How to stop crimson from spreading?

[Exor]

Hello, how do I stop crimson from spreading? I know a few things such as sunflower, digging all the way down to hell with 4 blocks wide. The digging down with 4 blocks wide didn't work. Corruption invaded to the other side between the gap. Crimson is invading Jungle. How do I stop this chaos? XD

[lattone]

I usually try to spread hallow instead of corruption/crimson, because crimson and corruption can't spread on hallow :)

[AkunoKage]

the point of hollow and crimson is to make your life a living he**. just use cleansing stuff and keep it at bay

[lI]

tunnels 5 blocks wide, each side should be covered with 1 wide glass block, back wall should be glass too, then corruption/crimson can't bypass

instead of glass can use any other not corrupting blocks

[Ͽ҈҉Ͼ]

Once it's started and you've entered hardmode, you really cannot stop it. Defeating the mechanical bosses and Plantera will slow it down significantly though. If you're not in hardmode yet, crimson/corruption won't jump to mud blocks, so only the edges of the jungle are likely to be affected. Post-WoF though, corruption will slowly turn mud to dirt and can eventually invade significant portions of the jungle where you've already explored (and cleared the path).

Pre-hardmode you can isolate areas with 4+ wide gaps, breaking up the world into chunks between natural caves, but even this is mostly a lost cause once you start breaking altars. Gaps won't prevent the initial diagonal stripes of infection caused by killing the WoF, nor will it stop larger areas from possibly having corruption/hollow added to them when an altar breaks. It can however be used to separate the areas near spawn so that they remain unchanged.

The diagonal stripes generate at the surface about every 1/3 of the map in a v-like shape. This is why vertical shafts usually don't accomplish much. It can be more useful to just separate the upper portion of the terrain below spawn from everything else to give yourself a wedge of safe land to build on, and either use purification powder or a large amount of explosives to create large breaks between where the jungle is (those areas that are entrely mud) and where the rest of the world is. Then just accept that everything else is going to eventually be converted one way or another.

Originally posted by RU i5-4570 16GB RAM 100mb/s:

tunnels 5 blocks wide, each side should be covered with 1 wide glass block, back wall should be glass too, then corruption/crimson can't bypass

instead of glass can use any other not corrupting blocks

Corruption/hollow won't spread to background.

5 blocks wide is fine as well... Just need to go over it twice to make sure there aren't any missed areas along diagonals where the distances can be shorter. If you're wanting to be extra cautious, you could build 5x5 blocks of non-corrupting material at the corners so that grass cannot spread down the walls to infect other blocks... But this measure is mostly just delaying things.

Corruption only spreads through grass, sand, ice, and stone, while slowly converting mud to dirt then spreading grass to it. Often, what people miss are those small 1 tile bits of corrupted grass near the surface which can allow corruption to jump multiple blocks quickly through dirt but be deep enough that purification powder doesn't reach.

[Freon]

The Clentaminator also helps in trying to keep Hallow and Corruption/Crimson at bay. Has a maximum range of 60 tiles, and uses Green solution to eliminate Hallow and Corruption/Crimson. The Clentaminator itself costs 2 Platinum coins from the Steampunker, and 25 Silver for each jar of Green Solution. The solution as its being fired also gives off a faint amount of light, which reveals good portions of your map, so it also helps to find stuff. Also useful in the Jungle as it can break Life Fruits so you can find them easily. Unfortunately if you purify too much around a Plantera Bulb, you will break it, causing Plantera to spawn and you must defeat it. If you have already defeated it, it should definitely be easy to defeat him again.

[curiositas]

Originally posted by infinitekerbals:

The Clentaminator also helps in trying to keep Hallow and Corruption/Crimson at bay. Has a maximum range of 60 tiles, and uses Green solution to eliminate Hallow and Corruption/Crimson. The Clentaminator itself costs 2 Platinum coins from the Steampunker, and 25 Silver for each jar of Green Solution. The solution as its being fired also gives off a faint amount of light, which reveals good portions of your map, so it also helps to find stuff. Also useful in the Jungle as it can break Life Fruits so you can find them easily. Unfortunately if you purify too much around a Plantera Bulb, you will break it, causing Plantera to spawn and you must defeat it. If you have already defeated it, it should definitely be easy to defeat him again.

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[ThatGuyInYourBathroom]

Originally posted by LxyalCony:

Originally posted by infinitekerbals:

The Clentaminator also helps in trying to keep Hallow and Corruption/Crimson at bay. Has a maximum range of 60 tiles, and uses Green solution to eliminate Hallow and Corruption/Crimson. The Clentaminator itself costs 2 Platinum coins from the Steampunker, and 25 Silver for each jar of Green Solution. The solution as its being fired also gives off a faint amount of light, which reveals good portions of your map, so it also helps to find stuff. Also useful in the Jungle as it can break Life Fruits so you can find them easily. Unfortunately if you purify too much around a Plantera Bulb, you will break it, causing Plantera to spawn and you must defeat it. If you have already defeated it, it should definitely be easy to defeat him again.

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[BuzzDee]

time to take a piss

[ossmpossm]

did the crimson get into your jungle???

there are MODS You can install, check the front page

if You do not want to cheat by using a MOD, and starting over, Then, head toward the arctic area, or the desert area, and look for the NPC

He is the guy That sells the Thing You need, and, want

[V1oLet]

detonator to explode a deep deep hole