Bored at work, here's some tips for anyone starting out, since I think a few other people may have bought this.
Tips
- Much like Minecraft, you need to have a workbench/crafting table to do anything except very basic crafting. You can craft things (including the workbench) by hitting Esc and looking in the lower left corner. Things you can craft automatically appear in the list if you're carrying the items required to make it. To use a workbench, just place it on the floor. You only have to be standing near the workbench to make use of it, you don't need to click it.
- Torches are made from Wood and Slime Gel. There should be plenty slimes to kill around your spawn point. You can kill them with your pickaxe but it's a lot more efficient to make a sword out of wood or something. You can hold a torch and it will illuminate your current area as you run around. You don't have to place them down, but it's recommended you do because you can't fight with a torch in your hand.
- Torches and light don't prevent monsters spawning. The light is just so you can see since caves are basically pitch black and moonlight isn't bright enough to help you see. Houses must have a light source inside them to attract NPCs.
- Although you start with an Axe and a Pickaxe, you also need to craft yourself a hammer which you don't start with. It's needed to remove "background layer" objects such as walls, and more importantly Life Crystals (Increase your Maximum HP).
- If you die, you'll drop your money but nothing else. Leave your money at home, but it's safe to carry everything else with you, you won't lose it even if you fall into lava. (Though if you actually throw an item into Lava, it'll be destroyed.)
- Make yourself a small house/shelter near your starting point. It needs to have a background wall to prevent monsters spawning inside of it. A dirt wall doesn't count, make it out of wood or stone. You can get mountains of wood very fast by just cutting down a few trees at the base.
- To make a door, cut a 3-tile-high hole in a wall and place the door on the floor in the gap. You can craft doors using wood at the workbench. Right click the door to open and close it.
- To change your spawn point, put a bed in your house and right click it. You can make beds using 5 Silk, which come from 10 Cobwebs each (easily found in caves), and some wood. The bed must be inside a fully enclosed room with a background wall and a light source to work (ie: a house). You can't just bring a bed with you into a cave and use it to set your spawn point there.
- Wooden Platforms made from wood can be made without a workbench, and can be passed through both ways. You can jump up through them and press down to fall through them. This is handy for making "floors" or "ladders" in your house, and also handy for scaling areas inside caves.
- If you find yourself trapped in deep water and slowly drowning with no quick way out, quickly dig into the wall and then dig upwards. This will create a pocket of air you can breathe in.
Useful Items/Accessories to Find or Work Towards
- Mining Helmet - You can buy this head-slot item from the Merchant for 8 gold. While it's equipped, you give off light from your character (a bit less than a torch) which is immensely useful at nighttime and while underground.
- Grappling Hook - A "Hook" is a rare drop from Skeletons. Combine a hook with 3 Iron Chains to make a Grappling Hook, which allows you to hoist yourself up and around caves and cliffs very quickly and easily. Skeletons are found relatively deep underground, in the "rock" layer.
- Potions - You can make HP restoring potions from mushrooms, slime gel, and bottles. You can make bottles from glass which you can craft from sand. Basic potions can be carried in stacks of 30 and heal 100HP. There is a cooldown timer of about 10 seconds before you can drink another potion. To make potions you need an Alchemy Station, by placing an empty bottle on a table.
- Cloud in a Bottle - Found randomly inside chests, this accessory allows you to Double Jump while equipped. Gives you a lot more mobility while navigating caves.
- Band of Regeneration - Your HP does not regen on it's own unless you equip one of these, it'll regen on it's own slowly. The effect stacks; so equipping more of them will make it regen quicker. These are found randomly inside chests.
- Flipper - This accessory allows you to jump an unlimited number of times while under water (ie: Swim). Until you get this or a Grappling Hook, it's recommended you stay out of any deep water or you'll probably drown.
Multiplayer
To play Multiplayer for now (until Steam integration is added in a few weeks) you have to:
1) Forward port 31337 to your computer from your router.
2) Run Terraria and select Host Multiplayer. Choose your world and the server will start. Windows Firewall may try to block this.
3) Minimise this "Dedicated Server".
4) Return to Steam and ren Terraria again. Steam will happily let you run two copies.
5) Use the second copy to connect to your own server. I had to use my Internet IP (and not 127.0.0.1) to make this work.
6) Tell your friends your Internet IP.
- Your character's main inventory and equipment is carried across worlds. So you can join someone elses server, bring things with you, and take anything you find back home.
- While in Multiplayer, the inventory screen has 5 "gems" above your equipment. These are teams/parties. Anyone who selects the same team/party will be able to see each other's HP and an on-screen indicator of where people are.
- Clicking the "swords" icon enables and disables PvP, it's off by default. Even with PvP off it is possible to accidentally kill each other with bombs and dynamite.
- Anything stored inside a Chest can be taken by anybody else. For secure storage, buy a Piggy Bank from the Merchant for 1 gold. The Piggy Bank is global across all worlds and instanced to whichever player tries to open it. No matter what world you are on, looking inside a Piggy Bank will show you only your items. If you're on a friends server and he has a piggy bank, you can look inside it to get at your own stuff you left back home.
Happy Digging!
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