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It is a well-known fact that flying into clouds can lead to loss of orientation.
It is a less well-known fact that flying into clouds may lead one somewhere else entirely.
In fact, only one person has learned this so far.
Thanjen in Terraria
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A rain of inventory-sized dirt blocks ensues. Now the island consists of him, three cloud blocks, seven globed harpies, and five floating trees. (None of them contain a partridge.)
wind_on_my_face
He has excellent anchors now, so he has no need for wings to keep himself from falling, or in fact to do much of anything. His stuff can just hover beside him instead of being wings.
The blocks: collected after he enjoys the rain for a moment.
The globes: re-anchored to the cloud blocks for now.
The trees: investigated. He found them as hard to claim through the dirt as any wood ordinarily would be, but can he do other things to them?
He touches the trunk of a tree with a hand.
The blocks: collected after he enjoys the rain for a moment.
The globes: re-anchored to the cloud blocks for now.
The trees: investigated. He found them as hard to claim through the dirt as any wood ordinarily would be, but can he do other things to them?
He touches the trunk of a tree with a hand.
wind_on_my_face
Game logic. Let's try — chopping — down — this tree.
He makes a saw and starts cutting through the trunk. Halfway up, because experiment.
He makes a saw and starts cutting through the trunk. Halfway up, because experiment.
Dig! Fight! Build!
When he has sawn about halfway through the trunk, that grid-section of the tree and all the grid-sections above it spontaneously convert into inventory-sized cubes of Wood. The rest of the tree stays put.
wind_on_my_face
Collecting wood cubes feels like cheating. He knows exactly what they are, but he didn't have to find out the tedious way.
(He idly wonders what would happen if he cut halfway through and stopped, but doesn't try it.)
He cuts all the rest of the trees down. Now the original island consists of five floating tree stumps.
He tries punching one of them. Really hard.
(He idly wonders what would happen if he cut halfway through and stopped, but doesn't try it.)
He cuts all the rest of the trees down. Now the original island consists of five floating tree stumps.
He tries punching one of them. Really hard.
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Very hard punching breaks the wood, and breaking the wood causes it to cube.
wind_on_my_face
That's the rest of the trees taken care of, then.
He stashes his floating island construction kit and drops to the non-floating ground. Then he unglobes the feathered feather-firers and watches what happens.
He stashes his floating island construction kit and drops to the non-floating ground. Then he unglobes the feathered feather-firers and watches what happens.
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Within a certain distance of the ground, their flight pattern changes from "attempted attack" to "attempted escape"; as soon as he unglobes them they all fly away.
wind_on_my_face
Well, now he knows what to do.
Dirt. Poke. Claim. Claim the ground. Take the world. And rip it apart, but only if that looks like it will be helpful in actually getting out of here.
Dirt. Poke. Claim. Claim the ground. Take the world. And rip it apart, but only if that looks like it will be helpful in actually getting out of here.
Dig! Fight! Build!
Dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt. So much dirt.
You can go a long way in Terraria by standing on some dirt and claiming all its contiguous dirt.
There is plenty of non-dirt touching this dirt, though. Occasional small enclosed ore deposits; occasional larger formations of what proves to be stone. Puddles and ponds and lakes of water, which comes in liquid form and not in grid-aligned blocks. Adjacent biomes: deserts made of sand and sandstone, tundra made of snow and ice, jungles made of mud. Weird red areas made of weird red stone that's strangely resistant to claiming. Below all this, solid stone, broken by caves and tunnels.
You can go a long way in Terraria by standing on some dirt and claiming all its contiguous dirt.
There is plenty of non-dirt touching this dirt, though. Occasional small enclosed ore deposits; occasional larger formations of what proves to be stone. Puddles and ponds and lakes of water, which comes in liquid form and not in grid-aligned blocks. Adjacent biomes: deserts made of sand and sandstone, tundra made of snow and ice, jungles made of mud. Weird red areas made of weird red stone that's strangely resistant to claiming. Below all this, solid stone, broken by caves and tunnels.
wind_on_my_face
He keeps going, through the dirt and the stone and the mud and the sufficiently still water. The conveniently regular nature of these blocks mean that he's not going to run out of room in his mind to keep it all any time soon.
And in any of these directions does there seem to be an end? An exit? A pocket of sanity?
And in any of these directions does there seem to be an end? An exit? A pocket of sanity?
Dig! Fight! Build!
Blocks, blocks, and more blocks. The shape of the island above sea level is reasonably irregular, but as he goes deeper into the stone layer and spreads out, the limits of his little universe turn out to be perfectly square - that's probably the fog wall he's running up against.
Deep in the stone layer, there are fewer aquifers and more pockets of a different liquid - Terrarian lava, somewhat less hot and much less viscous than the real-world kind. (There are also miscellaneous other interesting features. A pyramid in one desert, a network of tunnels in another, a huge network of sandstone caves in yet another. A lump of some extremely stubborn stone in an underground jungle area. Oddly shaped crystal formations scattered throughout the caves, along with many more ore deposits and some gemstones and little cave buildings with treasure chests inside. Underground mushroom colonies.)
And past all that, three thousand feet below sea level, the stone layer ends and a new layer begins. This one is made mostly of Ash Blocks, with frequent lava pockets and occasional obsidian buildings.
Underneath that... a flat layer that declines to be claimed. Solid, unlike the fog wall.
Deep in the stone layer, there are fewer aquifers and more pockets of a different liquid - Terrarian lava, somewhat less hot and much less viscous than the real-world kind. (There are also miscellaneous other interesting features. A pyramid in one desert, a network of tunnels in another, a huge network of sandstone caves in yet another. A lump of some extremely stubborn stone in an underground jungle area. Oddly shaped crystal formations scattered throughout the caves, along with many more ore deposits and some gemstones and little cave buildings with treasure chests inside. Underground mushroom colonies.)
And past all that, three thousand feet below sea level, the stone layer ends and a new layer begins. This one is made mostly of Ash Blocks, with frequent lava pockets and occasional obsidian buildings.
Underneath that... a flat layer that declines to be claimed. Solid, unlike the fog wall.
wind_on_my_face
He sorts through the item descriptions of everything he touches. Anything buried deep underground conveniently labeled The Thing With Which You Win The Game?
Dig! Fight! Build!
Nope. Lots and lots and lots of different kinds of blocks, and some interesting things like bookcases and exotic chests in the Pink Dungeon Brick tunnels, but nothing that will openly admit to being a victory condition.
wind_on_my_face
Time for the last resort. At least he knows how the world is put together, now.
He goes to talk to the person (person?) that he landed next to in the first place.
He goes to talk to the person (person?) that he landed next to in the first place.
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The person(?) is still standing in the middle of the island, patiently holding out his canvas bag.
"Greetings, Thanjen. Is there something I can help you with?"
"Greetings, Thanjen. Is there something I can help you with?"
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"I am here to give you advice on what to do next. It is recommended that you talk with me anytime you get stuck," says the person(?).
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"When you have enough wood, create a workbench. This will allow you to create more complicated things, as long as you are standing close to it," he suggests.
wind_on_my_face
Much as he would like to ask for an actual solution to his problem, he expects this would as futile as teaching a bird to shape its nest. Speaking of which, he grabs the canvas bag.
When he's about to ask what qualifies as a workbench so he can make one, he realizes he already knows.
That a workbench is itself, and not merely an arrangement of wood. Now he has a workbench, and less wood. He puts the workbench—
He makes a glass platform which is block-sized on top but not particularly aligned with the grid and tries to put the workbench on it.
When he's about to ask what qualifies as a workbench so he can make one, he realizes he already knows.
That a workbench is itself, and not merely an arrangement of wood. Now he has a workbench, and less wood. He puts the workbench—
He makes a glass platform which is block-sized on top but not particularly aligned with the grid and tries to put the workbench on it.
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The workbench declines to be placed in this invalid location. Valid locations must be aligned with the grid.
wind_on_my_face
Okay: The platform is now adjacent to and aligned with the top of a wood block. Remove wood block. Place workbench on platform.
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The workbench allows this! Now it is non-inventory-sized and able to be moved around like an ordinary physical object.
Also, with the resources he has claimed he can make... quite a few things. (The recipes that display via helpful mental tooltip only seem to feature ingredients that he currently has in their inventory-sized state. Presumably if he wants to make things out of Cactus or Gold or Boreal Wood he should mine some first.)
Also, with the resources he has claimed he can make... quite a few things. (The recipes that display via helpful mental tooltip only seem to feature ingredients that he currently has in their inventory-sized state. Presumably if he wants to make things out of Cactus or Gold or Boreal Wood he should mine some first.)