Enough Heart Crystals in Multiplayer?

[internisus]

The way I understand it, there aren't enough heart crystals in a large world to take even 5 players to max life. Is that right?

So how do larger multiplayer games work? Say you have a server with 20 people playing; where do you get enough heart crystals? Is it necessary to create other worlds, hunt down crystals there, and bring them back?

[ragnaroth]

you can spawn items in tshock

[internisus]

Originally posted by case326:

you can spawn items in tshock

I'm planning to host a server using the official tool. I'm not interested in using tshock or any kind of editors. I just want to know if this is a problem I should anticipate in a vanilla-run game.

[prpl_mage]

There should be enough, We are two people in a large world with maxed out hp and we have about 20-30 stacked in a box, although some has been used to make heart lanterns.

Either way you can just chugg Life fruits in hardmode otherwise.

[Garrick]

I've gotten like 50 heart crytals in the same world, it's all about luck. More crystals the deeper you go and more in the jungle. Jungle also goes really deep so that helps.

[koimeiji]

According to an unofficial terraria wiki, there are about 45 life crystals in a large world.

Each player needs 15 life crystals to reach pre-hardmode max HP

That'll cover about three people, more or less.


If you run out of life crystals in a world, the only option is to either use a server host plugin thing like tshock, or to use another world.

[prpl_mage]

Originally posted by 東方 Koishi Komeiji 303:

According to an unofficial terraria wiki, there are about 45 life crystals in a large world.

Yeah that's not true anymore.

[internisus]

Okay, thanks. Sounds like I'm going to be doing some farming to keep my players supplied if enough of them stay on for the long haul.

[Guywars]

There are enough, it's really really full of them.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by prpl_mage:

There should be enough, We are two people in a large world with maxed out hp and we have about 20-30 stacked in a box, although some has been used to make heart lanterns.

Either way you can just chugg Life fruits in hardmode otherwise.

what he said
just buy a treasure lamp from the skeleton merchant and it'll show you the way

[internisus]

I am asking about 15–20 people. What's enough for two people isn't enough for twenty. It doesn't sound like a completely closed, unmodified world is viable for more than three or four players.

[AvatarOfWar]

Originally posted by 東方 Koishi Komeiji 303:

According to an unofficial terraria wiki, there are about 45 life crystals in a large world.

Not even slightly accurate. I've personally found 60 in my current world and have about 20% of the world explored. Yes, this is a large world.

However, your players probably will struggle to find hearts. Most of my exploration is in easy reach connected tunnels that reach the surface. Pre-hardmode has always been a struggle to find enough hearts for one character for my solo gameplay. A server with 5 people would have to really spread out. Hopefully everyone uses torches to mark where they've been, so the next person doesn't waste too much time exploring already-explored areas.

And a side note: you can't use Life Fruit if you are under 400 HP.

*Edit: 15-20? Forget it. I'm sure lots of people think that might be fun, but don't think for a moment that the server will be fair and balanced for everyone. It won't.

[internisus]

Thanks for that detailed information. I don't think that my 15 intermittent players will all stick with it, and it's a very collaborative, mediumcore game, so fairness shouldn't be a problem. I'll plan on farming some separate, small worlds for extra hearts to bring in, but it sounds like my game will round down to just about the right size. I'm glad I asked this before broadening the scope of my invitations!