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[0x517A5D]

I am stuck in fullscreen mode. It says it switches to windowed, but it doesn't changing the "borderless" mode does nothing and changing the resolution keeps it in fullscreen mode. No idea what's going on and google isn't helping.

EDIT: Aaaaaand my UI is gone.

Does Alt-Enter toggle windowed/fullscreen for you?  It does for me.

The UI disappearing sounds like that screenshot mode hotkey.  I think it's on F1.

[Micro102]

The UI came back when I reset the game, as for alt+enter, nope, interestingly enough it does toggle between windows and fullscreen in the actual options menu, but my screen stays fullscreen.

[Akura]

Took several hours, but I finally killed a damn nymph.

...No Metal Detector though.

Detected three of them before that, but all three despawned before I could find them.

[0x517A5D]

The UI came back when I reset the game, as for alt+enter, nope, interestingly enough it does toggle between windows and fullscreen in the actual options menu, but my screen stays fullscreen.

Found it, I think.  The wiki says:

Resolution sub-menu
Borderless Windows:  Enabled - or - Disabled

Sets the window resolution to the native desktop as well as removing the title bar and window frame. This setting can be useful when using and switching between multiple monitors. This setting is not visible during gameplay and can only be changed from the main menu.

(Bold added.)


Edit: Also, the toggle-HUD key is F11.

[Micro102]

The UI came back when I reset the game, as for alt+enter, nope, interestingly enough it does toggle between windows and fullscreen in the actual options menu, but my screen stays fullscreen.

Found it, I think.  The wiki says:

Resolution sub-menu
Borderless Windows:  Enabled - or - Disabled

Sets the window resolution to the native desktop as well as removing the title bar and window frame. This setting can be useful when using and switching between multiple monitors. This setting is not visible during gameplay and can only be changed from the main menu.

(Bold added.)


Edit: Also, the toggle-HUD key is F11.

That did it! Thought I could have sworn I tried that, I must have done something stupid like not apply it do a different resolution. Sincerely, thank you.

[Akura]

Finally got the Metal Detector. I still can't find any credence to the rumor that killing your first nymph increases their spawn rate. Maybe? But the appearance rate is so low it hardly matters.

Spoiler: My pre-hardmode checklist (click to show/hide)

Acquire Goblin Tech
Acquire REK3000
Optional: Acquire Fish Finder
--Optional: Craft Cell Phone
Build arena to later face Skeletron Prime and the Twins.
Build arena to fight the Destroyer
Build arena to fight the Wall of Flesh.
Acquire all pre-hardmode components of Zenith. Basically, all I need is Star Fury, Bee Keeper, and Copper Shortsword(I sold mine before learning of the Zenith). Oh, and Enchanted Sword, which may require world-scumming. I've found one shrine in my main world, but it was fake(and not a Terragrim). Arguably faster and easier than trying to grind golden crates.
Acquire pre-hardmode components of Ankh Shield. ...I have to double-check what I have.
One or two other things I'll probably only remember as I'm summoning the Wall of Flesh.

They also appear to have fixed liquids duplicating while flowing, meaning that the exploit of pumping liquids from the bottom of a pachinko machine-like tank to the top no longer generates infinite liquid. At the least, I didn't notice any increase from a single bucket's worth of honey on a small liquid generator after a few minutes of operation.

[Great Order]

I found an enchanted sword rock while exploring underground. It seems they're no longer limited to the shrines.

[0x517A5D]

I found an enchanted sword rock while exploring underground. It seems they're no longer limited to the shrines.

They always have been findable underground, just incredibly rare.  Like one-per-world rare.


Last night, I spoiled myself on the new torches.  Is there any in-game hinting about how they work?  I can't think of any, and was very surprised.  And angered.

[Frumple]

Apparently the wizard gives some indication? Can't find mention of anything else via google, though.

Spoiler: mention of a shitty mechanic in the new patch the changelog says nothing about (click to show/hide)

Also apparently they've capped torch luck at zero, so at least normal torches aren't, like, extra screwing you or something? There's explicit description of the code et al online now.

It definitely looks like a mechanic I'm going to cheerfully install a mod to make fuck off forever whenever modloader gets updated, though. I could see the rest of the

Spoiler: mention of a shitty mechanic in the new patch the changelog says nothing about (click to show/hide)

luck mechanic

maybe sticking around, so long as it's not balanced by reducing old drop rates, but the torch aspect is just bloody asinine.

[0x517A5D]

Maybe put that inside a Spoiler box?  Except the bit about the Wizard.  That not a spoiler.

Terraria Wiki says that the new mechanic used to go negative until the 1.4.0.3 patch.  In retrospect, that really sucked.  Nothing like something weird affecting your farming.

[Frumple]

Wait, put what? I can't see anything more explicit than what you've got out in the open there

Unless you're just talking about the existence of a new

Spoiler: mention of a shitty mechanic in the new patch the changelog says nothing about (click to show/hide)

luck mechanic

at all?

... actually, now that I look at the changelog again, it literally might be. I can find no goddamn mention of it at all in the thing. What the hell.

Give me a bit to figure out how much spite makes me want to just leave that out in the open

[Akura]

The antivirus software Kaspersky seems to be flagging Terraria's executable as a trojan, going so far as to delete it without asking. Good thing I don't use Kasperksy.

I found an enchanted sword rock while exploring underground. It seems they're no longer limited to the shrines.

They always have been findable underground, just incredibly rare.  Like one-per-world rare.

Spoiler: Is it really a spoiler? Eh, probably (click to show/hide)

Pre-1.4 worlds had a set number based on world size: Just one for small worlds, I think, and four for large. In 1.4 it's random and not guaranteed to generate one but a shrine will always have a real sword. Also, sword rocks(either real or fake) can spawn in random places with no indication they're there, as Great Order has found.

Spoiler: re: torch luck (click to show/hide)

Patch notes for 1.4.0.3(currently the latest version) say they removed torch bad luck effects. Prior, you had to match the torches you were placing to the biome you were in, or else every torch in a certain radius of you would reduce your hidden luck stat. Normal torches - the basic ones you craft from wood and gel - always had a luck penalty. The correct torch(like ice torches for ice biomes) would give a luck bonus. I think the bonus is still it, it's just the luck penalty that was removed because people were pissed about it when they found out.

[Frumple]

Spoiler: more about the shitty invisible mechanic in the new patch the initial changelog made no mention of (click to show/hide)

I'unno, as near as I can tell it wasn't exactly removed so much as the max penalty capped? So it's still a negative/offsets "correct" torches, it just can't take the whole thing below zero or offset anything except other torches. In other words it won't necessarily hurt you anymore, but using other torches is always the better choice* (so long as they're not one of the other ones that can have bad torch luck, anyway).

*i.e. vaguely optimized play is going to have a half a bloody dozen different types of torches junking up your inventory

[0x517A5D]

The other day, I was just thinking to myself, "self, you have too many free slots in your inventory and piggy bank.  You should find more stuff to carry around."

Problem solved!


Pinky has a little Pinky-sized balloon!  So cute.


Notes on farming gnomes:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Gnomes most often spawn in living trees.  They can also spawn underground (though in the surface layer) where there is a natural dirt background.

Gnomes turn into garden gnome statues when they enter a tile without a background -- i.e. sky.

So, to farm them, they need to be kited into the sunlight.

There are two related problems: gnomes can't jump very high, and they also tend to just run back and forth on level surfaces.

The solution I found is to lay a diagonal platform staircase down the living tree trunk passage.

The gnomes will follow the stairs up, turn around, start going down, and jump to the next level of the staircase.  It's pretty reliable.

[ChairmanPoo]

I've had this for a while but never got into it until a few days ago. Any tips?