So this isn't really something I've looked into before, but since I now have a world I care about very, very much my paranoia is getting to me. :) Con someone recommend me a good utility for automatic world backups that works with BTW? Preferably one that keeps multiple backups - the more I can cust...

Well, my "luck" continues. Built another nether road, 500 blocks in a different direction. Made the portal. Hit ocean. Crap. Backed up 100 blocks. 3200 blocks in the overworld probably isn't far enough for villages, but it's a start. This time the portal hit land. Finally. Went through, tu...

...And my bad luck continues. Remember kids: ALWAYS put a roof over your animal farms. Some of you may recall in another post my being proud of putting the work into getting renewable ham & eggs going; that has been my primary food source for ages now. A stray lightning bolt just wiped out my en...

This took me a while to figure out: Shears are a godsend. Take the time to train your reflexes: If you see anything but a creeper, switch to your sword or bow. If you see a creeper, switch to your shears. It is immensely safer than any other way of dealing with them. Shears can also save your life i...

Having just had one myself, I thought I'd start a threat for people to share their facepalm moments. So, doing fairly well in my current world, all the way up to crucible tech, so I decided it's time to finish the nether road I'd started earlier. Hours of work went into this 600-block path through t...

My roommate and I spend basically our entire game so far working towards a single goal: Renewable ham and eggs. I am happy to say we recently achieved it, and it's definitely something worth working towards in the early-ish game. Sugar is really easy to grow in large numbers, and eggs of course are ...

Ya know, I'm with FC on this one. "Realism" has no place in gameplay. "Verisimilitude" is what is critical, and what BTW has in spades. EDIT: Ninja'd by Sarudak. Yeah, internal consistency is what matters. It's what people actually notice missing when they play a game. You can th...

So I lurk mostly here, partly because I don't have much to say, partly because I sometimes disagree with FlowerChild on a personal level, and partly because I often don't think before I speak and that leads to... Well, I try to lurk a lot. However, some recent... sentiments?... expressed on the foru...

Thanks for the advice, guys. I'm planning on building my mobtrap fairly early in the tech tree - I'm gonna use my first cauldron as the collector for it, so I will be a ways short of saws. It's sounding like most of the drawbacks can be worked around - the light and flammables are a non-issue since ...

So I'm lucky enough in my current world to have surface lava right near my base, with a nearby lake well above the level of the lava. As such, I'm considering using a lava blade as the killing point of my mobtrap. I've never built such a trap before, and I was wondering if it has any major shortcomi...

Well, have been playing Enemy Within a fair bit and really enjoying it. I think the thing I'm noticing most, more than the MECs and Gene Mods and new foes, is the polish. The interface is ~worlds~ better, with a bunch of little bugs and glitches and annoyances fixed. There's a button to auto-unequip...

I go for the time consuming but completely secure method: I build walls. 5-block high dirt walls with crenelations, battlements, an exterior lip to block spiders, and a few windows placed for observation. And then I curse loudly every time an Enderman teleports into my compound and nearly kills me. ...

Yeah, there's definitely some awesome new hardmode content. I think my favorite is the Tiki armor. My g/f adores it - she uses the full armor plus both the accessories, and it's hilariously awesome to see her little mob of pygmies swarm over anything that gets close to her. :) Plus the "flying&...

It is the later, but if you install it correctly, you will be able to freely swap between 1.2 and TSORC using the Game Launcher app.

http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/adv-dark-souls-mod-the-story-of-red-cloud.87617/ If you haven't yet, PLAY THIS MOD. It was made by a huge fan of the Dark Souls game(s), and is basically Terraria: Dark Souls + Legend of Zelda. It features incredibly detailed dungeons, lots of secrets to discov...

Well, while I certainly share FC's and other's concerns with the early game changes, I do have this to say about the update: It has completely fixed my problems with Hardmode. Previously, Hardmode was a grind to get Hallowed Armor, and then... that's it. Congrats, you have teh best armor evar. No ch...

~glances at Steam logs~ Jesus, I've spent 260 hours of my life playing Terraria...

Yeah, the chances of me not dropping another hundred hours on this patch are pretty much nil...

Honestly I think the most useful thing would be an auto-hemp farm on a decay timer. There comes a point in the mid game where you need a LOT of hemp, and I find that having it on an auto-farm as early as possible is very handy. Plus, surplus of seeds = surplus of eggs = not starving to death. :) An ...

So... unsure if this is bug or feature. Was playing a lan game with my g/f (latest version) when she cracked open an egg and out came FOUR baby chickens. o.O Never seen anything like it before... They were definitely all from the same egg - it looked like one chicken until it seperated, and she only...

~shrug~ Personal preference thing, I guess. I find the strategic choices in Long War both more difficult and more rewarding compared to base X-Com. The forced abduction choice was always something I disliked about vanilla X-Com; obviously it works for you. YMMV, as usual.

I think that more than being arbitrary in that it's unrealistic, it's arbitrary in that its fake difficulty. It's "no matter what you do, panic goes up". Could be a personal preference thing, but I much prefer Long War's system of "panic goes up when you make mistakes". I like fe...

Actually the "only one abduction mission" thing is really important because panic is really, really sticky in Long War. Very few things cause panic to rise (mostly fucking up in major ways) but it's also really hard to lower panic. If you were guaranteed a panic increase in two countries e...

My biome-settling choice is typically influenced by one thing only: I ~hate~ having to deal with storms re: windmills.

So I don't really care what biome my main base is - as long as it's not jungle - but I will almost always settle on the border between another biome and desert.

I think what really sold the mod for me was, on my third or something run-through, Dr Vahlan was giving her usual speech about not using explosives and I instantly thought, "Fuck you, I want to WIN this war". And proceeded to grenade the crap out of everything. And then proceeded to wince ...

Just tried out this mod recently and it has completely gotten me re-addicted to X-Com. It actually kinda feels almost like "Better Than X-Com" in that the creator seems to have a really solid grasp on rewarding gameplay. I got through X-Com on Classic/Ironman without ever having a particul...