What's wrong with my vertical hoik?

[258789553873]

I was building an afk farm for the pumpking moon. I set up hoiks to get the mobs into the trap faster. Problem is, while testing, mobs keep getting stuck at the edge of the box. Sometimes they make it through, sometimes they end up stuck in the bottom corner, and sometimes they end up sinking into the ground! Also, sometimes my loot gets stuck inside the conveyor belts and won't move. I put those there to carry the loot to me btw.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1388357282

I've tried fiddling with it to get them to pass through reliably, but nothing works. I decided to give up trying to get them to come in through the bottom, and have them drop in from above the ground, so I'm trying to get my horizontal hoik to lead into an upwards hoik, as you can see. For some reason, no matter which orientation the vertical blocks are in, it doesn't work, everything just gets stuck at the corner! What I'm trying to do is have the horizontal hoik (which works fine) to lead the mobs into an upwards hoik, which then puts them into a horizontal hoik further up where they can pass through the wall without getting stuck in the floor, since there will be no floor up there. And yes, I know the walls are solid. I had the last hoik block be a part of the wall originally, but I removed it in my futile attempts to fix the mobs getting stuck.

I don't know what to do. For some reason I've never been able to get a vertical hoik to work and I don't know why. Note that I've only recently started trying to use hoiks. I've made short hoiks in the past, just to see it in action, but it wasn't until now that I decided to actually use a hoik for something productive.

Can anyone help me?

Oh, and a side note, are conveyor belts immune to lava? I was going to put a thin layer or lava in the bottom of my trap, but I can't find anything online telling me that will destroy my conveyor belts or not. My trap will work even without lava (the damage output of it takes about half my hp in a single tick, and I'll have minions in there too, so I'm not too worried about dps right now).

[just.nuke.em]

Originally posted by IXBlackWolfXI:

Oh, and a side note, are conveyor belts immune to lava? I was going to put a thin layer or lava in the bottom of my trap, but I can't find anything online telling me that will destroy my conveyor belts or not. My trap will work even without lava (the damage output of it takes about half my hp in a single tick, and I'll have minions in there too, so I'm not too worried about dps right now).

They are fine with lava. I use em with lava all the time.

[258789553873]

I've been conducting experiments, and I can't get a vertical hoik to carry me more than 2 tiles up, no matter what I do.

If you can't tell from the picture, I'm using actuators, since my hoik is intended to move mobs. The vertical hoik there isn't actuated, so I've been conducting experiments with actuated vertical hoiks. Like I said, I managed to get it to move me upwards, but it'll only move me up 2 blocks, no matter what configurations I try.

[258789553873]

After watching some outdated videos on vertical hoiks on youtube, I finally managed to get mine to work.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1388403801

Problem is, I can't get my character to then hoik to the right, which is what I would need for a monster to fall into my trap.

Right now I'm tempted to just run the vertical hoik to the top of my trap and let them fall in through the top opening. I guess that would work, but I'm not so sure about flying enemies. Of course, I know the hoik at my trap won't affect flying enemies often, but I was thinking of putting more horizontal hoiks up in the air to catch them. Either that, or set up an old flying monster trap and have that lead to a horizontal hoik. Not so sure how well that would work though when I'm underground....

[258789553873]

Decided to test out my trap. I didn't make it past the second wave. Apparently, pumpkin moon monsters are immune to hoik.

So my trap is worthless. I wasted an entire day building something that isn't worth crap. I have no way to get monsters into my trap, so I still have no way of doing a pumpkin moon. And no one told me. They all just sat there and laughed their asses off at my ignorance.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ asking for help online anymore. Internet's nothing but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trolls.

Fml. Guess I'll be quitting terraria again. I'll never beat this game. I've only ever beaten a handful of games in my life, the first one with cheat codes. I have mountains of games I've never finished, and never will. I'm just cursed to never finish games. When will I accept that?

[Saver Sigonith]

Wow, ok. Like, I was actually pleased that you seemed to be asking good questions and trying to do interesting things, but...sorry it didn't work, mate.
I don't think trolls were the problem. I looked at it and almost posted an answer, but then realized you were using actuators and I didn't actually know how they affected it so I didn't. I don't think anyone knew Pumpkin Moon monsters were immune to hoik and were "laughing at you".

I hope you manage to take a deep breath and come back to it. I think there's a lot of fun to be had here still; with Terraria at least, if possibly not hoiking Pumpkin Moon.

[258789553873]

Fixed the problem with teleporters, only to find that mourning woods are immune to traps and lava. Not only that, but they keep dropping down into the box with me, which btw does NOT grant invulnerability. Now all my npcs are dead, and my world is in the middle of a pumpkin moon for the next 10 minutes. Great. So now my map is permanently ruined.

Great game. Be nice if there was a way to, you know, progress and finish it.

[Saver Sigonith]

Yeah, trying to farm AFK Pumpkin Moon with traps may not be the key to success. I set up a big arena with traps to mop up the chaff as I fought the bosses from it; that worked better.
Either way, it's not really necessary to progress. What's the next boss you gotta do? Plantera?

It can be a bit challenging single-player. If you're really feeling stuck, consider finding someone (who agrees not to cheat) to play with you.

[258789553873]

I've been grinding plantera trying to get her trophy. Still haven't, despite killing her probably over 50 times by now. I've also defeated the golem I thnk 6 or 7 times (I had a built up of the summoing item from raiding the temple for traps, to build my farm out of eventually and because I got sick of tripping them all the time). Yes, I planned this farm from the start of my playthrough. So I'm quite displeased that its not workng out.

The only other bosses I have left to do are Duke Fishron and the moonlord. Speaking of which, I tried to do the cultist, that was obviously hopeless. I was hoping to get some gear from the pumpkin moon before trying again. I have shroomite armor and the megashark with ichor bullets, if you want to know my build. I also have daedelus and holy arrows, but that doesn't help too much with pumpkings it seems. My trap progressed through the waves far faster than I can.

I've been trying to find the video I based on my design on, but I can't find it. The only videos i can find show you being up in the air for the pumpkin moon, so that only the pumpkings can get to you. Mine is based on a design where you're underground and the trap itself is above you, where you can get all the minion drops. Admittedly, I'm mostly just looking for spooky wood and I think the mourning woods drop some stuff too. The pumpkings don't drop everything I want. And no, I still haven't gotten a raven staff. I've only killed one so far, and that was sheer dumb luck. And no, it wasn't in my trap, I hadn't built that yet, I just built after I got sick of dying to them all the time. I was doing so many pumpkin moons I had to set up a pumpkin farm, because I was burning through the medalions that quickly. Oh, and I also can't kill the mobs fast enough to get to the final wave before the night ends. And yes, I start it at 7:30.

On a side note, I did find another invulnerability exploit I could use. Though i still don't know what I'm going to do about the mourning woods. Why they pass through the floor? My hoik isn't moving them, they're walking over and over the wall to get in. Why would they end up lowering in my invulernability box if they enter the trap from above? It makes no sense. Also, they seem to become invulnerable when they do that.

[valiscense]

Chlorophyte bullets or Crystal only 2 options.