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Yeah, Terraria pretty much drops you in there alone. The guide is helpful if you spend 400 years talking to him. Easier to just read the Wiki. Still, that game has become my bane. I'm still hunting up junk despite having run out of places to put it.

SaltyJon wrote: Just beat Mom's Heart with Cain, my tears were spectral and coming out at approximately the rate of fire of a machine gun, with maxed out damage.  I was pleased with the results.

Hmm, the game is available on Steam for $2.50 right now. Should I bite?

I think it's pretty fun, although a big reason I played it for so long was skinner box bullsh*t. You can play the first two levels here. The full game is over 300 mb, so it's a pretty giant flash game. Which actually can cause some performance problems later on when there are more enemies, but it started as a quick project, and by the time they realized how big it was getting it was too late to turn back and write it in something sensible. 

I don't care much for spectral tears, they're not that useful. I mean, I'll take them, but if I found them in the item room on the first level I would probably restart the game, and I wouldn't pay for them unless I had an enormous amount of money. The biggest mistake I ever made was on a good playthrough buying Brimstone from the devil, which ended up leading to my pointless death to Mom because without knockback you can't keep the enemies away. Worst upgrade ever. My run where I finally killed Mom's Heart was when I found Mom's Bottle of Pills as my first item with Cain. I wish I could have tried Sheol with that, but oh well. 

What does the trashcan do in the Terraria GUI? I put things there to try to get rid of my 500 blocks of dirt without automatically picking them up again, but nothing happens. :/


Edited by Henry Plainview - January 22 2012 at 23:34

Henry Plainview wrote: I think it's pretty fun, although a big reason I played it for so long was skinner box bullsh*t. You can play the first two levels here. The full game is over 300 mb, so it's a pretty giant flash game. Which actually can cause some performance problems later on when there are more enemies, but it started as a quick project, and by the time they realized how big it was getting it was too late to turn back and write it in something sensible.  I don't care much for spectral tears, they're not that useful. I mean, I'll take them, but if I found them in the item room on the first level I would probably restart the game, and I wouldn't pay for them unless I had an enormous amount of money. The biggest mistake I ever made was on a good playthrough buying Brimstone from the devil, which ended up leading to my pointless death to Mom because without knockback you can't keep the enemies away. Worst upgrade ever. My run where I finally killed Mom's Heart was when I found Mom's Bottle of Pills as my first item with Cain. I wish I could have tried Sheol with that, but oh well.  What does the trashcan do in the Terraria GUI? I put things there to try to get rid of my 500 blocks of dirt without automatically picking them up again, but nothing happens. :/

Lol, died on the second level. Re-tried, died on second level again. Not sure what wire through head does. Also, Kamikaze is kinda terrible. Also, really easy to accidentally use bombs.

As for Terraria, the trash can deletes stuff. Here's how it works. Put something in it, nothing happens. You can always take that item out. However, put a second item on top of it and the first item disappears forever. Additionally, when you quit, anything in your trash can is erased. Thus, as long as you're not trying to throw other stuff on top of it, you can actually use it as a (somewhat high-risk) extra inventory slot.

Just beat the heart again, died in Belial.  That's 3 'full game" playthroughs done now.  Not sure what they consider the Belial level if it's not part of the full game...

Also, didn't notice until the playthrough before this one (or was it two ago?) that Matthias Bossi provides the narration for the game.  Neat little tidbit of info to tie it in with prog.


Edited by SaltyJon - January 23 2012 at 01:48

Thanks, but I'd rather find it myself. I don't need it to survive, it's just annoying. The vanity stuff like a gold house doesn't really appeal to me so I probably will just stop bothering to mine once I get to that point. ;-)

Goddamnit Jon, do you keep being successful with Cain? Now you're making me want to reinstall it. Maybe I just need to stop wasting so much time in Arcades...

Gold castle?  That's just silly.

(I basically dismantled the dungeon on 3 different worlds to build my house)

The iridescent bricks look pretty good (ash + stone)

I found in terraria that literally within minutes of finally acquiring certain ores they became useless to me

Oh look cobalt.  Now I can make a drill and mine all this mythril, making the cobalt completely obsolete. Hurray.