Where do you find iron and what tool do you use to mine it? I have soooo much stone and I guess not enough iron to make iron weapons yet. How do you make iron pick axe and hammer?
It only lessens the need for torches if you're suicidal. The light is bright enough to see what you're doing but is only about 60% the brightness of a torch and it only extends in a circle about 5 squares in diameter (about 2 squares out in every direction from your character). It's useful for ducking down into a cave or other niche, but is no substitute for laying regular torches both for seeing stuff farther away and minimizing enemy spawns.
Iron starts appearing once you get down past the all soft earth layer and start finding stone. It usually appears in stone or better. I think stone tools work, if not, copper, which is easier to find, will do the trick. All metal tools are crafted at the anvil.
You'll probably be placing torches anyway, there's not enough light to really give you a clear view of your surroundings and people usually want their mining tunnels to be visible on the map and quick to return through which is made easier by proper lighting. Plus torches are fun.
Is there a way hang lamps and the like lower? I tried to attach it to a chain hanging from the ceiling, which didn't work. Also combining chains and lamps on the crafting grid had no effect.
I'm sure this has been mentioned earlier in the thread but I wanted to bring it up because I find it so damned helpful- Anyone frustrated with dying and loosing all their inventory I find these two strategies very helpful- 1- Carry a bed with you everywhere You can place a bed, tap it to move your spawn point, then use a hammer to pick it back up. Your spawn point stays even if the bed isn't there anymore. This way if you set regular points and die, you don't have to worry about not getting to your gear in time. 2- Create a vault world Simple. Create a non-adventure world, lay down a ton of chests, then whenever you run out of space in adventure mode or are fearful of impending death just exit the game and pop over to your "vault" world. This helps accumulate tons of materials for crafting and building that would normally be sacrificed to create space for rarer items. I find I don't really need to use these strategies anymore but hopefully it helps some of the newer players out there.
Your vault world idea is interesting but you claim for it to be a non adventure works do you mean you create it as a creative world? I'm trying to better understand what the difference is from a "adventure" world vs "creative world" I've created three terra adventure worlds. One is my main world for crating my home. The second is for mining and third is for farming and chopping wood etc.... All three are "adventure" mode worlds.
What "fix" are you hoping for? Bed sets spawn point; there MUST be a spawn point, which is merely a set of grid coordinates; ergo working as intended. Would you be happier if after you moved the spawn point it simply deleted your character if the bed was missing? That's about the only fix I can see that would satisfy you since the next "cheat" you'd complain about is carrying wood, cloth and workbench to just craft a new bed while mining and leaving the bed behind. The material cost of beds is so trivial that any so called fix would merely add an extra step to the tactic.
You could "fix" it like this: if at the set spawn point there is no bed, then you don't respawn there but instead at the world's very first default starting location.
Which would require a change to both the world data format, beds, and re-writing the entire re-spawning function and yet result in no fix whatsoever because not only does it not stop it, it's not remotely an issue. Again, you can instantly teleport across 20 different worlds by design, exit a map where you're being overwhelmed with mobs, come back and they're all gone, etc.. There is no issue to begin with, but even assuming you want to tell yourself it is one, the whole matter would simply continue with you leaving beds across your map since they cost about as much as a used gum wrapper. But, perhaps the biggest argument is that the whole tactic is just plain stupid and doesn't really accomplish anything. I've never moved my spawn from my bed in whatever shack/home/palace I have in a world and the one and only time I wasn't able to retrieve my goods after dying was when I had a mine shaft going straight down with no trap doors to stop a fall. A mob blew up the ladder, I fell to my death, and I had no way to get to my stuff. That's once in close to 2 years without ever resorting to moving my spawn point closer to where I was mining. The problem does not exist anywhere but in your heads.
Sounds like you already have the basics down if you've created a stand-alone world for your house. When you create a new world (hit the plus button) you have multiple menu options, adventure, Tera, Seth, etc.... Say you create a new Terra world- you then have the option to turn on creative mode. If you're doing the vault world then you do not want to check creative as you can't bring your inventory into it. Just create it as a normal world (you'll get the warning that its a stand-alone world and portal pieces don't spawn there). You can now go back to playing your adventure mode game and quit out of it whenever you like, then enter your vault world from the menu and you'll have all of your inventory in your backpack. You're free to move inventory between your adventure mode game and your terra worlds so dump any stuff you don't need for exploring into chests. When you return to your adventure mode game (little rocket icon) you'll be right where you left off.
Whether you meant it to or not, that part sounded very arrogant. Hope you feel suitably superior. I'd stated that it was a tip to help people who were new to the game and having problems- which judging by the thread, some are. If people are saying that they died and lost all their inventory, how is that in their heads? There's no "wrong" or "stupid" way to play a sandbox game. Just because people don't subscribe to the same OCD style of playing that you apparently do is no reason to act like a jerk and insult people. Given the scope of the underground areas, the extreme distance you have to travel sometimes to return home and the labyrinth of tunnels that can result from mining, moving spawn points make plenty of sense- especially if you're new to this type of game. I've had a couple of occasions where moving my spawn point did indeed help. I'm also more of a gung-ho player. I find it a waste of time and resources to plan a return to an area that will likely never happen by constantly crafting and placing ladders and trap doors behind me when making just one bed works better. And there are easier ways to get back to the surface in this game (waterfalls or block "elevators").
Sat down yesterday and found my way to the 4th world. This place is pretty wacky! I found some awesome Frog Boots on Alba. They add to my movement speeds quite a bit. Between them, the WFN, the Primitive Silk Tunic (or whatever it's called), and the Ninja Helm, I run like the wind! I've actually swapped the Ninja Helm out for a helm I found that protects against explosions. That's how it is in Terraria. I liked to keep multiple waystations in my game. I usually converted naturally occurring buildings. I kitted them out with a bed, chests, and eventually crafting stations (usually just the stuff needed for collapsing your inventory, so stuff like a Hellforge, etc). I'm actually a little sad that nothing encourages me to build multiple houses in JJX.
I just got JJX a day ago and have self-learned everything pretty fast, the learning process was extremely rewarding and satisfying. today I self-discovered the Bed tactic and came on here to see if anyone else has mentioned it! currently I am in my mining world, past 3 Biomes down like super deep, and have used the Bed tactic to save my ass pretty much a few times. it is really useful because the deeper I went, the rate of insane mobs spawning is like every few seconds, (even when I already placed torches every few steps) I have on gold armor but it still gets super risky when I am surrounded by a sudden wave of no less than 3 mobs who all shoot projectiles. and worse case scenario what if my quick slot was missing my sword or healing pots? you mean, to prove that I am "professional", I have to skip the bed tactic, and risk having to race past 3 biomes down within 5 mins just to get all my items back? plus, for this particular mining expedition I didn't use ladders to fill in the gaps, so in order to rush back down without jumping to my death, I would have to DIG all the way down. seriously, this tactic isn't only for newbies, I feel that it isn't cheating at all but a legit piece of strategic planning. I agree with everything @themostunclean has said. @C.Hannum you were indeed super arrogant in your little speech, and this forum needs less statements like that. what were you trying to prove, that your skills are superior and tactics which provide easier gameplay are just plain stupid and don't do anything? people who just got JJX and have no clue how to mine would really benefit from tactics like that, and they deserve to get all the help we can provide.
OMG I love your comment cottonball lmao TOO CUTE. I wished there was more to breeding, other than just keeping them alive. my cows are eating away my energy (and I keep breeding them just because watching the calfs appearing is so adorable). but they eat. too. fast. and I keep accidentally making steaks out of them by poking too fast. they won't die even if I starve them, right?
Reading comprehension much? I said nothing about you suggesting it as a tip even if I think it's not much of one. My beef is with foolish positions like MidianGTX and Power Gamer calling this something the game should be stopping people from doing *at all* because it's somehow "cheating". In other words, my "arrogant" writing was the exact opposite of how you interpreted it.
Correct. It's a five-minute job. It's the only way he can make his flawed opinions sound significant.
While I am frequently arrogant, and unapologetically so, themostunclean completely misunderstood me, as did you. What I was getting at was merely pointing out that, no, the tactic is not "close to cheating" as MidianGTX said since it's not even very useful. If someone wants to use it, let them. It's not my style. My argument is agaisnt this idea that JJX needs all these "fixes". Feel better about yourself for being arrogant about arrogance?
