Terraria is an action-adventure/RPG game released by independent game studio Re-Logic.
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How large does a house need to be for residents to move in?
I read on the wiki that people will move in under the following conditions:
You do something to please them
An empty house is available with a light source, table, and chair (also with walls).
I ...
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Can meteorites land on wood platforms?
The official wiki contains the following bit of advice regarding meteors:
Note that if you have built a single-block bridge in the sky in search of Floating Islands it is possible for a meteorite ...
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Is it a bad idea to have a water candle in my house?
I have collected a couple of water candles from the Dungeon biome and since reading the item description and the wiki article about it I realise that may have been a bad idea:
Holding this may ...
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What is this purple claw thing (Demon Altar) and what can I do with it?
What are these things?
When I get close to it I take damage, but I can't hurt it.
What does it do and what is it?
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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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In hardmode, how large of a gap can hallow/corruption cross?
After destroying the Wall of flesh, the corruption and new hallow start to spread aggressively. I've noticed that they can spread across air gaps and (I think) past terrain they can't assimilate. How ...
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How do I find good minerals in Terraria?
How far do I need to dig to find good minerals and materials for good items?
I think I've been digging for almost 200 blocks now and all I find is copper, iron, silver and gold. Where do I find good ...
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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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How can I tunnel through water?
I'm trying to figure out how tunnel, both horizontally and vertically, through large bodies of water — preferably a method which can be used early in the game and which can be done with on-hand ...
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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 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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Where can I find the goblin tinkerer?
With the 1.1 update, rocket boots are no longer a random drop. Instead they must be purchased from the goblin tinkerer. The wiki isn't very specific about where to find the little bugger, stating that ...
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How do I sleep or skip nights?
I was able to build a bed in Terraria and I thought it could allow me to sleep. By clicking on it, instead, I set only the spawn point.
Is it possible sleep in other ways or eventually skip nights ...
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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 do I progress past the initial tier of gear/crafting in Terraria?
I've been playing Terraria for a few hours. I've got the basics understood - I've built houses for NPCs, explored, mined resources, etc.
At this point I've got a gold Broadsword and some Copper ...
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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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Can I transfer my Terraria character from one PC to another?
Currently my map server is run on my laptop at home, and my brother and I play via LAN each on his desktop PC.
However, I'd like to transfer my character from the Desktop PC to my laptop in order to ...
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How to move faster in Terraria?
Is it possible move faster in Terraria? I mean, when you are very deep in the underground is it possible returning to the surface faster, using elevator, for example, or other things? Or when you need ...
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What are the different worlds' size in Terraria?
In Terraria, you can choose the world's size when creating a new one.
The current version of the game offers three choices : small, medium and large.
What is the size of the world for each option ...
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How do I mine safely in the underworld without Ash falling on me?
While mining in the underworld I noticed that ash block behave in a very peculiar way, like a hybrid of sand and solid blocks. They can stay up without needing support by blocks below them, but if you ...
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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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What's the most efficient mining pattern?
Assuming that you are going to start mining from surface to underground, what is the most efficient mining pattern that guarantees the highest probabilities to find mineral? It would be nice to have a ...
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Can I build a NPC house out of Hellstone?
Can NPC homes be built out of Hellstone? Will they settle in? If they do, will they take damage?
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How do you destroy walls behind your house?
How can I destroy the blocks I placed to create the 'back wall' behind my house?
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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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How can I drain an area easily? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 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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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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How to survive an immortal imp army?
EDIT: Since version 1.0.5, Fire Imps aren't really a problem anymore. One needs only create some sort of shelter (for, instance digging a mine shaft with a roof) to shut out the demons and lava ...
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How do I join multiplayer servers in Terraria?
I am new to Terraria, and I want to play with my friend. But for some reason, it says 'connecting' for a very long time. I have his IP, and his port, but it will not work.
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Unset spawn point on protected servers?
While playing on some protected server, I noticed that once I had set my spawn point to one of the beds on the map, I could not revert to the default spawn point, since the bed as well as the room was ...
