Is going to multiple other worlds with 1 character cheating or not?

[yonatankes]

I strongly believe that going to other worlds with 1 character definitley is cheating, but my friend goes to many other worlds all the time with 1 character and takes items from expert worlds and he says that its not cheating, what do you guys think?

[Stan]

Cheating

[yonatankes]

Originally posted by Big_Game!:

Cheating

ikr he keeps saying that its not cheating and he keeps going to new worlds just to fight bosses in them and cut wood and stuff and he takes items from loot chests in them, 1 character is meant to have 1 world

[Stan]

Yeh i agree

[Stan]

u wanna create new world and play?

[IblisFlare]

Honestly, this is more a matter on how you play vs concrete it is or isn't. I personally, disagree with it and would count it as cheating.

[Luux]

Originally posted by Yonatan Keselman:

Originally posted by Big_Game!:

Cheating

ikr he keeps saying that its not cheating and he keeps going to new worlds just to fight bosses in them and cut wood and stuff and he takes items from loot chests in them, 1 character is meant to have 1 world

What if he gets to the point (somehow) that he has looted all of the chests in his original world? What if he is looking for something rare that didn't spawn? (Shadow chest loot, floating island stuff, arkhalis/enchanted sword.) Say he wanted to make some Lava Waders, but he didn't get a single Lava Charm. Therefore it would make perfect sense to go make other worlds to search for it.

I, personally have been having trouble getting Plantera's bulbs to spawn in my latest Expert mode map. So i have been going to my other hardmode old maps to grind out the bulbs that had spawned there in my quest for trying for the elusive Flower Pow (at least for me it is...drop rng has not been kind to me with Plantera and Duke Fishron, i want those flails.). Whether or not the map is Expert mode or not. It is NOT cheating since i have already beaten Expert Plantera 3x on the original Expert map that character is from, plus i have also killed Golem (5x) and Duke Fishron (2x) on that map as well. Bosses that are technically ABOVE Plantera in progression. So if i have already ascended past a boss, then i have no problem going to another world to gather the resources/find the means to spawn more of the ones set before it if i want to grind out a specific drop.

I end up exhausting my supply of vertebrae/rotten chunks easily when it comes to using them for summoning hardmode bosses to grind the dev armor out for the sake of collection them for vanity. So i go to normal, non-hardmode CORRUPTION worlds to farm the rotten chunks. Why? Not because it is easy to destroy low lvl mobs. But because rotten chunks are much easier to farm if i only kill the Eaters of Souls, and when hardmode is not activated yet, the Eater of Souls doesn't have to share the spawns with other creatures that DON'T drop rotten chunks. The same thing goes for Crimson, most of the new hardmode creatures won't drop vertebrae. So why would i want to stay in that same world? Being able to transfer between them fluidly with multiple characters independent of the worlds is a strength of this game.

If someone uses expert items in a normal world. That COULD be considered cheesing. Not cheating. But cheesing. It isn't officially against the rules, but it FEELS like cheating, because it exploits something to your advantage in a way that seems unfair compared to doing it a more difficult way.

The tree part? I understand that, actually. When you want a certain type of wood for building and the trees in your original world just didn't add up to enough combined with you not wanting to wait for them to grow. So you just go massacre the tree population of another quickly-made world.

[IblisFlare]

Originally posted by Luux:

Originally posted by Yonatan Keselman:

ikr he keeps saying that its not cheating and he keeps going to new worlds just to fight bosses in them and cut wood and stuff and he takes items from loot chests in them, 1 character is meant to have 1 world

What if he gets to the point (somehow) that he has looted all of the chests in his original world? What if he is looking for something rare that didn't spawn? (Shadow chest loot, floating island stuff, arkhalis/enchanted sword.) Say he wanted to make some Lava Waders, but he didn't get a single Lava Charm. Therefore it would make perfect sense to go make other worlds to search for it.

I, personally have been having trouble getting Plantera's bulbs to spawn in my latest Expert mode map. So i have been going to my other hardmode old maps to grind out the bulbs that had spawned there in my quest for trying for the elusive Flower Pow (at least for me it is...drop rng has not been kind to me with Plantera and Duke Fishron, i want those flails.). Whether or not the map is Expert mode or not. It is NOT cheating since i have already beaten Expert Plantera 3x on the original Expert map that character is from, plus i have also killed Golem (5x) and Duke Fishron (2x) on that map as well. Bosses that are technically ABOVE Plantera in progression. So if i have already ascended past a boss, then i have no problem going to another world to gather the resources/find the means to spawn more of the ones set before it if i want to grind out a specific drop.

I end up exhausting my supply of vertebrae/rotten chunks easily when it comes to using them for summoning hardmode bosses to grind the dev armor out for the sake of collection them for vanity. So i go to normal, non-hardmode CORRUPTION worlds to farm the rotten chunks. Why? Not because it is easy to destroy low lvl mobs. But because rotten chunks are much easier to farm if i only kill the Eaters of Souls, and when hardmode is not activated yet, the Eater of Souls doesn't have to share the spawns with other creatures that DON'T drop rotten chunks. The same thing goes for Crimson, most of the new hardmode creatures won't drop vertebrae. So why would i want to stay in that same world? Being able to transfer between them fluidly with multiple characters independent of the worlds is a strength of this game.

If someone uses expert items in a normal world. That COULD be considered cheesing. Not cheating. But cheesing. It isn't officially against the rules, but it FEELS like cheating, because it exploits something to your advantage in a way that seems unfair compared to doing it a more difficult way.

The tree part? I understand that, actually. When you want a certain type of wood for building and the trees in your original world just didn't add up to enough combined with you not wanting to wait for them to grow. So you just go massacre the tree population of another quickly-made world.

While I do understand your point here, I personally disagree with it. I don't agree with going to other worlds to grab something rare that didn't spawn. If that happens, too bad, so sad. That's part of why I like exploring worlds personally. I never know if there may be that one rare thing I want that I may not have gotten on another world. If you want something in your world that isn't depending on some rare item spawning by chance in a chest or something, there's always another way to get it. Such as the dungeon items, for example. If you want a handgun, but end up not finding one in the dungeon chests, which is totally possible, go make a fishing hole in the dungeon and fish for it. You can get it in those dungeon crates that you can fish up in the dungeon. Same thing goes for the aglet in surface chests. You can fish on the surface and get one.

In terms of the rotten chunks/vertebre thing well, that's an issue I usually don't run into, since by the time I enter hardmode, I've always got two or three stacks, and I end up with four or five more by the time I'm ready to farm for dev vanity and such. I understand your point, but as I said before, too bad, so sad for me personally.

As for the wood, just make a tree farm. Trees grow extremely quickly, sometimes even instantaneously. Just plant trees for the respective wood you want, go do something else for like, ten, fifteen minutes and most, if not all the trees would have grown by then.

[azamoth66]

Pretty sure the developers themselves are fine with the idea. I should think the fact that it's impossible to get everything in one world, and that some resources aren't really reasably renewable, lends itself to jumping into other worlds for them.

[bubbagamer]

I think that the ability to have one character that's able to go to multiple worlds is a major thing that I believe makes Terraria great. I always hated how in Minecraft, I could never bring my character with the equipment I had into a friend's server. Sure, there are some ways to take advantage of this, (like going to a new world just for trees, but that's not unfair, just lazy) but accessing multiple worlds is a key part of Terraria's gameplay. However, what I do think is unfair is taking a new character and going to the world of a previous playthrough and using those items to skip a lot of work. I guess that each world should "belong" to a certain character, and that as long as each world is a newly created world, then there's nothing wrong with using your character in multiple worlds.

But hey, if you want to do a one-world-only playthrough, then go ahead; you do you.

[Blargo]

I'm not sure whether this falls into the same category, but I like to use this method in order to generate new worlds which have the hardmode ores I want them to for when I start a new playthrough:

-Create a new world.
-Copy the world file to a seperate location.
-Use my endgame player to kill the WoF in that world, then smash three alters to see which ores I get.
-If I don't get the ores I want, I delete the world and try again.
-If I do get the ores I want, I replace the world's save file with the one I copied from before I killed the WoF, then start a new playthrough with a new character from there.

[Lordsofeverythin]

If it is going from a normal world to get expert loot, I would count it as cheating.

[Luux]

But when you are building something and run out of a material/decoration you can't get in your world since you already explored all of it, i doubt you would literally just give up on finding something that didn't come with the world. Like when the update with the marble and granite came out, i couldn't have made anything with those materials if i didn't generate a new world, since they wouldn't just appear in worlds already generated before the update.

[Linio]

You know how I play : one char / one world.
You know why you should care?
Well... Actually you shouldn't.
Play the way you want to play, there's no right or wrong in this game...

[Dani]

Cheating is using unfair methods to gain advantages. I fail to see how going to other worlds with one character is unfair. The only way this could be cheating is if they use it to grab an item on a public server that prohibits it.

Originally posted by Yonatan Keselman:

1 character is meant to have 1 world

If 1 character is meant to have 1 world, why the heck did the devs make it so that you can go to other worlds with 1 character? The devs clearly intend for players to do this if they choose.

[pizzascience]

I do it but only with my post moonlord guy so I think it is fair