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I'm a bit confused about hardmode corruption. Can, say, a single tile of corruption grass underground surrounded by dirt (you know, the occasional patches of grass in the dirt) spread?

Yes. Yes, it can. I had a single tile of ebonstone (and, near as I can tell, it functions th'same as a single tile of corrupted grass) start corrupting the normal stone in my base. I'd thought th'corruption had finally reached the place, but when I checked the sides, nothing but green grass for a ways out, still. Turned out it was a single bloody block causing it.

Edit: Oh, right. Here's the fun part: The piece of ebonstone had empty areas around it. Only one tile of empty space between it and the nearest normal stone block, but it still managed to corrupt through the air. Trench builders might want to make sure said trench is sizable

Then yeah, definitely upgrade to crystal or cursed. Either of 'em's pretty easy to scrounge up materials for. Crystal generally seems to do more overall damage, but cursed has a nice DoT status effect (that probably won't do anything to th'bosses) and higher upfront damage. They're both quiet nice, though.

... yeah. Kael, the server probably needs a new password. Just sayin'. Going public with th'current one seems to have had negative consequences.

As to hardmode... man, I have to admit, I'm loving it, especially how it transforms the whole bloody world. No more of this safe play with jellies shit. If I want to build something in hellworld, it's going to be a bloody rotterdamn fight.

Going in with full molten+best pre-wall weapons, it was like starting over again. Hiding from the night, scrambling frantically for the resources I needed to make my kit more viable vs. these vicious new creatures, learning how they move and the right ways to fight them, etc, etc, etc.

No longer being able to just tank the shit out of everything! I actually have to dodge now, pay attention to how the enemy's moving, be careful. Use that spark of dwarven ingenuity that drew me to DF -- hardmode is like starting on a terrifying glacier, only someone's modded in lasersnails. It's freaking terrific! Things have been kicked up a g'damn notch! This update gave me something I didn't even know I wanted, ha! Bloody challenge, that's what.


Anyway. Squeeing done. As for that sky house, just move in your npcs before you kill the wall. The way they teleport in nowadays should make that very easy. Enough of 'em in there will keep wyverns from spawning.

If you're fighting for npcs on kael's server, though... might just have to get used to fighting wyverns They're pretty easy to kill when you're actually up in the sky a bit -- low grav makes 'em pretty easy to dance around with rocket/spectre boots.

As a general question, though, this does mean that th'server will not, i.e. including the future, kill the wall, correct?

Just checking here. The rule is no wall, ever? Because some folks don't really try to progress to a hell-prepared character. The only way to allow for non-endgame characters is to never activate the endgame, right?

Flamarang + autoclicker at about three character widths away from the eye There's not much pre-wall that can dish out damage like that does, yeh just gotta' clear out the hungers first. Sunfury deals with the hungers fairly well to begin with, until they thin out a bit.

Don't forget to eat a boul of soup! Those things are tremendously useful. Really easy to make now that you can kill goldfish directly, too.

kael's server has hallow all over the spawn.  Have fun spawning in lasersnails!

Unless it's daytime.

Anyway, there's a hole just to the left of the spawn that's safe to drop in (there's a sign), so long as you don't hug the walls and no one's messed with the water at the bottom. Leads to a staging area/safehouse where the NPCs hide.

Better than corruption, I guess. At least hallow's mostly harmless during the day. Sprites aren't that bad and unicorns don't spawn too often...

Seriously though, Kael's has hardmode going strong. You've got serious <reproductive organs> and a bucketload of dwarven ingenuity if you go in there without good kit and somehow manage to survive.

Hella' more fun than pre-wall, though. Post-wall is actually vicious, especially if you're not being careful or have less than impressive equipment.

There's a reason the safehouse is underground

Hallow mobs are arguably more dangerous than corruption ones, especially during the night. Freaking snails.

Hacked together a screenie of the safehouse. It's rather unfurnished (read: Frakking ugly). Contributions to sprucing it up are welcome