Terraria is an action-adventure/RPG game released by independent game studio Re-Logic.
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What keyboard shortcuts are in Terraria?
What keyboard shortcuts are in Terraria? Is it possible to change bindings?
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How can I drain an area easily? [duplicate]
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How can I tunnel through water?
I accidentally flooded my mine. I am yet to find sand (early part of the game).
How can I easily clear out water which is about 15 deep? ...
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How do I set up a Glowing Mushroom farm in Terraria?
I'm aware of the general mechanism of mushroom growing (place some mud and sprinkle mushroom seeds on it). However, I'd like to know a bit more about it before I start building my farm, so I'd ...
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What makes plants bloom?
The latest patch for Terraria added in a bunch of new plants (and their seeds) for use in alchemy.
I'd like to make a sustainable farm for these new plants, but I'm having trouble determining when ...
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Help, how high am I?
I was watching the trailer for Terraria, and I can see a height/depth indicator on some of the footage - how do you enable this?
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Eater of worlds isn't so world hungry
I spawned the Eater of Worlds twice and both times he mysteriously went below the surface and didn't re-surface.
In fact, I eventually received the message "Eater of Worlds has been slain!"
What ...
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How can I break the corrupted rock?
I decided it was time to investigate the corruption, but I can't break the corrupted rock (or whatever it is that looks like rock inside the corrupted area). My silver pickaxe or bombs simply don't do ...
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Should I move my village underground before triggering hardmode?
I would like for my village to continue to be a peaceful place after I kill the Wall of Flesh. With the Hallow/Corruption spreading, is it possible to create an area on the surface that is unaffected ...
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How can I halt the spread of corruption after winning hell?
After defeating the Wall of Flesh, corruption is spreading much faster and bypasses sunflowers. Are there any other methods of halting it than hallowing?
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Can Rocket Boots be found in Chests?
One of the few items I have yet to obtain in Terraria is a pair of rocket boots.
Common wisdom is that they drop from the goblin invasions that occur every so often. Scuttlebutt says they also spawn ...
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Move to a new world
In the Terraria 1.0.5 changelog, I read that parts of the world generation algorithm have been changed.
So, I would like to create a new world and move my character there, but how can I easily ...
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The Eye of Cthulhu disappeared after I reloaded the game. Is there a way to get it back?
I was playing Terraria earlier, having just reached the Hell layer (~3000ft.) and after I killed one of those annoying imps, I got a message stating:
You feel an evil presence is watching you.
I ...
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What's the maximum health amount I can have by using Hearts to upgrade my max health?
I'm curious. How high can I get?
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In Terraria, is there an order in NPC appearance in addition to the minimum requirements for each one?
I noticed a strange thing about Demolitionist that I do not see mentioned on wiki.
Practically on my world I created immediately a good number of houses with all requirements needed to accommodate an ...
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How do I make a thin layer of lava for mob farming?
I've seen videos of people making monster farmers with wires, switches, statues and a thin layer of lava to kill the newly created monster. They always seem to have a perfectly created layer of lava ...
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Can NPCs really die?
I'm in the middle of a Blood Moon night and fighting horde of monsters. In a Blood Moon wiki's page, it is written that:
This can put the player's home and
NPCs in peril.
In fact I see that ...
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Can I sync players and worlds between multiple computers?
I want to play Terraria with the same players and worlds on two different computers. It looks like the files must be in My Documents\My Games\Terraria.
Is there a way to sync those files between two ...
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How can I save the world from both good and evil corruption?
After the Wall of Flesh, the hallow appears and corruption spreads even faster.
Corruption spreads through everything
Except Hallow
Hallow spreads through everything
Except mud (jungle)
Except ...
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How can I improve my chances to find Hearts?
I'm having trouble discovering hearts. Is there a pattern on how to discover them or a certain depth range I should be looking? I've found maybe 3 hearts when I feel like I should have found at ...
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How do I get Souls?
A lot of the cool new recipes in patch 1.1 I've found out via asking the Guide require some sort of Soul, of which there appear to be numerous different types. For example:
Soul of Light
Soul of ...
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Can anything be done to fix the lag in Terraria Multiplayer?
Single player runs just fine, but multiplayer seems to lag for me and my two friends. It doesn't matter who hosts it.
Our computers are fairly decent - good video cards, cpu, lots of ram, etc, but ...
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How can I summon a meteorite?
I've heard people talk (or at least, saw them write on forums) that they summoned meteors to create meteorite weapons and armor.
How do I exactly spawn these meteors and what can I make out of ...
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What are the conditions for cactus to grow in Terraria?
In my current world, I built a horizontal tunnel from my home to the nearest demon altar, at a depth of 8 feet above sea level. As it happens, this tunnel passed through a relatively large area of ...
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How do I earn gold?
I want to buy the Mining Helmet from the Merchant, but it costs 8 Gold Coins, and I do not have any. How do I get Gold Coins?
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Do Safes and Piggy Banks hold the same items?
It says in the Wiki that both the Piggy Bank and Safe can be used as an extension of storage, but having multiple of the same thing only accesses the same items.
Question: Do Piggy Banks and Safes ...
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Why are these blocks unbreakable? [duplicate]
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How can I break the corrupted rock?
I'm in the corruption, and I noticed that the rock here is indestructible. Why?
The block type I'm facing can't be destroyed
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Do plants in clay pots have to be offscreen to grow?
I'm starting a clay pot farm in Terraria with a modest two pots. One's got daybloom, the other moonglow. I didn't see any information that suggested they had to be offscreen to bloom, so I put my pots ...
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Can I find a Goblin Tinkerer on a pre-1.1 world?
I'm never sure what to do when Terraria updates, make a new world or continue on my old one where I already have my potion/mushroom farms/proper storage. I really want to make some of the things that ...
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Can I play Terraria on a Mac?
I've been meaning to try out Terraria, but it requires Windows and I only have a Mac. I can use things like Boot Camp or a virtual machine, but is there a way to run it without resorting to running a ...
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Does destroying additional demon altars generate more cobalt / mythril / adamantite?
After defeating the Wall of Flesh I headed off to the nearest corruption and destroyed a bunch of demon altars. Upon destroying the fourth one the message "Your world has been blessed with cobalt" ...
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How do I control which NPCs live where?
An exciting new feature is described in the 1.1 patch notes:
There is a new NPC housing interface that can be used to assign living areas to NPC’s. This interface will also tell you if a room ...
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Does Terraria have any Lore?
Sandbox type games tend to present you with a pristine landscape, allowing you to make up the story as you goes along (cf. Minecraft, Sim City [?], etc.).
At first glance, the same should apply to ...
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The Terraria endgame, what is left to do?
I wear a full set of molten armor.
I use Muramasa, Blue Moon and a Pheonix Blaster as weapons.
I defeated the Eye of Cthulhu, the Eater of World and Skeletron.
I killed a goblin army without ever ...
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How do I safely redirect lava?
I'm building a long tunnel straight down. I've hit water plenty of times, which has proven easy to redirect by simply tunneling to the sides when under the water.
But alas, I had to hit a pond of ...
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How can I gain silver coins quickly?
I am trying to attract merchant on my world and I read on wiki that I need at least 50 silver coins.
What is the fastest way to farm silver coins in a just created world?
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How can I increase Terraria's default resolution?
I'd like to increase the default resolution because it's very small. There's nothing in the options menu, and I checked the folders where it is installed and didn't find any sort of options.ini file ...
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How can I navigate and mine hell safely?
In Terraria 1.0.6, in the underworld (eg, hell):
ash no longer falls down when unsupported
mining a hellstone block produces a block of lava
you can no longer place bricks where lava is - previously ...
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Can NPC houses have two doors?
In Terraria game, we can build houses for NPCs. They must be at least 8x5 from inside, and surrounded by walls and blocks. It must also have a chair, a table and a door.
But... Can it have two doors?
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How far and at what height are dungeons?
According to Terraria Wiki
The Dungeon is one of the highest
level "biomes" in the game. It is
either on the right or the left side
of the map and can be in a variety of
colors, including ...
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How quickly can I trigger a statue?
I finally found my first Bunny Statue and want to wire it up so that I can farm it for a Bunny Hood when the next Blood Moon hits. However, information on how best to wire up a statue seems somewhat ...
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Is there a way to programmatically give items to a single player character?
I'm not normally one for cheat codes, but my son was playing with my Terraria character on his own the other day, and accidentally threw away several items that I had worked hard to obtain. Is there ...
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Is there a way to use an item without placing it on the hotbar first?
Is there a way to use an item (e.g. a mushroom to heal) in Terraria without placing it on the hotbar first? I know about the "use health potion" shortcut but I wonder if there's a general way that ...
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Are there any background walls which are immune to explosives?
Explosives are powerful. Maybe a little too powerful for my liking.
I've set up a trap where mobs fall into a pit of explosive proof material (in this case, mythril ore), where I'm free to throw ...
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When is a player flagged as a cheater?
I read in the 1.0.1 changelog that:
Players who haven't cheated will no
longer be flagged as a cheater.
and I am wondering how a player can be flagged as cheater?
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How can I continuously explore in Terraria?
I'm playing Terraria again with the 1.0.6 update so I started a new world for a fresh experience. Unfortunately, I'm running into the same frustrations I've hit before when exploring. Starting from ...
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How can I get past corruption?
I have a golden pickaxe and mostly complete golden armor. I also have an enchanted boomerang. I'd like to go find the dungeon, but while I can make short work of most individual monsters, I can't ...
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Should I ever not use a Crystal Heart?
In Terraria I've gathered a few Crystal Hearts and haven't taken the time to use them. Is there ever a time I shouldn't use a Crystal Heart right away?
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How do I multiply Lava and water?
In a recent post on planting alchemy ingredients on TerrariaOnline there is a mention of multiplication of lava. The post states the following:
this blackened area is the "temporary"
Lava ...
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Share Multiplayer World
A buddy and I have been playing Terraria together in a joint world. I hosted and so I have the world and can play in single player when he's not around. He'd like to do the same, is this possible?
I ...
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Why aren't my guide and other dead NPCs respawning in Terraria?
I am currently in hard mode and during a blood moon, several of my NPCs including my guide and my healer died. it's been several in game "days" now and they have yet to respawn. Is there a way to ...
