Terraria

Tips

• Start here

  NPCs need a house, not a hole

  A valid house is walls, a table, a chair, and a light. The Guide will stay in a dirt box; the Nurse and the Dryad will not, and you want both before the first boss night.

• Start here

  Grapple and platforms

  A grappling hook (gem hook or Ivy Whip) and a stack of platforms are more movement than any early accessory. Don't fight the Eye of Cthulhu until you have a gold/platinum bow or a decent yoyo and a small arena.

• Advanced

  The arena is the build

  Campfires, Heart Lanterns, stars in a bottle, honey, and sunflowers are a buff station. Bosses in Terraria are arena checks; a Star Cannon on a flat surface still loses to a well-buffed gold bow on a proper sky bridge.

• Secrets

  Second orb spawns the Arms Dealer

  Smash two Shadow Orbs or Crimson Hearts for the Musket or The Undertaker, which is what makes the Arms Dealer move in. The third smash summons the boss; don't smash three if you wanted to keep exploring.

• Secrets

  Water Bolt is in the dungeon early

  You can sneak the Water Bolt off the dungeon shelves before Skeletron if you don't walk far enough to aggro the dungeon guardian. Plantera bulbs spawn in the underground jungle only after all three mechanical bosses are dead.

• Bosses

  Hellbridge for the Wall of Flesh

  Build a long, flat hellbridge before you drop the voodoo doll. Don't stop running, and don't fight on raw hellstone. The Pwnhammer it drops is for altars; smash them to start Hardmode ore, not for fun.

• Builds

  Pick a color at Hardmode

  Melee (Molten then Adamantite), ranger (Minishark into Megashark), or mage (Water Bolt into Golden Shower) — spreading all three means no class has an armor set. Accessories should follow the same color.