stopping corruption spread

[venomsnake2019]

will a 3 wide tunnel filled with wood stop the corruption from spreading?

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no, thats a hard way. Just blow up the edge of corrup/crims with Bomb

[broskito.net]

yeah you want at least 5 blocks space

[venomsnake2019]

ok

[ApinuGaming]

ineed zenith kan u halp

[Amogus]

I had to do a wall/amputation on my jungle because the crimson had already taken over the jungle. Either it's a expert/master mode thing or it's a new feature that they added since I last played, but I didn't know that crimson could take over the jungle. I never had it happen on worlds I played on previously.

Anyways, I did 7 blocks wide since I heard thorns can bridge the gap and cause problems. I also coated each side with wood and have had 0 crimson spread into my jungle.

[76561199030112379]

yep i can confirm 3 width block hellevator can stop the spread

[76561198805434949]

use bombs to separate the corruption in hardmode
the corruption will just go through the hole to make a v when you beat wof

[prpl_mage]

Originally posted by  Sir_Mossy :

I had to do a wall/amputation on my jungle because the crimson had already taken over the jungle. Either it's a expert/master mode thing or it's a new feature that they added since I last played, but I didn't know that crimson could take over the jungle. I never had it happen on worlds I played on previously.

Been a thing since 1.2 I believe.

As for the question. Blocks spread up to 3 tiles so 3 tile gap is enough. No need to fill it. But you can fill it with any type of block or object, platforms, torches, ropes etc.

Doing so prevents the Hardmode thorns to grow from the corrupted grass.
But you can likewise just place some stone or something at the end of the corruption side and it also solves the problem.

[Ezra]

the only person here who was right was mossy the evil can jump 4 blocks and the thorns can bridge that so 7 to 8 blocks with with wood is the best bet you have

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by mattrec44:

the only person here who was right was mossy the evil can jump 4 blocks and the thorns can bridge that so 7 to 8 blocks with with wood is the best bet you have

No, 3 blocks is the minimum and its safe assuming no thorns are able to grow. Evil cannot jump any further than that.

And thorns can be stopped by dragging a rope through the hellevator sides. So if you don't feel like replacing all the blocks on sides with uncorruptable ones use rope its faster. Been doing fine with 3-4 block wide hellevators.

Also before someone comes here saying that background walls spread evils:
I did bust some of the misconceptions regarding the spread here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yL_22LQuCc

-Minimum block spread is 3 blocks
-Wall corruption/crimson cannot happen if there is no infected foreground block present and cannot reach too far from it.
-Wall corrpution / crimson is cosmetic and has no effect on happiness / valid housing / cannot affect foreground.

[Amogus]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Originally posted by mattrec44:

the only person here who was right was mossy the evil can jump 4 blocks and the thorns can bridge that so 7 to 8 blocks with with wood is the best bet you have

No, 3 blocks is the minimum and its safe assuming no thorns are able to grow. Evil cannot jump any further than that.

And thorns can be stopped by dragging a rope through the hellevator sides. So if you don't feel like replacing all the blocks on sides with uncorruptable ones use rope its faster. Been doing fine with 3-4 block wide hellevators.

Also before someone comes here saying that background walls spread evils:
I did bust some of the misconceptions regarding the spread here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yL_22LQuCc

-Minimum block spread is 3 blocks
-Wall corruption/crimson cannot happen if there is no infected foreground block present and cannot reach too far from it.
-Wall corrpution / crimson is cosmetic and has no effect on happiness / valid housing / cannot affect foreground.

Kinda wish I knew that rope did the job. I spent so long flying down my shaft lining it with wood to prevent thorns.

On the plus side though, it does look nice (to me at least) and is sealed off with some small doorways here and there.