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[Girlinhat]

On the other hand, mushrooms will grow on the surface naturally, so you can spread mud and then a few seeds.

[Frumple]

Ha, yes. That just takes a fairly significant amount of time and effort

... especially once you start succeeding and the ladybugs start spawning while you're spreading the biome further >_>

[Girlinhat]

That's why you lay out the mud BEFORE you start planting seeds - hopefully as you build in the mandatory lava pumps that allow you to purge the zone as needed.

I like to build these areas as ant farms, with the ability to purge or reshape them if an emergency arises.  Pumps, Dart Traps, and Explosives are involved.

[Mageziya]

I am... behind everyone else, but that that doesn't bother me. (Still pre-hardmode.)

Anyway, while in the jungle I found a machine in a chest that converts silt and slush into a random pre-hardmode/non-demonite metal. Seeing as how I can't get copper, iron, silver, or gold naturally in this world, I like it.

Also, what is the teal moss-lichen stuff commonly found underground? Grows only on stone, can have small vines. What is it?

[HissinhWalnuts]

The mushroom pet is the only useful pet(I think) as it makes light wherever it runs and can make a good a caving buddy.(If you don't have a fairy bell)

[Kagus]

Fairy bell, shadow orb, wisp in a bottle, or weapons/armor that generate light (not sure if the mythril armor bug still lets you SHINE LIKE A DIAMOND)...  There are of course other useful critters you can summon, but whether or not you want to classify them as "pets" is a different matter.

Also, some of the pets are just too damned adorable to leave alone.



As far as mushroom biomes go, mushroom grass (in my experience) grows incredibly slowly...  What I did when setting up our skybox mushroom farm was lay down the mudwork, plant jungle seeds, and the biomify it into mushrooms.  Jungle seeds are plentiful and the grass grows VERY quickly, so it's much faster to let that spread out and then hose it down instead of waiting for the shroomgrass to grow properly.

But yeah, I can sympathize with wanting more shroom biomes.  I've got an idea to gen a new world and hose down the entirety of the underground jungle and make it into a gigantic mushroom biome, and then go fungus huntin'...

[HissinhWalnuts]

Spectre armor works like a boss!

[Frumple]

Yeah... it's pretty definitively the go-to ridiculous armor for most things. Especially if you've got multiple people running around with it. It's definitely something when a pair of folks can just sit themselves inside plantera and take basically no damage. The HP goes down, the HP goes up, ayyiyiyi.

There's a few tricks the other armors can pull (tiki and turtle especially, methinks), but spectre's probably the "best" right now, at least for general use.

In other news, the crimson equivalent to crystal storm is just... it's definitely a thing. It's disturbingly effective for what it is, too. Especially if you're tiki-spec'd, since the debuff it inflicts reduces enemy defense.

Apropos to nothing, the way the pygmies surf around on their spears is entirely too adorable.

[HissinhWalnuts]

 Magnet sphere, Shadow Beam, and Inferno Fork are my arsenal for any enemy. Magnet sphere is good for extreme swarms, Shadow is good for works/Small groups, and inferno fork is for using specter armors leech life.

[Girlinhat]

I've been using the piranha gun for swarms, as long as you hold 'fire' it'll seek new enemies, so you can very easily sit atop a wall and watch it shred goblins.  For things like pirates, the rainbow gun owns.  Find any flat surface, fire the gun, and everything in a row dies.

[Rakonas]

What is the minimum amount of sky islands on a large world? I searched 1/3rd of the sky and found none using gravitation potions, but I hear there's at max 8. Really want to find them.

[Kagus]

Yes, the pygmies are just such incredibly adorable little murder machines...  I love them far too much.

Which is a shame, since I've blown all my money on reforges and such and can't afford the tiki armor anymore even when the good doctor IS selling it (multiplayer bug issues).

I've been playing tank/melee for our little server and, as mentioned earlier, we just recently unlocked the Vampire Knives.  And hooooooo....   Lemme tell you, Turtle + Vampire means NOTHING hurts you.  Pretty much the only time I can notice my health going down is when I've decided to stand inside a turtle (which means, funnily enough, that they hit harder than any of the bosses).  I can solo Plantera by just standing inside her and holding down the mouse button.  My health never drops.

Magic has the Spectre armor, melee has the Vampire Knives...  And ranged got left out of the bloodsucking deal.  In fact, ranged really doesn't seem to have gotten much love this update, seeing as the upgrades past the megashark are either unimplemented (SDMG), poorly implemented (Viper Magnum), or bugged (Uzi and its droprate, also the sniper rifle before the fix).  Plus there's that whole "stand still to fight properly" element involved with their top armor (although I will admit, it is quite fun to go stealth and hide places).


I think that they could at least have had more than just the Piranha Gun be considered a ranged weapon as far as biome rewards are concerned...  I mean, the corruption reward seems a perfect opportunity to slap the range tag on something.  Melee already had so many awesome endgame weapons to pick from, and magic has basically just dominated this update.

[HissinhWalnuts]

I thought magic didn't have enough variety till this update... now its perfecto!

[Flying Dice]

So the Piranha gun's big feature, the lock-on-till-death-or-release? Doesn't work in PvP. Yeah.

[Frumple]

Well, ranged does have nice new toys... tac shotgun hurts like the buggery, and the rocket launcher can do some work. Especially with higher mark rockets, methinks, though I've only messed with the mark 1s so far. Still, shroomite non-rocket hat and it was hitting about as hard as the initial inferno fork shot, if not the lingering bit, which isn't bad at all.

Either of the high velo weapons (magnum, sniper rifle) can be kinda' fun, too. Stick high velocity bullets into 'em and giggle at the hitscan~ Damage is definitely comparatively (to magic, melee, tac shotgun) crap, though. Even 500+ damage crits on stealthed sniper shots is puny compared to the combined damage of a fork fireball (two shot wyverns, yes yes.).

I'm definitely digging all the extra ammo types. They can be fairly interesting. S'all pretty much suboptimal compared to the higher tier magic and melee stuff, but... it's still pretty sexy.