Bird with a Wyvern body. Nice.

Killed part of the body and the rest said -57/5 HP or something. It also dealt 5 damage when I touched it. Apparently it was only client side.

I'm contemplating doing another hardcore speedrun later, except this time to get Excalibur. Still working out my plan:

1. I would use a memorized (but still fresh) map simply because my patience wouldn't allow me to re-roll maps to get a lucky run. Besides, after hard mode the map changes drastically anyway, and the challenge largely ceases to involve knowing your way around.
   
2. My general plan would be:
   1. Get Nightmare Pick (grind EoWs)
      
   2. Get Hellstone Pick (for the new ore) + Hellstone Bow (for WoF+hard mode mobs)
      
   3. Kill WoF (probably more than once; I would certainly need that Assault Rifle, at least)
      
   4. Grind for crystals and pixie dust
      
   5. Grind for light and dark souls (easy with the meteor head farming method)
      
   6. Kill Twins
      
   7. Get Harp
      
   8. Kill Destroyer
      
   9. Kill Skeletron Prime
      
   10. Get Excalibur.
3. I'm not against dirty tricks like duplicating gold chests to sell for reforging and buying shit; game bugs are often fair game in speed runs, and this run's going to draw on long enough as is!
   
4. The biggest obstacle for me would be killing The Twins, since I can't seem to find a straightforward way to do it (the hellstone without obsidian skull method didn't work, when I tried it). Skeletron is a pain, too. Destroyer is trivial with a Harp.
   

There's going to be a lot more grinding in this than before; the run could easily draw on for 10 hours or more as a result. That's a lot of time for things to go wrong, too. Especially as an under-powered hardcore player, with the bulk of my time in hard mode.




Edit: Alright, not gonna happen. Too much work.

Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Dec 15 2011, 1:09 am by Tuxedo-Templar.

Updated server to 1.1.1. Whoever was trying to get on can do so now.

SANTY CLAUS HAS ARRIVED!!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/nhtic/random_wishlist_v30/

I disagree with this entirely. Sloped blocks would be better.

Everything else is fine.

So, corruption has spread through a massive portion of the world and over the entire surface, and it looks like it had help, considering everything was fine until two days ago. Maybe someone lead a corruptor around the map and had it corrupt absolutely everything, or threw unholy water everywhere, who knows. I've spent the last two days cleaning it up, and reducing the corruption areas so the likelihood of it happening again is lessened.

It's incredibly needless, and a considerable portion of the world has been destroyed due to this. At one point every house besides mine was completely swallowed by corruption, although I've managed to make the areas west of the snow area look normal again with minimal damage to them.

To the east, I've removed the closest corrupted desert and the corrupted surface of the hallow biome, as well as taken out a large portion of the original corruption area. However, the percentage the Dryad gives is increasing, so the damage has already been done. Even my house has started being overrun by the corruption, regardless of the fact I surrounded it with hallow in all directions to ensure that wouldn't happen.

Hopefully the spread can eventually be contained without future outbreaks on this scale.

Edit: If someone is personally responsible and reads this, know that vandalism isn't funny, especially when it's irreversible and causes days (or more) of lost work.

Edit #2: While attempting to clear the area immediately around my house, I have seen enough at this point to know, without any doubt whatsoever, that this was purposely caused by someone spamming unholy water everywhere. There are numerous indications of this, the most prominent one being the places where it couldn't spread due to hallow. The areas corrupted like this are always touching an expanse of air large enough for a person to move through, and the shape of the corrupted area is always the exact blast radius of unholy water.

They must have also used numerous full stacks of unholy water, judging by the amount of corruption created in this way, and the blast marks can be followed for thousands of feet in tunnels through the hallow underneath my house.

I know having my place hidden underground and surrounded on all sides by lava made it seem like I wanted you to come over to destroy stuff, and all the hallow immediately surrounding my house in every direction made it seem like I wanted to live inside corruption, but those conclusions are unfortunately false.

No one likes hard-mode corruption, it is terrible and all the enemies in it are annoying as fuck. If you want to live in corruption, build a house in the 20% of the map that's already corrupted, or corrupt a floating island and build there, or corrupt an unoccupied piece of land and put 3 spaces between it and the rest of the world. The hard-mode corruption is a pain in the ass, and you can assume no one wants their house swallowed up by it for thousands of feet in every direction if they didn't do it themselves.

Edit #3: The unholy water was also spammed down the entire length of my hellevator, which is now spawning clingers on the sides which lean in and shoot at you as you go down it. Thank you for adding this functionality to my hellevator, now I can save myself the trouble of fighting things in hell and just die on the way there.

Edit #4: Used up all of my pixie dust making holy water to remove this. Spent the last 5 hours cleaning up the area around my house. It's satisfactory at the moment I think, clingers and corruptors and world feeders are no longer spawning in the vicinity, at least underneath where my house is.

While I was making holy water, a clown came and used a few bombs to flood an area outside my house with lava. Luckily there was a fail-safe to ensure the lava wouldn't get far. Still, it's also going to be a bitch to clean up, although it won't be nearly as bad as this was. Definitely calling it a night for now.

Post has been edited 6 time(s), last time on Dec 19 2011, 12:54 pm by Azrael.Wrath.

I hear corruption hates dynamite.

This makes me want to run an experiment to determine the spreading properties of corruption and hallow. I want to know if they just mindlessly override each other or not and if one is distinctly more dominant than the other. I also want to know if different block patterns affect their spread. I feel like there's science to be done here.

Now that I got my gear up (reforging fuuuuuuuuu-), I'll try to come on tomorrow to set up some experiments.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 19 2011, 2:06 pm by Tuxedo-Templar.

I guess it was only a matter of time before there were serious griefers on the maps. Is this on one of Shadow's servers?

I haven't played in months but I remember opening up a wall and letting lava inside someone's house in the early days. This was back when we were trying to flood hell.

What? How is that even griefing? It wasn't even that bad either. Some corruption here and there, no big deal.

Azrael, you're also blaming other things on the corruption thing it seems. Yes it was me, but destroying things and the clown? No.
Speaking of incredibly needless, what about flooding half of the entire map with lava (including most of hell)? Spreading a little corruption is like dividing-by-zero drama but flooding EVERYTHING with lava is just fine?

This moment brought to you by Terraria Dramatica.
Leaving plenty of holy water in case you're still flipping out.

EDIT: For those that don't know, the continuous world flooding is like permanently losing 10% of the blocks you place or destroy because of the lag it causes.
The world was also already a 20%-20% corruption/hallow ratio too, so the difference is like 1%.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Dec 22 2011, 3:15 pm by Heinermann.

Are you fucking kidding? It must have taken a full inventory of unholy water. What did you do, hack 999 stacks? It required me over 5000 holy water to clean it up, and there is still plenty more left Don't try to act like it isn't a big deal, it was incredibly excessive, immature, and destructive.

100% of the entire surface of the world was plastered with unholy water, from Shady's house at the map's center to the right edge of the map. 100%. There was not a single spot missed. Congratz on your thoroughness. You went down multiple holes along the way too, and splashed it along the edges of those, evidenced by the ones which were hallowed. You then went down a hole on the right edge of the map and continued for an unknown distance, as that's where I stopped cleaning it up.

And either before or after this, you went to my house which is completely detached from the rest of the world and went out of your way to cover 100% of the surface of my hellevator, and the tunnels leading underneath my house from there as well. It extended for literally thousands of feet and covered literally 100% of every exposed surface. There was absolutely no reason to come to my house and do that, none whatsoever, and it's totally inexcusable.


The act of corrupting the entire fucking map, and every single person's house, is incredibly destructive. The clown was a side-note


How incredibly ironic, trying to use that to justify your vandalism, considering you already know the reason I flooded the surface above my own house and the area around my own house and the portion of hell directly below my own house with lava was as a deterrent so you would stop coming to my house to vandalize it constantly.

You were breaking through my walls, emptying my chests, and going out of your way to be a nuisance in general. I was spending all my time just undoing the damage you were constantly causing to my house and inventory, and still wasn't able to keep up with you, since it's obviously easier to destroy such things than it is to replace them (take 0.2 seconds to empty a chest of contents which took days to gather).

I also built massive monolithic dams out of high-tier bricks to ensure the flooding lava was contained to my region of the map, so it only acted as a deterrent for going west from the map's center. If it was you, I'm sure you'd have not only not built dams, but also drilled some holes into the roof of every house to make sure the lava could enter more easily.


Nah, you got that shit backwards. You spread corruption EVERYWHERE, and the lava is contained to the region surrounding my house (specifically to act as an asshole shield to deter exactly what you did here), which doesn't include anything belonging to anyone else. In fact, the only thing of value it did include was a jungle biome, which I painstakingly reconstructed in a massive self-contained biome on the east side of the map.


This moment brought to you by the same obnoxiously flippant disregard for other people which brought you the above comment.


Haha, really? Wow. Too late, already wasted all my time and ingredients making 6k holy water, almost all of which had to be used. I already wasted the almost 6 hours it took to clean it up, as well. So no, there's no way for you to make up for it, especially not by dumping a bunch of shit in a chest. How about you actually use the holy water to undo all the surface damage you caused next time, instead of leaving it to someone else. Or even better, don't spend hours corrupting the entire fucking world next time, that'd be great too.

Post has been edited 5 time(s), last time on Dec 23 2011, 1:37 am by Azrael.Wrath. Reason: Fixed quote tag yet again.

Heinermann is the new devilesk? (except classy)


Damn, so trolled.

What server are you guys talking about

Shady.. what is your server?

I haven't played in a long time. I kinda wanna get a small group of people and just have fun going through the game. If anyone wants to play, hit me up.

sfrealm.hopto.org - most recently on port 7773

@Azrael
I did not cover everything. I did the surface, NOT near your house, a few holes on the right side of the map, and some tunnels deep under your house. I didn't use an entire inventory of unholy water. Approx. 1/3 of my inventory was already covered with normal items, the other 2/3 were unholy water, the rest in the chest I left are the ones I didn't use. I wanted to increase the corruption percentage and talk to the Dryad to compare, and there was almost no change.

You say I have no disregard for others' things when that's almost not true.

Anyway, Terraria Dramatica, blah blah blah. Corruption is like nothing, I laugh in the face of danger! But I won't do it again.


P.S. I'll make you chocolate chip cookies.

You should have checked again the next day, it must have been spreading rapidly somewhere underground. After I removed the surface corruption, the percentage of corrupted area was higher than when I started. If your goal was to increase the corruption percentage, then you definitely succeeded

Also, the right way to do this experiment would have been to section off an uninhabited portion of the world and corrupt that as fully as possible, or even build a massive floating area entirely out of corruptible blocks and throw unholy water all over that (or I guess, build it out of ebonstone or something already corrupted, that'd have made it even easier).


Well you saved me hours of work on a SC map once by giving me memory addresses that no one else had at the time, which would have taken me a while to find due to their complex nature, and you even offered one that no one else even knew existed, so I guess we can call it even

I would have been a lot more upset if the area around and below my house wasn't so thoroughly hallowed already, since with that amount of unholy water used, I would have had to leave everything and build a new house elsewhere

The hacking begins.

Ice blocks: Ice blocks are removed when the world is loaded (no exceptions, so if you have a chest on it, it will probably bug)
Timers: Timers are turned off when the world is loaded, no exceptions (you can make a NPC step on a pressure plate to turn on the timer though)

The world format now contains a "repeater". For example, if the value n is > 0, then the properties of the current block is copied n number of times (over the y-axis), this effectively reduces the world size by quite a bit considering all the blank and dirt blocks.

EDIT: Additionally, place a chest on top of a boulder and use a pickaxe on the boulder for a neat surprise.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 25 2011, 2:32 am by Heinermann.