Can the corruption take over the world?

[PlasmaJedi]

Is it possible to eventually have your whole world infected? Can it ever escape from its deep dark layer?

Can I actually INTENTIONALLY bring it to the surface to infect the world?

If I don't want to risk my personal private world, should I turn off the corruption spread? (even free players can do this)

[Adun]

In the beginning, long ago, it was possible for the corruption to spread a LONG way, mainly into the ocean. Since then the spread was limited and finally made an option. If you don't want a corrupted world, even in parts, it'll be best to turn off corruption spread for good.

[beddtaliesin]

I had a build I sat on for four weeks trying to naturally corrupt the wood of a build before I gave up in disgust and deleted the world (it pissed me off that much lol because I trying to make a custom corrupted tree for an adventure) if that helps you decide on whether to have it on or off. Corruption spread was nerfed to the point that about the only thing that corrupts now is grass and only for a block or two. Not even stone or dirt corrupt naturally anymore. So you could build with cragwood in corruption, touching corruption and not have a worry at all. Which is both sad and frustrating seeing as corrupted wood is a level 3 furnace fuel and I liked using corrupted wood for decorating.

So yeah about the only way to spread corruption would be corruption bombs now, there is no natural corruption spread.
And devs if you don't believe me, I have a corruption tester with corrupt obelisk rotating around on blocks to try and corrupt things. Only thing that will corrupt is damn grass. With the option to turn corruption spread off, please revert the nerf. Making your world public without a password or visitor unmarked is considered user beware, please PLEASE revert this damn nerf so it's user beware too. If not then please change the ingredients to the corruption bomb so it isn't so freaking expensive to make if we wanna make a scary black tree.

This is my tester. Two weeks now, I have about 30 corrupted grass switching it out. Stone, Wood, Dirt and Water just chilling and not doing a thing.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1099853238

[Weulf]

the corruption spread is disappointing for sure. and it's sad to see animals die from corrupted water instead of becoming corrupted :(

[Eveaustria]

Originally posted by beddtaliesin:

So yeah about the only way to spread corruption would be corruption bombs now, there is no natural corruption spread.
And devs if you don't believe me, I have a corruption tester with corrupt obelisk rotating around on blocks to try and corrupt things.

There's one other exception: corrupted water can still corrupt green grass blocks, but only the ones (up to 4) at their edges, not diagonally, and corruption doesn't spread any further on grass either.

Yes, I'd also like it if corruption would spread a bit more, at least over wood blocks and leaves again, especially since we can turn the corruption spreading off now (even F2P players) and we still have those handy purifying bombs, healing beacons, etc.

Sure, griefers could abuse the corruption spread by placing corrupted blocks against trees like they did before, but since they can still throw corrupt bombs nowadays, the spreading nerfs only made it harder to grief, they didn't stop it...

Also corrupted water could at least be able to re-corrupt adjacent dirt and stone blocks (mainly meaning the blocks players purified themselves on the corruption layer) ;)

I think water should definitely not turn into corrupted water once again by itself when "infected" by corrupted water, because that was NASTY back then.

Maybe also not other very common blocks like grass, dirt, stone (from one corrupted block to the other I mean) - or just at a very, very slow pace :) How about that, would that be a good idea maybe? It takes several RL hours for a tree to grow into saplings (even if players are offline), so it's definitely possible to change things really slowly if needed :)

[PlasmaJedi]

So, it actually used to be possible for it to reach the surface? Does anybody know what blocks it can/cannot infect? Isn't it buried under the lava layer?

As a Terraria player, I know that its corruption is limited before you kill the boss that activates hard mode. Pre-hardmode, it can only infect grass and the things that grow on it, like trees. (Easy to stop, put down something incorruptable in a kinda roadblock, and it cannot cross it. Often occurs naturally.) Post-hardmode, it can now infect ROCK, whick makes of something like 80% of the whole world. Basically, if you do not use the powerful tools to fight back, eventurally it can indeed infect everything!

So, why not set it up like pre-hardmode? Let it spread faster again, but greatly limit the blocks that can be infected, so it can never reach the surface. I was planning on making a world where the whole surface is corrupted, and anyone who joined would have to fight back against it! Evidently, now I can't.

Btw, I'm loving the detailed crafting and the like, but I'd also love to see some more gameplay elements too, bosses, dangerous corruption, ranged weapons like bows or staves, and a lot of cool stuff.

[SpaceCodet]

Nope, corruption doesn't spread as it once did. The corruption has a limit now. You can even nullify that too. Corruption only afects trees and grass now. That mite've changed since the last I heard too.