map viewers, Tedit?

[Icedfate]

I'm not sure where to ask this.
I'm guessing at least somebody here has tried these programs

all i'm trying to do is find a program to display the world map so I can locate lime kelps.

I looked online and all I could find was MoreTerra which just shows a pic of the world with all the ores highlight but no search function.
it seems to work, i found a part in there that shows all the chests and all the contents in the chests.

it claims to be "1.2.4" and yet many items show up as "unknown item"

I can't search for or highlight all the lime kelps or if like I wanted to seach for plantera bulbs it doesn't seem to let me do it.


I then tried to download terrara map editor.

it claims to let you be able to edit your map like it was in paint.

I downloaded it and got some folder called "terraria map editor master"
and inside the folder is a ton of files but there is no .exe file.
the webpage says there should be an exe file with a custom icon but there isn't one.
it says the file should be named tseditxna.exe and there is no file by that name.
I see a folder in there called tseditxna and i open it and see more files and see tseditxna.csproj
and the computer labels it as a CSPROJ file type and when I double click it, my computer says it can't open it and asks me if I want to search the windows app store for the appropriate file.

i then noticed another folder called tedit3installer.

I go in there and I see a file called tedit3installer.wixproj

and my computer labels it as WIXPROJ file type and it can't open that either.

I can't even open the fricking read me file

how do I install and/or use this program?
is it incompatible with windows 8? the instructions seem to have been written for windows 7 users.

I just want something that will show me the map so i can find the item I want

I then searched for the official site of tedit and their link broguht me to adf.ly and it says the download will start in 5 seconds but then it never downloads.

i went to youtube and someone posted a video how to get it and their link leads to adf.ly and it says 5 seconds to download and then a popup appears to download some other program wants me to click on it and the Tedit program never downloads and yet i clearly see in the youtube video, they got it to download and didnt have to click on anyhing

[Celator]

Unfortunately neither of those programs will let you highlight any kind of plant (although you can add some with TEdit if you want), and there aren't very many other map viewers or editors that have been updated for 1.2.4.1. Your best course of action is probably just to look for Lime Kelp yourself. It isn't that rare anyway.

Regarding your problems with TEdit, if you downloaded it from the correct source, you should get a zipped folder with a .msi installer file in it. If you got the right download and you can't see or can't run this file, it probably means it isn't compatible (unfortunately I can't find any information about its compatibility with Windows 8. I'd imagine it should be, though). The correct download source should be here[www.binaryconstruct.com].

And about Adfly ads, once the timer counts down there should be a button that says "SKIP AD". Click this, and don't click on anything else.

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by Over8001:

Unfortunately neither of those programs will let you highlight any kind of plant (although you can add some with TEdit if you want), and there aren't very many other map viewers or editors that have been updated for 1.2.4.1. Your best course of action is probably just to look for Lime Kelp yourself. It isn't that rare anyway.

Regarding your problems with TEdit, if you downloaded it from the correct source, you should get a zipped folder with a .msi installer file in it. If you got the right download and you can't see or can't run this file, it probably means it isn't compatible (unfortunately I can't find any information about its compatibility with Windows 8. I'd imagine it should be, though). The correct download source should be here[www.binaryconstruct.com].

And about Adfly ads, once the timer counts down there should be a button that says "SKIP AD". Click this, and don't click on anything else.

I see..
well i found the lime kelps the old fashioned way.
there's actually a trick to it, i read on the wiki. just run around the ice biome and reveal the map then go home and look on your map screen, the kelps are marked as green pixel sized squares.
they are almost impossible to see, i walked past half a dozen of them.

I really hate the ice biome because the passageways are frequently not connected and it forces you to dig, but I went into mole partol with the shroomite claws.


as for the adfly thing, wow they are dirty. really, really sleazy.

it says "you download will start in 5 seconds" it counts down 5,4,3,2,1
and then at the same time "skip ad" appears in the corner, a popup appears right over the countdown and it says "your download is ready, click here to download" and its actually a third party program...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I didn't fall for it, I knew better than that, but I had no idea the secret download link was the skip ad button...I did notice in the youtube video, it looked like the guy hovered his cursor over skip ad but he never explained it in his video.

I guess if T edit doesn't highlight stuff, I don't need it.
although I considered it might be fun to "paint in" my own world with all the obstacles and treasures and stuff where I want it and challenge myself with a new toon but that seems pointless as I would know where everything is already.

or I could use it to fill in all those little cracks just under the surface crust layer so enemies stop spawning down there in my farms...

I'd rather play the game normally anyway, i finally got a legit terra blade today.

[Icedfate]

it's too bad terrafirma seems to have been abandoned, that program did exactly what I wanted it to do

[Celator]

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

I see..
well i found the lime kelps the old fashioned way.
there's actually a trick to it, i read on the wiki. just run around the ice biome and reveal the map then go home and look on your map screen, the kelps are marked as green pixel sized squares.
they are almost impossible to see, i walked past half a dozen of them.

You really just have to learn to pay attention to your environment and look for the little details, which there are a lot of in Terraria. It was the boulder and dart traps that trained me to pay attention while spelunking.

Also, you may have noticed already, but lime kelp only spawns underwater, so that should narrow down the number of possible locations.

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

as for the adfly thing, wow they are dirty. really, really sleazy.

it says "you download will start in 5 seconds" it counts down 5,4,3,2,1
and then at the same time "skip ad" appears in the corner, a popup appears right over the countdown and it says "your download is ready, click here to download" and its actually a third party program...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I actually didn't know it did that, probably because my browser blocks most popups. But that sounds like something they'd do, and fake download links like that are not that uncommon in advertising, either. A way you can avoid them is to hover your mouse over the link so that the target URL displays at the bottom of the screen, and then you can judge whether it looks legit or not (usually it'll have something like "ads" or "googleads" in it if it's a trick).

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

I guess if T edit doesn't highlight stuff, I don't need it.
although I considered it might be fun to "paint in" my own world with all the obstacles and treasures and stuff where I want it and challenge myself with a new toon but that seems pointless as I would know where everything is already.

or I could use it to fill in all those little cracks just under the surface crust layer so enemies stop spawning down there in my farms...

A lot of people like to use it to make custom or "adventure" maps for other people to play. Some of these are just slightly-altered normal worlds, but a lot of them have environments builts entirely from scratch with custom stories to go along with them. If you're interested in them, or you just want to see what kinds of possibilities there are, a few I'd recommend are A Link to Terraria/Adventure! (they're both the same map, but different versions have different names), Revenge!, Starraria (one of the few maps to incorporate hardmode content), and Terrarivania. Making adventure maps is a pretty fun pastime if you like Terraria but you've already gotten everything there is to get out of the singleplayer experience. I've been working on a couple adventure maps myself, but haven't finished any of them yet.

Originally posted by eviltwin61878:

it's too bad terrafirma seems to have been abandoned, that program did exactly what I wanted it to do

Yeah, I used it up until it got abandoned and I had to switch over to MoreTerra. It was a lot better, but unfortunately it seems like MoreTerra is the best thing we have to work with now.