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Title: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 15, 2011, 11:16 PM
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint.
-http://terraria.org/

Terraria can possibly be described as a 2D mashup of Metroidw, Castlevaniaw, and Minecraftw, but has influences from many other games.

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If the video is too boring for you, the action really picks up at around 3:32.

Terraria (http://terraria.org/) should be available on Steam (http://steampowered.com/) for $10 USD on Monday, May 16th (which is today).
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: lanux128 on May 15, 2011, 11:26 PM
yup, looks like old-school arcade shooter and more. thanks for the heads-up, Deo!
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 16, 2011, 01:57 PM
Anyone want to go in together on a 4-pack? That would make it $7.50. I've already found two other people so we need one more for the 4-pack.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: worstje on May 16, 2011, 02:48 PM
Consider me to be #4.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 16, 2011, 03:21 PM
Great! :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: 3of0 on May 17, 2011, 10:40 AM
I got it last night, and LOVE it.  There will be many days where I'll be coming into work sleepy due to Terraria.   :D
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 17, 2011, 04:21 PM
I got it last night, and LOVE it.  There will be many days where I'll be coming into work sleepy due to Terraria.   :D
-3of0 (May 17, 2011, 10:40 AM)

Same here. I stayed up until 9 AM without sleep today playing with Worstje. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: mouser on May 17, 2011, 05:58 PM
Mind telling us about why you like it?  I watched the video but i couldn't get a good handle on it.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: lanux128 on May 18, 2011, 12:42 AM
a new blog/site has appreared - Terraria Online.

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• http://www.terrariaonline.com/
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: 3of0 on May 18, 2011, 05:57 PM
Mind telling us about why you like it?
-mouser (May 17, 2011, 05:58 PM)
haha, I saw this one coming.

Terraria has a TON of what I'm waiting Minecraft to be, but in 2D.   :-*  I love crafting, the sandbox environment, fending off creatures, and the massive randomly generated world.  It doesn't have interactive objects like circuit or mine carts, however I think the gear, special items, special bosses, rocket boots and guns (Most of which I've only read about so far) make up for it.

The program is fairly simple, with less than a 20 MB install (not including the required .Net 4 framework).  It starts up windowed with a fixed resolution.  Not sure what the resolution is, maybe 800x600.  You can full screen it, but the resolution stays the same.

You start off creating your character, which you can customize.  For me, it was weird customizing a character that's only a few pixels high, though I'd recommended it especially if you're going to play in multi-player servers.  Your character's equipment, inventory, and stats will follow the character between worlds.

Then you make a world you want to play in.  You name it and then decide if you want a small, medium, or large world.  It runs through some generation process for less than a minute, and you're in.

You start with just a copper pick and copper axe.  You move around with wads, and use your mouse to point at things.  You can interact with things close to you with your mouse, like mining and opening doors.  You can also point in the direction you want fire your arrows, like running away from zombies while shooting them.  You can clear away the dirt, chop down trees, plant acorns, eat mushrooms to regain lost health.  Game play is responsive and very intuitive.

You start off with 100 health, or 5 hearts.  You can increase your health pool by finding hearts in caves.  You also have a Marna pool, but it starts off at 0.  You can increase your Marna pool by collecting fallen stars that you can find during the night.  Your max Marna pool can be 200.

Like Minecraft, you craft weapons, tools, furniture, walls, and have requirements for all of them.  Unlike Minecraft, you don't need to know the crafting recipes, if you have enough materials while next to the tools you need (like a workbench, anvil, etc), the option to craft it will show up.  There are also many tiers of weapons (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Weapons) and armor (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Armor) you can craft as well.

There is a ton of other items (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Items) you can find & create as well, like a Enchanted Boomerang (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Enchanted_Boomerang), Shuriken (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Shuriken), Grappling Hook (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Grappling_Hook), Rocket Boots (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Rocket_Boots), and Flippers (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Flippers).  I haven't looked through them all, I want some of it to be a surprise. :)

There is a day and night cycle.  During the day you will see slimes (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Slime).  During the night there are Zombies and flying eyes.  On a rare occasion there will be a BloodMoon (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Moon) where the zombies will come in double the force, And know how to open your doors.

On rare occasions, a Goblin Army (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Goblin_Army) will attack.

There are a lot of monsters (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Goblin_Army) to encounter, and bosses to take down.  One of which is the Eye of Cthulhu (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Eye_of_Cthulhu).

There are a lot of Environments (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Environments) to explore as well.  The ones I'm looking forward to finding are Dungeons and Floating Islands.

All this has got me pretty excited, and making it difficult for me to go to bed when I should. :D
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: 3of0 on May 18, 2011, 06:03 PM
I pulled my links from http://terraria.wikia.com/ (http://terraria.wikia.com/), but it looks like Terraria Online has put together their own wiki which is so much more organized and easier to navigate at http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/ (http://wiki.terrariaonline.com/).
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Lashiec on May 22, 2011, 11:21 AM
Does anyone know if there are plans for a demo of this?
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Josh on May 22, 2011, 11:32 AM
Does anyone know if there are plans for a demo of this?
-Lashiec (May 22, 2011, 11:21 AM)

+1. Rarely will I purchase a game without a demo first (Minus portal, death spank and defense grid)
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 22, 2011, 03:29 PM
I don't know if a demo is planned, but you can probably find some videos on YouTube that will give you an idea of how it plays.

Note: I haven't watched these (yet) but I liked his Minecraft series so I'm planning on watching these soon.



Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: mouser on May 22, 2011, 04:28 PM
very useful videos -- gives a much better and calmer idea of what this is all about.
thanks for sharing these.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 22, 2011, 05:10 PM
very useful videos -- gives a much better and calmer idea of what this is all about.
thanks for sharing these.
-mouser (May 22, 2011, 04:28 PM)

I just have to say that while I like Coe and his videos, he's not a very good player. He often misses some things that are pretty obvious (to me). For instance, he keeps building floors and platforms out of wood or dirt, but he should just use the in game item called "Wooden Platform."

But like I said, I like his videos and his commentary is generally pretty good. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 23, 2011, 08:12 PM
Episode 3 of Coe's Bane is up:



This will probably be my last update of Coe's Bane in this thread. For future reference, here's a link to the Coe's Bane playlist, which will have new episodes added to it: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL4CE84FB3E76AC312
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on May 30, 2011, 06:58 AM
The game has been out for 2 weeks, lets see how it's doing:

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I'm pretty sure this doesn't even include my own playtime.

(It currently ranks in 21st place for lifetime play time among folks in my friends list.)
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Lashiec on June 01, 2011, 04:34 PM
That Rift game looks like a better proposition :D
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: lanux128 on June 07, 2011, 10:33 AM
Terraria is reviewed by the local tech news (http://techcentral.my/news/story.aspx?file=/2011/6/6/it_games_reviews/20110606105135&sec=it_games_reviews). they're having tons of fun it seems.. :)
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: wraith808 on June 07, 2011, 01:48 PM
That Rift game looks like a better proposition :D
-Lashiec (June 01, 2011, 04:34 PM)

Wow... I really like Rift... but 73 hours in 2 weeks?  That's impressive considering that row is only one person...
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Carol Haynes on June 07, 2011, 07:51 PM
That Rift game looks like a better proposition :D
-Lashiec (June 01, 2011, 04:34 PM)

Wow... I really like Rift... but 73 hours in 2 weeks?  That's impressive considering that row is only one person...
-wraith808 (June 07, 2011, 01:48 PM)

And how much is the monthly charge on top of the initial cost?
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: wraith808 on June 07, 2011, 08:06 PM
That Rift game looks like a better proposition :D
-Lashiec (June 01, 2011, 04:34 PM)

Wow... I really like Rift... but 73 hours in 2 weeks?  That's impressive considering that row is only one person...
-wraith808 (June 07, 2011, 01:48 PM)

And how much is the monthly charge on top of the initial cost?
-Carol Haynes (June 07, 2011, 07:51 PM)

Standard MMO fees - $14.99, though you get it for less with a longer commitment.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: worstje on June 07, 2011, 08:11 PM
We are interrupting this broadcast thread for an important news bulletin:

ALL HAIL THE WHOOPIE CUSHION!

Carry on.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on June 13, 2011, 11:26 AM
It's been another two weeks and Terraria is still on top for the most played in the past two weeks (of people on my friends list).

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And after only a total of 4 weeks since release the game has made its way in to the top 15 games with most hours played (of people on my friends list).

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It's a really fun game! :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on June 16, 2011, 06:18 PM
Terraria's 1 month anniversary:

-By The Numbers- As of (06/16/2011)

Copies/4Packs Sold Total - 350,000+ (Copies Owned - 432,000+)
Days/Top Ten Sales List on Steam - 32 days
Days/Top Ten Played List on Steam - 32 days
Players Online at once - Peaks we have seen range from 14k to 32k a day.
Facebook Likes - 28,773
TerrariaOnline Members -40,992
YouTube Trailer Views - (Old-Gameplay) 1,181,691, (Release Trailer) 866,285
-http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/one-month-a-milestone.30213/

Pretty impressive for a game that started development only 6 months ago!

They also announced that in the next update there will be an optional hardcore mode, wherein character death is permanent. Watch your step while spelunking!
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Shades on June 16, 2011, 11:08 PM
Still not able to play, because .Net4.0 will not install itself in my (Win7 Ultimate x64) PC. Continuously getting the same error 'Access is denied' even when using the Administrator account, granting all available user rights, disabling UAC, lifting restrictions on folders, even partitions etc.  :mad:

Used the .Net4.0 installer on a different PC's (Windows 7/XP) and on those it installs without problems. The puzzle to get to play Terraria already proves to be a challenge.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on June 16, 2011, 11:12 PM
Are you using the .NET installer that comes with Terraria or the official one from Microsoft? Or have you tried both?
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Carol Haynes on June 17, 2011, 02:49 AM
Shades it sounds like something is using a .net4 file when you are trying to update and it is locked. Try making sure you exit all applications (including anything in the system tray) and disable any AV.

Also try downloading the installer form MS and doing it manually - sometimes the Windows Update version gets damaged and if it is a cached version it will never work!

If that doesn't work try running MSCONFIG and disable all Startup items and all non-MS services so that you get as near to a clean Windows startup environment as possible. Note some security software doesn't like you doing this so it may be best to leave any such software allowed to run and disable it before trying to install again.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Shades on June 17, 2011, 07:27 PM
Shades it sounds like something is using a .net4 file when you are trying to update and it is locked. Try making sure you exit all applications (including anything in the system tray) and disable any AV.

Also try downloading the installer form MS and doing it manually - sometimes the Windows Update version gets damaged and if it is a cached version it will never work!

If that doesn't work try running MSCONFIG and disable all Startup items and all non-MS services so that you get as near to a clean Windows startup environment as possible. Note some security software doesn't like you doing this so it may be best to leave any such software allowed to run and disable it before trying to install again.
-Carol Haynes (June 17, 2011, 02:49 AM)

Terraria comes with a webinstaller so I downloaded the installer from Microsoft and used that as my PC is not (or will be) connected to the internet anymore. That installer worked great on several PC's but not on mine. Because it is not connected to any network I didn't see the direct need for security software, so I uninstalled Avira and disabled the firewall. Actually, that PC is quite devoid of sofware/service as I use more and more portable apps these days.

All that didn't help, so I thought that there is some security setting in place that doesn't allow access to the folder .Net4 wants to install into.
The log file from the .Net4 installer shows one error:
Launching CreateProcess with command line = wusa.exe "D:\d4ab5f75b780171ea7f2662625\Windows6.1-KB958488-v6001-x64.msu" /quiet /norestart
Exe (D:\d4ab5f75b780171ea7f2662625\Windows6.1-KB958488-v6001-x64.msu) failed with 0x5 - Access is denied.

I am able to access and extract the .msu file mentioned above. to Granting read/write capability to everyone in the folder from the wusa.exe command didn't help. Copying the extracted data from the installer to another (also fully shared) folder and executing the command in the console returns the same 'Access is denied' result.

The above I tried with the Administrator account and the account that belongs to the Administrators group.

It appears to me that the command 'wusa.exe' is not sufficiently elevated to install .Net4.

Ah well, at least this is becoming an interesting puzzle to solve...
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Ath on June 18, 2011, 03:22 AM
Actually, that PC is quite devoid of sofware/service as I use more and more portable apps these days.
-Shades (June 17, 2011, 07:27 PM)

Hm, sounds like that Windows install is hosed in some way (that does happen, even with Win7), so a plausible solution would be to start with a clean slate.
Backup all data you want to keep, then format the C: partition. Then re-install Windows and the applications you really need to install. The portable apps you still have, so not much is lost or left to do there.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Shades on June 18, 2011, 11:56 AM
Re-installing becomes quickly the only option that is left, I am afraid.  :(

Tried to give the application wusa.exe unrestricted access using the security policy editor (secpol.msc), then tried SubInACL (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx) to fix the likely broken ACL's. As this got me nowhere I read more from the link above and saw in one of the comments that it is not working on 64-bit systems. But there is a suggestion to use CACL to try to elevate that app, but each time the result is the same: "access is denied".

Even the last ditch attempt to install: copying the wusa.exe executable and every other file showing up in DependencyWalker (http://www.dependencywalker.com/) into the extraction folder and re-execute the command-line mentioned in an earlier post, proved to be fruitless.


Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Jibz on July 10, 2011, 03:34 AM
Terraria (http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/) is 50% off on Steam today (July 10th). I haven't tried it mind you, so this is not a reccomendation, just a note :Thmbsup:.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Carol Haynes on July 10, 2011, 05:29 AM
Re-installing becomes quickly the only option that is left, I am afraid.  :(

Tried to give the application wusa.exe unrestricted access using the security policy editor (secpol.msc), then tried SubInACL (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx) to fix the likely broken ACL's. As this got me nowhere I read more from the link above and saw in one of the comments that it is not working on 64-bit systems. But there is a suggestion to use CACL to try to elevate that app, but each time the result is the same: "access is denied".

Even the last ditch attempt to install: copying the wusa.exe executable and every other file showing up in DependencyWalker (http://www.dependencywalker.com/) into the extraction folder and re-execute the command-line mentioned in an earlier post, proved to be fruitless.
-Shades (June 18, 2011, 11:56 AM)

There is a procedure for completely removing Windows Update and WIndows Installer in Windows 7 and reinstalling then from clean. I used them last week and found the details on MS Technet - sorry I didn't keep the link.
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Jibz on August 10, 2011, 01:13 AM
And it's 50% off again today (http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/) (August 10th).
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on August 10, 2011, 02:31 AM
And it's 50% off again today (http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/) (August 10th).
-Jibz (August 10, 2011, 01:13 AM)

Not just today, but until Thursday at 4 PM Pacific. :Thmbsup:

This also means you can grab a 4-pack for just $5 more than the regular price of one! :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: p3lb0x on August 11, 2011, 11:27 AM
I'd be up for grabbing a bundle if anyone else is fresh
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on August 12, 2011, 03:03 PM
I'd be up for grabbing a bundle if anyone else is fresh
-p3lb0x (August 11, 2011, 11:27 AM)

I'll join in on the bundle. Oops the sale is over. I thought it was the weekend deal. That's especially embarrassing since I'm the one who posted about the sale and even posted the date it ended. :-[
Title: Re: Terraria
Post by: Deozaan on December 01, 2011, 12:34 PM
Today's daily deal is Terraria (http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600) for $2.50 or $7.50 for a 4-pack.  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

Also, a new patch will be arriving sometime today that add a lot of new content to the game.


If you have any interest in this game, today is the day to get it.