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[Sharp]

Kill Plantera after activating hard-mode

[Tiruin]

Man, I went out of my way to plumb the depths of an easy mode jungle, just to see what a jungle temple looks like, and I find one and it's locked behind a door?

Man, what key is this even. How do I get in here?

Beware the Temple denizens!

You seriously don't want to get in there for a new character. Really. If you can't handle Plantera, then you can't handle the temple.

[Kagus]

The denizens aren't even really the hard part, you can take them all out by just clinging to the ceiling.  It's the traps you gotta watch out for.


But yeah, the temple is late-hardmode only.  You only get the key from killing a very powerful boss who only shows up after killing one of the other hardmode bosses (the mechanical dudes).

...or, you farm chaos elementals until you get the rod of discord to drop, and just teleport yourself into the temple.

[majikero]

The wiki says you can put teleporters inside and simply bypass the door if the ground is flat enough.

[Trapezohedron]

The wiki says you can put teleporters inside and simply bypass the door if the ground is flat enough.

Which is what I did, because Plantera bulbs are quite rare and I didn't want to deface my world searching for them, strangely enough.

[Darkmere]

Which is what I did, because Plantera bulbs are quite rare and I didn't want to deface my world searching for them, strangely enough.

.... Huh? They're just glowy pink flowers you have to mine to destroy. You don't have to destroy anything to get to them?

[lemon10]

He couldn't find his at all, and thus the only option would have been to tear apart half the jungle to find it in some tiny area off screen.

[Trapezohedron]

Yep. Right now, I'm thinking of farming for rods of discord just to get there.

PS: Shadowbeam staff gets a nerf, but discord does not get a large mana cost penalty when it could be made a viable boss-dodging support? :O

[Niveras]

I'm trying to create "shrines" underground for farming souls of light/night: a chunk of of pearl/ebonstone (~50 blocks, not in the same place and in otherwise pure caves) unattached to anything so it doesn't spread further, with 49 meteorite blocks around it so I can just place one more block to get meteor heads to spawn.

The pearlstone shrine worked fine, changes the biome (water changes colour). But when I duplicated it elsewhere with ebonstone, I don't get a change in biome/spawn/water colour so things aren't dropping souls of night. Any recommendations? Maybe I need to put it deeper? Does ebonstone not count as corruption?

When I created the hallow shrine, most of the blocks I placed were just stone that I converted with holy water. The "altar" is large enough that the biome changed before all of it was converted. The corruption shrine, I placed ebonstone directly, but even after placing the entire altar the biome still did not change. Afterwards I tried the same thing as hallow, placed stone and used unholy water, but still no change in biome. I had one eater of souls spawn while I was moving around the cave but no biome change, even momentary, and all other spawns have been regular cave enemies.

[Kagus]

According to the wiki, you need a whole 200 blocks in order for an artificial corruption biome to be created.  Not entirely sure why hallow takes so much less.


Also, I thought eaters of souls didn't spawn that far down...  Either you're placing it too far up and won't get souls dropped, or they've changed something.

[Niveras]

The problem was creating the biome, not trying to spawn the right enemy (as you may have noticed, the whole plan was to get meteor heads to drop the souls, not necessarily biome-specific enemies). The EoS was just a weird outlier since I wouldn't have expected it to spawn when it wasn't yet a corrupt biome. (Also, it may have been a corruptor, I don't remember, just that it was a flying thing from corruption.)

According to the wiki, you need a whole 200 blocks in order for an artificial corruption biome to be created.  Not entirely sure why hallow takes so much less.

Thanks, I'll try expanding the altar.

[Kagus]

If you drag him over to the hallow, he'll run away and despawn.  I have a world where the hallow stripe from hardmode painted the better part of some natural corruption caverns, complete with shadow orbs.  I smashed three while in the mostly corrupt side, then grappled over the the hallowed side and he pissed off before I could make mincemeat of him.


But yeah, every segment-kill counts as a potential soul drop.  Quite nice, although I do tend to feel a little bad about punishing the poor guy like that...

Yeah, corruptor makes more sense.  I know those guys spawn in the underground corruption.  Man, y'know...  They're really not that scary now that they don't spread corruption.


Also, does anybody know what exactly that cave grass stuff is?  Y'know, the kinda moss that grows on some stone bits underground?  I've seen different colors and whatnot, and I know it spreads like grass to other adjacent stone tiles, but I can't find any reference to it on the wiki and I don't really know what it's "officially" supposed to be called.  I just know that I quite like it, and try to help it spread whenever I can...

[Sharp]

The moss type stuff is called moss I believe.

[forsaken1111]

Or Lichen

[Mageziya]

I find the moss stuff to be a nice detail, bringing more of a sense of life to the caves. Shame it doesn't do anything.... or does it?

Anyway, early Hardmode is going swell. Got a corrupt key (Yes, I know I am very lucky.), looted the corrupt chest from the dungeon (Hadn't killed any bosses yet, so dungeon wasn't scary yet.), beat the crap out of the Destroyer, built Megashark, got Steampunker, and built my first teleporter loop. (From Steampunker's room to just below boss arena.)

That's about it so far.