Yellow text?

[ham sandwich]

At one point in my world, i was doing whatever, killed a blue slime, and then got the message "[player] has killed 50 Blue Slimes!" or something similar to that. I read another discussion, and it says if yellow text appears, your world entered hard mode. But that didn't make since, because the blue slimes are literally passive enemies that don't even have a lot of health. Can anyone tell me why this happened?

[NightStar]

every 50 of an enemy you kill (bosses not included) you get a message. You also get a banner for that enemy. If your inventory is full, the banner appears on the ground. It has nothing to do with weather your entering hard mode. It's just a system message.

[whatamidoing]

Every 50 kills of most kinds of enemy, you get that little chat announcement and a banner you can place to get a bonus against that kind of enemy. You will get the announcement "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released." once you enter hardmode.

[DR BOOM]

you get a lot of platinum if you get the nymph banner

[fire3 basketball]

that yellow text is occurred per streak you do. it will poll every 50 kills on the same enemy.
it will also hand you banners, which will give you boosts about these enemies.
note: if you reach 100 or more after the first poll, it will give you a duplicate of the banner. this streak goes on forever, and never gets broken until you enter another world.

[Gnome warlord]

Originally posted by DR BOOM:

you get a lot of platinum if you get the nymph banner

tru throw it into shimmer and it gives you a ton of good items totally worth the grind

[MaxBlue001]

Terraria have several messages:

- yellow: usually notification about you getting specific banners. Most enemies give banners every 50 kills. For rare monsters (like pinky), you need less kills. Exceptions to this are some enemies from events like old one's army (basic goblin need 1 000 kills, but you kill a lot of them per event). It's also the color for when you change your spawn (with beds), or when playing golf.

- blue: notifications about NPC spawning. This include traveling merchant's arrival and departure. Note that the skeleton merchant will NOT get a notification. YOu will have to randomly find him while exploring underground.

- red: notification about an NPC dying (with generic message) or when a player die (usually with funny death messages. If a gravestone can spawn, that message will be on it)

- purple: notification about a boss / invasion about to spawn. It is recommended to quickly prepare (assuming you already build an arena for bosses near the main base). Up to you to be organised and prepare for emergency situations like this.

- green: notification about certain events going on: slime rain, blood moon, breaking corruption/crimson orbs, meteorite landing, ... It also notifiy about when your world progress into HARDMODE (as well as other progression related status).

- pink: notifiy when the party girl start a natural party. It is recommend to talk to the party girl now to get a slice of cake, which can be usefull.

[fire3 basketball]

Originally posted by MaxBlue001:

Terraria have several messages:

- yellow: usually notification about you getting specific banners. Most enemies give banners every 50 kills. For rare monsters (like pinky), you need less kills. Exceptions to this are some enemies from events like old one's army (basic goblin need 1 000 kills, but you kill a lot of them per event). It's also the color for when you change your spawn (with beds), or when playing golf.

- blue: notifications about NPC spawning. This include traveling merchant's arrival and departure. Note that the skeleton merchant will NOT get a notification. YOu will have to randomly find him while exploring underground.

- red: notification about an NPC dying (with generic message) or when a player die (usually with funny death messages. If a gravestone can spawn, that message will be on it)

- purple: notification about a boss / invasion about to spawn. It is recommended to quickly prepare (assuming you already build an arena for bosses near the main base). Up to you to be organised and prepare for emergency situations like this.

- green: notification about certain events going on: slime rain, blood moon, breaking corruption/crimson orbs, meteorite landing, ... It also notifiy about when your world progress into HARDMODE (as well as other progression related status).

- pink: notifiy when the party girl start a natural party. It is recommend to talk to the party girl now to get a slice of cake, which can be usefull.

oh my goodness your the terrarian god

[MaxBlue001]

Not really. It's called doing basic research and reading the wiki.

A real terraria god would beat Terraria zenith seed legendary mode with hardcore character (like Sorbet Cafe and prob more players). Not to mention great builders.

[Ota]

It's like Research. Yellow text DOESN'T MEANS HARD MODE, IT means like u discovered something. u get hard mode yellow text Because u discovered it

[ham sandwich]

ok you people have answered my question, i just needed someone to tell me once