantly die. This also can happen if you die, as sometimes when you respawn, the Eater of Worlds will instantly die. ===== Strategy ===== Since (most of the time) the Eater of Worlds will follow you until spawn, it is recommended that you deposit all coins you have into a Piggy Bank or Chest when you spawn it, and then die. Then, at spawn, wait for it to follow you. This way you can simply die and respawn to continue the fight and not have to use up any healing potions. Since the fight isn't timed you don't have to worry about defeating it in a certain amount of time. You want to hit multiple parts at the same time. Weapons like Vilethorn will do great since they can hit multiple parts and stay on screen for a long time. I personally use a broadsword and just hack away. A gold Broadsword will do 11 damage to the body parts, and when spammed, can easily do hundreds of damage with one pass-through the earth. It should also be noted that dynamite will kill any body part instantly, though this is costly and easily spawns extra segments of the Eater. =============== 7C. Skeletron = =============== Head HP: 6000 Hand HP: 2200 (each) Head Attack: 35 Hand Attacl: 30 Time: Night Where: Dungeon Summoned: Talk to Old Man Drops: Coins Life Crystals Sunfury Skeletron is considered the hardest boss in the game. With over 10,000 total HP and guarding one of the most coveted areas in the game, Skeletron is a beast. Summoned by talking to the Old Man outside of the dungeon at night time. If you talk to him during the day he'll talk about being freed from a curse and how you can only enter at night. Breaking into the dungeon without beating Skeletron will cause Skeletron heads to follow you around. During the day these heads will deal a set 9999 damage to you (which is NOT max damage, by the way). During the night, the heads will follow you around (up to 6 of them) and constantly attack you dealing normal damage. Some people use this to sneak into the dungeon without beating Skeletron to quickly grab some equips. Skeletron is a one time boss; one you kill him he'll never come back. It is recommended that you have at least 300HP and a bunch of normal potions as well as at least gold armor. ===== Strategy ===== There are a few things you can do to prepare for battle. The most recommended thing is to get on top of the entrance to the dungeon and flatten it out. Then use the bricks you got from flattening it to make a sky bridge leading from the end of the dungeon entrance. This should give you one large flat surface for the battle. Next, put a bunch of torches to light up the place. Also, make it so that you can easily access the roof without much trouble, since you will have to make the climb while actively fighting Skeletron. Once Skeletron is summoned he will then rotate between two very simple yet deadly attacks. The first attack is a hand swipe. This is pretty much unavoidable and deals substantial damage. You'll probably be hit two or three times. The second attack involves Skeletron spinning his head around and following you for about 15 seconds. This is easily avoidable, but at the same time, it's the best time to deal damage. You should fight him by standing on one side of your walkway, and when his head chases you, run to the other. While he's attacking you with his hands, shoot at him with a gun or any ranged weapon. When he goes down for his head swirl attack, run close to him and continue shooting. If you have a fast melee weapon it is possible to fast your back to him, run slowly in front of him and have your weapon hit him from your back. While his attacks deal a lot of damage, you'll more than likely be fighting the time limit instead of actually dying. If you're dying from the battle from his attacks, try to defeat the hands. Once defeated it will just be his head. If you can't beat it by day time, just focus on his head. GLITCH ABUSE: As I mentioned earlier when you break into the dungeon at night a Skeletron head will summon and follow you around. At the exact moment that night starts, run into the dungeon and wait for a head to summon. Then, lure it outside to your battlefield. The heads have 6000HP, just like Skeletron's head, aqnd when defeated give the same effect of beating the full Skeletron. This means that if you can beat the head (which is way easier than the full body), the dungeon will open up, and the game will act as if you've beaten Skeletron normally. ================= 7D. Goblin Army = ================= The Goblin Army is an event that will happen at Dawn. While not technically considered a boss, some people feel as if it's in the same tier. A Goblin Army has a 1/15 chance of spawning. It will also only spawn after a week has gone by in-game. You will also need 200+ HP for it to spawn. You will also need to break a Shadow Orb in order to get the army to happen, but in my own experience and to some others, they have had one happen without breaking an Orb. This may be a bug. The Goblin Army spawns at dawn. You will receive a message stating "A Goblin Army is approaching from the west!" It will repeat a couple of times until the message "The Goblin army has arrived!". It should be noted that the army comes from the right side of the map, not the left, since the sun sets in the west. The Goblin Army consists of at least 100 enemies, all of which come from four kinds of Goblins; Peon, Thief, Warrior and Sorcerer. There will be at least 100 goblins, and an additional 50 for each player in a world with over 200HP if you are playing online. The entire attack lasts about twelve minutes in real-time. While a major annoyance, the Goblin Army drops the fabled Rocket Boots, which is an accessory that grants the user the ability to fly with the use of Mana. This is an exxtremely rare drop. Some have gotte multiples in one raid, while some *cough*myself*cough* have fought many armies without a single pair. ===== Goblin Peon ===== HP: 60 Attack: 12 Weapon: Melee Normal speed and normal HP, these guys are the easy ones of the army. ===== Goblin Theif ===== HP: 80 Attack: 20 Weapon: Melee They have a very fast running speed. They also have the ability to open up doors and have the ability to take coins out of a piggy bank. ===== Goblin Warrior ===== HP: 110 Attack: 25 Weapon: Melee The slowest and the strongest of the army. With the highest HP they're a little annoying but nothing too bad. Their slow speed makes them easy to beat. ===== Goblin Sorcerer ===== HP: 60 Attack: 20 Weapon: Magical Definitely the most annoying of the group. Their attack fires a Chaos Ball at you, which is basically a magic ball, which can fly through blocks to get to you. They also teleport around the screen to add annoyance. ================ 7E. Blood Moon = ================ The Blood Moon is an event which has a 1/7 chance of happening every night. The player will be greeted with the message "The Blood Moon is rising..." in which a red moon will rise and light the sky red. During a Blood Moon the amount of enemies that spawn is double, and zombies have the ability to open doors, which is a problem for your NPCs who are in their houses. NPCs will also say their own dialogue during a blood moon; Guide: You can tell a Blood Moon is out when the sky turns red. There's something about it that causes monsters to swarm. Merchant: Keep your eye on the prize, buy a lense! Demolitionist: I've got something for those zombies, alright! Dryad: It is an evil moon tonight. Be safe. Gun Dealer: I love nights like tonight. There's never a shortage of things to kill. Fallen Stars decrease during a blood moon. The blood moon is an excellent time to go killing if you feel like it, as you can rack up a lot of money and loot, since the spawn rates are double. ============ 7F. Meteor = ============ Whenever a player breaks a Shadow Orb there is a 25% chance that a meteor will fall between midnight and 4:30am. Meteors also have a very small chance of happening naturally overnight. When a meteor strikes an area you will receive a message stating so. Meteors replace blocks nearby with Meteorite Ore. This ore is hot to the touch and will deal damage to the player when touched unless the player has an Obsidian Skull equipped. When the player reaches the area that a meteor has fallen the music will change and Meteor Heads will start spawning. HP: 50 Attack: 25 Weapon: Touch These guys won't leave you alone until you've mined up most of the Meteorite Ore. More specifically, when there are less than 50 blocks of Meteorite left in the area, they will stop spawning and the music will return to normal. Meteorite Ore requires a pickaxe that is stronger than Gold. This means that until you receive either a Nightmare Pickaxe or a Molten Pickaxe you will have to resort to using Dynamite to break the bricks. It will take about six strategically placed sticks of dynamite to get the majority of the ore. This can be difficult due to the Meteor Heads. ******************************************************************************* 8. Weapons ******************************************************************************* There are plenty of weapons within the game for the character to use. There are both common, uncommon and rare weapons for the character in the game. This section is going to outline the types of weapons that exist and their stats. ================= 8A. Broadswords = ================= Broadswords are the most commonly used melee weapon. Broadswords hit an in arc which means that they hit both above the player and in front of the player. There are seven different broadswords. Wooden Broadsword Damage: 7 Speed: Average Craft: Workbench (7 Wood) Copper Broadsword Damage: 8 Speed: Average Craft: Anvil (8 Copper Bars) Iron Broadsword Damage: 10 Speed: Average Craft: Anvil (8 Iron Bars) Silver Broadsword Damage: 11 Speed: Average Craft: Anvil (8 Silver Bars) Gold Broadsword Damage: 13 Speed: Fast Craft: Anvil (8 Gold Bars) Light's Bane Damage: 16 Speed: Fast Craft: Anvil (10 Demonite Bars) Phaseblade Damage: 21 Speed: Average Craft: Anvil (20 Meteorite Bars & Gemstones) Phaseblades can come in six different colors depending on which gemstones are used to create it. It also has a lower knockback compared to any other broadsword, making it easier to damage enemies. ================ 8B. Shortsword = ================ Shortswords swing a lot faster than Broadswords, however they are a bit weaker and their attacking motion only hits enemies in the front, with a stabbing motion rather than swinging motion. Most users agree that you should skip this type of weapon. Copper Shortsword Damage: 6 Speed: Very Fast Craft: Anvil (7 Copper Bars) Iron Shortsword Damage: 8 Speed: Very Fast Craft: Anvil (7 Iron Bars) Gold Shortsword Damage: 11 Speed: Very Fast Craft: Anvil (7 Gold Bars) ================ 8C. Explosives = ================ Explosives are one time use weapons and can injury and even kill enemies and yourself. Handle with caution. Bomb Damage: 100 Speed: Average Radius: Small Stack: 20 Destroys blocks. Sticky Bomb Damage: 100 Speed: Average Radius: Small Stack: 20 Craft: 1 Bomb & 5 Gel Sticky Bombs are just like normal bombs except they stick to blocks. Grenade Damage: 60 Speed: Snail Radius: Small Stack: 20 Grenades do not cause damage to blocks. They explode on impact with an enemy. Dynamite Damage: 250+ Speed: Average Radius: Large Stack: 3 Dynamite is used mainly for mining and not attacking, though it makes a wonderful attcking tool. ========== 8D. Bows = ========== Bows use arrows to fire. They get about twelve blocks of straight shots until the arrows start being affected by gravity. Wooden Bow Damage: 6 Speed: Slow Craft: Work Bench (10 Wood) Copper Bow Damage: 7 Speed: Slow Craft: Anvil (7 Copper Bars) Iron Bow Damage: 8 Speed: Slow Craft: Anvil (7 Iron Bars) Silver Bow Damage: 9 Speed: Slow Craft: Anvil (7 Silver Bars) Golden Bow Damage: 10 Speed: Slow Craft: Anvil (7 Gold Bars) Demon Bow Damage: 12 Speed: Average Craft: Anvil (8 Demonite Bars) Molten Fury Damage: 29 Speed: Average Craft: Avil (25 Hellstone Bars) Molten Fury shoots flaming arrows but still deals normal arrow damage. ===== Arrows ===== Arrows normally have a 2/3 chance of being able to be recovered after being shot. Wooden Arrow Damage: 5 Stack: 250 Craft: Anvil (1 Wood & 1 Stone) Shop: 10 Copper Coins Flaming Arrow Damage: 7 Stack: 250 Craft: 5 Arrows & 1 Torch Unholy Arrow Damage: 8 Stack: 250 Craft: Anvil (2 Arrows & 1 Worm Tooth) Unholy Arrows can pierce up to three enemies Jester's Arrow Damage: 9 Stack: 250 Jester's Arrow can pierce enemies and cannot be crafted. They can only be found in chests. ========== 8E. Guns = ========== Guns use ammo much like bows use arrows. They start appearing after breaking a Shadow Orb and gaining the Musket, which in turn will bring the Gun Seller NPC to your community Flintlock Pistol Damage: 7 Speed: Fast Ammo: Musket Balls Shop: 5 Gold The Flintlock Pistol is found in chests or can be bought. Space Gun Damage: 15 Speed: Fast Ammo: 9 Mana Craft: Anvil (30 Meteorite Bars & 10 Fallen Stars & 1 Flintlock Pistol) The Space Gun uses mana per shot and can be crafted from a Flintlock Pistol. Handgun Damage: 12 Speed: Very Fast Ammo: Musket Balls The Handgun in found in Chests. Phoenix Blaster Damage: 28 Speed: Very Fast Ammo: Musket Balls or Meteor Shot Craft: Anvil (20 Hellstone Bars & 1 Handgun) Minishark Damage: 5 Speed: Insanely Fast Ammo: Musket Balls or Meteor Shot Shop: 50 Gold The Minishark is a little low on damage but has the fastest speed of any weapon in the game at about 9 shots per second. Star cannon Damage: 75 Speed: Very Fast Ammo: Fallen Stars Craft: Anvil (1 Minishark & 20 Meteorite Bars & 5 Fallen Stars) The Star Cannon is the strongest weapon in the game. The Fallen Stars it shoots are not retrievable which makes the gun a very hard time with ammunition. Harpoon Damage: 15 Speed: Slow The Harpoon does not use ammo as it shoots a chain towards your enemy. It does NOT latch onto enemies and bring them towards you. Musket Damage: 14 Speed: Extremely Slot Ammo: Musket Balls or Meteor Shot The Musket is regarded as one of the weakest guns in the game due to its slow speed. It can be found by smashing Shadow Orbs ============ 8F. Spells = ============ Spells need Mana to use. They can be found as weapons or as books. Flower of Fire Damage: 30 Speed: Slow Mana: 10 Fires fireballs that can pass through water and lava. It will bounce off of five walls before disappearing. It can be found by Fire Imps and Bone Serpents. Magic Missile Damage: 30 Speed: Fast Mana: 18 Magic Missle fires a projectile that can be controlled by the mouse. It will disappear after hitting an enemy or after a certain amount of time. It can be found in dungeon chests. Water Bolt Damage: 15 Speed: Unknown Mana: 16 Water Bolt can hit multiple enemies and will bounce off of walls until it dissappears. It can be found in the bookcases in the dungeon. Aqua Scepter Damage: 15 Speed: Slow Mana: 12 Aqua Scepter lets out a stream of water that hurts enemies. It does not create water blocks. It can be found in the dungeon. Staff of Regrowth Damage: 20 Speed: Fast Mana: Unknown The Staff of Regrowth is found in the underground jungle in a shrine. It can replace corruption with grass, making the Dryad's grass seeds worthless. Flamelash Damage: 35 Speed: Fast Mana: 20 The Flamelash is a rare drop from Bone Serpents. It fires a flaming projectile that can be controlled with the mouse. Orb of Light Mana: 40 The Orb of Light isn't a weapon but acts as a "helper" to the player. When summoned, it will follow the player for five minutes before disappearing, and will light the way like a torch. Dirt Rod Mana: Unknown Cost: 20 Gold The Dirt Rod lets the player pick up dirt and place it just with the use of the mouse. The player can throw dirt with momentum. Vilethorn Damage: 8 Speed: Slow Mana: 5 The Vilethorn staff is found by breaking Shadow Orbs. It shoots a wave of vines that can go through walls and hit multiple enemies multiple times. =================== 8G. Unique Swords = =================== Unique Swords are swords that are found in chests, from bosses, or created from rare ores. These are more powerful than your regular Broad/Shortswords. Starfury Damage: 15 Speed: Average Mana: 11 The Starfury costs 11 mana to swing, but summons stars to the location of the mouse that can add extra damage. The stars cannot pass through blocks. It can be found in chests Muramasa Damage: 22 Speed: Fast Muramasa is found in chests in the Dungeon. Its speed is fast and the mouse can be held down for repeated attacks. The Muramasa is regarded as one of the best swords in the game to some. Blade of Grass Damage: 28 Speed: Slow Craft: Anvil (1 Silver Broadsword & 40 Jungle Roses & 20 Stingers) The Blade of Grass has an extremely long reach, about double that of a regular broadsword. It can be dropped by the Hornet in the jungle. Fiery Greatsword Damage: 34 Speed: Very Slow Craft: Anvil (35 Hellstone Bars) The Fiery Greatsword is currently the strongest sword type weapon in the game. It has an extremely long reach, the same as the Blade of Grass. ============ 8H. Flails = ============ Flails are weapons that shoot from the player on a chain, and drop with gravity dealing a lot of damage, then return to the player. Blue Moon Damage: 30 Speed: Slow The Blue Moon is found in Dungeon Chests. It lights the area around it. Ball 'O Hurt Damage: 15 Speed: Slow Found: Shadow Orbs & Eater of Worlds Sunfury Damage: 40 Speed: Slow Being a very rare drop from Skeletron, Sunfury deals quite a lot of damage. It will also light up the area around it. It has the highest base damage out of all infinite use weapons. While the flail is being shot, the player himself will be dragged and deal damage to enemies. ================ 8I. Throwables = ================ Throwables consist of boomerangs and other items that are thrown at enemies. Some come back to the owner while some do not Enchanted Boomerang Damage: 13 Speed: Very Fast The Enchanted Boomerang is found in chests. It is thrown at enemies and on impact will come back to the user. If it does not hit any enemies by the time it goes as far as it can, it will return to the user dealing damage to any enemy in it's way. It will also light up the area. Flamarang Damage: 32 Speed: Very Fast Craft: Anvil (1 Enchanted Boomerang & 15 Hellstone Bars) The Flamarang acts exactly like the Enchanted Boomerang except it has the higher damage output. It lights up the area. Shuriken Damage: 12 Speed: Very Fast Shop: 20 Copper (each) The Shuriken will pass through enemies yet does not knock them back. Sometimes thrown shurikens can be picked up and reused. Thorn Chakrum Damage: 25 Speed: Very Fast Craft: Anvil (40 Jungle Roses & 30 Stingers) The Thorn Chakrum can also be found by Hornets and Man Eaters. It will bounce off of walls and return to the player after a couple of seconds. It will slightly aim at enemies, but not as well as it sounds, as good aim is still required. Bones Damage: 22 Speed: Very Fast Bones act just like Shurikens. They are dropped by Angry Bones, Burning Skulls and Dark Casters in the dungeon. ******************************************************************************* 9. 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