How does terraria work

Obviously the house needs walls too. Walls work a little differently in Terraria and confused me when I first started playing. Basically walls are the background blocks of the house. You can craft these at your basic crafting bench, and they can be made out of many materials. You can place things such as torches, trophies, or banners on the walls, so they help you decorate your home easier.

Monsters are unable to spawn in player places walls, so make sure you always have walls on your buildings as well as a light source. To keep enemies from wandering into your home, place doors at every entrance.

An event called a Blood Moon can occur, which gives zombies the ability to break open doors. When a Blood Moon happens, simply block off the front doors of your house and go mining in your mine shaft. Part of the fun of Terraria is that you can be as creative as you want with your house. Using those NPC house conditions I mentioned before, build 4 or 5 more houses somewhere close by. I prefer to attach them to my house for easy access, but you can put them wherever. If the spawn conditions have been met, an NPC will spawn and move into the house.

An example of this is that the Merchant will spawn when you have a total of 50 silver coins. There are a total of 25 NPCs in Terraria, each having their own unique spawn condition. When you feel like you have enough houses built, wait for the Demolitionist to spawn. His requirement is to have a bomb in your inventory during the way, which is simple to do.

When he spawns, buy 20 to 30 bombs and get ready for an adventure! The Corruption has several chasms that lead to nothing, so try to find the one that goes the furthest. No matter which biome you have, there will be a large underground area that you have to stay alive in. When you break them, they drop a useful item for you. Also, breaking 2 will cause a meteorite to land in your world, which you can mine for some awesome gear.

The easiest way to access these is to turn your bombs into sticky bombs using slime, and blasting your way to it. You probably have a bunch of bombs leftover from your previous journey, so you can use those to mine it faster.

I recommend building a bridge over the entire thing, and throwing your sticky bombs directly onto it. Another thing I should probably mention is that you literally start on fire if you stand on meteorite. You can burrow or fly to every corner of the map, slaying enemies, looking chests and mining precious ore. You can craft powerful items, build a palace and become incredibly rich. When you're first dropped into the middle of your world, it can all be a bit overwhelming, and with just only a cryptic NPC as a guide, it can take a while to see what Terraria has to offer.

We've put together this beginner's guide to help you survive your first nights in your new world. Read on for advice on mining, crafting and building your first home.

For any additional information on Terraria's items, monsters and environments, the superb Terraria wikia is essential. It's an in-depth resource for all things Terraria, and is especially useful if you want to find out how to craft or find the best items in the game. Before you can do that, you'll have to build yourself a home and get settled in your world.

Here's how. The first thing you need is wood. In the beginning it's a good idea to build your house close to where you start. You will respawn in the same spot each time you die until you build a bed.

One of the main frustrations of building by the spawn is that it puts you right next to the Guide NPC. He's supposed to offer advice to new players, but he ends up wondering in and out of your home at a whim, letting zombies and flying demon eyeballs in at night.

To get wood, chop trees with the axe. It won't look as though anything is happening for the first few swings, but keep at it. After enough hacks targeted at the same location, the entire tree will explode and shower wood down upon you. Aim at the very base, that way you won't leave annoying stumps behind, which means you'll get all of the wood the tree has to offer, and the space you clear will be flat and easy to build on.

Once you have wood, you can make a workbench. Pressing escape brings up your inventory menu. Below this, you'll see a list of the items you can craft with the materials in your pockets. Clicking on these items a couple of times will deposit them straight into your inventory. Once you've got a workbench, drop it into your task bar.

Once you're back in the world, select the crafting table, with your mouse, or with one of the hotkeys, and left click to plop it down on a flat bit of ground. You'll find yourself interrupted constantly by Slimes. They hop around the surface in daylight hours, generally making a nuisance of themselves. They're as useful as they are irritating. Bludgeon them to death with your pickaxe it has a faster swing and is more effective than a wooden sword against annoying hopping enemies like slimes.

Dead slimes drop flammable gel and money. Gel can be combined with wood to create torches, invaluable for the cave exploring we'll be doing later on. If you're worried about all the mass deforestation you're doing, you can plant acorns gathered from chopped trees. Given time, they will grow into a new forest. If you open up your inventory while standing near your new crafting table you'll be able to craft more advanced items. When placed down preferably next to the Furnace new Recipes become available.

There are a few options when choosing how to dig: Digging straight down or searching for an open cave to explore. At this early stage in the game use caution when digging holes. Using the blocks picked up while digging or creating Wood Platforms , you can build a way back. To illuminate your area you can hold a torch in your hand by putting torches in your hotbar and selecting it.

You can put a torch on a wall or the ground by left clicking to place it. This will not only let you see mobs so you can fight them, mark the way back, and show where and how far you've gone if you come back to the same cave to explore further.

In addition to placing torches, you can drop one in item form, which is useful for seeing what's at the bottom of a pit, and how far down it goes. When exploring caves, you may find Pots. You can smash these with a weapon or tool to get some loot.

You can also find Chests or Gold Chests. When you are near a chest you can right-click, which will show your inventory and the contents of the chest. You can click on a chest item to grab it, then click again on an inventory square to put it in your inventory. Alternatively, you could click "Loot All" to the right of the chest contents to grab everything.

Once the chest is empty you can use your pickaxe to pick it up, take it with you, and then place it elsewhere, like you'd place any other piece of furniture you can't mine chests if it's not completely empty however. It's recommended that you take a few of the chests you find back to your house to store stuff with, since crafting your own chests will use Iron Bars, and you'll want to save your iron for other purposes.

You'll find Cobwebs and can cut them down with any weapon or tool and then pick them up. Cobweb can be turned into Silk , to make a Bed at a loom , used to change your spawn point. The Green Arrow on the Map will not disappear when you do this. Silk can make decorative items and vanity clothing. While underground it is possible to come across pools of water. Torches do not work underwater, so you must use Glowsticks , but they cannot be crafted. You can throw them, but they will bounce and move around.

You can craft Sticky Glowsticks by combining Gel with a Glowstick; these will stick to walls when thrown, making them easier to place. No matter which you use, however, glowsticks are not permanent when thrown, unlike placed torches. When stepping into a pool of water the character will sink as if weighted down. Don't fear diving down underwater to continue moving downwards, as the character has a rather large air meter.

However, if close to running out of air there is a way to regain air quickly. First either find a wall or make a small shaft at the bottom of the water, and then dig a tunnel in the wall and then upward in the ceiling. The water will not fill the upper squares. As the air supply runs low, jump into the hole. This will refill the meter. If you see an area that glows blue and has blue mushrooms, congrats - you have found a Glowing Mushroom biome.

This place is useful as it grows glowing mushrooms , so take some while you're there. When you return home, craft a bottle , place it on a table, and craft healing potions out of lesser healing potions and those glowing mushrooms.

They heal for twice as much as lesser healing potions do, and are some of the best healing items pre-Hardmode, after Honeyfin. A Gold Chest and a few Life Crystals may also appear, feel free to loot them. In the event one encounters a Fairy following them is recommended, as they can lead to valuable ores and treasures that would otherwise be missed. Now that you've learned how to play and survive, the best thing to do would be to simply continue playing, discovering new things on your own.

If you do get stuck, find something you're unsure about, or simply want detailed information about one of your items, look up what you need on the wiki, or check out the wiki's Walkthrough.

It may be handy to check the Armor or Weapons pages for info on what direction to head next. You might also want to look at the pages about the Bosses of the game so you know what your long term task will be. And remember, you can play the game your way, so don't feel bound by the information on this wiki. All guides have the following list of Guide pages, such as below, that you can use to move between guides very quickly. Use those if you want to learn more things.

Terraria Wiki. These underground reservoirs are only a problem if the player does not have a means of escape. Should any intrepid explorers get stuck in water they can try to create air bubbles by removing blocks above them, or dig down to channel the water elsewhere. Before entering any pools of water, players should first check for piranhas and ensure they have a means of getting back out. While a yoyo may not sound as exciting as a power glove , another powerful early game melee weapons, even a wooden one can be surprisingly efficient at slaying monsters.

Yoyos in Terraria are long-distance melee weapons that can be held at full extension, for a set amount of time, to deal damage. A simple wooden yoyo can be built from 10 wood and 20 cobwebs at the player's work bench. The rally yoyo which is dropped from certain enemies can even make a viable weapon against the Eye of Cthulhu boss fight.

Keeping NPC's happy and minimizing the number of enemies spawning each night is essential for maintaining your villages in Terraria. Sunflowers offer a happiness buff for NPC's, reduce the spawn rate of monsters and protect tiles directly beneath them from being tainted by corruption or the crimson. The player can encounter sunflowers naturally in the game and pick them up using the pickaxe to be replanted elsewhere.

Surrounding a village with sunflowers is a good way to keep it happy and free from zombies. As well as finding ways to safely descend mineshafts, players will also want to build ropes for climbing back up. Once players have an anvil they can make chains from iron bars, which can be used to construct a grappling hook. Building this tool will require a hook which can be found as a rare drop by killing skeletons and piranhas deep underground in the third strata of the map.

The grappling hook is great for quickly climbing steep ledges and can even be used to dodge enemy attacks. The randomly generated world in Terraria is far from safe and tranquil. Newcomers who are struggling with combat may feel daunted at the prospect of a boss fight. However, beating a boss early on offers an extra, single-use, pool of hearts that can help players kill later bosses and survive other difficult encounters. The player can summon and defeat the Eye of Cthulhu or King Slime in the early game to get this bonus.