First Night - Too many monsters (EDIT: Difficulty Slider)

[picklekudakami]

On my first night of Terraria, I've got 10 Zombies outside banging on the door of my tiny shelter, and Slimes bouncing around all day, preventing me from building my base and mining. Shouldn't the first few days be slightly easier so we have time to get some tools and stuff and then face the monsters?

EDIT: OKAY, I get that I suck at Terraria. The deal is that I like to get my most basic materials, then immediately get my base set up, and go from there. It's just how I play, I do the same in Minecraft.
PROPOSED SOLUTION:
Add a "difficulty slider" with settings from 0 - 10. 0 being absolutely NO MONSTERS. (Not sure if that's overpowered if you can change difficulty whenever.) 5 would be normal monster spawning, and 10 being 2x as many mobs. Any setting in between are the different monster spawning between the ones I specified. Hope you guys like that idea better. :P

[Volcanic]

I just go around geting chests!

[Gazaht]

You just get all the wood you can the first day then mine until you have good armor, thats my stategy, mine for days and days you dont need a house even. and by the time you have all the ore for armor you will have all the stone you need to make a decent castle.

[Quoi ?]

People have posted a lot of good starter tips for you! I agree with them - if you're having this much trouble, you should start by cutting down trees around your spawn. Enough to make a simple one-room wood house with a workbench and chair.

Read
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/House

You will need to kill at least one slime in order to get the gel material required to make torches (necessary to illuminate your home so the Guide NPC can move in).

At night, put a block (wood or dirt or whatever) on either side of the closed door to prevent monsters from opening the door and getting inside.

Make a wooden sword because they're better and easier to use than the horrible copper shortsword you start with. Make wood armor and wear it.

Loot chests located on the surface or found just inside cave entrances and tunnels (sometimes they contain a weapon, potions, or even an accessory).

When you're out and about (away from your house) and suddenly find yourself overwhelmed by monsters, place blocks around your character (between you and the monsters) for quick protection. Basically box yourself in. If you want, remove two blocks and try to swing your sword through the gap to hit the monsters.

Watch Ymrir's Terraria "first night" videos on Youtube for ideas on how to handle monsters on your first night. I'm not expecting you to be able to kill bosses right away like he does, but just watch what he does to survive, gear up, and fight monsters.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ymir+terraria+first+night

You should probably also take a look at some of the guides written by other Terraria players in the Steam Terraria Guides section.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/105600/guides/?browsefilter=trend&requiredtags[]=Gameplay%20Basics

Good luck! You'll get the hang of it! And eventually you'll develop your own style and preferred methods of building, gearing up, and fighting.

[mortyff]

Com on its easy :D

[Dr. McWeazel]

Originally posted by †PH†EnablingUrchin:

Originally posted by Twix202:

When you get to hardmode, you'll see what hard means.

or gets to a hardmode moon/boss o.o

Typically, those will only spawn in Hardmode.

Originally posted by Ebola from Menola:

Lower your difficulty then

I'm reasonably certain that reducing character difficulty will not decrease the damage output of any given monster, nor will it decrease spawn rate. Aside from that, there isn't any difficulty to be decreased.

Originally posted by R.N.C.B Mortyff:

Com on its easy :D

If you're in multiplayer, sure, it's easy because you've got yourself and at least one more guy. I don't find it to be too difficult, mind you, but "too difficult" varies from person to person. I still say that OP should get over the inherent difficulty of starting a new character, though.

[picklekudakami]

Originally posted by Dr. McWeazel, PhD:

Originally posted by TheCraftyPickle:

On the first FEW DAYS it should be easier. EASIER.

I reiterate- if it's easier, it's less fun. While this is merely an opinion, it appears to be one that I share with a number of other people, if this thread is anything to go by.

Now, I doubt that the devs would implement something that would make the first 3 days to the first week easier than the following nights, so... yeah. Better idea might be to ask people for advice dealing with the overwhelming numbers of slimes and zombies.

What if they added a difficulty slider? o.o

[picklekudakami]

Originally posted by Derpinjay:

People have posted a lot of good starter tips for you! I agree with them - if you're having this much trouble, you should start by cutting down trees around your spawn. Enough to make a simple one-room wood house with a workbench and chair.

Read
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/House

You will need to kill at least one slime in order to get the gel material required to make torches (necessary to illuminate your home so the Guide NPC can move in).

At night, put a block (wood or dirt or whatever) on either side of the closed door to prevent monsters from opening the door and getting inside.

Make a wooden sword because they're better and easier to use than the horrible copper shortsword you start with. Make wood armor and wear it.

Loot chests located on the surface or found just inside cave entrances and tunnels (sometimes they contain a weapon, potions, or even an accessory).

When you're out and about (away from your house) and suddenly find yourself overwhelmed by monsters, place blocks around your character (between you and the monsters) for quick protection. Basically box yourself in. If you want, remove two blocks and try to swing your sword through the gap to hit the monsters.

Watch Ymrir's Terraria "first night" videos on Youtube for ideas on how to handle monsters on your first night. I'm not expecting you to be able to kill bosses right away like he does, but just watch what he does to survive, gear up, and fight monsters.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ymir+terraria+first+night

You should probably also take a look at some of the guides written by other Terraria players in the Steam Terraria Guides section.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/105600/guides/?browsefilter=trend&requiredtags[]=Gameplay%20Basics

Good luck! You'll get the hang of it! And eventually you'll develop your own style and preferred methods of building, gearing up, and fighting.

I've played Terraria before,but thx for the advice. :)

[picklekudakami]

Originally posted by Endymion:

Keep building to a minimum during the very beginning, when you are just starting out. Build a rudimentary wooden rectangle with a door near your spawnpoint, and leave it at that for now. Go into a cave, get ores and open chests, and come back to your base to build more when you're stronger. You shouldn't be expected to build a good home base so shortly after you've just begun.

I know, I just like building alot, its how I play, and the game should accomodate ALL ways people like to play.

[Drag]

Originally posted by TheCraftyPickle:

Originally posted by Endymion:

Keep building to a minimum during the very beginning, when you are just starting out. Build a rudimentary wooden rectangle with a door near your spawnpoint, and leave it at that for now. Go into a cave, get ores and open chests, and come back to your base to build more when you're stronger. You shouldn't be expected to build a good home base so shortly after you've just begun.

I know, I just like building alot, its how I play, and the game should accomodate ALL ways people like to play.

If you're planning on building a large structure to function as your town, you may want to hold off on that until you get your first few NPCs. Having enough in an area (I think the number is three) will cause mobs to stop spawning in the area.

As per your percieved difficulty, it becomes more practical to deal with once you get better equipment and higher health. In fact, it starts becoming pretty fun when things get violent, if your up to the task.

But be warned: once you hit hardmode (which you really will want to eventually) things will suddenly become much harder. On the flip side, the equipment you can get also becomes stronger too.

[picklekudakami]

Originally posted by Drag:

Originally posted by TheCraftyPickle:

I know, I just like building alot, its how I play, and the game should accomodate ALL ways people like to play.

If you're planning on building a large structure to function as your town, you may want to hold off on that until you get your first few NPCs. Having enough in an area (I think the number is three) will cause mobs to stop spawning in the area.

As per your percieved difficulty, it becomes more practical to deal with once you get better equipment and higher health. In fact, it starts becoming pretty fun when things get violent, if your up to the task.

But be warned: once you hit hardmode (which you really will want to eventually) things will suddenly become much harder. On the flip side, the equipment you can get also becomes stronger too.

Oh, cool. Yea... Cool. o.o i am terrified

[Drag]

Originally posted by TheCraftyPickle:

Originally posted by Drag:

If you're planning on building a large structure to function as your town, you may want to hold off on that until you get your first few NPCs. Having enough in an area (I think the number is three) will cause mobs to stop spawning in the area.

As per your percieved difficulty, it becomes more practical to deal with once you get better equipment and higher health. In fact, it starts becoming pretty fun when things get violent, if your up to the task.

But be warned: once you hit hardmode (which you really will want to eventually) things will suddenly become much harder. On the flip side, the equipment you can get also becomes stronger too.

Oh, cool. Yea... Cool. o.o i am terrified

But again, on the other hand, you can craft equipment that's bad ass enough to handle the suddenly dangerous enemies.

I won't lie. it's a hell of a lot harder than pre-hardmode ever was, and bosses will be frustrating with the equipment that you get legitmately before killing them. But the thing is... hardmode is really an expansion to the content the game has. One day you will have a handle on pre-hardmode, be a master of dealing its mobs, and bored of how simple it is. That's when you'll be prepared for a new challenge: hardmode.

All the new things you get in hardmode is totally worth the pain. By the time you reach endgame and decide to start over just for the heck of it, you'll laugh at the cute little toys you start the game off with.

[khiro]

Originally posted by Twix202:

When you get to hardmode, you'll see what hard means.

+solareclipse


Start off by making a small shack and slowly gather materails to make better gear.

[picklekudakami]

Originally posted by Nocturnal:

Originally posted by Twix202:

When you get to hardmode, you'll see what hard means.

+solareclipse

o ,.., o

[Drag]

Originally posted by Nocturnal:

Originally posted by Twix202:

When you get to hardmode, you'll see what hard means.

+solareclipse

But... frost moon.

[khiro]

Originally posted by Drag:

Originally posted by Nocturnal:

+solareclipse

But... frost moon.

solar eclipse in the day frost moon at night