Behold, triangles.
0:00 What is a hoik?
0:35 Visual key
0:56 Hammered platforms (Entering jungle temple early, one-way doors, shooting through walls)
1:58 Horizontal hoik through solid blocks
3:30 One-way upwards hoik through blocks
4:29 How hoiks work
4:49 Various ways to enter a hoik
6:46 Hoik speed
7:10 Vertical hoiks
8:55 Horizontal hoiks
10:47 Hoik Loops
12:30 Getting enemies into hoiks
13:20 Hoik-powered statue farming (avoiding the local spawncap)
13:59 Hoik-powered enemy farming
15:29 Hoik-powered Rod of Discord farm
17:01 NPC Hoiking
17:30 Item hoiks
22:07 Fallen star farm
22:58 Improving heart statue efficiency
23:31 Collecting item drops during events
24:00 Mushroom farms
24:15 Block-swapped platform hoiks (aka Invalid platforms)
25:35 OOA cheese with hoiks
26:45 Improved King Slime cheese
27:27 Improved Queen Slime cheese
28:12 Invincibility machines (an improved design from my previous video)
29:43 Tips for hoik building
Advanced Hoiks:
30:27 Hoik priority
31:29 Subtile positioning
32:48 Exception to hoik priority
33:39 Two-way elevator through solid blocks
35:51 How hoiks determine where the player is sent (the long answer)
36:40 Two-way elevator using invalid platforms
37:39 One-way reusable vertical hoiks through blocks (both upwards and downwards)
39:03 One-way diagonal downward hoik through blocks
39:11 Moving unusually large/small entities
39:54 Unicorn mount high speed hoiks
40:44 Slowing down horizontal hoiks
41:08 Half-blocks (landing hoiks)
42:11 Max speed horizontal hoik (300 tiles/second)
42:37 Max speed vertical hoik (360 tiles/second)
42:43 Dummy engines
43:49 Town NPC engines
44:22 Strange inactive block behavior
44:28 Entering hoiks without placing blocks
44:49 Optimal heart statue hoiks
45:20 Teleporter catcher
45:26 Two-way elevator with breakpoints (i.e. multiple floors)
45:34 Drunk seed skeletron elevator
45:54 Hoik with multiple entrances, but one exit
46:00 Hoik with one entrance, but multiple exits (aka a hoik splitter)
46:10 The slowest hoik movement
46:25 Hoiking bouncy boulders
46:45 The most overpowered hoik in Terraria
I could not having made this video without the help of Quasar. Most of the designs, particularly in the advanced section, came from him, as did the details on the technical side of hoiks. He is the reason this video has more depth than the wiki page on hoiks, which is severely lacking. Quasar has a written guide on google drive with some hoik explanations, which may provide more detail than what was in this video. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3B0beo4F5M5X5FvNIA04i13eTlsXKif?hl=fr
ZeroGravitas, the person who originally discovered and coined the term “hoik,” has an old video on item hoiks that I got my info on them from. You can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUSFFvl0uZM. I am not aware of any improvements in item hoiking aside from conveyor belts allowing size 1 items to be hoiked in more than just rightward ceiling hoiks.
The forum thread on heart statue optimization can be found here https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/showcase-the-fastest-possible-heart-generator-statue-farm.79848/
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41 Comments
absolute BANGER of a video!! GREAT STUFF
huh
Very nice guide, maybe pink/ frozen slime block mechanics and applications next?
TALK LOUDER DAMNIT
In theory, you can reduce the screen movement of the invincibility machine by building it either at the top or bottom of the world. The screen lock occurs based on the screen range, so zooming out fully results in the screen locking in a larger range. Not sure if it would reduce it completely but it would reduce it mostly.
One thing that bothers me with Hoiks, is that mages got as massive nerf because they didn't want players to be invincible. To the point an armor was effectively destroyed and Mana Sickness was added. All while it was still possible to do similar things with niche builds. Hoiks do this again without any items but also break progression something that caused items to get nerfed.
In my zenith seed world I made a hoik from hell to the surface
the comprehensive guide to an incomprehensible "feature"
i don't understand a single thing
but very informational video👍
29:35 To solve this problem: Mod the game to lock the camera in place.
I solved the problem with my mine cart trick by either making the track so small, it doesn't move the camera more than 1 pixel, or by making the track so long it doesn't even matter anymore.
I don't even play terraria and I watched this thing all the way through.
Guys, I think the Hoiks push you towards the Hypotenuse
Started playing terraria a couple weeks ago. Got this in my recommendations. Now I have a one way hoik to hell. Good video!
I don't even play Terraria and this fascinated me
Honestly the best unintentional feature in the game. Also, this video is really useful. Thanks for that.
Gah! Rainworld spoiler flashbang! (Not really a very bad one but a warning might be nice :p. Really cool video tho, I do quite appreciate the reference!)
This felt about as difficult to understand as a college lecture. Good thing I'm not getting graded on hoiks
15:34 A note about this RoD farm: it wouldn’t work as shown. (Edit: I have been corrected, I did not know shadow candles were a thing)
Here’s why:
You can’t be standing behind a player-placed wall.
You can’t be standing still unless you’re hooked onto a block or on a mount.
The enemies have to be directly attacked by the player, but I can’t remember if summons are counted or not.
f u for putting a random rain world spoiler
Didn't expect to see rivulet gameplay in this video, I literally started the campaign yesterday. Oh yeah, cool game mechanic (or bug?) btw.
I like your voice :3
RAIN WORL!
Man, I can already tell I’m gonna flunk the test
And this is why Team Cherry decided not to use slopes at all in Hollow Knight.
Amazing video, this was enlightening!
Bros talking like the jcs criminal psychology narrator
THE HYPOTENUSE
Sendin this carl sagan 42
what's the item at 42:58 ?
This is probably the coolest terraria video on a mechanic that I didn't know was so amazing. I'm using this for the dungeon guardian right now. Thank you for being awesome!
I haven't watched the video yet, I wanted to pre-comment that I hope you cover item elevator hoiks
I have a design for a simple 3 wide setup with conveyors and actuators that can convey and lift any item of any size, won't hook the player out and won't elevate enemies.
there's an example of it on my wasteless pre-ml overnight afk dungeon farm guide.
I have a 2 wide setup too but it won't hoik long weapon sprites up. keyblades and snipers break that one.
I wistened to as much as i could..
The Hypotenuse will show you the way
With this knowledge, I finally have a chance to reasonably beat a modded hardcore run finally. Much appreciated!
This is
So much information
Is this a intended game mechanic or just a exploit? Haha
I learned more about triangles in this video than I did in geometry class
before watching this all i knew about hoiks was "haha funny man hammer block and he go zoom" after watching this i am god
Mans got a doctorate in hoiks
bro this guys voice 💀💀💀💀
RAIN WORLD
Man, I wish I'd known about this stuff when I was playing the game.
As far as I'm aware, this wasn't even known about before I stopped playing. I totally would've used hoiks if I knew they were a thing.