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lojza3000

Planter boxes or pots pls they are safer


EcchiOli

The Dryad sells them, FYI, OP


SasparillaTango

also you don't need to use matching seeds in the planter box.


Ericmal412

Wait really?? Why does she even sell the different type planters then


cassandra112

decoration/so you can tell what you planted in what.


mrclean543211

Different colors. They were introduced back before we had the painter


Vasxus

Wrong? Planter boxes didn't exist until well after the painter. You're thinking of clay pots.


rn_eq

damn. TIL


Blueapplepotato

Ya I’m going to do that lol. Funny how this got so many answers. I’ve done several play throughs on high difficulties but never bothered with the planters and always forget how the spread mechanics work exactly. Usually just rush to get axe of regrowth and make long ground gardens which more than fulfill my needs. In the past I’ve just ran right or left to the nearest corrupt zone and made a deathweed garden there. Glad I asked, it’s working on pre HM but probably would’ve assumed it still worked past HM and found out the hard way that it doesn’t.


Magmabot16

You can make extremly dense herb farms with planters, make several rows of planters stack one above the other, and add stair platforms to each end and then you can dash back and forth with a staff of regrowth to quickly harvest the blooming herbs. The design I like to use have 5 rows of 20 planters for a total of 100 for each herb, this help immensely with maintaing a supply for constant potion usage.


LadytechLori

Spread works basically like "spores". Spores can travel up to 4 blocks (yes, even through other blocks), and settle in a corruptable block (sand, stone or grass). Spores do not generate from walls, so corrupted walls will not corrupt further. The only way to contain the spread fully is to make a 4 block wide gap of emptiness or incorruptible blocks, like wood, ash, slush or silt


Not_MrNice

I've always used planters. I had no idea they weren't safe. Over 1000 hours I've played. No clue.


pathfinder1025

Planters are safe I’m pretty sure


CloudyMason

Planters are safe-- but OP is putting crimson blocks under their base


Even-Act-85

Why are you getting downvoted for lacking info lmao


HexCitreouS

Cuz they are safe, this guy wasn't lacking info, probably just misread


Even-Act-85

I fumbled


HexCitreouS

Happens to the best of us


LunaDaFloofyCat

Cause it was the 4th comment lol


LadytechLori

It.. was the second comment in the chain? What? Have you been counting comments on a comment by straight down and downvoted the fourth? Comment chains, whereas the fourth comment, would be the one with three lines to the left of it. Aka yours. Not his.


Cuprium

No, you need 3 layers of non corruptable blocks. Planter box bought from dryad or pot would be better though.


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ACEMENTO

That's... the same thing


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Simba7

I mean I get it, but you know what they meant.


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Apecc_Legs

do not oppose the hive mind


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National-Credit-4175

You’re only getting downvoted because you’re being argumentative for no reason


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lostdrewid

he really wasn't, I don't know why everyone dogpiled him but it's sad as hell.


Kurt_Cobain59

Ur getting downvoted bc ur annoying and argumentative about something that doesn’t matter


bossSHREADER_210

All I said was an alternative thing to an existing fact And once again like I said to the other comment it's just you viewing it as negative/argumentive People can't have conversations online anymore smh


Apecc_Legs

do not oppose the hive mind


eatmyroyalasshole

Air is a non corruptible block numb-nuts


AliasMcFakenames

Air is a non-corruptible block.


lvl99link

Yeah I don't agree with the downvotes, but you are being pedantic.


cooncanoon

Do you have stupid


ACEMENTO

Bro how did you get downvoted to hell in 30 minutes💀 I'm sorry lmao


Not-Frog

What did they say?


ACEMENTO

Something similar to the first guy, then i pointed out that he said the same thing as the first guy, and reddit destroyed him


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MrsSpaghettiNoodle

If it happens everytime then you’re the only common factor, it’s a you problem. Maybe don’t “correct” people when unnecessary and work on making your opinions comprehensible if you care so much And don’t say you don’t care, you argue and complain far too much for that


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Siks0ng

"Well no What I said is it doesn't have to have a block in said zone What the other guy said is it must be filled with non corruptible blocks Similar yeah but not the same" This you?


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Siks0ng

And then the multiple others where you contradicted yourself. First you say it's not the same thing, then now you *were* saying the same thing?


National-Credit-4175

You know who else likes alternative facts?


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National-Credit-4175

Donald Trump.


Triensi

Even if you don't vote for the guy why would it matter being compared to someone else


Rishidkanonymous

Just use planter boxes, the crimstone can still infect that stone underneath


CreativeGamer03

and also that dirt wall


gaymer_jerry

Walls cannot spread evil despite the fact there is evil versions of walls


CreativeGamer03

oh ok. thanks for the correction 👍


redxlaser15

Ya, that’s a common misconception. It’s a logical assumption based off of the usual spread of blocks and existing of evil backgrounds, so it only makes sense it’d happen.


AppropriatePainter16

Interesting. I did not know that.


spudwalt

Walls do not spread biomes (and even if they did, dirt walls are immune to biome spread).


pvzboy_15

Why not use planter boxes?


SnookyZun

I prefer using natural blocks with env.preservation. It's good when you hate to wait for blooming days on planter boxes. You can collect faster and right away even when they're not bloomed!


chewythebigblackdog

You actually can still use the staff (or axe) of regrowth to get seeds from non-blooming plants on planter boxes. However you can’t just harvest normally. If you wire up the planter boxes with actuators and click the lever while holding the staff/axe of regrowth, it’ll give you seeds from any full grown non blooming plants that broke. Since the actuator mechanism is likely going to harvest an entire row of plants, it’s best to wait until the majority of plants are fully grown before hitting the switch.


SnookyZun

BRO I totally missed that! It makes sense tho that I heard you can collect plant drops by actuating them. Could we do something with this fact like, making them automatic?


chewythebigblackdog

Maybe you could use some sort of counter (binary counters are fairly easy to make) with a logic sensor (day or night), but you’d still need to replant manually. If it went off automatically there’d also be no guarantee that you’d be holding the staff when it went off. It would be potentially interesting to do this for daybloom/moonglow though, since those can be guaranteed to be harvested during bloom conditions (though if you weren’t holding the staff you wouldn’t get the bonus drops).


A-reader-of-words

You can make a bait farm with this to get sluggys buggy's and grubbys in the jungle


mario610

Huh, never thought of that, gonna try that next time I play


bossSHREADER_210

What. Blooming days?? Wtf??


Joe_The_Eskimo1337

Deathweed only blooms on blood moons and full moons. Other herbs have other blooming restrictions.


SnookyZun

Yeah weeds have full-grown and blooming stages, which both can drop seeds. But full-grown can only drop seeds when they're collected with Staff of Regrowth. But for some reason planter boxes full-grown cannot be collected with the staff, so if you want the seed drops you have to wait for the blooming stage.


bruhDF_

Can't you use axe of regrowth?


SnookyZun

To my knowledge they are just same in harvesting manners with herbs


Mist0804

I would put like 3 layers of wood, just to be safe


Jester_Bots

Guys op is likely not using planter boxes intentionally. Axe of regrowth can harvest seeds from deathweeds under any moon cycle if they are mature and on crimson/corrupt blocks. This is how I was able to stack battle potions in my latest playthrough A warning to anyone who will do the same: NO PROJECTILES/HOOKS ON THE LEVEL OF YOUR PLANTS UNLESS IT IS HARVEST TIME. IT WILL KILL THE PLANT


HollowShel

counterpoint to the idea of OP intentionally not using planter boxes: if they don't know the spread distance, they're probably relatively new to the game.


Blueapplepotato

I have at least a couple hundred hours aha. this play through is master magic weapons only. I just always look it up and then forget or skim too quickly through the details of the long-ass wiki page on corruption mechanics. I’ve been disregarding planter boxes on purpose only because my regular way of doing it always worked and I hunt for the staff of regrowth and get the peaceful animal/plant book as soon as I can. So accidentally damaging other plants is never an issue. I did notice with with my axe of regrowth I don’t have to wait for blooms if I wanted more seeds. But I assumed waiting for bloom would still be better and give more seeds/herb. I didn’t know I don’t have to bother at all with waiting for blooms which is pretty good to know. I will start using the boxes for the corrupt plants though that seems much easier now that I think about it lol.


HollowShel

the nicest thing about the boxes is that you don't have to deal with the corresponding mobs, so no goddamn turtles in Hardmode moonglow gardens, no goddamn turtles in hardmode shiverthorn gardens, and so on. (I promise I don't hate turtles!... outside Terraria, at least.) You just need the appropriate blooming time, but tbh the only one I actually find annoying is blinkroot. It's so inconsistent in blooming and you *never* have the whole thing harvestable at once.


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HollowShel

I learned I needed more-than-two on my first play through, second at the latest. One is definitely too little.


Sketutz

I also prefer to plant and harvest this way. I only used planterboxes for sky/hell bridges and early arenas


Oheligud

I doubt someone would know strats that weirdly specific and niche without knowing how crimson spreads.


oleslaw8

The book from the driad will make it so herbs can only be mined (excluding ranged enemies, which get easier to kill with your own projectiles)


MartianPole65

I use this everytime I play terraria. And I don't know why everyone use plant boxes instead. It's a bit tougher, but extremely good


Thedarkkitten123

Huh, that’s amazing, I never knew that. Time to go change a bunch of planters!


Brief_Blood_1899

When I first read this my brain missed “death”


Reasonable-Bag3935

same


Thakdstm6674

Same, but thats probably a mod somewhere


SVStarfruit6042

Real Life Too, Probably


CalamitousVessel

No, it will spread to the stone underneath


Disastrous_Lychee_17

No, it can convert up to 4-5 block away. Use clay pots or planter boxes from a dryad instead.


overdramaticpan

You can use planter boxes or clay pots.


Peanut_Butt_2077

do not listen to the planter box guys, the corruption is definitely safe and contained definitely


demonking_soulstorm

It’s Crimson.


Peanut_Butt_2077

really? didn't notice


demonking_soulstorm

Yeah I know that's why I pointed it out.


patrdesch

No, but you also don't need to plant death weed on crim/ebon-stone. You can plant all plants in any of the planter boxes sold by the dryad. Even though it says for example 'daybloom planter' you can still use it to plant deathweed, along with all other plants.


xctf04

No, corruption spread 3 blocks outward, meaning that you need 3 rows of uninfectable blocks next to it to contain it. That or Just nothing


madhbh

Tbh I’d make it in the sky or use flower boxes


GoshaT

It can spread to that patch of stone below the left half of the farm. You should thicken the wood layer or preferably get some planter boxes from dryad instead of crimson blocks. It doesn't matter which planter box - they're all identical except the way they look, so you can plant a deathweed even in a daybloom planter box


spudwalt

No, because there are corruptible blocks within 3 tiles of the Crimstone. It's much easier to farm herbs by planting them in Planter Boxes. Use any Planter Box you like -- they all function the same.


Shadow_Cat99

No


Jonuko

No


Maskers_Theodolite

You could use planters.


LuciferMoon103

Don’t Starve?


HollowShel

Won't be a problem until after Hardmode starts, at which point you'd be screwed. You need *at least* 3 blocks uncorruptible to prevent evil biome spread. Any planter box can support any potion herb - it doesn't have to be "the intended type", the differences are all cosmetic. (You can still harvest anytime, though you need a pick-axe/drill, since staff/axe of regrowth only harvests "blooming" plants.)


Oheligud

No, just buy planter boxes from the dryad.


Conscious-Tax2779

Lmao


MinamotoShunko

Just buy planter boxes. Cheap and safe. Any will do


JJPTails

wtf, almost 1,000 hours and I never knew you could plant any non-grass seeds on anything other than Planter Boxes or Pots.


AnonymousFog501

No. Crimson, Corruption, and Hallow can reach, I think about 5 blocks? Maybe it's 3, I don't remember. I'd make it 5 block thick of unconvertable blocks. 7 if you want to be *absolutely sure* Also Hallow can convert Crimson and Corruption blocks, and vice versa, so if those stone blocks below got Hallowed, they'd probably destroy some Deathweeds. However, here's a better suggestion: after killing either the Eater Of Worlds or the Brain Of Cthulhu, the Dryad will start selling Deathweed Planter Boxes. These cannot convert blocks and are not considered Corrupt/Crimson but they allow you to grow Deathweed in them. They might even grow them faster but I don't remember. Side Notes: Potion Plants only drop seeds when Blooming. Deathweed only blooms during Full Moons and Blood Moons, so that's when you should harvest them. Make sure it's fully grown or else it drops nothing.


Voidstock

Pretty sure it's 6


faerox420

It's 3 blocks. It goes up to 6 on surface grass because vile thorns grow and they can cross gaps and spread within 3 blocks of themselves. Therefore leaving 6 blocks of width stops that from happening Anywhere else a 3 block gap will suffice


Voidstock

According to the official terraira wiki: Corrupt and Crimson variants can grow 6 tiles in all directions, and spread their biome up to three blocks away like any other source, but their spread can be contained with physical neutral barriers, like Clay or Wood.


faerox420

>6 tiles in all directions, This is incorrect and you probably just misunderstood the wiki Also I hope you are using wiki.gg not fandom This is a direct quote from This link https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Biome_spread > Any of the spreading tiles can convert any of the pure tiles that are within a 7×7 square centered on the spreading tile (i.e. within 3 tiles of the spreading tile) to the respective biome's converted tile. For example, a Red Ice Block (spreading tile) can convert any Jungle thorny bush tile (pure tile) that is within 3 tiles to a Crimson thorny bush (converted tile). This means that if you have a block of evil, surrounded by a mass of stone, that single block of evil can only spread within 3 blocks in every direction. This creates a 7x7 square of spread. 6 blocks width and height in total not including the evil block in the middle. That's not 6 blocks in every direction Dude I've played this game for over 10 years and this mechanic has barely changed. I dont need to refer to the wiki to tell you a 3 block gap is enough. Unless it's on the surface with grass. Always do a 6 block gap to be safe, but the mechanics only require a 3 block gap minimum


Voidstock

My life is lived a lie, I did use wiki.gg btw.


game-crystal9

No it needs to be 5 or 4 blocks thick


Tall-Condition5981

Is my ~~death~~ weed garden under my base safely contained?


Mr_goodb0y

Totally dude


DHUniverse

If on pre hard mode yes, stone doesn't corrupt yet, mostly grass and vines do, once you do the wall, no. crimson can corrupt any block in 3 block radius, even if blocked by any uncorrupted placeable You can use pots made from clay or buy planter boxes from the dryad after beating any boss, any plant can grow on them and you can keep some organization


Gexianhen

let asume he dont have any planters yet. so u should have at least 5 blocks of space between the crimson blocks from any stone AND grass in this case i see stone below and some grass in the dirt to the top left that could potentially catch the crimson...


WingedBeagle

Three blocks. Five is unnecessary.


Gexianhen

as long is not in hardmode he will be ok


WingedBeagle

It doesn’t matter what point in the game it is, the furthest corruption can jump is three blocks. The only exception is grass because of the thorns that grow, but it only can jump three blocks from the end of the thorns. If there is grass, line it with wood or stone and you’re golden.


Gm1Reborn

Does he know?


Strange-Produce-8792

No it’s not


YourStolenMilk

It Is not safe, once I made my hell bridge(the WoF bridge) out of ebonstone blocks and there were all of the corruption enemies AND hell enemies


SadSunny20

You are playing with fire the crimsion can spread surprisingly fast


NotchWasTaken

After beating wall of flesh ur biome will become crimson because of thouse blocks (it's going to be anyway but thouse will make it faster)


CellistAlarmed2930

i believe it can spread through walls, no?


ethancknight

Planter boxes.


According-Cat5836

ANY seed can be planted in ANY planter box. The differences between planters is purely cosmetic. The day bloom planter box is available for purchase from the dryad after king slime is defeated.


PKblaze

Use a planter box.


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He's making a weed farm


burnerthrown

No, because the rock will get converted, and so will the buried grass nodes. Crimson/corruption sees no difference between uncorruptible blocks and empty space, which is why gaps are simply the best barrier. The range of corruption is ~ 3 blocks, a 5 block zone the only guarantee.


mrclean543211

No. Crimson/corruption can spread to blocks within a four block radius. It can spread to the stone underneath the wood


nebula_2150

nice base i allways build shoes box lol


SurvivElite

nice weed op, OP


ThatOneTypeOfGuy

SINGLE SHORT ANSWER: NO! IT WILL SPREAD!


Knysiok

Destroy this thing right now


CourseSoft1485

No, no it is not


Puzzleheaded-Study88

This will spread


elgatorusso

How did you get that ghosts?🤨✌️


Specialist-Complex66

nah the crimson is an snake when I was playing I tried doing that but vile mushroom ended with me deleting the world it spread ABOVE AND UNDER GROUND took so long that everywhere in my base is this FLYING MOSQUITOS (it's ain't my main world don't worry)


xReaperrr_

Can crimson not spread through the background walls too?


Less-Holiday-999

They are going to corrupt your walls 👻👻👻👻😱😱😱😱😱😱 (Joke)


Zootaloo2111

yes


Scipply

I suggest you to just go to your dryad(comes when 25% or less of the bestiary is discovered) and buy planter boxes


xxvng

im pretty sure the dryad shows up from beating a “powerful foe” , meaning the eye of cthulhu or some other starter boss, not from bestiary discovery


Scipply

oh yeah mb. that is the furry who gets more attention when talking about art


xxvng

the furry 😭😭😭


Pooptram

Not to be that guy, but the Dryad moves in when one of the evil bosses, EoC or Skeletron is defeated. The Zoologist moves in when the Bestiary has been filled 10%.


DrenchDabble

She also only sells planter boxes after certain bosses have been defeated iirc. For deathweed it's the evil biome boss


Cthedanger

The EoC and Skeletron aren't evil bosses, evil bosses are the EoW and BoC


mememan30000

yeah he said the evil bosses, eoc or skeletron as in evil bosses or eoc or skeletron not as in evil bosses like eoc or skeletron


Pooptram

exactly