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[Aklyon]

Should be interesting.

[nenjin]

Assuming they're willing to sell the rights to the code. Which, with Starbound obviously taking as much from Terraria it can, seems a little less likely.

[Mephisto]

Mini bump?

Rage does not adequately express my feelings at the moment. I decided to finally tackle the hardmode bosses. I had my arena set up, I had my CAR. I had one stack of crystal bullets, two of meteor, and one of silver. I had my potions.

Then I go to activate the mechanical eye. I summon Skeletron Prime by mistake. What then happens is an epic fight with me barely hanging on. I finally begin to gain the upper hand. SP is down to 2,000 or so hit points. I forget to heal myself when my potion sickness wears off.

Well, that sucks. SP is gone and I have naught to show for it but a much emptier potion chest, a slightly less full piggy bank, and a stack of 20 silver shot.

[SirAaronIII]

I died the first time on the Destroyer because I didn't know what to do at all. I found that melee was better and easier but more painful for you.

[Itnetlolor]

Some good advice is to find heart statues, if possible, and add them to your arena (preferably set to a repeater timer). That should help with all arena battles.

What also helps is crafting as many status effect potions as possible of each kind, and carry all the useful for battle types on hand (3-5 of each). Just as the battle begins, hit 'B' to drink them all to gain the buffs at once.

Regarding battling The Destroyer, I advise you take the time to craft a Dao of Pow. It's a good weapon to have, and it doesn't require any materials from any of the late-game bosses to craft, and against The Destroyer, you can smash him a good 12 times per shot (accumulating a good 1500 damage per swing), provided you let him pass through you (regen potion, a cross necklace, and the heart statues will make you last longer than you think, with the occasional mega potion; the (obsidian) shield will also help in keeping you immobile for the best shot opportunities).

As for the other guys, kill Destroyer first and use it's remains to craft a Megashark, and use the Megashark with a full stock (1000x) of cursed bullets (Thanks to the 50% chance of no ammo spent, you should more likely shoot up to 1500 bullets) to take on the rest. That ammo will last. When facing off against the twins, take your time and focus on one eye at a time. I suggest the fireball one first, and then the laser one last. Fireball is a pest (chases you and sets you on fire; second phase being even worse), and laser eye keeps it's distance all the time. And for Skeleteron Prime, again, Megashark. Keep firing, and make sure your buffs are always active. It will take awhile, but you should be able to win more easily.

However, what always helps, armor, armor, armor. Take the time to craft a full set of adamantite armor, and just as well, earn enough cash to reforge all the equipment you're going to use to in battle to have the +4 defense buff each. A set of angel/demon wings won't hurt either (and have those +4 defense as well (barding, I think the prefix was called)). In my battles, I had the full set, and at least 4 of 5 equipment with +4 def, so I was well over 60, even 70, defense when I battled).

Oh yeah, and don't knock magic books, they help a good deal and they also make use of the mana regen buff while at it. Demon Scythe (especially Godly) works wonders in damaging these guys along with a followup volley of Megasharking (or Dao of Pow in Destroyer's case). With Demon Scythe, lead your target into the scythes as they begin their slow acceleration, and watch the life plummet (and like with Destroyer, shoot for the head as he goes through your guy, and then follow through with Dao when you run out of MP, and repeat once you're full again).

EDIT:
I was surprised at how easy Destroyer is compared to the other guys. I actually was able to kill it twice in one night with the same setup I mentioned.

[Trapezohedron]

Speaking of heart statues, it's better to use pressure plates instead of repeaters, since you can get more hearts out of it without having to wait for the cooldown to finish.

And Megashark is OP. Mix it with crystal bullets, and watch as you rip SP and The Twins apart with great force.

If you have a cross necklace, cobalt shield and a stack of meteorites + heart statues/healing potions, you can use those to sponge up most of the damage the hardmode bosses deal.

[Itnetlolor]

That's actually a rather interesting guide there. I gotta set that up now.

EDIT:
Tested it out. I have 2 heart statues, and using one to get 6 hearts worked as they said it would. Had to modify my personal arena a bit, but I only had to drink 1 mega potion the entire time, and that was when I was backed into a corner. (VS. The Twins)

[Ultimuh]

I still haven't gotten around to kill the twins or skeletron prime for their souls.
(Too hard for me to do it alone.)
No bay12 servers are online when I am.. 

[Person]

The game isn't quite dead. People have created all sorts of minigames like Capture the Gem, Kill the king, defend the fortress, etc. I've played a quite s bit of CTG and it's pretty good.

[Neonivek]

The game isn't quite dead. People have created all sorts of minigames like Capture the Gem, Kill the king, defend the fortress, etc. I've played a quite s bit of CTG and it's pretty good.

That is what I'd call floundering. It isn't dead just yet but it is getting there.

[Itnetlolor]

Has there been any modding in this game yet, or are they not intending on releasing the source code for that kind of stuff?

[nenjin]

Mods have been underway now for several months. They did everything short of releasing the source code, I believe. Unfortunately, Terraria modding is a lot like Skyrim modding; you gotta sort through a lot of people's OP fantasies to find a mod that is good.

The largest share of mods are re-textures I believe.

[SalmonGod]

The Obsidian Mod featured on the front page a while back looked promising.  I plan on checking it out sometime.

[Rex_Nex]

I dunno, I never felt like Terraria's modding scene really ever took off for whatever reason. Not as much as I expected, at least.

[Darkmere]

There was one fairly ambitious mod a while back that added a hunger meter and had quite a bit of sprite work. Apologies if it's already been mentioned, I have no idea what the name of it was. I was kinda hoping Redigit would do some official support of modding tools, but...... lol, I guess.

I'm not angry that the project's over or anything, and Red has the right to do whatever he wants, but that was a pretty tactless way to go, and his recent "Oh I'd love for a team of modders to pick up and do stuff!" comment just seems hollow.

Ninja'd!

I dunno, I never felt like Terraria's modding scene really ever took off for whatever reason. Not as much as I expected, at least.

If memory serves, the first few people who came out with modded content at TOnline got banned, didn't they? There was some kind of drama over it (there's always some kind of drama over there), and I think people were gunshy for a while.