Beating Calamity From a Single Block | Episode 1 – Jumping For Gel

Beating Calamity From a Single Block | Episode 1 – Jumping For Gel

how many blocks do you need to beat the final boss of Calamity this is a question that has plagued me for well over a year at this point and after countless hours of research on the wikis testing mechanics in game and even developing some incredibly niche strategies never before seen on YouTube I think I finally have an answer one this single block of infernal suite with a highly unstable hell forge on top is all you need to make it to Supreme Calamitas but how exactly am I going to get there the first thing you’ll notice is that the hell forge breaks as soon as I enter the world the one block that remains cannot be broken with my copper pickaxe and has no special properties that will help out in the early game you may be wondering how I can actually make any progress then the key item that makes all of this possible is the starter bag calamity grants this to all new players and contained within it are some basic early game weapons for each class an assortment of potions a mana crystal a handful of bombs torches and chests and most importantly 50 rope with this rope I can pillar upwards until the singular block of infernal suaveite is offcreen allowing mobs to very slowly spawn on top of it this is going to be an expert death playthrough which could be fun slimes immediately jump into the void below upon spawning making it incredibly difficult to collect their drops this is a problem I’ll have to solve a little later but for now I’m happy to take down any wool from enemies that spawn for the scrap they drop most recipes that use this need an anvil and of the three that can be made by hand two of them are uniquely useless in a world with only one block those being the wool from Digging Turtle and the wool from Treasure Pinger the last of the three wool from knives are much more useful and I’ll want to gather quite a few of them before moving on to the next step of my plan i only managed to get two wool from scrap before nightfall after which the only enemies that can spawn are zombies and demon eyes aside from money these don’t offer much some zombie variants drop additional arrows and torches though along with my first accessory and pet of the run oh I got a shackle brilliant an extra three defense and we have a pet as well once the night ends I spend the entirety of day two building up my wool from scrap supply ending the day with a total of 10 then after grinding zombies through the night I start day three by bridging out to the left with my 50 rope the aim here is to get far enough away that slimes can spawn on the one block I have then if they jump towards me I can dive into the void after them to get their drops i’m not just looking to get some gel though what I really want is the one in 20 chance that a slime can spawn with a bonus item inside it and more specifically I want that bonus item to be one of the eight basic preh hard world ores nothing in that one getting a slime with a bonus item is the easy part all that takes is time the real challenge is actually collecting the drops oh there’s rope in that one i’m actually going to go for that oh I’m quite far behind it so I need to kind of match the the speed and then manage to take it out and hope I can collect it i did so I’ve got 28 extra rope now which is helpful but actually not what I was after what I was after was the ore but it’s proof that this does work for the next few hours this is exactly how the playthrough goes through the day I wait for slimes to spawn and at night I take down zombies and demon eyes for some easy money has that got anything no [Music] nothing it’s got nothing in it no nothing in it nothing in that one nothing in that one either nothing in that nothing in that and nothing in that nothing in that slime and nothing in that one there we go first gold of the play through let’s get it placed down to save it nothing in that slime unfortunate oh and nothing in that one either oh is that that is ore okay right hopefully I can actually collect this oh I didn’t collect it that is so painful and it’s back to waiting as you can see even if I get a slime to spawn with ore there’s no assurances that I’ll actually be able to collect it and that’s with wool from knives which by a massive stroke of luck are almost perfectly suited to this task with the speed slimes fall you need a weapon with a high enough velocity to be able to hit them on the way down and since you’re mostly falling through the cavern layer where there’s complete darkness it’s almost required that your weapon gives off light so you can actually see what you’re aiming at thankfully the wolf from knives do both of these excellently the funny thing to do would be to collect that and then just instantly use it to teleport home instead of saving and exiting sadly no matter how good my weapon is it doesn’t change the fact that ore is only a 1 in 80 chance from any given slime that spawns so for now all I can do is wait what we got anything in that nope nothing in that nothing that [Music] slime does that have That has something in it here in parkour civilization no one chooses to jump for the slime it’s better to be safe and climb the rope for zombies rather than risk your entire life just for a few more blocks okay come on oh I managed to get it 710 ore that is huge huge huge huge with my first set of blocks obtained I can finally make some real progress so far I’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible and to get any further I’ll have to go deeper thanks to the single shine potion from the starter bag I safely make it to the caverns where I set up a mini mob farm it doesn’t take long for a skeleton merchant to spawn who I happily buy more rope from i didn’t come all this way for rope though my true aim is to get a full set of mining armor from undead miners that may seem a bit counterintuitive in a sky block where there’s very little to mine but trust me when I say it’s without a doubt the most important armor set in this entire run i’ll let you have a think about why that is while I slowly grind my way through enemies in the cavern gradually getting better weapons new accessories and even some extra ore blocks this slime has iron ore let’s see how many we get four that’s a really disappointing amount to be honest but I can expand this a little bit after some more time spent farming with the extra blocks I was beginning to get a little worried the undead miners couldn’t spawn on ores but after a full 2 hours in the caverns I finally get one to spawn oh we got an undead minor that’s big let’s use the rally on him and I got some mining pants that’s actually the best one I could have got because it’s the the one thing I’ve not got equipped at this point okay so good to know that that’s possible because that is also necessary now that I know it’s at least possible it’s just a case of waiting for more of them was there some ore in there yes a planet or 13 wow that is huge let’s [Music] expand the 13 platinum ore massively speeds up the rate at which mobs can spawn with the mining shirt dropping a mere 4 minutes after expanding the cage and I got a mining shirt very nice all I need now is the helmet unfortunately the mining helmet has a lower drop rate at just 1 in 20 compared to 1 in 10 for the shirt and pants even still it doesn’t take too long for one to drop oh that’s something what is that was that coins or ore mining helmet when did that drop that’s big okay so let’s let’s zoom in for the tech i have a full set of mining armor i have one iron ore in my inventory i place the iron ore down i mine it place it down i mine it place it down i mine it two iron ore i place them down i mine them place them down i mine them three iron ore calamity adds a set bonus to mining armor where it sometimes gives an additional ore so I now no longer have to fight slimes for 5 hours to get blocks i can just mine ores and get more ores now do you get to mine ores for 5 hours instead exactly exactly what I get to do to be a little more specific the calamity set bonus gives a 25% chance for an additional ore to drop when mined and while it states on the wiki that there’s meant to be a random 3 to six second cool down this thankfully doesn’t seem to be the case in game allowing me to very quickly increase the number of blocks at my disposal this new influx of blocks allows me to set up another farm in the underworld for some muchneeded upgrades first on that list is the Blade Crest Oath Sword which fires a spread of scythes that home into enemies and travel through blocks making it the perfect early game weapon to safely farm enemies with the oath sword in hand it becomes much easier to obtain my next upgrade the Old Lord Claymore this may seem like a pretty normal sword at first albeit with a custom swing animation however when right clicking it charges a powerful dash that spawns homing stars and propels the player towards their cursor damaging any enemies in their path and granting eye frames it’s pretty much my only form of mobility in the early game though it’s not as if there’s much worlds to move around in now that I have a way to generate blocks on demand and the best weapons I can get my hands on the next major milestone will be obtaining a workbench and despite all the different workbenches available in both Calamity and vanilla there’s only one possible option I can go for and for that I’ll need to defeat King Slime thanks to how predictable his AI is I’m already prepared enough to fight him the issue then is getting him to spawn in the first place since I don’t have a demon alter I can’t craft a summon item and since I don’t have any grass I’m not going to get any random spawns on the outer thirds of the world this leaves only one possible way to summon and fight King Slime the slime rain with at least 140 health and 8 defense this has a 12% chance of happening each day between 4:30 a.m and midday however I don’t have 140 health so I have to fall back on the much smaller 2.4% chance in expert mode and above only it’s not quite 2.4% 4% either since slime rain can’t occur when there’s already normal rain occurring taking the chances much closer to 2% all that to say I’m in for a lot of waiting but while I wait I may as well see what else is possible and would you believe me if I said I could already get a blood moon usually you’d require at least 120 health for a blood moon to occur but there’s actually a very easy way to circumvent this restriction death somehow I’m now two for two on designing sky blocks where jumping to your death is a perfectly viable way to make progress but there’s no medium core or shimmer on this one so what exactly am I doing well what I hope to achieve from all this dying is to collect enough graves to form a graveyard as these will very rarely spawn brides and grooms which have a 1 in5 chance of dropping a bloody tier rather surprisingly this does not require 120 health to use and thanks to Calamity making event and boss summons non-consumable I now have access to as many blood moons as I want death mode massively increases spawn rates during a blood moon so it doesn’t take long for me to get both the shark tooth necklace and a money trough of the two I’d say the money trough is actually the more useful item as up until now my storage was restricted to the three wooden chests I got from the starter bag the five armor penetration from the necklace is still nice though and it marks the final accessory I wanted to obtain before fighting King Slime from here the only upgrades I can get are incredibly marginal and mostly consist of farming for the same accessories for slightly better reforges and for the next 10 hours of gameplay that’s exactly what I do during this time one of my very hours since I was ready for King Slime and I had so thoroughly ran out of ways to optimize my setup that I resorted to the last thing I’d ever consider building building is going to be very limited with what blocks are available so I do have access to all of the ores and then I’ve got the gems for if I want little accents of color but that’s kind of it in terms of building resources and my plan for building is to create a scene from the start of the [Music] playthrough that kind of looks like rope in the loosest sense the rope here is made out of rope it is indeed now we’re going to have to wait for day to see it in all its glory i mean if you like really squint your eyes look at it on the mini map oh it actually does look okay yeah that actually works and this almost looks like rope as well it’s just this Infernal Suave doesn’t really look like Infernal Suite but I can see the Wolfen drone i think that is probably the best iteration we’ve had so far though i don’t think it looks as good with the Spunker as it does with the map i think the map makes it look better than the Spunker does with the build complete and nothing else to do it got to that part of every Chief Logan stream where after hours and hours of waiting with zero progress to show for it Chat and I collectively lose our sanity i had an entire mental breakdown where I contemplated my own hatred of myself while I was gone from the stream and you still haven’t got a slime rain yet yeah yeah i I feel like I’m going to go down the same path this looks a bit different now that I see it with the full lighting i feel like it looks less like rope did a slime rain happen and you’re like 2 minutes too early ask again in 2 minutes and I’ll say yes the slime rain is is all in our heads the DSM5 has been updated with a new diagnosis called slime rain under schizopffective disorders slime rain isn’t actually a thing in the game it’s a collective delusion that we’ve all made up we’re going to look back on this in a few years and think it’s just one of those Mandela effects yeah I remember when Terraria had a slime rain what what what do you mean slime rain was never in the game i I swear like you would you would fight the slime rain and if you killed enough slimes king slime would would come at you and they’re like “What is a king slime there is no king slime in Terraria there’s no slime rain.” The metal detector is doing its best it’s actually doing a great job all things considered it has detected all of the metal if it’s a metal detector then why does it detect life roots um cuz life fruits are metal i guess so are we eating metal yes this is rope by the way it’s rope don’t get any other ideas we did get a slime staff though we may not have got the big slime but we got a little guy we have King Slime’s son and if he ever wants to see him again he better come get him himself another slime staff two slime staffs before my first slime reign you must sacrifice a slime staff to the void i can do that actually yeah if that will get me a slime rain I will do it i give a sacrifice for king slime and there’s my own sacrifice as well i sacrificed a slime staff and myself no way it’s actually raining no no cuz that’s an entire day that I can’t actually get slime rain the sacrifice did not work everyone always asks when slime rain and never how slime rain is true how does slime rain where are they coming from the slimes are illegal deport them well if if they ever decide to try and rain in this world I will make sure to deport them we need to build a skywall the slimes fill out the right paperwork unlikely unlikely they’ve not even got hands guys what’s the politics of King Slime cuz he’s technically like a monarchist so what do you think his policies are in his kingdom king Slime is a Tory i could see it i’m back what’s going on chat um I have no idea fearing what chat would devolve into after another 10 hours without progress it was time to get a little more active with my waiting you may recall a little earlier I said slime reigns can only start between 4:30 and midday well what if it could always be between 4:30 and midday this is possible thanks to interdimensional time travel through the infinitely random multiverses of Terraria also known as pressing Alt F4 with auto save turned off this resets the world back to its last save point allowing me to repeat the morning over and over again in an effort to groundhog day a slime reign into existence somewhat ironically this ended up happening on the very first reset oh oh oh oh oh we’ve got it we’ve got it okay let’s get auto save on and then I’m going to save and exit we actually got it on the second time travel as well well technically the first time travel right i’m going to create a backup of that world just in case King Slime decides to to mess around oh we’re going to make progress we’re actually going to make progress wait okay yeah there’s there is still slime right now i was so worried for a second there when I didn’t see any slime falling from the sky oh it’s beautiful it’s beautiful now we just have to make sure that it’s long enough to actually kill enough slimes should be very fast to kill 150 of them this is the most excited anyone’s ever been for a slime rain I think yeah and there’s a lot of us excited as well it’s not just me oh my heart is actually racing i better not screw this up okay we got him we got him now we just do this and we buff calamity makes King Slime teleport more often allows him to teleport midair if the player is above him and always makes him teleport in front of the player if they’re moving because of all this as long as I keep moving left and right within this floating box of platinum ore King Slime and his minion should never actually be able to hit me even the shots from his ruby jewel in phase 2 can’t travel through blocks so the only real danger here is King Slime despawning which is an annoyingly common occurrence that I can’t really prevent hence the world back up please don’t despawn please do not despawn once he gets really low he starts moving really fast and it becomes quite hard to hit him progress progress progress progress progress we have the treasure bag the main thing is the solidifier i did get slimy saddle as well that was quite rare and slimy hook with the solidifier I can now finally make some slime blocks and in turn a slime workbench unlocking the ability to craft many new items construct housing for NPCs and even set me on the path towards fishing but to see all of that you’re going to have to subscribe to the channel and wait for the next episode unless of course you’d much for watching and I hope to see you in the next one

Terraria Skyblocks have long been one of my favourite challenges in the game, but today I take on potentially the most extreme one yet: beating the Calamity mod from a single block.

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Boss Checklist
Calamity Mod Music
Calamity Mod
Can I Shimmer This? [CIST]
Census – Town NPC Checklist
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Magic Storage
Recipe Browser
Voided NPC Fix for Skyblock