How Does a Noob Progress in Terraria?
What happens when a noob starts to actually make progress in Terraria? Can this guy doing a totally blind run of the game actually figure out what he should do? Or maybe he’ll get lost and need to fall back on the wiki.
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Because a lot people can't comprehend someone wanting to start in expert mode, my friend DIDN'T WANT the easy difficulty. He plays Dark Souls, the guy is used to far worse. Also, check out of the first video! https://youtu.be/zwct87MVTPk
Noobs being noobs is always a humbling experience
I made wooden shoe boxes as ny first bases but i did watch a guide :p
16:48 looks like a step in direction of killing guardian
9:00 on my first world, I made my base about 100 blocks to the right of spawn and dug massive chasms with bombs eventually.
Second world was a biiiiig tower I called a hotel that had plenty of rooms and went up to world limit, no chasms, right on spawn.
Third world it was 20ish blocks to the right with no chasms and every world after was on spawn with dug out pits beside to start off, expanding up and down and trapping the pits.
the demolitionist actually has a voiceline about using bombs to break ebonstone! That's how I first figured it out. He specifically mentions bombing the orbs, so…
Yeah I didn't last long
11:25 WHY ARE YOU STARTING HIM ON EXPERT? Obviously he gonna die if you start him out on expert…
my first ACTUAL base was a square
a big square
a big sqaure of wood
it had multiple floors
it had 4 npc houses instead of the usual 3
I made a minecart loop for skeletron on my first time playing too..
Joel is trolling, I'm convinced
Joel is looking stuff up off screen and you cant convince me otherwise lmao
Joel should try out mod of redemption
That "thrown" grenade bit with the doll in the hole is one of the best things a new player has done. I'm sure it was probably embarrassing, especially while being recorded, but it still has to be the funniest thing to have someone do.
What's funny is that you try not to help too much with bosses, though the bosses all get a like 80% health buff in multiplayer, or something close to it, meaning that your friend was basically playing on Master Mode without the increased damage
The guide told me to break shadow orbs. He said something good is bound to happen. He recommend purification powder or bombs.
I will say a lot of the struggles with progression in terraria pre hard mode stem from it being so open ended. Once you hit hard mode you end up with a pretty strict leveling of bosses. From mechanical to the jungle to the dungeon it’s more or less one after the other, and you don’t have to worry about accidentally doing them out of order. Pre hard mode doesn’t have this since it’s all in the world when you start. Sure you need to kill the eye to get the dryad to clear the corrupting, but you can go kill the worm before the eye with bombs and a strong enough pick. You can go fight skeletron before anything else just by moving to one side of the map. The game hides the queen bee in the jungle which is almost a higher difficulty to deal with than the boss, and you can fully skip the king slime and goblin army with just bad luck. Hell there’s the deerclops that you can only get when you’re in the snow biome during a blizzard at midnight which is enough random chance I never had it naturally spawn.
Pre hard mode is really not optimized for progression, but I can’t necessarily blame that because it was almost designed that way. Beyond the queen bee and deerclops all the pre hard mode bosses existed before the major game change update. Pre hard mode still deals with the problems of the incremental development that had the game go from 2D Minecraft to a boss fighting action rpg sandbox. hard mode managed to avoid all that by being mostly made after the major game change update, and all it’s progression very much being made after said update when they had a very clear vision for what they wanted to do with the game.
Also I can easily remember my first ever base in terraria. It was on Xbox, and it was a tower of tiny rooms for all the NPCs along with a room for chests underground that had bulk storage, and a big room near the top for all the crafting items and crafting stations. Was going for a T shape, but ended up a bit of a cross shape due to needing more rooms than I put on top. It was a fun base and play through even if I never killed the wall of flesh, and get into the original hard mode. Should also say I went in with a fair bit of knowledge since I had watched Total Biscuit and Jessy Cox’s play through of terraria so I never really had a problem with knowing what to do.
First time playing was at the end of my high school days, and I built my base at the surface. I learned later that you can not use natural walls to make a home, which made me feel like it made no sense at all, but I digress.
Edit: Watched the video further, and… My word, Thorabin. Can I just say to all starter novices who start playing the game on Expert mode. You are brave, I applaud for all of y'all's bravery. But can I not point it out, especially to this youtuber, that some reasons as to why they have yet to progress are based on some psychological reasons.
1.) It's like a child to a parent helping them do homework or actually learn adult things like doing taxes or groceries. I do not feel like explaining all of that type of psychology, so I will let someone else explain it here.
2.) Most important, and it is not meant to be an aggression, but a fact, so here. NOT EVERYONE IS THAT GOOD AT GAMES. Would anyone like I one time ago or a novice want to start a world on Expert mode and want to die over and over again, make no to minimal progress? No. Not everyone likes to be brave and bold like that. I want to be able to grasp on the game BEFORE playing it on Expert mode. Classic Mode plays far differently than Expert mode. Remember what tooltip Re-Logic left during the loading screen. "Want a CHALLENGE? Try Expert mode". Expert mode is meant for experienced players who wanted a challenge to improve their skills or felt like Classic mode was "TOO EASY" for them. Some gamers are not always that good. It takes a lot of practice and learning skill before they can do better at something.
Ngl my first terraria playthrough i quit after the eye of cthulu because i didn't know there was an area specifically for the arena of the brain💀
Afro..? Fishing bowls..? Theyre slime
8:58 my FIRST base? Well it was on surface with dirt walls and mixed walls and i couldn't understand why npcs did not get in
Wow I'm surprised at how close he got to the Skeleton Prime strategy with those mincarts!
Terraria have important items look like some joke garbage and lots of chests trapped, and you expect newbies be excited at sight of fart in a bottle or balloon and go straight for every chest that from underground experience has high probably of instakilling them with some kind of vile contraption?
“Where was your first base?”
Mine was between the surface and underground right smack dab on top of the spawn point. I knew everything about walls etc. from playing through the tutorial, without which I think would have been impossible for me to learn the game from the start.
Dude are you sure these guys play games that much??
I made it at spawn because it was just like safer, I remember I made a skyscraper like every MF does lmao
What is more tragic is a lot of the problems you mention had a solution…
the guide tells you… but he's dead
Start base… Hmm
First world, I just dig up a hole 3×9 and sat till morning
Then just expanded it
My first base that I can remember I had dug into the side of a hill close to spawn. It honestly got to be super cozy there having basically a hobbit hole filled with every NPC (this was looooong before NPC happiness mattered). Woefully, I cannot remember my actual first base, as that dates back to like 2011, on a crappy laptop that could barely handle the game. Somehow I made it to WoF on that dinky laptop even.
I don’t know if Minecraft can be blamed for him mining in shallow caves
even in Minecraft, the ores are more abundant (and sometimes only found in) deeper caves
9:00, I always build my base at the spawn.
I like having convenient access to everything, if I die and have no bed, and it's a good point to set up transit, etc., through a map, if I need say Ebonwood, just hop on rails from spawn and go to that farm, if the Hivemind boss is there then I can kill it real quick before harvesting the wood.
Wiki
– The test subject keeps getting in contact with their, so-called, "own world", it makes it very hard to observe one's in-game skills and equipment development.
the ending was so cutee!!
I remember my time as a new player still; I had the approach of seeing how deep I can go… so I found lots of loot/ores along the way to carry me and found the summoning item for eye (I don't even remember if it could spawn naturally back then).
I also remember my method for the orbs was I found the purification powder from the dryad after eventually figuring out how houses worked and used that to mine inside the corruption biome… I don't remember why I never used bombs… I tried all my tools to get the orb because it was shiny and I wanted it… then it gave me loot and I wanted more.
I found Skeletron before breaking orbs… but everything really came down to carrying myself by my insistence to look for hidden treasure; I thought the corruption was dangerous and would've had better chests.
Good on your friend using the bed though… I don't think I ever crafted a bed until Fishron came out as a new boss… I played Terraria before Minecraft and it really didn't occur to me that it was for anything other than decoration.
i used the large tree as my base. id turn it into an above/ under base. w the leaves being the main 'house space' and the roots being my abundace of storage cause i love using silt to get ores.
I feel like you setting the world to expert is what's making it the hardest to progress
I learned how to play terraria without ANY wiki or ANY outside guidance. So If you want an answer to if someone can learn to play the game without any outside guidance then.. Well here ya go.
I first really played terraria a few years ago on my old kindle fire, I had played therraria before but I was like, 5 and just walking around and daring my brother to enter the corruption. (I didn't even know how to craft.)
On the kindle I played for a while but couldn't figure out how to make a furnace. I also think I was stupid.
A few months later I tried again, made a furnace, and that was the moment that the floodgates opened. I had lots of fun with the game but it was mostly just a game I'd play when I was bored with youtube or something 'better' then it. But that all changed one time, I had entered an ice cave and found the ice blade (if you dont know, its jus the enchanted sword but ice-themed.) and when I got home, tried it out. Not only did it do an absurd amount of damage in my mind, but I remember seeing art of these mystical magical things in terraria and always thought "well thats just promotional meterial" but when I found the ice blade and used it that was when I REALLY got into terraria.
it felt like there was a whole world of magic there. And so I fully got into the game, Another key memory is going to a giant beehive, NOT spawning the queen bee, then I got a message saying
"you feel an evil presence watching you."
So, I went to the surface of the night jungle and fought the eye on a hill, I almost won but died. So I had made the correlation "Ok sit in a beehive and the eye will spawn."
So I sat there until I accidentally spawned the queen bee and died even harder, after that I just went back and back to the hive until the eye would spawn and eventually it DID.
This time I won, I got the shield of cthil.. Cthulu? Is that how you spell it? I got the shield that lets you dash and demonite.
I made a demonite bow, sword, and other things I could make without scales. I stuck to the ice blade until I found an enchanted sword.
Overall my first playthrough had a LOT of interesting moments. Those are just the opening ones, If anyone wants more I can edit this cause my ADHD brain would love to write more.
Have a nice day 😀
My theory on the fans diehard fanbase but not large community relative to the games size is that people with the critical thinking skills necessary to figure out terraria solo are not prone to seeking out friends…
so my first experience with terraria was on the ps3 edition when I was like 13? i remember getting stuck in a little cave not really understanding anything about the game and gave up I only became as hooked as I was thanks to a friend on my friends list that noticed I bought the game and suggested I play with him on a new world since he knows more about the game then me and basically told me about how house mechanics worked but didn't really help me with much else and I got hooked
mobile terraria, made my base in the dungeon protecting the old man not knowing much about the game.
I feel like you could try a blind play through of Noita to show how a new player might default to a similar games 🙂
(Unless if you have already tried it….)
Ok, but now that we've seen him struggle without guidance, I kinda want to see you teach him the ropes.
hmm weird, my friend never started to play on his own time when we tried to teach him…
(this maybe could have been due to that we were playing a legendary mode world and not really guiding him at all)
A lot of progression I made early game came from talking to the guide. He taught me how to build a house and how to mine ebonstone without explosives or an ebsonstone pickaxe
i love how he made a femboy
also why is the game music all wrong, it makes me mad
I love how this idea was a bust on the youtube department, but a win in literally every other way:
your friend learned how to play terraria on their own, had (presumably) fun and intrinsic motivation for doing so as he continued playing on his own, and even did so without much help from a guide.
this, as far as the original question (and just gaining someone who enjoys the same game as you) goes, is a raging success.
is it sad that this won't be super tightly documented in a series? maybe? But I feel like this is actually the ideal outcome to have, when introducing a game to a friend. well done.
having minecraft experience definetly made it worse for them
I started before minecraft and guess what – blindly crafting everything, clicking everything and placing everything teaches you all you need in this game,
but you would not do that if you have assumptions on what to do from another game