How to beat Master Mode Daytime Empress of Light using Shimmer, Terraria's New Liquid

This has since been patched, may it RIP.
A step by step guide to destroying the hardest fight in Terraria with shimmer, Terraria's newest and most broken liquid. This also works for other bosses as long as you can acquire teleporters and sensors. I wouldn't actually recommend playing this way, but it is really cool that this exists at all (for now...)
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[@WandofSparking]

Aaaaaaand it's gone...

[@thingguy7771]

depression

[@thingguy7771]

sometimes relogic being addicted to updating this game is bad

[@codymiller6271]

F

[@madengineerkyouma]

I still think the better option would have been disabling summon damage during shimmer and let us come up with clever trap placements to do enough damage without summons.

[@Imperio_Otomano_the_realest]

Wait, how? did they just make you hittable in shimmer?

[@dazcarrr]

relogic: we made it so hallowed armour can't dodge insta kill attacks anymore, so you can't cheese these bosses also relogic: here, take this liquid that makes you completely immortal

[@beywheelzhater8930]

Dw it has already been patched out, bosses can bonk you during the shimmer

[@HoushouRattengod]

@@beywheelzhater8930 patched out while I was at work… damnit

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

Wait hallowed armour is once again useless? bruh now I gotta use skill to beat it!

[@kyarumomochi5146]

@@alexanderelderhorst2107 not at all Its purelly day time eol spesific

[@Goremize]

Just when Terraria mods caught up to 1.4 they do another huge patch for it with perm buffs and an entirely new special liquid that breaks the game. I love it.

[@Xyddian]

Rod of harmony will be stupidly broken in mods with post ml content

[@cobaltchromee7533]

I thought to myself "why didn't you use the terraprisma, it's way better" And then I realised

[@SomethingBoutEclipse]

It’s to get the Terraprisma

[@wantimw]

I used the terraprisma to get the terraprisma

[@sebastienwoongpoget9350]

@@SomethingBoutEclipse thanks for telling us!

[@BokuNoDensetsuNoHoshi]

​@@SomethingBoutEclipsewoah, I didn't know that

[@TitanChromeE]

Bar

[@SurprisePie]

fun fact: it's possible to get the terra blade pre-plantera if you get a terra toilet from a jungle mimic and throw it into a pool of shimmer to get the broken hero's sword, had a blast running the zenith seed with the new melee changes.

[@log3ckert386]

did jungle mimics just get added cuz ive never heard of them

[@ahassani]

@@log3ckert386 they're only on celebrationmk10 seed

[@bloodshard18]

I used to be able to get it before those were added.

[@amog8202]

@@bloodshard18 yeah. Mothron was swapped back and forth between pre and post plantera lol

[@humanprobably]

Fun fact: cactus armor still does damage whilst shimmering.

[@debonairpuma8774]

what about turtle armor?

[@humanprobably]

@@debonairpuma8774 I don't know haven't checked

[@Hamaxe]

thorns/inferno potion?

[@madengineerkyouma]

Sadly this is irrelevant now, it has been patched so you do take damage while in shimmer.

[@Hamaxe]

@@madengineerkyouma Ah so it fixes the invincibility and the softlock. Two birds with one bouncy boulder

[@JohnnyPanini1876]

I defeated daytime EoL a few days prior to shimmer being added This hurts me on a spiritual level

[@cowserthekhelinace]

Same here, the day before the update too.

[@neokolder472]

But at the same time daytime EoL became much harder after update, so it could be worse)

[@KogasaTatara514]

If anything, you should feel proud. You completed a hard challenge without having to cheat.

[@TheRealFraston]

@@KogasaTatara514 Name checks out.

[@CrickeyNyan]

You did it the legit way and actually fought the boss so don't feel bad

[@mateofoodreview]

I love extreme cheese strats. I also love extremely large amount of cheese

[@JuggR]

Agreed except for the first part

[@NewsofPE]

you'll definitely love skyrim

[@FIyOnYourWall]

cheese

[@daviio]

Wallace

[@zacharyhalecomstock1085]

Can't you use the night sensor and logic gates to disable the teleporters? You would shimmer through the teleporter and make this contraption reusable.

[@KimParkkinen]

You could. But as the video mentioned, explosions are cooler!

[@WandofSparking]

Probably, I don't mess with logic gates much, but I'll take your word for it. There are definitely a ton of different ways to handle the part where you need to get out of the softlock, and plenty of ways to automate it, but this is just the simplest solution I came up with.

[@GewelReal]

@@WandofSparking "simplest" "Thing go boom, me like!"

[@toppylicious]

Quit the world and re-enter it. Back to spawn.

[@voidwyrm6149]

@@toppylicious that despawns the items

[@VoidedPink]

i found a video similar to this using a dummy engine and its amazing, but this definetly breaks the limit too

[@ximirux2408]

from moppy or however he's called the guy

[@VoidedPink]

@@ximirux2408 yeah. id post the link to it but i dont wanna be *that guy* yknow?

[@a-1455]

You mean mappy gaming channel? His technology is much cleaner than this one. Go check out mappy gaming in KZbin.

[@73Stargazer]

My husband and I are racing through the game so we can do this. We love the game, but there are some bosses we suck at and we really want that weapon. 😭

[@NewsofPE]

my dog and I are also racing against each other, let's see which team gets it first

[@Blox117]

get good scrab

[@ReassuredPrimrose]

what stage of progression are you at and on what difficulty?

[@MeepMurp72]

I wish you both luck lol but I hope you win cause why not lol

[@73Stargazer]

@@MeepMurp72 we have beaten the game many times. We just really struggle with her. Part of it is, the timing of our games is off. So one of us will be lagging and get killed and the other will get killed shortly after. Because the minecart strat gets thrown off.

[@memelurd7341]

4 days later: -Shimmer no longer protects against 1-hit ko attacks

[@luvluh]

theyre gona make you not invincible in shimmer anymore bc u can cheese the game so easily after that

[@zixvirzjghamn737]

still usuable for like every other boss though

[@edwardbolin7686]

The better fix would be not letting teleporters work while shimmering.

[@bl_gaming00]

@@luvluh already done

[@Spiney09]

@@bl_gaming00 they changed this already?

[@imadonut2695]

You can also just use a drone to activate an escape teleporter since you can control a drone while shimmering & they can trigger teal pressure plates (gotta throw out the drone before entering the shimmer tho)

[@N0pri]

really? have you ever tried it?

[@miojo157._.]

1:27 best part

[@kratosmode]

(mandatory)

[@Garis53]

I did a very similar thing right after I saw what shimmer can do, but with conveyor belts bringing the drops to me and then leaving world

[@HelenShinonome]

I love the effort you put in your videos, them being 1 hour long or short like this one. That's what makes me watch some series of yours over and over again. Keep doing what you are doing!! Much love from Brazil.

[@luis-sophus-8227]

Can you double jump?

[@thelastace26]

Ah yes... The invincible Technique. Also, you can beat the Dungeon Guardian by using that too. But the rewards are simply pet so it wasn't needed at all to do that though.

[@Mecceldorf]

You just explained the entirety of Master Mode.

[@Noah-ost]

Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

[@ИльяХерунцев]

@@Mecceldorf i don't know how to play terraria without master mode, after playing it expert seems too easy

[@tartochou]

@@ИльяХерунцев ok

[@Jezless]

Surely for dungeon guardian the amount of hits is more important than anything else so you would want a staff with more minions such as the optic staff right?

[@sirbillygoat1660]

That transition from the beginning to the end of the fight was clean

[@Freedbot]

well well. I saw this coming a mile away. The "simplest" way to make it reusable would be a daylight sensor. Stack a faulty lamp on a regular lamp on any logic gate. The player sensor is hooked to the faulty lamp, the daylight sensor to the regular lamp, and the gate hooked to the teleporters. When night comes, you'll just fall out. When day comes the system resets itself properly. An alternative that could be timed better is a honey drop timer like you had, but it would require a honey sensor and pumps to reset itself.

[@mirukunoneko1375]

I love that u used Legend of zelda and the minish cap ost. Lmao Feel old but gold.

[@lufet]

You can just use conveyor belts to make the loot get to the shimmer invincibility machine, you will be softlocked, but you will 100% pick up all the loot so you can just quit after that. I used this method on moon lord, didn't see anyone on youtube do this, you can literally skip placing explosives and a lot of wiring by that, it's much easier.

[@NickAndriadze]

*3:12* ''Enjoy it while it lasts! Wise words I shall say...

[@madengineerkyouma]

Instead of the pressure plate and dart trap, I just connect the the sensor to a 1/2 second timer and place the sensor one block higher to give it enough time to activate, then make sure the timer is OFF before starting. I also connect both a day sensor and a night one to the timer, so it turns on when the day/night ends, making it so it's turned off by the player sensor, allowing me to exit the shimmer. EDIT: Aaaand they already fixed it. Goddammit.

[@knight_lautrec_of_carim]

this is why the builder is the hidden, best class in Terraria

[@glauberglousger6643]

A simple way to make this post Moonlord is just prevent the shimmer biome blocks from being actuated or destroyed And pumping shimmer is post moonlord

[@glauberglousger6643]

@randomguy9777 I meant as a way to make this exploit not possible

[@sunnerssnag]

next update: "shimmer no longer makes the player invincible"

[@Blox117]

it just makes you fabulous

[@silvinity4939]

Happened this morning even apparently.

[@jonsku6662]

When WoS said "It's shimmering time" and shimmered across the arena I felt that (Still can't believe the effect actually is called shimmering...)

[@SirPembertonS.Crevalius]

I am 100% going to consume this delicious cheese, especially with the Hallowed armor nerf. Daytime EoL was hard enough.

[@synkt8759]

Patched 💀

[@anri688]

Hallowed armor got nerfed? what change they did?

[@vauni98]

@@anri688 from what I've read about the update, the dodge effects from the master ninja gear and hallowed armor sets will no longer proc during the daytime Empress fight. Unless another cheese strat is found and not patched, players from now on may literally have to git gud.

[@thenickstrikebetter]

they removed dodging, so now we have even better dodging.

[@quinnfinity9750]

Thank you for putting all your music in the description. This is great

[@racer927]

If Terraria were to ever do another content update, they really need to get people like you and MappyGaming to test and find out ridiculously broken things in new stuff.

[@luis-sophus-8227]

Absolutely agree

[@michaelgjrjvebs]

Red: Alright you degenerates no more dodging 1 hit attacks! You have to do it fair and square! Players: lol, lmao

[@tepig2828]

Now do this with a finch staff and no armor or accessories. Make ReLogic cry.

[@SSHUSUAJ]

Step 8 is the most useful step

[@DodgeThatAttack]

in a universe where this still works, its probably a good idea to build a large collection area beneath so you dont lose the shimmer

[@ReassuredPrimrose]

for what ever reason some pets can trigger the teal pressure pad and pet items can still be used while shimmer state is active

[@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8]

This is too overpowered, Redigit get your mega nerf hammer out, it’s extinction time

[@ninjabaiano6092]

Considered that the portal tunnel is Soo small you might be able to to use belts to always bring the treasure bag to you. Making the save and exit method very easy to use right?

[@ternie1901]

They buffed EoL too much, so it became more grindy instead of challenge

[@HIIMROSS777]

Ikr EoL is literally such a grind. The spawners are so annoying to farm and now dodge accessories and hallowed armor don't work. They weren't even op because you lost damage if you used them anyways. It's all in vain anyways because you can make a minecart arena and cheese it super easily. Obviously you can just learn the attack patters but a lot of classes (especially summoner) take so long to kill her because they have low dps outside of mid/close range which is not an option because EoL can turn into the sun randomly and instantly reduce you to ashes.

[@nox_luna]

@@HIIMROSS777 the best way ive found to get terraprisma, is to just do it post moonlord lol, get the zenith and dps the hell out of her.

[@softwaremediaguru]

I learned something new today, thanks for this video, now I know how to use a water pump

[@Haxior5506]

The statue from the empress of light on Master Mode looks almost exactly like the statue from Queen Bee so I guess we can kill Queen Bee and Pretend we killed the Empress of Light.

[@AdamantSteele]

Hey dude, I really enjoy your editing style and am looking to get into making my own terraria content. Could you tell me what editing software you use?

[@Tavinhu6446]

Wand of sparking: *makes a complicated contraption to kill daylight empress* Me: haha zenith go fwoosh

[@WillFuI]

I prefer the method of honey and shimmer using a bow and stacking a ton of arrows then using an invulnerability gen

[@humphreyarimas2480]

Wand of sparking vs wand of frosting

[@Aeonsteel]

Time to try this on Moonlord... so I can get shimmer in my main world... TO DEFEAT MOONLORD!

[@Misfitschibis2]

I’m absolutely delighted by this

[@Mrs_Truth]

I love Wand of Sparking, my favorite terraria channel!

[@quintessenceoflife7870]

Instructions unclear, am currently having cookie and tea break with the Empress.

[@scretnub8031]

I just lost my mind for 6hrs straigh, fought eol for the first time the mastered day eol and you bring this upon me?? At least i can beay day eol whenever i want now tho ig

[@scretnub8031]

And i mean from having learnt her, not from cheese

[@therealgreenslime]

wand of sparking has been awfully quiet since wand of frosting entered the game

[@Lt._Nut]

Wish I would’ve known this ages ago. I did this with the Zenith and still had a hell of a time with this fight

[@princesidon6606]

as a lactose intolerant person, this amount of cheese made me shit myself

[@kingkuma4112]

Myth suggestion: Normally the 1k beach balls, doesn't let any projectiles exist, but minions count as projectiles. Using 990 beach balls, then summoning 10 minions, and then spawning a boss, can you let your summons do the killing for you instead of only having melee?

[@phoebethebraixen742]

Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that the wand of sparking is actually buffed in hardmode on the "dontdigup" seed? Along with the aqua scepter

[@theo-dv3ur]

Instead of blowing everything up you can call a friend to turn off the teleporter

[@ICountFrom0]

The mass arrow bounce should still work as it's an instant kill, so there's still that.

[@TheDiamondWaffle]

U can just use a pylon next to the bottom teleporter

[@Boonetube27]

The only issue - you can only get a shimmer bucket with luminite… or you have to mess with the underground pool of shimmer

[@wardenhi12]

Well, that's why he used pump instead.

[@davidlima9778]

That was about the first thing i thought of when i heard of shimmer, good thing i did it early lol

[@kirbyydd_]

It's crazy how the terraria community manages to always find the weirdest strats or tricks to beat a boss. And it's always terraria.

[@darklight6030]

You can simply Equip the antiphasing cloak

[@matthew4913]

You should make a playthrough in which you start with rod of harmony, but you cant use wings or any other movement related accesory

[@sparkster7081]

honestly deserved after the devs basically killed dodges

[@chrisbook7938]

I know this video is a couple days old, but it's your most recent one. I thought of a new Terraria run since they changed how the invisible paint works. I think it's called echo coating now, but if it's possible to turn it on and off with wiring and the monolith, you could coat the entire world, and set a timer, so you can only see the world for a little bit at a time, like once every ten seconds or something, or even randomize it so you never know when you'll be able to see the world again

[@thornordgren2239]

yo in the remix seed wand of sparking is hardmode now

[@TheLazyBot]

I hope it doesn't get patched, this is a neat setup

[@nox_luna]

already did lmfao

[@r4nd0mguy99]

Honestly, I think I'll try to get some shimmer for the daytime-Empress. I absolutely hate that that boss can one-shot you. It's already crazy powerful during the night, so I have to be careful about accidentally killing some stupid bug. Okay, Nevermind. They took it away. You'd really think that they'd be aware of having a boss that you're supposed to avoid all the time when they give us something that gives us immunity.

[@gwagwa7358]

ah yes shimmer is definitely not broken in any way or form whatsoever

[@Altheos]

Wouldn't the Chromatic Cloak allow you to stop shimmering whenever you want instead of having to wait for the contraption to explode?

[@WandofSparking]

It prevents shimmering, but not if you're already shimmering, so no unfortunately.

[@catonaplank3429]

@@WandofSparking If you equip it before and hold down or have something else do it for you like that option (I use windows, idk about others) that sets the mouse buttons on toggle and bind the down action to it, you can leave anytime unless for some reason telepoting disables it.

[@xray8012]

It stops you from shimmering entirely, once you start Shimmering you cant change your gear

[@Altheos]

@@WandofSparking Aw, would've been cool if it did. Anyway, cool video, looking forward to the next ones!

[@WandofSparking]

@Cat on a Plank Yeah I suppose if you equipped it beforehand and held down the whole time that would work.

[@Rodistair]

Lol I see Mappys video on this and then yours pops up. Awesome

[@sentrygaming4958]

On another note why not use conveyers to push the bag towards the player so they can log out and still have the set up?

[@douwemusic]

Ohhhh that Minish Cap music hit me

[@sebastianprieto7070]

I mean it is fair they made hallowed armor useless against empress of light.

[@connortg5]

currently doing a master, hardcore, FTW run (well, runs, 30 so far) and i'm contemplating whether or not to use this setup to cheese all the hardmode bosses on the one hand: it's a hard challenge and i don't wanna fail, especially on a run i make it that far on the other hand: it ruins the challenge and is really lame

[@foxeuking6688]

you should cheese the boss, because imagine the pain of losing the world due to a mess up its not up to me but I think that would be best

[@trogdor420]

Imagine cheesing a playthough that is supposed to be a challenge. Wtf is the point

[@GTNyt]

tbh i wouldnt but thats probably just me cus to me that would feel like ruining the integrity of the run and downplay all of the bosses

[@connortg5]

@randomguy9777 yeah, part of it is the challenge, but another part of why it's hard and not medium is because while hard is a one-chance challenge, medium is a try-not-to-give-up challenge, sure you can get your stuff back in mediumcore, but good luck doing it in hardmode without some serious pre-planning or backup gear

[@connortg5]

@@GTNyt a fair point, i probably won't do it unless i die to a boss several times in previous runs (or for daytime empress after beating nighttime empress)

[@emileoxd6602]

To be honest, i waited this since the last mythbusters

[@bojnebojnebojne]

Haha i was thinking during the video: Hmm i think i will beat her the normal way before i have this setup XD Great video though hahaha XD

[@ToadstedCroaks]

This is prime Terraria shenanigans. As it should be.

[@The-Omega-Blade]

Forever the old way, i dont need your sparkly bath water!

[@glassofwater281]

Shimmer looks delicious but I feel like it would break down your stomach into its base components

[@lathaiyyappanjonneshwar471]

I have a myth: you can float on shimmer with the slimy saddle.

[@appollyon9348]

Idea for playthrough: Terraria but every 3 days all the bosses are summoned(However, some of the bosses may be unable to be summoned due to biome limitations like the Wall of Flesh) If you somehow manage to defeat one boss the boss will not show up again when the bosses spawn on the third day. You cannot progress through the game without killing a boss from the boss infestation (for the wall of flesh it needs to be summoned along with the rest bosses that are not biome exclusive). I feel like it would be possible but there may be some slight modifications in the end.

[@Jaguarknight01]

Followed your guide. Very helpful. Used actuators to open the bottom up to dump the shimmer instead of TNT

[@emperessiron2531]

myth: you can kill the pillars with a minecart

[@blahybris608]

You're called wand of sparking, so you probably know about it already, but did you know that your namesake is a hardmode weapon on the don't dig up seed? (Dropped by mimics, replacing the magic dagger)

[@RoastCDuck]

Summoners: We are the best players in Terraria no one else is as proffesional we know how to play the game. Relogic: Pumps ignore shimmer. Added a new shimmer pump sold by Steampunker npc, requires to defeat empress of light to be sold and "Secret of the liquids" dropped by Duke fishtron to be placed, can only be activated using a luminite lever. Also buffed back all of those bosses lmao.

[@banana1379]

You could do 10x20 pool of shimmer below a 10x20 honey pool. Stand right at the bottom of the honey pool and shoot the shimmer using tsunami with high damage arrows (not DoT). Shoot until your arrows start to despawn and spawn the empress, and viola, daylight empress killed in under 5s.

[@Mernom]

You can still use the bouncing of projectiles through shimmer to stack enough damage to rapidly kill her.

[@Spiney09]

The devs HAD to know people were going to do this. Whether they knew people would figure it out within the week is a different question.

[@Dorkerification]

The new Update teleports you out of Shimmer if you are to long in it. :( But for those who still want to build it. Place another auto teleporter like the on on the bottom (Not sunken in shimmer) next to the main body. You will be teleported there (can be hurt for a couple of seconds) and be teleported right back to the teleporter at the top. Notes: - You need another copy of the delay since you can not be teleported on the same frame. - Do not build walls around the new teleporter you might be teleportet on top of them insted - Use Invornability like "Master Ninja Gear", "Hallowed armor" and/or "Brain of Confusion"(in master mode) to survive the handfull of frames outside. - Use sonething that prevents nockback like "Cobalt Shield" and its upgates to not be knoked of the new teleporter. Have fun ;)

[@Dorkerification]

:( Need to correct myself some bosses can and will hurt you wille in shimmer :( (Tryed it on the Frost Moon event)

[@CataclysmicArmageddon]

The sadness that this cheese is now gone.

[@theconchinator2680]

Devs: this is post ML Me: *pipe*

[@1q34w]

There's also the honey trick if you're impatient.

[@RealityMasterRogue]

mappy gaming made a super compact invincibility setup

[@drewsbwgaming3362]

That's awesome thanks for sharing this.

[@sentrygaming4958]

Did this without the cookie and tea break and it did not work so I had to go back and do it.

[@KL53986]

Biggest lol, so EoL and Dungeon Guardian instakills are now unavoidable as they ignore INV frames but if your phasing out of existence your safe somehow, propably because you entire astral plane as only your spirit exists when your falling thru blocks and only your physical body is the vulnerable spot.

[@coypus7949]

Haha beat you to it. This the first Idea I had when I saw shiner. You did make it 1000 x better though

[@arod7113]

if u make it a multiplayer world someone can join after u killed it and u can use a wormhole potion to get to them

[@erikabigliani5419]

Myth for the next mythbusting: you can kill a boss out of bounds and still get the loot