Jungle no longer being immune to evil spread

[Bellatrix]

WHY
JUST... WHY

This is a completely tone-deaf change, evil biome spread is the most hated feature in the game. It demanded ugly, labour-intensive modifications to the world, fortunately with the mercy of the jungle being an impenetrable barrier. What's the reason for changing the jungle from a natural barrier to literally the most vulnerable biome?

Jungle is still immune to Hallow spread, so you could use Hallow to wall it off (evil spread only works across jungles in hardmode) but you're kinda boned if (like me) you have evil biomes in your jungle.

This means that before you enter hardmode, you need to chop up your jungle into manageable chunks if it generated mingled with the evil biome, because it'd be basically impossible to control the spread if it was allowed to reach the underground jungle. Pity the Digging Molecart isn't available pre-hardmode.

[tor]

actually, no. master mode spread is fast as ♥♥♥♥ but my jungle is still there and the entire side with it has corruption.

[Izzy]

Literally half of my jungle is corrupted after killing WoF. Yeah, it can be an easy souls and biome keys farm, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell, it corrupted half of the damn jungle. And what if i don't want to kill mech bosses? I can't remove the corruption. So the game makes you rush the mech bosses to get cleantaminator. ♥♥♥♥♥ sake.

[Umbaupause]

I'll say this: The evil biome used to spread through jungle in 1.3.5 too, and a way to reverse the effect seems to be chlorophyte ore, because it converts nearby dirt into mud and prevents it from turning evil again. Now I know it's also tedious to just place that stuff everywhere in your jungle to combat what I too believe is a really annoying mechanic, but it should still work.
...At least I hope so, what with the many other changes that I've just been shaking my head over...

[Esce]

The jungle was not immune to evil spread before 1.4, so even then you had to prepare for this to happen.
Buy some bombs and go crazy with them. Should not be too hard to dig some tunnels with them.

[Twillz]

dont use hallowed, none of the biomes apart from all three goods, evils, (Crimson, corruption, and hallow) chalk biomes, granite biomes, and the underworld cannot be corrupted or hallowed although all other biomes can. And because when the Wall of Flesh is defeated, and the evil biome starts spreading, (rapidly if in expert or master, and none if chosen so in journey) its very hard to make a small barrier between the two biomes (one being what you want safe, and crimson / corruption / hallow) in our case, the jungle. it would be recommended to make a big hole atleast 4 blocks wide all the way down to hell, doing so with the drill containment unit will be the best method. after the hole is finished, it is recommended that you purify all the crimson that has gotten onto the other good biome, (jungle, desert, forest, the underground) with the clentaminator. You will want to make sure that every bit of crimson / corruption / hallow is all gone, otherwise it will spread back. (and it will spread quicker on blocks it has been spread on before). That is my suggestion too how you want to keep your jungle safe. dont just make a big wall that seperates the corruption / crimson with hallow, that will just spread hallow on the surface and the evil biome underground, creating a hallow corrupt combo.

[Enizer]

One time, I had the world basically not include a jungle at all after hardmode start pretty much removed it
After that I just despise the corruption eating the jungle and actually check maps before starting to see if the jungle is saveable
However, this isn't a new thing, and I'm pretty sure some version of it, like jungles straight up not having a surface, could happen even in terraria 1.0

[Lebhleb]

Originally posted by Vriscout Spenceket:

WHY
JUST... WHY

This is a completely tone-deaf change, evil biome spread is the most hated feature in the game. It demanded ugly, labour-intensive modifications to the world, fortunately with the mercy of the jungle being an impenetrable barrier. What's the reason for changing the jungle from a natural barrier to literally the most vulnerable biome?

Jungle is still immune to Hallow spread, so you could use Hallow to wall it off (evil spread only works across jungles in hardmode) but you're kinda boned if (like me) you have evil biomes in your jungle.

This means that before you enter hardmode, you need to chop up your jungle into manageable chunks if it generated mingled with the evil biome, because it'd be basically impossible to control the spread if it was allowed to reach the underground jungle. Pity the Digging Molecart isn't available pre-hardmode.

It always was like this? Evil always ate jungle ever since it could spread, its why id ussualy rush mecha bosses [preferably destroyer] to get Steampunker and just make the whole world and stuff around Jungle hallow.

[Sanquin]

This is one of the reasons I like Journey mode so much. You can halt the spread with a simple button. No need for ugly world modifications, no time consuming preparations to prevent it's spread, etc.

[Emma]

I agree Sanquin.

[Mr. M]

Thats how this game works a long time ago. jungle can be overrun by evil.
when people finish the plantera they ussualy make it mushroom biome for catching truffle

[Witch ~]

Jungle is sadly forever doomed. For some reason there isnt corrupt mud which means chances are high that your jungle is gone for good once it hits.

I was hoping the final update would fix that :/

[Twillz]

although your jungle can be fully corrupted, you can use jungle seeds on an area that isnt corrupt or you can place a load of lihzarhd bricks. even though lihzarhd bricks arent the only thing the jungle needs to be a jungle, one can create a jungle by placing 81 lihzarhd bricks or more. using the build feature you can place blocks where lihzarhd bricks were and that will give you the lihzarhd brick back, allowing you to gain early access to the lihzarhd temple without the need of a key or the hoik glitch with platforms. and since it gives you the lihzarhd brick back, you can create a jungle. therefor making it possible to re-evaluate a jungle. although it is easier to get all the seeds you can from swinging your sword or pickaxe at grass in the jungle.

[Twillz]

you can keep some jungle using the powder the driad gives you, its better than waiting for a clentaminator to pop up. plus, the powder is much much cheaper than the clentaminator, so i doubt that you do actually have two platinum, unless you have never bought anything from a shop during the whole playthrough. TBH though, you should have made a 4 block wide hellevator in PHM (pre hardmode) so you had time too make it, because evil never spreads in the phm.

[Izzy]

Originally posted by timvanhorn81:

you can keep some jungle using the powder the driad gives you, its better than waiting for a clentaminator to pop up. plus, the powder is much much cheaper than the clentaminator, so i doubt that you do actually have two platinum, unless you have never bought anything from a shop during the whole playthrough. TBH though, you should have made a 4 block wide hellevator in PHM (pre hardmode) so you had time too make it, because evil never spreads in the phm.

Anyone can get 2 plat coins in ~10 mins without setting up farms etc, just kill the Queen Bee a few times and sell all the drops. Ofc there are better ways to farm money, but this is quite simple without any preparations and difficulty.

[Lebhleb]

Originally posted by Izzy:

Originally posted by timvanhorn81:

you can keep some jungle using the powder the driad gives you, its better than waiting for a clentaminator to pop up. plus, the powder is much much cheaper than the clentaminator, so i doubt that you do actually have two platinum, unless you have never bought anything from a shop during the whole playthrough. TBH though, you should have made a 4 block wide hellevator in PHM (pre hardmode) so you had time too make it, because evil never spreads in the phm.

Anyone can get 2 plat coins in ~10 mins without setting up farms etc, just kill the Queen Bee a few times and sell all the drops. Ofc there are better ways to farm money, but this is quite simple without any preparations and difficulty.

Or just the Eye of Chthulu, much easier imo, faster, bars sell for quite a bit, can kill him infinite ammount of times and easier to make [actually don't know if bee was changed but its the only boss you can kill as much as you want.]