#pre-hardmode

[boberassatlive]

How it felt fighting pre-hard mode bosses on classic difficulty after your only experience with terraria is playing it on a phone five years ago and watching master mode playthroughs on YouTube:

And then how it felt to get jumped on my third night by Twins (I still managed to deplete half of their health bar):

[broccoplant]

You know when you’re playing Terraria and then you need to grind for hell stone? And you just kinda zone out and 12 minutes later you’ve made it back up to the surface and you’re wondering what the fuck you’re gonna do with 496 hellstone ore?

[for-the-evulz]

you gotta kiiiiilllllll everyonee ya gotta kiiiillll everyoneee ya gotta kiiiilllll everyoneee toniiightttt

[ungodpurevoid]

Playing Terraria Btw if you didn't notice from earlier

[shower-racoon]

just got a life crystal AND an enchanted sword from the same golden crate, but I still can't get water walking boots.

fishing is great 👍

[jestersarts]

Getting addicted to terraria again, here's my current PC, Bright!

" Where're did they come from? The Sky of Course! What are they? A STAR of course! Ok but then why are they they walking and talking like a person then? why are you being so fucking nosey can't you mind your own fucking busin- "

[spark-circuit]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(also thanks Grunkle Stan but i just killed god. so. you know.)

[headslikekites]

current terraria playthrough going great so far but--quick context--in my last playthrough I wanted to get Rain Song (item with a 1% droprate from flying fish that only spawn during the rain) and it ended up taking me Almost 700 Kills, Dedicated Farming to finally get it

this time I wasn't even going for it intentionally and got it in less than 50. I think I want to flip something but I haven't decided what yet

[terraria-fairy]

Mine is Lunatic Cultist. I don't know what it is about his fight but no matter what difficulty/what build I always lose at least once.

[taptrial2]

WAIT HOW HAVE I PLAYED TERRARIA FOR 81 HOURS

[dodomingo]

Oh my god I miss my computer so much Soon as I get it I REALLY wanna do a Thorium summoner playthru but I play with Sentries as my main damage

[shower-racoon]

spend a lot of time underground

[droneboi]

paranoid schizophrenia is hitting hard goddammit

For fucks sake why can't I feel as alone as I am bruh 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

[unma]

My entire strategy for playing games is hitting my head against a brick wall until it works, and I continue to subject myself to tasks which I love doing in part because they're difficult, all while I whine the entire time.

Something is very wrong with me, probably, but I think we all know that by now.

There is no hourly ryoshu blog. How insane would I be if I started yet another hourly blog despite complaining about how hard it is to maintain the other one?

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri