how to get into terraria?

[Nephy]

this game isnt beginner friendly and id like to enjoy it without dying off spawn. any tips?

[ImKrazyK]

Originally posted by NightshadeFae:

tbh, speaking from 1800 hours of experience, the early game is always the hardest part. Small health pool, bad weapons, bad mobility and CONSTANTLY having to stop to make new NPC huts for progression purposes. Its just an early grind that has to be dealt with in order to make it to the parts of the game with insane flashy lights and lunar chaos that make my autistic brain go brr.

In addition to this, spend most of your early game building a safe place to live & build other things.

Kill a lot of slimes during the day, make torches and find entrances underground and explore a bit. Destroy every pot you find and open every chest you come across and make sure to take the chest. Early game is hard, but once you start to get better mats and better gear, the easier it gets.

[Majorita]

First things first if solo I would play on a Medium world, it just helps to have some extra space but not too much like in a Large, co-op Large is better.

My strategy is boring but usually involves exploring the caves you can find near surface and opening chests/pots there, getting some of those free items, then I'll go back to spawn and dig the hellevator with copper tools (a 2 block wide hole that goes vertically down as straight as possible).

Digging that hole lets you clear up an important route to the bottom of the world, you also get materials to build with obviously, and along the way you will find some ores and tons of natural caves which you can use later to explore and find more resources.

After the hole is dug usually in the process I've peeled off and explored a few caves that I've found and if you're lucky you might have found a few hearts, iron ore, silver, gold, whatever...

It just kind of relies on a bit of luck to find useful things...

Another strategy if you really hate dying earlygame... your character can visit multiple worlds, so you can make a few different worlds, enter caves on the surface, loot them for hearts + chests, etc. then go back to your 'main' world and you get to keep all the loot you found. For co-op play this can be sometimes somewhat necessary if you get really scarce heart spawns.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Woad2Isles(Ravire):

Glass houses bud

I've been building a lot of them recently.

[DaxiraxJr]

Originally posted by Woad2Isles(Ravire):

Originally posted by Rod in Chains:

(For you)

Glass houses bud

How does the glass houses comparison work here?

[Create@Review(Ravire)]

Originally posted by DaxiraxJr:

Originally posted by Woad2Isles(Ravire):

Glass houses bud

How does the glass houses comparison work here?

The guy was talking down to another so I responded with glass houses the guy might understand this game perfectly but need a guide for other games. If he wants to be respected and get help when he asks he should lead by example hence glass houses your reputation is easy to shatter into being known for toxic and unhelpful which would make people steer clear.

[darkpsynet1]

the biggest thing is dont try and use that shortsword you start with, itll most likely get you killed rather then help

[Daniel.]

cant.
no but really just try getting wood, make a crafting bench, make some platforms, and build a sky house.
how i did it at least.

[ColdRain]

Build a shelter. Be brave and die with dignity.

[Gnome warlord]

dude if you are still looking for help i can guide you through early game seeing as these comments dont seem particularly helpful