If you have immunity to lava, I'd say travel by lava, just be cautious because if you die and your items drop to lava, bye bye. The pro for this is the lava flow acts as one great flow of torches, it adds lighting like 2 squares width? Anyways if you're feeling risky, I'd suggest trying that method of travel. As for mining/travelling, my main objective is the portal pieces. I scour side to side using zoomed out version of the map to torch up dark spots, looking for caverns and then exploring these caverns in its entirety. I managed to find Pegasus boots, elegant dark boots, red dress shirt, spider set maul, sailor hat, blast helm today (I'm by no means an "expert" just thought I'd share since I'm also new)! I get really excited finding these kinds of goodies, it's what makes junk jack so much fun heh!
This game is so boss, i found a diving helmet! With that i used the water mining method. Its good for saving ladders and torches
So in creative mode do you get everything? Infinite amount of all the items? I haven't unlocked it it yet, so I'm just wondering thanx.
Another question (bear with me ) If I buy the IAP that unlocks all the world, will that also unlock creative mode?
There are 3 world classes, all unlocked from the beginning irrespective of IAP: Adventure Stand Alone Creative Adventure is what the game starts you on by default, starts on a Terra type world, spawns portal pieces, and by traveling through the successive portals unlocks the other 4 planet types (Seth, Alba, Xeno, and Magmar). Stand Alone is what it sounds like: a world that isn't linked to any other (so no portal pieces spawn and portal pieces you bring there don't function in it), but is otherwise similar to Adventure. Once you've unlocked a planet type, you can create a new stand alone world of that planet type any time you want. Creative is a world of whatever planet type you choose (have to unlock the types of course) but gives you infinite blocks of all types to build your butt off. You can still mine, but nothing drops, you're just clearing blocks. Anyhow, to create a Creative map, go to the "Worlds" button on the main menu, click the '+', select the planet type you want, check Creative in the option above the Generate button and there you go.
Having looked into this game further and read I can play the game without needing to buy iap's and the iap's don't restrict you, they are only there for impatient/lazy people and children. I've now bought the game, very impressed with it. Great fun! One thing though.. When I start a new world, it gives me all the equipment I was carrying on the old world, I'd like to start a new world anew, ie having nothing at all, is that possible?
I wind up saving pretty much everything, although with the 999 stack limit in this game, that's not always practical for some of the really common stuff like dirt and plain old no prefix stone and have been deleting excess of that. Grey outline stuff that has no inherent or crafting function I'll put some on display if it looks cool enough (e.g. in the original JJ there was a Christmas zombie that rarely dropped a santa hat, and "junk" or not, it looked cool and went in the display cabinets when I got one ), but otherwise trash the rest. I never know what I'll get a hair in my rear to build and it's a lot easier to store stuff I might never use in a chest than get an idea and realize, DOH, I'd just been throwing that block type out and now I have to go look for it.
First, glad you came to your senses. At any rate, as to your question, the answer is not really. This game is not Minecraft, nor is it a survival game as many picture it. It's a game about a little dimension hopping dude who spends most of his time alone traveling across alternate worlds where the only people he encounters are dimension hoppers like himself. The game is made to have your character persistent while worlds are just resources. You *can* drop everything off in a chest on one world before going to another, but you'll still keep all your discovered recipes and you'd probably get bored of doing this rather quickly as the game has never been designed or balanced to play this way. In fact, the game *assumes* an increasing degree of advanced technology when you go to the successive non-Terra planet types.
If you had a tunnel with enormous empty space in all directions, how would a torch grid look like if you want to prevent enemies from spawning yet use as little torches as possible?
I believe this may have been asked before, but its quite hard for me to backtrack into lots of pages. Do you think I should get Terraria, or JJX? I havent tried these types of games yet, if that helps.
Has anyone else been having some slow down issues on occasion? It runs perfect and than sometimes very sluggish. Even after I adjusted the graphics. It seems to be a 60% - 40% split where 60% of the time it runs well or at least not bogged down.
This has been asked so many times, but it's a great question. It's also very hard to answer. The best way I can answer this is asking you what you're looking for in the game. 1. Are you looking for an adventure, complete with RPG and Sim aspects? 2. Is multiplayer a big deal to you? 3. Also are you the type that wants to just explore and build? If you answered yes to the first question, I recommend Terraria. If you answered yes to both or one of the last two questions, I recommend JJX. In my experience with these games, I'd argue that JJX is a bit more deep, but that doesn't mean Terraria isn't if that makes sense. They're both sandbox games, just with different game play elements. Edit, Some people have compared Terraria to a platformer but in a sandbox world.
This helps a lot. Thanks! I might go for Terraria if it means that it has more "direction". Is this correct?
I personally got JJX as it was developed for the iPod/ipad whereas terraria is a port. Also I think JJX is the better 'sandbox' game.
I like you and Midian, you both have interesting POVs and express yourselves very well (albeit sometimes with insults ). But here, I think semantics are getting in the way of what basically boils down to "I play the game differently from you, I hope there are changes made that accommodate my playstyle" and "I hope those changes don't mess up everyone else's experience". It's totally reasonable to hold these opinions, of course. But I'd really not like to get into a whole rhetoric analysis if possible. You two are cool, you don't need to be sniping at each other. Don't get me wrong, though, I totally understand how this sort of thing happens. It's the internet, tone and body language are absent making words easy to misinterpret (not to mention everyone has slightly different meanings attached to words), plus we gamers are naturally protective of perceived insults toward the games we love. Ah, forgive me. I've got linguistics class next. I actually found a 5th Magmar portal before I left Xeno! Terra has some blocks that aren't broken except with Spoiler Mithril tools, a material you don't get in much quantity until Seth and later. Awesome! The last thing I did in JJ, was I started removing every block from a world. I mean, what if there were undiscovered special treasures? I'll be going back to other planets for more thorough exploration. I don't have a palace yet, and haven't decided on what material to use (I currently have a bamboo house). Though I have my second draft of my garden, it's beginning to shape up. Fun, isn't it? I always play in several hour bursts. That's part of why I got offended at the implication that I was a "casual" gamer, just because I play on peaceful. (Nothing wrong with casual gamers, mind you! I don't like seeing it used as an insult.) My mind is a little weird, I have a hard time switching between tasks. So once I get started on a game, it's hard for me to stop playing until I'm well and truly satisfied. Or people who want to support the dev, or people who want to have a little extra fun. Relax. IAP isn't the devil's handmaiden. The speed messes up on me around sunset/sunrise -- slows down, and sometimes speeds up randomly. Only when I'm aboveground -- When I'm underground everything's smooth as butter. I changed some of the graphics settings to smooth things out.
Definitely more direction, as you progress in Terraria there is sort of a "meta quest" where you encounter and recruit various NPCs to live in your village and take on stronger and stronger bosses in structured biomes in the world. I prefer the Junk Jack games myself, but Terraria is a very good game worth your time (and, although controversial, the balance changes made for bringing it to mobile are more newb friendly than the PC/console versions)
This will be further improved in the upcoming update. The backgrounds are rendered as different layers in the current version so low memory/slow processor devices (mainly the first gen iPad and the 4G touch) choke on the sunset/sunrise transition. XsX flattened all the layers, so other than a tiny hiccup when the transition starts for affected devices, it's fixed
