A compendium of marginally-useful Terraria strats
This is a compendium of 5 mostly useless but sometimes marginally useful tips for the Terraria player, in ascending order of usefulness, starting with 1. GetFixedBoi trap minimization You might know that when you create a GetFixedBoi world, there’s a star minigame that you can play to get more loot.
When generating the world, your cursor is replaced with a smiley face moon. When this moon hits the stars that are flying around the screen, a brief “meow” will play, and generation slightly changes. For every star hit, Life Crystal, Statue, non-cabin Chest, Gemstone Cave, Pot,
And Trap spawns increase by 0.1%, up to +20% with 200 star hits. Considering how much 20% more of these good spawns can help in the early game, it’s a minigame worth playing, even if it comes at the cost of extra traps. But, what if we don’t want those extra
Traps? Well, there’s a way to get slightly less of them in your world. You see, this booster applies at the stage of generation. It uses the star score at that time. Let’s say you parried 90 stars by the time the game gets to generating Life Crystals. That
Equates to a 9% increase in Life Crystals, cool. But, by the time the game gets to generating Pots, you’ve parried 120 stars, so you get 12% more pots. The star boost it uses is the amount of stars you’ve parried at the time of generation for that particular item,
Not the total amount of stars you parry. This means that once all the beneficial items (Life Crystals, Statues, Pots, etc.) are done generating, there’s no point parrying more stars. All the good stuff’s already done generating and set in stone, so at that point,
You’re just creating more traps for yourself! The last beneficial step that takes advantage of the star minigame is “Pots”, so once you see the steps that come after it, which are “Hellforge” or “Spreading Grass”, you want to immediately stop parrying stars. Any parrying
After “Pots” are done generating won’t create any more beneficial spawns, only more traps, so don’t! Each star you save yourself from uselessly parrying will save you from adding an extra 1.05, 1.6, or 2.1 traps, depending on world size. So, if you really, really, hate traps,
Not parrying a few useless stars could save you a few traps in the sea of hundreds. 2. Drill-boosted blockswap Unmodified, drills are faster than pickaxes, but in turn have many other disadvantages. That is, they are barred from all mining speed bonuses – which actually makes them worse than pickaxes in most
Situations – and they have a permanent -1 range. But what if those disadvantages just… went away? Well, when using block swap, drills not only receive mining speed boosts, they also don’t have penalized range. This means drills grant abnormally fast block swapping,
Much faster than a pickaxe can, with no drawbacks. This is great, but it doesn’t really help much since block swapping doesn’t actually let you mine anything. Regardless, this tidbit may still be marginally useful for some of you out there. Pickaxes, though? I think they’re still better.
3. More walls means NPCs move in faster There’s a lot of stuff behind NPC spawn mechanics but basically… the way that NPCs work is that, once they are ready to spawn, they begin to scan the world for suitable houses.
This works by choosing tiles at random (with a bias for Surface tiles) until a tile is chosen that is the wall of a suitable NPC house. Once a suitable wall is chosen, the NPC will move in.
Logically, this means that more walls = more chance to get chosen in the random sample = faster NPC move-in time, with diminishing returns. So if your house is teeny or missing walls, and no NPCs are moving in, you might want to consider building a larger house
Or simply building more houses, which will increase potential wall area for spawning. Speaking of missing walls though… 4. Wall-less houses Believe it or not, this is possible. Houses don’t actually need background walls to work if you
Place them right – as long as there is no wall gap four blocks or greater, a house can be suitable. In this house, we take advantage of this by using platforms as floor, ceiling, door, and walls. These platforms act as the siding, while these platforms act like background walls,
Bisecting the house in a way where there is no wall gap four blocks or wider. Note how the inner wall is offset to make it act like a background wall and not a siding wall – otherwise, it would simply say the room is too small. This house and other similar designs work as
NPC housing, but NPCs will never spawn here. If you remember from last tip, NPCs move in based on background walls, so a wall-less house will literally never naturally spawn NPCs. So, to make use of this house, you have to make sure to manually assign NPCs to live there,
Otherwise they will never fill. And lastly, 5. Single NPC pylons Ever found it slightly inconvenient to get two NPCs to move in to make a pylon? Well, you actually only need one NPC to get a pylon. Managing just one NPC’s preferences is much simpler than juggling two,
So this makes the process much easier. This is because town slimes count as an NPC for pylon eligibility, so simply move in a town slime with any NPC in their house. Note that this doesn’t require you to build a new house can share a house with an existing NPC.
As town slimes also have no happiness, as long as the one NPC likes the biome it’s living in, it should be happy enough to sell you the pylon. Once you get the pylon, it should work with just
The two there, so this can be a great way to set up camps and pylon outposts quickly and efficiently. Huzzah! Hello! If you enjoyed this video consider subscribing, as it helps out the channel and myself greatly. I appreciate it. Credit to mhykhol and the Terraria speedrunning
Community for much of these strats; links are given below, so thank you to them. Either way though, thank you for watching as well, and good day and good bye. See you next week.
A compendium of marginally-useful Terraria strats
wall less house
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:10 1. Getfixedboi trap minimization in star minigame
2:10 2. Drills with mining speed boosts! (But only in blockswap)
2:56 3. More walls means NPCs move in faster
3:40 4. A house… with no walls!
4:37 5. A single NPC pylon setup
Credits:
mhykhol
Terraria Speedrunners’ document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vwoYSicbUg0jIBHizFIkDdCpIK7hg5hhyvEGqB7L3pM/edit
Music:
Terraria – Mushrooms
Terraria – Alt Underground
Terraria – Town Day
Mods and Packs:
Foundry & Alchemy (Pack) – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2440505684
Fancy Lighting [Ultra Preset] (Mod) – https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822950837
Stanberry Font (Pack) –
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2559652586
Stormdark UI (Pack) –
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2448259079
DragonLens (Cheat Mod) –
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2939737748
A compendium of marginally-useful Terraria strats
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probably not first but whatever
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Being first doesn't matter.
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When you play terraria while edging do NOT make a getfixedboi world! That smile will end any edging streaks in an instant!
The first time I had generated a getfixedboi world, I hadn't known of the minigame but I hit the stars anyway, pretty convenient for me.
i love terrarium
PA-RRY. It's pronounced Pair-ry (or Pear-ie).
Every time you said "parrying" was quite painful
Terra steel is cool
What was the original name of the a to z of getting mildly annoyed in terraria. I suggested a new name for the video and you changed it. And I was wondering what the original title was.
Hearing Terrasteel say "meow" was amazing
Could you make a video about which hooks are better. I am always confused in my playthroughs when I get a new hook because it is hard to tell if it goes further or faster.
I wonder why they chose to make drills not affected by mining speed bonuses, feels weird that this combined with the lower range (and annoying sound) makes them basically an objective downgrade from pickaxes
Pah-ie
I wonder what the most optimal house would be, in terms of block for move in speed
terrasteel best terraria information youtuber hands down.
Traps being the last thing GFB generates with the minigame in mind is evil
These are really helpful
Awesome
Here's a useless but marginally useful tech:
When Terraria "deletes" an item, it calls the method Item.TurnToAir()–this goes for within the inventory and dropped items. A few major values get set to 0: Item.value (sell price), Item.stack (item count), and a few others. However, Item.maxStack, which controls right click functionality & max item stack size, is never set.
If you get an item with maxStack > 1 removed from your inventory through TurnToAir(), such as by quick trashing the item, a bugged air item will exist in the slot where the item was. Right clicking this item transfers it to your cursor. Crafting an item will now give +1 item.
It's an incredibly odd bug, and I discovered it about a year ago while working on my Terraria mod. It's an incredibly tedious "duplication" glitch, and I think it would definitely fit in with the vein of this video.
<It is time for the comments to ruthlessly attack Terrasteel for pronouncing "Pear-ee" as "Par-ee">
Drills need something that make them useful in a diferent way than pickaxes. Imagine if they dig a bit slower but they allow you to do it like the shovel.
Note that wallless housing is buggy on server and for the most part doesn't work. It's mostly a singleplayer trick.
the most atrocious pronunciation of parrying
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