The Comprehensive Guide to Wiring (Terraria)

aka the reason I’ve been inactive for a month.

The Grand Designers Discord server: https://discord.gg/KaBhTpAn . For the next 2 months, I’ll be holding some building contests with prizes, so be sure to check those out! This is also the best place to get support for wiring.

0:00 Intro
0:32 Introduction to Wiring
1:21 Placing Wires
2:38 Inputs
5:41 Outputs
8:35 Coloring announcement box messages
9:25 Teleporters
10:32 Duke Fishron vs Teleporters
10:47 One way teleporters
11:29 Statues
14:47 Protecting your base during invasions
15:12 Pumping shimmer long distance
15:20 Invisible Teleporters
15:47 Teleporter with 20 destinations
15:58 Basic timing delays
16:30 Basic Engines
17:19 World Load Detectors
18:26 Introduction to Logic Gates
21:51 Junction and Pixel Boxes
22:57 Logic Gate Smoke
23:31 Diodes
24:38 Transistors
25:25 Reset Switches
26:43 One time use circuits (SR flip flops)
27:21 Signal halver (T flip flops)
27:58 Lighting Campfires to enter a pyramid
29:25 Multiple signals in one tick
30:48 Wiring Order of Operations
33:27 Binary Counters
34:40 Shift Registers
35:16 Moving spike trap
35:37 Moving platforms
36:09 Shifting in multiple directions
36:41 Scrolling messages
37:44 Simple Jukebox
37:57 Sequencers and Passwords
39:20 Serial Transmissions
42:19 Advanced Timing
43:02 Dart trap timers
45:22 Spear Trap timers
45:50 A moving spike trap with spear trap timers
46:48 Crab engines
47:41 Increasing speed of dummy engine
48:16 Binary counter timers
49:30 Decoding binary counters
51:44 Fixing smoke in decoders
53:38 Subtraction in Binary Counter
54:52 Reset switch in Binary Counter
56:04 Binary Counter uses
58:31 Two digit scoreboard with counter
59:08 Announcement box animations
1:01:15 Pixel box animations
1:03:23 Data storage
1:04:41 Randomizers
1:05:36 Projectile Cap Exploits
1:06:36 Preventing enemy spawns with wires
1:07:30 Some farms
1:08:01 Outro

Additional Resources:

A general purpose steam guide – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2832101012

An extensive written guide machine translated from Chinese – https://github.com/RussDev7/TerrariaWiringTutorial/releases/tag/1.0.0.0

Youtube channel of WiresnStuff, where the mob switch, a few farms, and cannon cheese came from – https://www.youtube.com/@wiresnstuff/videos

Padlock design – https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/project-reprogrammable-passcode-lock.76352/

Rotary lock design – https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/showcase-reprogrammable-rotary-lock.75832/

TMEC on the Terraria Forums – https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?forums/t-mec-terraria-mechanical-engineering-corps.194/

A few written guides on the forums – https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/a-reference-guide-for-simple-logic-devices.81751/

https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/guide-logic-gates-order-of-operations-smoke-and-how-to-prevent-it.75761/

https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/prehm-world-load-detector.114432/

24 x 24 Animation Studio World – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006993887

120 x 68 Animation World – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3014751960

144 x 92 Animation World – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3056096725

Pixel animation building tool (with instructions) – https://github.com/RussDev7/Terraria-Pixelbox-Animation-Builder

Preprocessing mod to relieve lag from intense wiring builds – https://github.com/RussDev7/TerrariaCircuitPreprocessingAccelerator-1.4.4.9

The MechScope Mod (for seeing wiring in real time) – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3232991031

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