how do I find shimmer?

[Cabbit]

ive been looking for a long time around the sea area closest to the jungle biome because that's what i saw on YouTube. still cant find it im not in hard mode is it only in hard mode or do i need to dig deeper ive been digging close-ish to the surface like just below the middle area to the top area because i thought hell would just be in the bottom area so i haven't looked there yet.if i need to dig to hell please let me know. if its somewhere else other than near the ocean please tell me Ty for reading all this.

[SpaceCookiez22]

I dug down in a fake desert (if you dig down it turns into dirt) and ended up in a jungle. I went down to hell and then went left (maybe 500m from the last building) and mined straight up; my screen eventually went black and I saw the light. I proceeded to drop it into the lava- btw, what is shimmer used for?

[Joshua Kurayami]

Originally posted by SpaceCookiez22:

I dug down in a fake desert (if you dig down it turns into dirt) and ended up in a jungle. I went down to hell and then went left (maybe 500m from the last building) and mined straight up; my screen eventually went black and I saw the light. I proceeded to drop it into the lava- btw, what is shimmer used for?

It's used for a lot of things, like uncrafting things, turning items into shimmer items, swapping items with other items and so on. I recommend looking up the wiki for all the stuff you can and can't do.

[SkyFall]

Originally posted by WAV:

ive been looking for a long time around the sea area closest to the jungle biome because that's what i saw on YouTube. still cant find it im not in hard mode is it only in hard mode or do i need to dig deeper ive been digging close-ish to the surface like just below the middle area to the top area because i thought hell would just be in the bottom area so i haven't looked there yet.if i need to dig to hell please let me know. if its somewhere else other than near the ocean please tell me Ty for reading all this.

The easiest way to find a shimmer: create a new character on master mode, die, after these manipulations you become a ghost. Since the ghost passes through blocks, finding the shimmer will not be difficult. Use it before it gets fixed ;)

[Snivy]

Originally posted by SkyFall:

The easiest way to find a shimmer: create a new character on master mode, die, after these manipulations you become a ghost. Since the ghost passes through blocks, finding the shimmer will not be difficult. Use it before it gets fixed ;)

1. I'm pretty sure you mean a Hardcore Character. Master mode is a World Difficulty..
2. There's nothing to get "fixed". If you really wanted to cheat, you could just use a world editor to look at the map.

Back to OP:
If you wanted to find the shimmer more easier, just look in the Underground between the ocean and the jungle. It can only spawn there. Sometimes it's just a bit closer to jungle too.

[Cabbit]

Originally posted by Snivy:

Originally posted by SkyFall:

The easiest way to find a shimmer: create a new character on master mode, die, after these manipulations you become a ghost. Since the ghost passes through blocks, finding the shimmer will not be difficult. Use it before it gets fixed ;)

1. I'm pretty sure you mean a Hardcore Character. Master mode is a World Difficulty..
2. There's nothing to get "fixed". If you really wanted to cheat, you could just use a world editor to look at the map.

Back to OP:
If you wanted to find the shimmer more easier, just look in the Underground between the ocean and the jungle. It can only spawn there. Sometimes it's just a bit closer to jungle too.

ty for your reply ill try looking more round there

[Zereph]

Use this guide on youtube: https://youtu.be/293paZjk9SA?si=5xC4munxUqGfQ5eZ
Theres actually a formula you can use to find its location. Alternatively you could just get someone with an endless bucket of shimmer to join your world :)

[Cabbit]

Originally posted by Zereph:

Use this guide on youtube: https://youtu.be/293paZjk9SA?si=5xC4munxUqGfQ5eZ
Theres actually a formula you can use to find its location. Alternatively you could just get someone with an endless bucket of shimmer to join your world :)

Ty it helped.

[Galactic Necromancer]

I always thought shimmer was a mod

[th]

OP, yes, you need to dig deeper. It's not so close to the surface.

[th]

Originally posted by bigdaddycarr2014:

I always thought shimmer was a mod

It's not, it's a natural part of the vanilla game starting from 1.4.4 version.

[th]

Originally posted by bigdaddycarr2014:

I always thought shimmer was a mod

Too huge of a thing to be from some strange 3rd party mod imo.

[bubthezombie]

Originally posted by SkyFall:

Originally posted by WAV:

ive been looking for a long time around the sea area closest to the jungle biome because that's what i saw on YouTube. still cant find it im not in hard mode is it only in hard mode or do i need to dig deeper ive been digging close-ish to the surface like just below the middle area to the top area because i thought hell would just be in the bottom area so i haven't looked there yet.if i need to dig to hell please let me know. if its somewhere else other than near the ocean please tell me Ty for reading all this.

The easiest way to find a shimmer: create a new character on master mode, die, after these manipulations you become a ghost. Since the ghost passes through blocks, finding the shimmer will not be difficult. Use it before it gets fixed ;)

Now that's thinking outside of the box!

[bubthezombie]

I've tried this for fun just now (finding the Shimmer biome as a ghost) and yes as someone else pointed out, its a hardcore player you need to create, the world difficulty has no bearing apart from how quickly you might die. I've always found the Classic experience challenging enough, though follow it through to the defeat of the Moonlord with all the end game weapons and armour and you basically end up as a god.

Anyway, new player created (hard core) New world created, (medium size, classic) in five minutes house built for guide, wood armour, wood broad sword etc, then went adventuring (eastward) before long found Crimson cavern entrance, mobbed by Crimera's and Blood Crawlers and killed within three minutes flat. Not my first rodeo, but I wasn't being very cautious.

Anyhoo, within eight minutes later (starting from the west most point of my world, I found the shimmer biome as my ghost self. You can't access the world map, but zooming out on the mini-map, you can screen shot it and now know fairly accurately as to where it is for future reference. Unfortunately the map data seems to be recorded only until the point of death, so the 'survey' up to that point was lost. Its also worth noting that ghosts don't emit any light so you are totally reliant on natural light sources to highlight what is underground.

It would be a cool glitch if you could save the map data from your ghost, but it seems not. I know there are map editors and such as mentioned, but that kinda takes the fun out of it.
If anyone knows how to save ghost map info, I'd be interested to know!

If you then start again, you'll find your player folder along with the map data still in the Players folder, but your hard core player will have been deleted, however, fish around in the recycle bin (windows) and you will find the Player and player.bak files, restore them to the Players folder to continue again from the point just before your demise.

...and yes, the shimmer biome is fun and useful. If I remember rightly, I was not aware of the update when I stumbled into my first Shimmer biome, it was cool! Lots to do there.

Well that was fun :-)

[76561199546297285]

just go to beach and dig down not in desert just go straight down in beach that close to jungle