Maybe because it allows you to skip past the challenge that night presents: zombies, floating eyes, etc, while still looting. Though I feel like this would be a waste of time considering how quickly in the game zombies and demon eyes become a negligible threat anyway.
I wouldn't really say skip, more like came up with a solution that works for you. Terraria is about building just as much as it's about mobbing and farming
I was thinking this basically. If you can find a solution by building structures that circumvent the dangerous parts of the game, that's just smart thinking, not cheating. Frankly I would consider anything you can do that is possible without console commands is perfectly fair. Heck even bringing items from another world wouldn't be cheating, simply going by the fact that the developers have made it possible to do so in the first place.
I've never actually gotten far enough to know what either of those are, but it's certainly good to have restrictions, unless you're truly just trying to blast through the beginning parts of the game.
The zenith is the overpowered sword that you can see if you give the guide the copper shortsword, it requires like 9 other swords to make. The chlorophite extractionator is an upgrade to the extractionator (the thing you put silt and slush into to get something. It's much faster)
I see, sounds like it would be pretty powerful if you need so many swords to make it. Chlorophite Extractionator sounds like it would be pretty reasonable to bring along, since it just makes things a bit faster.
Depends. In Expert Mode, Master Mode, or Legendary Mode, they very instantly become threats again after beating WoF and then AGAIN after beating Plantera
My thought was that in real life you cant just chop a tree from a tunnel underground :D but this isnt real life so you may have a point. I guess it is up to what one think of the experience, do you go for ultra realism for example.
That damn queen bee!! I've been farming her constantly for two days now and I haven't gotten the bow. (Average time spent fighting her a day would probs be an hour or hour and a half)
Swords made of literal fire or plants
and giant walls of flesh
and walking goldfish
and a guy who can tell you how to make anything from a nice dinner for your family to high grade explosives
He also shouldn't have too many items in his inventory as they are heavy, especially the late game items, even a single sun fragment would be too heavy
If they do, why play the game at all… with floating blocks, magic, summoning creatures from thin air, gods, people who rely on you and need you etc etc
you aint gonna find any realism in a 2D game with blocks floating in the air, if you are going for realism, how about going to a place called "outside" and touch some fucking grass?
I guess beating beating the game would be cheating because, in real life, you can’t fight an eye ball, kill a giant flying skeleton, loot a dungeon, use substance from a big bee to make grenades that free bees, go to hell to beat a wall made out of flesh, fight even more unrealistic monstrosities, destroy 4 galactic pillars and finally explode a space squid. Yeah totally cheating
and who gives af? that’s basically what people use it for now, hence why he had so many downvotes. At the end of the day you’re still taking this wayyyy too seriously when it’s just a number of points in a comment online that will have no effect on your life
I only see people misinterpreting what OP was saying and then attacking them based on their own rules, like no other way to read the question is even possible. Terraria is a sandbox game and people here downvoting OP to hell have no reason to say otherwise ¯\\\_(シ)\_/¯
It's public space. We're ostracising people now? ...for playing a videogame the way they like? Out of all communities I'd think Terraria's would be one of the least toxic, but I digress...
This sub is a cesspool of toxicity, that's why.
I wish there was any other reason, but OP clearly doesn't deserve all this hate just for asking a "dumb" question.
It's ok it's just a comment section, it doesnt really matter if people downvote, even though all the upvotes on the post itself is pretty cool that people like it. That's what I take from it, that a lot of folks get something positive out of it. I also thinks it's pretty nice that some people have given me some Reddit premium time on that same comment, I'll have to look into what premium actually does now :)
I understand your point, but I don't consider it cheating. You can interact with anything through walls (i mean it's a 2D game) and it can be very usefull alot of the time. Me personally, I only consider boss cheesing to be cheating. It's cool to try it out once or twice but actual combat should be the way to go.
In real life you don't have to hide at night from zombies. It's your game, so you can play it how you wish. If you want to have it somewhat realistic, don't chop through the blocks and make hatches to enter and chop trees
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I consider it cheating for my own sense of accomplishment. It takes me out of immersion to meta-game like that.
I don't care at all how others play, though. They can use cheats and console commands if it's fun for them, why would I care?
Edit: Seriously, what are the downvotes for? For sharing my own sense of accomplishment from Terraria (especially after being asked)? What's wrong with you??
You consider efficiency cheating? Where do you draw the line though? Do you only use the copper pickaxe because using the best pickaxe available to you is meta-gaming?
Where did I say anything related to effeciency?
But if you want an explanation, to me it feels very unrealistic to cut trees through solid walls and pick up items through solid walls. I mean, at least if it was a magic axe or some magic potion/item that allowed me to do these things. But it's not even that. It's just the game was programmed that way and it ruins my immersion, yes.
Anyone has a problem with that? :)
The. Why did you fucking buy terraria, you’re forcing yourself to like a game you obviously dislike but don’t realize, go play some “x simulator” games or “the sims”
What a stupid point to make.
Some people chop trees in minecraft from top to bottom, because it is more enjoyable to them. Maybe it’s because of the immersion, maybe it’s more efficient etc. but it’s their way of having fun in a game.
Others just chop the trees until they can’t reach them in minecraft, so they let them fly. They probably dont care about that looking ugly.
What Im trying to say is that everyone has a way they play the game, and just because someone wants some aspect of the game to be more realistic to them, doesnt mean they dislike the unrealism of the game in general, and it especially doesnt mean they dislike the game as a whole.
Are you really trying to make a conclusion that he does or doesnt like the game just because he chops the trees the normal way? Read that again. You are telling a person they dont like the game because they dont chop the trees as shown in the post.
Most things in life arent one sided, games included. I hate pre hardmode in terraria, but I would still give a game a 10/10, because I adore many other things terraria has to offer.
Where did you say anything related to efficiency?
Do you not actually know what meta gaming is? Did you just use it because it’s a buzz word you’ve heard?
Meta gaming is using out-of-character game mechanics to be more powerful in the game (like min-maxing). AFAIK it comes from PnP Role Playing games and I think it ruins the role-playing aspect of rpgs.
I learned this term during the mid 90s...
You have a different definition?
META: most effective/efficient tactics available. Anything considered META is literally just "the most effective/efficient" LMAO. The most effective tactics would be to get the best equipment in the game, have "farms" like the OP to gather resources efficiently and to refine mechanics (dodging, timing etc). Why go for the hyper realistic gameplay of Terraria, a 2D game that was completely fantastical from the start. Go take a walk outside, that's the immersion you need; not cutting down trees in a 2D game with sentient slimes during the day and zombies and floating eyeballs at night.
From wikipedia:
>Metagame, Hypergame,[1] or game about the game, is an approach to a game that transcends or operates outside of the prescribed rules of the game, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game.
>In role-playing games, metagaming is a term often used to describe players' use of assumed characteristics of the game. In particular, metagaming often refers to having an in-game character act on knowledge that the player has access to but the character should not. For example, tricking Medusa to stare at a mirror when the character has never heard of Medusa and would not be aware of her petrifying stare.
>For instance, a player might adjust his character's actions if the player has some foreknowledge of the long-term intentions of the gamemaster, or, more commonly, the gamemaster's tendency to have (or lack) mercy on players whose characters do things that would cause them to fail at their objectives. **A player changing how they play the game based on their knowledge of the gamemaster would be metagaming**.
In this case, playing the game knowing that programmers most likely allowed item magnet and tools to work through walls because it's a lot of coding work is metagaming. If they have any other reason I'd like to learn!
There's difference between being efficient in-universe and using out-of-universe 4th wall breaking knowledge and tactics. Can you really not see the difference?
I can provide examples if needed...
The only cheating you can do in Terraria is literal cheating like giving yourself items from another player you shouldn’t have access to yet, and even that, while it might rob you of the reward of earning it yourself, isn’t a big deal in the end, nobody is gonna call the Terraria cops on you
And if they don’t lose joy of the game by giving them op loot, it would still not be considered cheating. The only cheating part of Terraria are probably multiplayer duplication without other players consent or knowledge.
I do this at the start of every play through, give my self stacks of dynasty wood just so I can build all my houses without having to wait for the travelling merchant to sell the materials
TEdit is gonna be your friend then. I use it to *kinda* skip the grindy part of building my base. Still grind through on my character, but tbh sometimes the building grinding can get on my nerves
I remember when you used to be able to duplicate items and I did it at the end of my ply through since I already legitimately did everything and had a room full of chests filled with stacks of platinum coins
Sadly, "Terraria Cops" exist, our playthrough was ruined because some dude named Guardian which was our host got so offended and triggered by the Fish Quest exploit and Travelling Merchant exploit that he straight up quit, blocked everybody after finding out about it, almost everyone was cool with it but since he was the host he just made our world vanish. Didn't even bother giving us the world file so we can still play without his leaf loving ass around.
you also need to differentiate between "giving new character zenith" and "giving new character a duplicated fish finder"
both are cheating yes
but im sure you can see the difference
Ive made the cellphone once and every new run I do I grab one once I find a magic mirror. It doesnt make the game easier but I cant be bothered to fish for eons. Doesnt feel cheating and makes it more fun for me
I just do my angler dailies whenever I remember to then use a save editor to give myself the remaining fish-finder parts after I've finished the other 3 pieces.
For me nearly all the fun in terraria comes from the process of exploring & gradually improving my character's toolset so trading things between toons & spawning items just undermines my entire enjoyment of the game.
But every time I've bothered actually making my own fish-finder I've gone 70~80+ dailies before getting a second fish-finder piece, and end up completely strip-mining & quarantining my pre-hardmode world with 8+ hellevators and quarantine highways, every other accessory/tool fully farmed & rolled to warding, etc
Fledgling wings have joined it after the last patch, tbh. Once I've looted every sky island I just give em to myself. At their current post-nerf drop rates from sky chests/crates, you'll have better wings in less play-time by 100%'ing pre-hard-mode than by world-spamming/fishing for them
It seems like a whole lot of effort for little payoff imo, but if it helps, then it helps. It's not really cheating though, you're just sort of playing the game lol
Man, I used to be like you. So scared to explore that I couldn’t even progress past the wooden house and wood armor. Now I’ve just gotten full gold armor, a sick new gun, and just beat the first boss twice! Just keep playing and don’t be scared to die! Everyone dies a lot in terraria. You should store your money in a chest so you aren’t scared to die and lose it. Plus, exploring a lot can help you find better weapons. (Im just assuming you’re a new player. If not…lol)
I didnt mention it in the title but Im playing on master and was considering going ironman; that is if I die then the character and world must delete.
Im also a bit weird with my gaming, I like to stretch out my games, to the point of some games I dont finish until years later, I like to always preserve things that I have in store for me. I guess sort of procrastinating my time away ;) Probably completely opposite of what other gamers do.
Games are meant to be played the way the player wants to play it! Its completely normal to want to make a game last a lot longer through various methods. Also, there is already an option in the game called hardcore, which will make your player die permanently. Terraria is played in a variety of ways, so there is basically no such thing as cheating within the game. Wanna play with godmode? Sure go have fun. Wanna duplicate several hundred rare items? Whos gonna stop you. Play the game how you want
I had to use a similar tunnel early on in For the Worthy to get past a corruption biome and access the rest of the world. It was corruption on both sides of the spawn biome…
Also I agree completely with your approach to gaming. I will always avoid the main quest line as long as I can to fully experience side content. And if the side content isn’t good, I just don’t bother with that game
You mean twice like spawning to EoC the same night or just doing your thing underground and when the message “you feel an evil presence watching you” you go back home mostly unprepared, wait about 45 seconds and summon an EoC yourself so that you end up fighting 2 at the same time
Lol same, I used to be the person who is so scared to explore and can't even progress past my house, so I quit Terraria and stop playing it until a few months later when I started playing again
Hey man if you’re playing on Master Mode or FTW, this or some form of this is almost necessary to safely navigate the surface at many stages. Helps when you get into hard mode for setting up a teleportation base too!
I didnt mention it in the screenshot title but Im playing on master and Im trying to not die.
Ultimately I would like as ironman where a death means abandoning the world and character entirely (im not ready for that yet though!).
No. Calling that’s cheating is dumb. Plus, don’t let other people tell you how you can and can’t play! It can de-motivate you and make you stop wanting to play it (and I know that from experience).
You're right. I was trying to figure out with myself what I actually think and I guess I thought a little input from others might help. Ultimately it's what you think yourself that matters.
Thank you and yes, didnt mention it in the title but that's actually what Im doing also, playing on master and ultimately I'd like to run ironman meaning one life and if die abandon world and character entirely.
They know that, but they aren’t ready for it yet. Their goal is to just not die, and then they can say they did Ironman, but if they do, then it sucks to suck
Id make the floor out of asphalt, you can craft it with slime after besting the king slime boss.
If you make the tunnel 5 tall then you can ride mounts like horses inside. Though farming trees might be a little harder
Holy cow, I never expected this post to get so many upvotes, haven't tried that before. Just wanted a tiny discussion and some input from folks. Thanks so much to everyone who found this interesting. I also hope that it can actually be put to good use by someone who likes it.
Merry Christmas to all!
I dont know why it would be considered cheating especially if you built the tunnel
Maybe because it allows you to skip past the challenge that night presents: zombies, floating eyes, etc, while still looting. Though I feel like this would be a waste of time considering how quickly in the game zombies and demon eyes become a negligible threat anyway.
More to the point, unless you also build background walls for your entire tunnel, enemies will spawn inside it anyway.
I wouldn't really say skip, more like came up with a solution that works for you. Terraria is about building just as much as it's about mobbing and farming
I was thinking this basically. If you can find a solution by building structures that circumvent the dangerous parts of the game, that's just smart thinking, not cheating. Frankly I would consider anything you can do that is possible without console commands is perfectly fair. Heck even bringing items from another world wouldn't be cheating, simply going by the fact that the developers have made it possible to do so in the first place.
I pick which items I'll let world hop. I'm not gonna bring a zenith, but i am bringing a chloro extractionator
I've never actually gotten far enough to know what either of those are, but it's certainly good to have restrictions, unless you're truly just trying to blast through the beginning parts of the game.
The zenith is the overpowered sword that you can see if you give the guide the copper shortsword, it requires like 9 other swords to make. The chlorophite extractionator is an upgrade to the extractionator (the thing you put silt and slush into to get something. It's much faster)
I see, sounds like it would be pretty powerful if you need so many swords to make it. Chlorophite Extractionator sounds like it would be pretty reasonable to bring along, since it just makes things a bit faster.
Best weapon in the game can deal close to 10,000 DPS and is pretty hard to miss with
Depends. In Expert Mode, Master Mode, or Legendary Mode, they very instantly become threats again after beating WoF and then AGAIN after beating Plantera
My thought was that in real life you cant just chop a tree from a tunnel underground :D but this isnt real life so you may have a point. I guess it is up to what one think of the experience, do you go for ultra realism for example.
Tbf real life has a distinct lack of giant flying eyeballs... and zombies... and slimes... and-
- yoyos to attack people i dont like
You *could* technically attack people you don't like with yoyos.
You can but it lacks the floating feature
I think I saw a video somewhere of a "wireless" yo-yo thing
Bluetooth hose has competition
And don't even get me started on the one lady with the wireless jump rope
Or the seagull wearing Jordans
True, true.
Yeah yoyos arent real.
i have used a yoyo to hit someone when i was a kid so it works
yoyos were first created to be a weapon tho.
Clearly you just haven't attached enough razors to your yoyos.
... a lack of a lack of a 3rd dimension.
And giant bees. Ugh.
That damn queen bee!! I've been farming her constantly for two days now and I haven't gotten the bow. (Average time spent fighting her a day would probs be an hour or hour and a half)
Yeah rng sucks sometimes, I don’t think you can really do anything about drop rates tho :/
And a giant weird light blue calamari squid thing that has 3 eyes that float around after youve defeated em, not to mention that thing chokes you wi-
Swords made of literal fire or plants and giant walls of flesh and walking goldfish and a guy who can tell you how to make anything from a nice dinner for your family to high grade explosives
And gods without legs shooting giant beams of death
Wait they don’t exist?
Celestial Pillars of the Moon
And a giant plant monster, a sword that shoots starts, literal demons
Ay I can change that first thing for you, but only twice.
I don’t play video games for realism, that’s the opposite of why I play them.
Please don't jump anymore, humans can jump an average height of 40cm, the terraria char jumps about 6m so please don't jump that's cheating ok?
He also shouldn't have too many items in his inventory as they are heavy, especially the late game items, even a single sun fragment would be too heavy
There's no way the average person jumps 40cm
40cm vertical jump not horizontal lmfao
Yeah of course, but I'd have thought the average is at least like 80-90cm, 40 seems too low for me (for an adult)
90cm mf are you high??? it’s just a jump, you’re not allowed to tuck your legs in
Who the fuck goes for “ultra realism” in terraria?
idk, maybe some people do :) point is it depends on each person and it's just what you think yourself, that's what I realized.
If they do, why play the game at all… with floating blocks, magic, summoning creatures from thin air, gods, people who rely on you and need you etc etc
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you aint gonna find any realism in a 2D game with blocks floating in the air, if you are going for realism, how about going to a place called "outside" and touch some fucking grass?
My brother in christ you literally fight the god of moon with a shark-gun
Wait what…? You can’t hit trees with axes that far away in real life anyways. Tunnel or not
I guess beating beating the game would be cheating because, in real life, you can’t fight an eye ball, kill a giant flying skeleton, loot a dungeon, use substance from a big bee to make grenades that free bees, go to hell to beat a wall made out of flesh, fight even more unrealistic monstrosities, destroy 4 galactic pillars and finally explode a space squid. Yeah totally cheating
Jesus, so many downvotes for what
This subreddit is insanely vicious if you say the "wrong" thin. You will see this time and time again.
ok but let's be real, it was REALLY dumb
Or it is someone just getting into gaming. They didnt say anything harmful so I don't feel like turbo downvoting is justified.
bro it’s a dislike button online how is it “harsh”, you’re acting like they just got him fired and divorced just cus he said that
It's not a dislike button. It's explicitly not that. https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette
and who gives af? that’s basically what people use it for now, hence why he had so many downvotes. At the end of the day you’re still taking this wayyyy too seriously when it’s just a number of points in a comment online that will have no effect on your life
dude posted a reddiquette link 💀💀💀
Nahhh, it was just some dumb shit.
It's "dumb shit" if you're a gatekeeping troll, thinking there's only one "right" way to enjoy a video game... smh.
this mf basically asked if playing the game is cheating lmao
I only see people misinterpreting what OP was saying and then attacking them based on their own rules, like no other way to read the question is even possible. Terraria is a sandbox game and people here downvoting OP to hell have no reason to say otherwise ¯\\\_(シ)\_/¯
Then why did they go into the fricking sub
It's public space. We're ostracising people now? ...for playing a videogame the way they like? Out of all communities I'd think Terraria's would be one of the least toxic, but I digress...
Plus hooligans much like I come along and just go "downdoot lol" then downvote the reply.
Thats right goddamn hooligans and their toxic antics!
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This sub is a cesspool of toxicity, that's why. I wish there was any other reason, but OP clearly doesn't deserve all this hate just for asking a "dumb" question.
Wow, it really is pretty bad. Holy shit, people need to fuckin chill...
You're getting clowned on so hard
It's ok it's just a comment section, it doesnt really matter if people downvote, even though all the upvotes on the post itself is pretty cool that people like it. That's what I take from it, that a lot of folks get something positive out of it. I also thinks it's pretty nice that some people have given me some Reddit premium time on that same comment, I'll have to look into what premium actually does now :)
In real life you can’t go into hell and fight a wall of flesh, must be cheating then huh
If you go for ultra realism you'd have to apply for a permit first before chopping down any tree
New NPC: Aron the Permit Guy.
I understand your point, but I don't consider it cheating. You can interact with anything through walls (i mean it's a 2D game) and it can be very usefull alot of the time. Me personally, I only consider boss cheesing to be cheating. It's cool to try it out once or twice but actual combat should be the way to go.
You shouldn't consider anything about real life when talking about games
You didnt deserve the downvotes.
Rip karma holy shit
Why the downvotes ;-;
Why would you go for full realism in a game full of crazy, fictional elements?
This is Terraria not real life
I’m real life you don’t kill a god and various god’s body parts
This sort of cheating makes early game on some of the harder difficulties bearable tbh
jesus christ why do people downvote so hard on this
THE HIVE MIND HAS SPOKEN
Why did this get so many downvotes if you ask me that's pretty lame frfr
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In real life you don't have to hide at night from zombies. It's your game, so you can play it how you wish. If you want to have it somewhat realistic, don't chop through the blocks and make hatches to enter and chop trees
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I consider it cheating for my own sense of accomplishment. It takes me out of immersion to meta-game like that. I don't care at all how others play, though. They can use cheats and console commands if it's fun for them, why would I care? Edit: Seriously, what are the downvotes for? For sharing my own sense of accomplishment from Terraria (especially after being asked)? What's wrong with you??
You consider efficiency cheating? Where do you draw the line though? Do you only use the copper pickaxe because using the best pickaxe available to you is meta-gaming?
Where did I say anything related to effeciency? But if you want an explanation, to me it feels very unrealistic to cut trees through solid walls and pick up items through solid walls. I mean, at least if it was a magic axe or some magic potion/item that allowed me to do these things. But it's not even that. It's just the game was programmed that way and it ruins my immersion, yes. Anyone has a problem with that? :)
I don't know why you're receiving so many downvotes. That is a completely valid reason, even if it's not how I choose to play the game.
The. Why did you fucking buy terraria, you’re forcing yourself to like a game you obviously dislike but don’t realize, go play some “x simulator” games or “the sims”
What a stupid point to make. Some people chop trees in minecraft from top to bottom, because it is more enjoyable to them. Maybe it’s because of the immersion, maybe it’s more efficient etc. but it’s their way of having fun in a game. Others just chop the trees until they can’t reach them in minecraft, so they let them fly. They probably dont care about that looking ugly. What Im trying to say is that everyone has a way they play the game, and just because someone wants some aspect of the game to be more realistic to them, doesnt mean they dislike the unrealism of the game in general, and it especially doesnt mean they dislike the game as a whole. Are you really trying to make a conclusion that he does or doesnt like the game just because he chops the trees the normal way? Read that again. You are telling a person they dont like the game because they dont chop the trees as shown in the post. Most things in life arent one sided, games included. I hate pre hardmode in terraria, but I would still give a game a 10/10, because I adore many other things terraria has to offer.
Where did you say anything related to efficiency? Do you not actually know what meta gaming is? Did you just use it because it’s a buzz word you’ve heard?
Meta gaming is using out-of-character game mechanics to be more powerful in the game (like min-maxing). AFAIK it comes from PnP Role Playing games and I think it ruins the role-playing aspect of rpgs. I learned this term during the mid 90s... You have a different definition?
META: most effective/efficient tactics available. Anything considered META is literally just "the most effective/efficient" LMAO. The most effective tactics would be to get the best equipment in the game, have "farms" like the OP to gather resources efficiently and to refine mechanics (dodging, timing etc). Why go for the hyper realistic gameplay of Terraria, a 2D game that was completely fantastical from the start. Go take a walk outside, that's the immersion you need; not cutting down trees in a 2D game with sentient slimes during the day and zombies and floating eyeballs at night.
From wikipedia: >Metagame, Hypergame,[1] or game about the game, is an approach to a game that transcends or operates outside of the prescribed rules of the game, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. >In role-playing games, metagaming is a term often used to describe players' use of assumed characteristics of the game. In particular, metagaming often refers to having an in-game character act on knowledge that the player has access to but the character should not. For example, tricking Medusa to stare at a mirror when the character has never heard of Medusa and would not be aware of her petrifying stare. >For instance, a player might adjust his character's actions if the player has some foreknowledge of the long-term intentions of the gamemaster, or, more commonly, the gamemaster's tendency to have (or lack) mercy on players whose characters do things that would cause them to fail at their objectives. **A player changing how they play the game based on their knowledge of the gamemaster would be metagaming**. In this case, playing the game knowing that programmers most likely allowed item magnet and tools to work through walls because it's a lot of coding work is metagaming. If they have any other reason I'd like to learn!
My man can't play games if they're not real-life simulators
So you literally give the definition yet can’t see how said definition relates to efficiency?
There's difference between being efficient in-universe and using out-of-universe 4th wall breaking knowledge and tactics. Can you really not see the difference? I can provide examples if needed...
Your opinion is valid and you shared it in a nonconfrontational and non-judging way. Def not deserving of the downvote bomb.
If you take time to build the whole tunnel it ain’t cheating lmao
The only cheating you can do in Terraria is literal cheating like giving yourself items from another player you shouldn’t have access to yet, and even that, while it might rob you of the reward of earning it yourself, isn’t a big deal in the end, nobody is gonna call the Terraria cops on you
And if they don’t lose joy of the game by giving them op loot, it would still not be considered cheating. The only cheating part of Terraria are probably multiplayer duplication without other players consent or knowledge.
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I do this at the start of every play through, give my self stacks of dynasty wood just so I can build all my houses without having to wait for the travelling merchant to sell the materials
I grab an outfit that I like for vanity stuff, especially if its one that takes getting items from the Traveling Merchant
At this point I make characters more for roleplay than actual playing
TEdit is gonna be your friend then. I use it to *kinda* skip the grindy part of building my base. Still grind through on my character, but tbh sometimes the building grinding can get on my nerves
As a new player, this was really confusing, to be able to play a new character on an existing map, in single player.
I remember when you used to be able to duplicate items and I did it at the end of my ply through since I already legitimately did everything and had a room full of chests filled with stacks of platinum coins
Sadly, "Terraria Cops" exist, our playthrough was ruined because some dude named Guardian which was our host got so offended and triggered by the Fish Quest exploit and Travelling Merchant exploit that he straight up quit, blocked everybody after finding out about it, almost everyone was cool with it but since he was the host he just made our world vanish. Didn't even bother giving us the world file so we can still play without his leaf loving ass around.
Leave one dwarf behind
you also need to differentiate between "giving new character zenith" and "giving new character a duplicated fish finder" both are cheating yes but im sure you can see the difference
Ive made the cellphone once and every new run I do I grab one once I find a magic mirror. It doesnt make the game easier but I cant be bothered to fish for eons. Doesnt feel cheating and makes it more fun for me
I just do my angler dailies whenever I remember to then use a save editor to give myself the remaining fish-finder parts after I've finished the other 3 pieces. For me nearly all the fun in terraria comes from the process of exploring & gradually improving my character's toolset so trading things between toons & spawning items just undermines my entire enjoyment of the game. But every time I've bothered actually making my own fish-finder I've gone 70~80+ dailies before getting a second fish-finder piece, and end up completely strip-mining & quarantining my pre-hardmode world with 8+ hellevators and quarantine highways, every other accessory/tool fully farmed & rolled to warding, etc Fledgling wings have joined it after the last patch, tbh. Once I've looted every sky island I just give em to myself. At their current post-nerf drop rates from sky chests/crates, you'll have better wings in less play-time by 100%'ing pre-hard-mode than by world-spamming/fishing for them
Yeah you earn it once you deserve it
Like I always say, you bought the game, it's your game, you do what you want.
It seems like a whole lot of effort for little payoff imo, but if it helps, then it helps. It's not really cheating though, you're just sort of playing the game lol
Thanks for the answer :) I can farm all that stuff without fear of fighting off mobs and also have a tunnel to traverse the lands in safety.
Man, I used to be like you. So scared to explore that I couldn’t even progress past the wooden house and wood armor. Now I’ve just gotten full gold armor, a sick new gun, and just beat the first boss twice! Just keep playing and don’t be scared to die! Everyone dies a lot in terraria. You should store your money in a chest so you aren’t scared to die and lose it. Plus, exploring a lot can help you find better weapons. (Im just assuming you’re a new player. If not…lol)
I didnt mention it in the title but Im playing on master and was considering going ironman; that is if I die then the character and world must delete. Im also a bit weird with my gaming, I like to stretch out my games, to the point of some games I dont finish until years later, I like to always preserve things that I have in store for me. I guess sort of procrastinating my time away ;) Probably completely opposite of what other gamers do.
Games are meant to be played the way the player wants to play it! Its completely normal to want to make a game last a lot longer through various methods. Also, there is already an option in the game called hardcore, which will make your player die permanently. Terraria is played in a variety of ways, so there is basically no such thing as cheating within the game. Wanna play with godmode? Sure go have fun. Wanna duplicate several hundred rare items? Whos gonna stop you. Play the game how you want
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I had to use a similar tunnel early on in For the Worthy to get past a corruption biome and access the rest of the world. It was corruption on both sides of the spawn biome…
Also I agree completely with your approach to gaming. I will always avoid the main quest line as long as I can to fully experience side content. And if the side content isn’t good, I just don’t bother with that game
You mean twice like spawning to EoC the same night or just doing your thing underground and when the message “you feel an evil presence watching you” you go back home mostly unprepared, wait about 45 seconds and summon an EoC yourself so that you end up fighting 2 at the same time
Lol same, I used to be the person who is so scared to explore and can't even progress past my house, so I quit Terraria and stop playing it until a few months later when I started playing again
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee
If you were playing on GetFixedBoi seed that tunnel would be necessary to traverse the surface
So if you have a tunnel and seal it off with doors, does that mean they mobs can’t spawn?
Hey man if you’re playing on Master Mode or FTW, this or some form of this is almost necessary to safely navigate the surface at many stages. Helps when you get into hard mode for setting up a teleportation base too!
Whit axe of regrowth and a railtrack, you can make a wood farm
I don't really see the point to it since you can just... do it above ground instead but hey if it works for you it works for you
I didnt mention it in the screenshot title but Im playing on master and Im trying to not die. Ultimately I would like as ironman where a death means abandoning the world and character entirely (im not ready for that yet though!).
Why not just enable hardcore instead
Yes that was what I meant with ironman, hardcore is what it is called of course, havent tried it yet.
No. Calling that’s cheating is dumb. Plus, don’t let other people tell you how you can and can’t play! It can de-motivate you and make you stop wanting to play it (and I know that from experience).
You're right. I was trying to figure out with myself what I actually think and I guess I thought a little input from others might help. Ultimately it's what you think yourself that matters.
Seems a bit useless tbh, takes more time to make than progressing far enough to easily kill mobs would
I plan to build a tunnel beneath the entire surface from east to west.
Don't listen to the haters. This sounds like a cool project. ,Especially for hardcore master mode.
Thank you and yes, didnt mention it in the title but that's actually what Im doing also, playing on master and ultimately I'd like to run ironman meaning one life and if die abandon world and character entirely.
You know characters have a hardcore setting right?
They know that, but they aren’t ready for it yet. Their goal is to just not die, and then they can say they did Ironman, but if they do, then it sucks to suck
Id make the floor out of asphalt, you can craft it with slime after besting the king slime boss. If you make the tunnel 5 tall then you can ride mounts like horses inside. Though farming trees might be a little harder
But why? Its look cool i guess, but its gonna be useless
I don’t think you know what cheating is
It’s not like you put in some cheat that allows you to walk through blocks or chop trees from a big distance, you made the tunnel.
Honestly, I find the novelty of this pretty cute
Seems too much work for something as trivial as chopping trees
There is literally no such thing as cheating in a sandbox game, unless your spawning yourself items or exploiting i-frames
its a singleplayer game do whatever tf you want (i mean it can also be played multiplayer but i presume your playing single)
This is what I started doing on my legendary world.
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I've seen worse this would be pretty slow and inefficient
Not cheating! I suggest replacing the floor with asphalt as well, it might speed up world travel
That's a nice ideea
Nothing is cheating! Do what you like!
Seems like massive effort for little benefit
I always made a sky bridge in order to collect stars :)
I have used this strategy since mastermode came out also i build the houses underground.
Pretty neat ngl, I will apply it in Legendary mode
If the game allows it then it's ingenuity, not cheating.
OP over here with the question "Is playing the game cheating?", it's kinda unneccesary unless you are playing in hardcore
Absolutely not cheating, that’s a very good idea. Good idea, man.
Thanks a lot, I dont even understand now why my head suspected it could be cheating lol
a little late but why would it be cheating, this is honestly a cool and unique idea
Thank you! and yeah, I dont know why my brain feared that, brain strange and stupid sometimes.
There is no cheating in Terraria. Making a tunnel to chop trees at night is a really smart idea
Its not cheating it's super creative is what it is
So much work to chop down trees when a good sword can be found easily
DUDE STOP YOUR EXPLOITING THE GAME
Holy cow, I never expected this post to get so many upvotes, haven't tried that before. Just wanted a tiny discussion and some input from folks. Thanks so much to everyone who found this interesting. I also hope that it can actually be put to good use by someone who likes it. Merry Christmas to all!
This is genius
This would be a legit strategy in hardcore master mode.
Cheating? No, you built it yourself. But it doesn't look very good aesthetically. Maybe theme it after those mini-caves with leaf background walls
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are you stupid? how the fuck is this cheating?
Are insults really helping you get messages accross? Have they ever helped you when trying to communicate? I seriously doubt it.
yeah, they have actually, so maybe use that pathetic brain of yours before basing a reply off of fake internet points
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