Help learning how to play

[Ninjy]

If you need help learning how to play Terraria I can help you if you want. I don't know everything about the game but I do know how to play so if you need help I can help you

[Ninjy]

Originally posted by MAD:

How do you place stuff in the backgrond/foreground and switch between them.
been looking at the wiki but still cant find it
thanks

if you wqnt backgroud walls youre going to have to craft them

[KingThyGuy]

dude if ya want im pretty good me could do multiplayer

[KingThyGuy]

Originally posted by MAD:

Originally posted by dinowy10:

dude if ya want im pretty good me could do multiplayer

I just want to know what button to press

what?

[S7riker]

Originally posted by MAD:

Originally posted by dinowy10:

what?

are you @#$%^&* trolling me
I have wooden planks, how do i place them in the background/foreground
Laft click - my arms spin round
Right click - I throw the block
How do you place it?

cant tell if u serious or not, if u are trying to place planks unless u have a background Wall OR attach them to something the arm will just spin, try placeing a few blocks up from the ground then placing the planks and removing said blocks, this will leave the planks in the air.

or place some background walls and then u can just place the planks in the air without attaching them to anything.

[Ninjy]

Originally posted by MAD:

Originally posted by dinowy10:

what?

are you @#$%^&* trolling me
I have wooden planks, how do i place them in the background/foreground
Laft click - my arms spin round
Right click - I throw the block
How do you place it?

you should be able to place it with left click unless another wall is in the way

[Ninjy]

Originally posted by MAD:

Originally posted by Zoroark:

you should be able to place it with left click unless another wall is in the way

arm just spins, nothing gets placed
Is there a button which toggles between placing stuff in the forground to bckground?

no there isnt

[Ninjy]

Originally posted by MAD:

Originally posted by Zoroark:

no there isnt

ok game is broken
thank you

no youre just not making it clear what the ♥♥♥♥ your problem is.

[hampton95947]

if you want me to help you i'd love to im a terraria vet so ya

[MAD]

Originally posted by Zoroark:

Originally posted by MAD:

no youre just not making it clear what the ♥♥♥♥ your problem is.

Problem solved.

I was asking how to swap between placing blocks in the background and placing blocks in the foreground.
Terraria does not use that mechanism, starbound does.
In terraria blocks are inherently one or the other, there is no toggling between forground and background.
ie you want to make a simple shelter you use wood for the forground walls and wooden walls for the background.
In starbound the same material can do both foregound and background.

But do you think in 5 different wikis anyone could mention that, they just use vague commentry like 'just place the block', they dont say 'how' to place the block or what keys or mouse buttons you use to place a block.

[Ninjy]

Originally posted by MAD:

Originally posted by Zoroark:

Problem solved.

I was asking how to swap between placing blocks in the background and placing blocks in the foreground.
Terraria does not use that mechanism, starbound does.
In terraria blocks are inherently one or the other, there is no toggling between forground and background.
ie you want to make a simple shelter you use wood for the forground walls and wooden walls for the background.
In starbound the same material can do both foregound and background.

But do you think in 5 different wikis anyone could mention that, they just use vague commentry like 'just place the block', they dont say 'how' to place the block or what keys or mouse buttons you use to place a block.

they kind of expect you to figure out that left click places blocks

[MAD]

Originally posted by Zoroark:

they kind of expect you to figure out that left click places blocks

but unlike starbound when your holding wood you can place it in either the background or the forground.

Other minor diferences -
...In starbound axes remove wood, front or back.
...In Terraria picks remove wood in the foreground, hammers remove wood in the background.
Picks removing wood, go figure?