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finished the angler's hut at last. it was a pita to build mostly due to the short number of trees i can plant right there. but i finally made it. it also received some theme related stuff like chandelier, lamps and that stuff. all the NPC houses will receive the same treatment once i have the resources. the dryad's house also received the same treatment and i expanded it over the hellevator.

furniture will be added in another iteration. for now this is job done. the house of the dye trader was also updated. now i need to find the stylist. but the jungle calls on me first.

EDIT:

also reforged the light's bane and the demon bow for maximum modifiers. it was quite cheap.

leveled more terrain and cut more trees, used the newly leveled plain to plant more of them, got enough wood for expanding the houses of the guide, demolitionist and merchant. there's a room avaliable for the goblin tinkerer. but i have to find him first. or go for the stylist and expand the house of the dye trader.

either case, the town is expanding a little bit more.

as for equipment, the EoC gave me enough demonite for the demon bow and the light's bane. not ready for taking onto the EoW yet. first need to craft some accesories and reforge the whole equipment.

bought a stack of pumpkin seeds from the dryad, im using the spare grass plots for them, and have some pumpkin pie ready for use in the good storage.

bought a piggybank, im surprised that its the only container (i guess the safe works the same way) in which i can say the order of quickstack and it actually takes the money from the slots instead of making me do the micromanagement (as the rest of the containers do). well that should be very obvious taking in account what it is.

but anyways.

havent found more crystals. but i've discovered at least 3 spider nests nearby, one of them was on the way of an abandoned track. there are several along the magma layer. havent had enough rope and torches for exploring it all of them.

i had also encountered another granite biome. nothing regarding marble yet. and got practicall a full stack of silt for processing. had to reacomodate the contents of my chests.

the small house i had is getting short in space for furniture, and i dont have more chests (may need to fabricate more or expand the house a bit). have an extractinator and moved the nurse to the same house.

finished the first layer of the angler's hut. he is joyfully staying there until i get more palm wood for finishing the second floor and get the materials for the roof.

the EoC has been announced at least 2 times since the fight. but i have been trying to avoid it while i find heart crystals.

EDIT:

the fucker got me by surprise while i was building the frame for the second floor of the angler's hut. attacked him with arrows then changed to the yoyo during the fight, had few space for maneuvering but having the nurse so near allowed me to heal most of the fight.

so yeah, one boss down. now i have to make a home for the Dryad.

found another mushroom biome while spelunking in search of silver and gold ores. found several cabins with different repeated elements (two clouds in a jar, two flare guns with ammo)

found more heart crystals and skipped one EoC attack while doing it. sitting at 260 HP right now.

got enough silver for the full set but not enough for the golden one, will have to keep looking for ore.

the angler's house frame is ready, but making the doors depleted the stock of palm wood so will have to way for the next harvest in order to make walls. it is missing also the materials for the second floor (where the main NPC's room goes) and the roof.

EDIT:

died to a boulder trap and lost some money but got enough gold ore for completing what i needed for the armor set. bought some items from the travelling merchant (brick layer and stopwatch).

now i have to find more heart crystals.

EDIT 2:

have found 2 granite biomes, and got 2 more crystals, 300 HP right now, ran out of torches for exploration, and was getting full inventory, also found a band of regeneration.


EDIT 3:

almost killed the EoC, the last dashing attacks got quickly in critical state and i didnt have money for paying the nurse. lost the battle when he was practically dead. there was also a demon eye messing around during the battle.

the equipment served me enough for traversing the jungle, the left side of the map is completelly devoid of any corruption and spans two deserts, the jungle, normal surface and the ocean. found the angler and im currently farming palm trees on the town for making his house (over the pond).

will take a photo when its finished. no spelunking for now. also increased max life to 200. so attacks from the EoC are expected.

Some of your houses are really quite lovely.  My 1.3 house in my fresh Expert game thus far is basically a glorified flak tower built out of wood.  Even the last major project back before 1.2 was basically just a bunch of boxes stacked up, and even that's unfinished; you can see the bottom of the island is still far from complete, and there's no grass.  Also tended to get harpies if you jumped up from the top of the dome, so you had to watch out for that.  At any rate, my 1.3 house:

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Actually, those two rooms that serve as entrances and exits were initially intended to be decorative, but turned out to be useful.  One of the new 1.3 enemies, the Dripplers, tends to float up and get caught inside, which lets me open the door and bounce them against the walls by using anything with knockback.  A few Demon's Eyes, too, but not nearly so many; they tend to bounce past the gaps.

making a house can be pretty challenging if you dont know how do you want to make it, i was used to just make a wooden box shapped building which would catter to fulfill the needs of the NPCs and served as a base without too much effort to make.

these houses have proven to be fun to make and made me actually spend the materials i get, its not so hard to make, just make sure to get enough iron/lead for a heavy workbench (doing stone slabs is easy since its a 1-1 material/output relation so no stone is lost in the conversion, it also looks cooler than the grey bricks).

you can use the wooden structure as a bunker for your stuff while you build the houses. however, you can just secure the main part of the house and build from the inside before the night comes. unless its a blood moon, then it would be better to stay in the bunker...

I'm playing Mediumcore on expert mode.

now talking about difficulty, has someone got on the idea to play hardcore expert mode? or its too much insanity?

okay so i cannot do the same with cactus here, went to the desert and fell some large ones so im full cactus armor now. also built the demolitioner's house (nothing new compared to the other two houses). melted some metal bars and made a cooking pot for future well fed buffs.

was thinking on reaching the ocean and build a house for the angler, but with the current equipment it could prove problematic so the only thing right now is to go for more metals in the underground.