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Housing Basics (Terraria 1.4 Beginner’s Guide Series)



Second episode of my Terraria 1.4 – Journey’s End Beginner’s Guide Series, covering Housing Basics! In this video we go over player and NPC housing requirements, I show you how to build a highly efficient crafting area, as well as a storage organization method. The video ends with some building tips to make your houses look like actual houses!

CONTENTS:
0:00 Episode Teaser
0:22 Series Intro
0:48 Episode Intro
1:34 Basic Player Housing Requirements
3:15 Home Base Components
3:43 Efficient Crafting Area
5:38 Storage Organization
7:07 Basic NPC Housing Requirements
7:38 Light Source, Flat Surface, and Comfort Item
8:07 Flooring; Corrupted Housing
8:40 Housing Query and NPC Flags
9:16 Building Tips – Use Variety of Materials
9:44 Forest House Example
10:19 Ocean House Example
10:45 Roofs & Furnishings
11:34 Conclusion

Crafting area was inspired by the official wiki’s Guide: Crafting 101 page: https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Guide:Crafting_101

Haunted House shown at 9:36 was inspired by this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/gvdmi7/spooky_cemetary_house_for_the_clothier/

Ocean House Pier shown at 10:3 was inspired by this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/hw5f1i/my_beachside_estate/

For lots of great building ideas check out the main Terraria Sub-Reddit, as well as the TerrariaDesign Sub-Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrariaDesign/

And for REALLY great building tutorials, check out @Khaios https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC369-iFdOQjLKXE4v7sP6wQ

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Game footage is from Terraria, a totally awesome game by indie developer Re-Logic. Interested in trying it out? Go here https://terraria.org/ or here https://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/Terraria/

Music is also from Terraria and was composed by Scott Lloyd Shelley / Resonance Array.

Nothing in this video is sponsored by Re-Logic, and the commentary and information in this video do not represent the opinions or positions of any other entity whatsoever. Use at your own risk!! And don’t make the Angler TOO unhappy – he’s just a kid and I’m pretty sure Duke Fishron ate his parents 🙂

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26 Comments

  3. Endmen 18 on

    I have a really good city I haven’t use this I haven’t watched this yet but my goal is to make it like the industrial revolution like make the pathways with gray Brix if you want to do something like that it looks pretty cool if you can figure out how to mix it up with stone in the right way I can’t fight figure out a way babe I will look awesome also his speech to text

  6. Chikoku suru on

    ya i don't understand what blocks i need to use for it to count as an enclosed area i find the crafting to be very annoying to try to learn and is not explained well in game so far i hate crafting in a 2d game

  7. TheTrue_DV on

    2 years later and the crafting setup is still useful!
    One question though: What is the wood you're using for the upper level of the house? Reminds me of Rich Mahogany. I love it!

  13. fxcknet on

    Thanks so much for this series, getting into the game for the first time with my friends and I was super overwhelmed to start

  14. The TRANZ13NT on

    Thank you for this videos!!! I've sat on this game a long time and have recently gotten back into it hardcore and these are very helpful!!!

  17. Salendrak on

    So I somehow forgot to describe the contents of the second row of chests in the video, and as the question has often come up, here it is! From Right to Left here's what I usually put in those chests:

    Far Right – Weapons

    Right-Middle – Armor

    Middle – Accessories

    Left-Middle – Evils (boss summoning items, tombstones, etc)

    Far Left – Banners

  25. M1staken G1ark on

    holy heck the game is so deep with. Yep I have just started playing on mobile just getting the controls and everything else (a mission in itself lol)to my liking, here's me chiseling away at the game(haha) just watched a video where the player was flying through the dirt and rock.
    Yeah so just learn the game really. ATM Im just trying to build 'simply' for now shoebox is fine. I'll say shack with wood walls floors and stone blocks as foundation, a straight down a shaft "escape hatch" with wooden platforms to a basement that is mirror image of the shack but with stone block between the dirt and wood, with a mine through a couple of doors, because I have discovered that creatures can spawn (so far) in the mines. For some reason I just can't place wood walls in the basement I mean so far nothing has spawned there. so I think I am alright. Anyway cheers for the video

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