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[Neonivek]

What kind of options are there for underwater lighting?

Glowsticks

[Kagus]

Mana potions seem almost entirely useless now...  Once you max out your mana and start getting the damage and mana discount buffs from hardmode equipment (or even just the gem robes now, which are pretty neat), I never seem to have mana issues unless I'm expressly trying to drain my pool (even then, it takes a bit of doing).

And if you are going to use them, just build a mana flower and don't worry about hitting the button anyways...  Oh, and the mana discount from nature's gift and a mana flower stack, last I checked.

Mana potions are better if you use rejuvenation potions I guess.

But rejuvenation potions trigger the potion sickness timer like any other healing item.  Once you hit hardmode, greater healing potions are the way to go.

What kind of options are there for underwater lighting?

Depends.  If you want lighting fixtures, you can use chinese lanterns, stars-in-bottles, cursed/ichor torches, and I think a number of other placed items (don't recall if lightpoles work underwater, but furnaces and campfires should work).

If you want dynamic lighting, you can either use glowsticks like Neo said, or cursed/ichor torches, or even the new jellyfish necklace accessory (which is made specifically for that purpose).

Outside of that, you have the general multpurpose buffs like shadow orb/pixie/wisp and the shine potion.

[Sean Mirrsen]

And the flaregun. Don't forget the flaregun.

[Baneling]

One of the best things is that since I play as a mage, woop de doop spectre armour and I rarely ever need to even use the stock of hardmode potions that tends to build up if you fight a lot of bosses.

[JoshuaFH]

For some bizarre reason, I kept thinking that B was for "Base" so I'd hit it to auto-use my Magic Mirror, when in reality it stands for "auto-Buff" and I'd wind up drinking one of every single potion in my inventory. So I'd want to return home, and I'd wind up shining, invisible, water walking, reverse water breathing, lava immune, attracting more monsters, better night vision, seeing minerals glow, seeing enemies glow, +8 defense, +20% ranged damage, controlling gravity, and using ichor for my melee attacks, all in one mistaken button press.

I've done this atleast 3 times, I don't know why.

[The Darkling Wolf]

I've found the health hotkey to be useless, since it seems to prioritize using the weakest healing item.
'Oh, you're fighting Skeletron Prime and the Twins and are at 3hp? BETTER EAT A GOLDFISH THEN!!'

[Sean Mirrsen]

It, like all autoselect functions, prioritizes by inventory position. Something higher and to the left of something else will be preferred.

This works with tools, potions, ammo, torches, anything.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Ahh, most convenient then. Thanks for the info.

[Shadowlord]

Really? It always seemed to eat the item with the least +hp for me as well.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Really? It always seemed to eat the item with the least +hp for me as well.

That's because if you're anything like me, you're keeping your potions on the bottom of the inventory, for ease of access. Anything you might have picked up, then, takes priority, as it ends up closer to the beginning of the inventory. One way to avoid this is to keep the potion you want on the hotbar and make sure that you don't pick up anything else that might end up in an earlier slot.

[Mageziya]

I always position my potions in the second row, to the very left, but with the shadow/light orb/fairy bell/spirit in the most left spot. Inventory fills from the bottom up, with the exception of a not completely filled tool bar.

[Nighthawk]

Anyone else taken apart the jungle temple for traps yet?
Spiky Ball Traps are amazing. I set up about a dozen of them on the floor of my to-be floating castle and jammed a switch.

Everything below me just... died.

[JoshuaFH]

Anyone else taken apart the jungle temple for traps yet?
Spiky Ball Traps are amazing. I set up about a dozen of them on the floor of my to-be floating castle and jammed a switch.

Everything below me just... died.

I was thinking of taking all the traps I find and fitting them into my boss arena, but I'm not sure if bosses are hurt by traps, and if they are, what the best configuration for them would be in my arena so they're hitting the boss are much as possible, without hitting me at all.

[Frumple]

They definitely are. Spiky ball traps and arrow traps at the very least, probably most of the rest, too.

I'unno if it's a thing in SP, but in MP if you put spike traps high enough up, and trigger them from an (extensive) distance, the spike balls will only register to enemies. As far as players are concerned, they're not even there. Can do some work on large enemies or invasions, heh.

Also one of the more ridiculously overengineered (and deadly) ways of cutting grass over a wide area >_>

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