Terraria tricks to use in early game.

[@micahrobbins8353]

In all my years playing terraria, I've never found myself in a Helen Kelleresque situation lol

[@wildlmao]

lmfaooo bruhh, some of us arent as fortunate

[@dogyX3]

Start of Master/Legendary difficulty can be real rough, especially when a mob knocks you down the cave you haven't lit yet

[@ailurusfulgens1849]

@@dogyX3 Unless you're playing medium/hardcore it's usually faster to just die and come back with a bunch of torches rather than trying to navigate a cave using a sunflower lol don't get me wrong it's a neat trick but like, who does this lmao

[@Dario__]

Im just living life using way less torches and most of the times i find more breaking pots and not long after i get like 200 from the merchant

[@recordedbeast4466]

@@ailurusfulgens1849 i usually purposefully dont use torches unless i have enough. if i ever place my final torch i break it and just hold it

[@DarraghB_31]

Someone needs to beat terraria using the Helen Keller method

[@wildlmao]

Dude I might just do it, tbh

[@shamilmadatov8832]

@@wildlmao please do

[@Thunderbolt-Ten]

How would you even know if you beat the game though?

[@cameleon2mur80]

@@Thunderbolt-Ten I think moon lord's bloody tentacle might have an unique texture so I guess just like doing anything in the Helen Keller method

[@neim.guitar]

the temple playthrough would be funni to watch

[@flambo6554]

As a general tip, ALWAYS keep an eye out for statues. All you need to farm them is a pressure plate, boulder trap, and a mace: place the statue above your head in line with the natural wire, box it in, make a one way hoik to pop your mace in, and jump on the pressure plate. The drop rates are awful, but when you can spawn hundreds a minuite it doesn’t matter. This method is by far the best way to get gladiator armor for pre-boss knock back immunity, for money trough/shark teeth using drippler and blood zombies, and a variety of other rare accessories.

[@wildlmao]

BROooooo Literally i recorded that exact tip, I talked all abt how they r over looked and worth keeping an eye out for but i just didnt wanna make the vid longer than it need to be but rip

[@kockafej987]

@@wildlmao daamn he liked his own comment what a dweeb great vid tho keep it up

[@flambo6554]

@@wildlmao I knew you had the right of things! Is there a plan for a dedicated statue video, or is that part you recorded just gonna be binned?

[@aceofconquest5745]

True Genius, Gladiator Armor all the way! No Knockback pre-boss!

[@Zazphyy]

PLEASE never stop uploading bro we love you

[@sirincognito1250]

"People just pulling out their recall potions from their inventory, midbattle." Me, remembering in your 30x spawnrate video where you stumbled into a dark cave and you pulled out your recall potion from your inventory

[@wildlmao]

💀💀💀 Yo wait there’s still time for me to delete this video. That’s actually the most valid thing I ever read

[@DoenSnikduj]

I just want to say The video titled “beating terraria using items no one uses” brought me to your channel. These techniques and skills are why I’ve turned such a curious eye to you, it’s part of why I stick around.

[@BloodThirstyAvengers]

A way to defend yourself during Blood Moon, place a torch next to your door on the inside. Mobs can only open doors inwards but players and NPCs can open them either way. Won't help with Wraiths nor with many Solar Eclipse enemies (like Reapers and Mothrons) as they aren't hindered by your walls.

[@dclassbroadcast3165]

If you’re hurting for resources you can put the table against the other door. And yes, specifically the table, because if you use the chair (no matter which way it’s facing) the NPC has to open the door to be able to sit in it.

[@BloodThirstyAvengers]

@@dclassbroadcast3165 This is why I almost never house NPCs on the ground floor. Flashbacks to earlier versions (when NPCs didn't sit or stay) taught me that's a liability waiting to happen.

[@internetduck1114]

They're in the walls THEY'RE IN THE GODDAMN WALLS

[@_____8632]

Don't they just break the door?

[@BloodThirstyAvengers]

@@_____8632 Not from what I've seen. In my experience, only Goblin Warriors break doors.

[@maamoonalzayat]

4:53 you can actually hammer the block underneath the grave stone so you don't have to place the blocks again

[@wildlmao]

Omg…. Yo this guy is me but better

[@playerleo9211]

Now instead of instantly replacing the block I have to hammer it 4 times, great tip

[@wildlmao]

@@playerleo9211 lmaoooo but u can spam it so its like maybe faster, def simpler at least

[@playerleo9211]

@@wildlmao I still have nightmares from that time I played on mobile. Not recommended

[@jayjasespud]

@@playerleo9211 That involves going into the inventory and deselecting the hammer.

[@nmll]

4:45 not the fandom wiki 😭😭😭

[@phantomdergwulf]

not the fandom wiki ;w;

[@wildlmao]

BRRRRRO the official wiki was like not working or sum I forget why I used that but yeah, it says the same stuff for that lol

[@thanatox]

@@wildlmao excuses

[@cameleon2mur80]

@@thanatox one wiki lies and the other is incomplete sometimes what you're searching just isn't there

[@Terra_]

@@wildlmao I thought the wiki being broken was just me😭😭

[@bugsinsidemyhead]

Finally someone else who understands the power of platforms

[@TechnoNeko94]

Not gonna lie, that Helen Keller pic was a jumpscare.

[@wildlmao]

😏😏 I was curious how ppl were gonna react to it fr

[@TitanChromeE]

5. Nights Hellen Keller

[@wildlmao]

@@TitanChromeE 💀

[@Shifsabre]

It creeped the hell out of me, alone, in a dark room, at 6am

[@probablyzeke6014]

Another use for platforms is that if you put one inside your base directly in front of your door, zombies can't open them during blood moons. You'll still be able to open your doors because the player can open doors outwards, while zombies always open them inwards.

[@gomit3429]

If you use the background map style and zoom all the way in (yes, the background map can zoom in and out) the blocks in the background will line up with the blocks in game. This pretty much means light is permanent, since the map fills out with the brightest you’ve ever seen something. If you have like, a wand of sparking, you can use it to see with this method even when you aren’t firing it. If you’re really desperate, carry around one torch and use the background map to see when you switch to other items. Fair warning though, this method makes it pretty difficult to see enemies. The background map is overlayed over the whole screen, and since enemies aren’t blocks, they don’t show up on it. Usually I use this when it’s pitch black during the night in early game and I don’t feel like putting torches on the ground, or underground when I run low on torches. It’s also nice when you get something like a starfury, as you can scout for caves with it and then use the map to continue seeing them while you dig to them. This is my Helen Keller method, use it as you will.

[@TeeVee-Show]

3:54 beautiful tower 🤌

[@bobber_mann]

I’ve seen you before…

[@Renteks-]

I started using platforms after seeing Ningishu use them in their playthrough and I always notice how useful it is now. I have to also make a case for using Rope often, especially to rappel down large gaps. Rope's also just good for quickly but safely descending, since you can just go a little down with the rope, add some platforms and then jump to something that's to the side of your original drop-off point. Rope is also so common from pots that it's legit difficult to run out even if you're using a ton like I do. I never dropped below 100 rope until I used it to build upward to a sky island from the surface.

[@beewaare]

My favorite part was when he said “It’s wild time” and lmaoed all over the place. Also thanks for getting me back into terraria I’m still as garbage at building as ever.

[@wildlmao]

😍

[@beewaare]

@ actually maybe you should make a building tips video for people like me if you haven’t already 🗿

[@VitronEspada]

I've been playing since the game came out in 2011, and you taught me some genuinely awesome tricks, thanks!

[@mannydani9180]

Two things I wanna mention 1: if you wanna block enemies from coming into doors, put a chair right inside. If there's anything directly next to a door, it can't open in that direction so putting something right next to the door on the inside then the door can only open outside, making it impossible for enemies to break in 2: snowballs. The first thing I do in any new world is find the snow biome and make a ton of snowballs. They don't do as much damage but their knock back can keep tougher enemies (like crimson/corruption enemies) away long enough to survive. They're a super useful tool for early exploration

[@ixatokii4386]

when you get the shield of cuthulu you can basically parry contact damage from bosses and mobs by dashing into them right as they attack you

[@tonyv.1058]

I thought that only worked on queen bee dash, never knew you can do it with other bosses though

[@janninogabriel9651]

waffletime did that against duke soc is actually op

[@josephjoestar953]

@@tonyv.1058 Honestly it entirely depends on how you use it

[@MjsticCpybr]

This video is great. I’ve played a lot of Terraria (≈5,000 hours). I’d dare to say I’ve gotten pretty good at it, even. That said, I’ve never thought to place blocks mid-combat to manipulate an enemy’s movement, and I didn’t really see a point in binding the zoom keys. This is the first video of this style I’ve learned something from in a long while. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas. I will definitely be following your channel more closely. You are a wonderful creator.

[@moor6270]

Another trick for early game cave exploration: place platforms in front of a wall and hammer them once. You can now shoot through these walls, but the mobs can't shoot you. Great for exploring early game jungle so the hornets can't shoot you, but you can shoot them!

[@V1per0000]

What amazes me is how you even discover these. Amazing video!

[@EnviousEcho]

Just discovered your channel two days ago, already binged most of your videos. Turns out you are now my favorite Terraria content creator! I’ll definitely be implementing some of the traps you’ve come up with.

[@Draggon-foly]

9:57 bro is Breaking their knees like he was born for that 😭😭😭

[@TheFunnyLookin]

12:27 The Helen Keller Method is Diabolical Work 😭

[@wildlmao]

Lmfaooo yuhH

[@aseldesu]

been playing for over 1000 hours and i never thought of using platforms like that, subbed

[@FTAsh]

2:27 my right ear loved that

[@christiangray7826]

Bro fr this morning I was looking on your channel in the past year for a video just like this one, if you had posted it an hour sooner it would’ve been perfect timing lol. I love your vids with a tips and tricks kind of theme, they help me a ton and make it possible for me to play on higher difficulties. Without you I’d be dying like an 8 year old playin dark souls for the first time

[@gavart4509]

What I do, is I place a rectangular empty room on either side of my base, and put hoik (hammered) platforms on the outside so that the mobs walk into it and can’t get out, usually put some lava in there too. Also works on flying enemies/ invasions.

[@EchoFolf]

For the first tip, instead of all the hard work, hammer any block so it's upside down facing outwards, and block replace it with any platform.

[@Lucawanarc]

Hoiking platforms on solid block (just like hoiking into jungle temple pre-plantera) is also a good way to survive early invasions like blood moon or goblin army. You can attack the mobs while they are being blocked by solid wall.

[@BacchiosCorax]

Use the overlay map, zoom to 1:1, then you can see in complete darkness as long as the area you're in is explored. The Tiresias method. Good for building as well.

[@Mushroom38294]

4:40 I vomited at the first sight of fandom wiki

[@thedarkness8533]

Whats the problem with the wiki? I'm new to terraria and I use it often...

[@scaprod558]

@@thedarkness8533 It's not the official wiki, they moved to a different site.

[@wyattlee3016]

i swear i don't even watch terraria content very much but as soon as u post i gotta watch. ur too funny🤣

[@Timmvh]

I love this style of terraria

[@zora5752]

Your videos are unmatched bro

[@wildlmao]

ily

[@zora5752]

@@wildlmaoAHHHHHHHH

[@Anthony-mr1mq]

genuinely my favorite KZbinr rn

[@wildlmao]

🪰🐛🐴🪼🫎🐠🐟🦂🐡🪼🐌

[@sparkndark]

For an easy way to keep mobs out of your house, mine two blocks down right on the outside of your door, that stops them from opening it and with some background walls or actuators you can make it look decent.

[@ThatOneSaltyFilipino]

I didn't know the full power of platforms. Also I'm pretty sure some know this already, but the Smart Cursor on Platforms placed diagonally (most of the time) automatically converts those to stairs. This makes switching to hammer unnecessary in those cases, which I have used in my arenas to save some time.

[@Golgothebest]

11:15 I also shake trees for fruit but rarely for the buff. I mostly do it for early game wealth when the merchant moves in.

[@trainerlsw]

Also save a fruit for when you find Shimmer so you can get Ambrosia

[@Shifsabre]

I just need my ambrosia fruit. I'll cook critters for my early game buffs

[@Golgothebest]

@@Shifsabre tbh cooking critters is also an overlooked early game way of making money. I made like 20 gold farming bunnies and squirrels since i didn't have a weapon

[@blumoo9938]

​@@Golgothebest agreed!! when a traveling merchant comes with an item i really want, but am too broke to purchase, i trap him within my town and run around catching critters (without letting him leave the screen as not to despawn him after nightfall, fully zoomed out), cook them, and sell them for eassyy money :) it isn't the fastest grind, but it guarantees i will get my item! ofc this happens early game, so my first town is usually a forest town with the guide and merchant, who both like the forest. i believe that increases their selling prices by a small amount, so i sell to them instead of the traveling merchant :)

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

This reminds me of ye olde minecraft mob traps, like the cactus puddle, water wall and door trap. Most of them wither stopped working with the AI update or got more complicated

[@TommyTsunami]

Hot Tip - If you swing your sword...you can do damage! Also nice little house design...glad to see youre still working on the builds :D

[@BlazingTomato]

Very cool tricks, honestly this would be great for anyone trying hardcore or any speedrun or something

[@rafaelcruzs2]

9:12 the way me and my friends do is keeping recall on slot 0, and rebinding slot 0 to something more accessible, like “F”

[@nicksmith1988]

a trick a lot more useful than all of these; if u spam the housing query underneath you in a desert, if the text says "this room is too big" 9/10 times its a pyramid.

[@ProfessorLink64]

It's pretty rad to see Wild showcase such a nice variety of tips! I'll admit after the gravestone block break tip I was READY to mention it's less useful, but old favorite of mine which was breaking sunflowers by just breaking the grass under them but Wild was on it already. Plus the classic of throwing a torch into a cave to light it up too.

[@internetduck1114]

"Haha me attack u in dark" "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY"

[@OtrTrash]

I have my recall on 0. Just a scroll up on the mouse wheel, a click, and I'm gone like your Dad running to the store for milk.

[@wildlmao]

Still got my mom tho, Helen Keller 😔

[@stik7208]

9:09 I use a mouse macro that swaps to my recall potions and automatically drinks them. Works as long you aren't holding shift and I'll never be able to go back to the magic mirror.

[@ColdToasty]

who is that hadnsome fella in the bottom right at 11:18???

[@bobber_mann]

I’m in love with you

[@allystarla]

Just wanna say you're my absolute go to Terraria youtuber. I've learned so much from you and I sound cool as fuck to my friends when I share the tips you've taught me. Love your editing style too, your videos are always hella entertaining. Keep up the good work!

[@yesssint7243]

I have a tip for earlyish hardmode in sandstorms: 1. Sand sharks and their variants can only move through sand related blocks. Stone and dirt are like walls for them. 2. The sand elemental’s tornado things emanate from yellow particle lines coming from her, so if you can spot which side of the screen the lines come from just before the tornados appear, that is the side of the screen she is on too

[@artificers-predecessor]

I discovered that you can actually just mine the block directly Infront of your door and zombies will just turn around after a second.l instead of knocking at the door.

[@Heyhowsitgoin999]

When building a house if you put a torch or furniture item on the inside of the door, and then dig two blocks down outside the door your house becomes immune to non-teleporting enemies. Not having a solid block outside the door means enemies who can normally breakdown doors will turn and walk away without attacking the door, and the Goblins who can break the door are only 1 block wide so they fall in the hole jump a few times and then turn to leave. During a Goblin Invasion the only mob you have to worry about is the Shamans, and Warlocks.

[@DeamonElementia]

Another tech I've found for caving (though for previously explored caves) is to switch the minimap to overlay mode and zoom in all the way. It'll overlay 1:1, so long as you've seen it before in any light.

[@Nethaura]

Minecraft has the water bucket clutch, and we have the cobweb clutch

[@GameRaiders101]

there needs to be a fishbowl full of beer you can wear

[@wildlmao]

1.4.5 🪟

[@GameRaiders101]

@@wildlmao 0_0

[@wildlmao]

@ 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

[@tecdoesstuff]

Terraria is art

[@CrystallizedEgg-kk3gv]

If you add platforms hammered into stairs to the inside of ur wooden doors it's harder for peons to break them npc's to escape or open and practically only rarely will some mobs get in such as peons but rarely and wraiths anything that phases through walls can get in platforms have to be hammered into stairs facing the directon of the door

[@Goteryup]

2:48 this mechanic can also be used in farms to get enemies to drop into invalid platform hoiks as soon as they spawn, this is even faster than convayor belts while also not needing wire like other hoike based designs And for thise who dont know, an invalid platform is when you blockswap a hoik with a platform

[@angelaramirez4144]

I find your content helpful. Very niIice. Subbed.

[@user-ud7gv3br5d]

in my master mode hardcore playthrough i binded the 0 and 9 hotbar slots to extra mouse buttons and placed recall and pressure plates in those slots, the recalls stayed there until I beaten it and i replaced the pressure plates with either the Plan (after skeletron) or the rod of discord. Doing this helped me so much

[@murderdrones-obsessed-cat]

In the beginning I genuinely expected them to say "Terraria isn't just Terraria, it's Terraria"

[@smarty265]

You wildin bro. Video is straight peak

[@kristoffpaul8824]

him explaining about the platform parkour trick assuming that we don't have a skill issue

[@kristoffpaul8824]

Him talking about recall potion fumbles assuming we don't turn on inventory freeze

[@Awarus]

Dude literally helped me a year and half ago, and now there's even more improvements

[@Lily-white]

We used to have a weird slope entryway to our house that made everything jump onto a lil overhang on our doors

[@dclassbroadcast3165]

Never saw those monster trapping techniques before, I’ll have to use the crafting table one. I just put my door on the second floor so I have to jump to it. Then in hardmode I used to switch to actuator doors.

[@SeveralAnts]

Hey right on, the early game is my favorite part too, doing more with less.

[@jorgecortes8383]

Just an addenda to the mob trap section, you can block swap a platform onto a hammered block pointed in the direction the mobs are coming from and that stops all ground-based mobs. It's part of a family of glitches called hoiks that are pretty handy.

[@V-XENO]

3:40 What I usually do is I build my house a tile or two below the terrain and leave platformed lava pits left and right, shallow enough to get the items and coins, then when I'm at home the mobs try to "pathfind" down and fall into the pits because I'm technically a tile or two below the platforms that cover the pits.

[@44Hd22]

1:20 maybe it was below your height coordinate and activated the jump ai stuff.

[@He_ofHavoc]

First zombie really hit you with the "i understand it now"

[@Edd_The_Cat]

Man these tips are wild. Lmao

[@wildlmao]

😠😤

[@Edd_The_Cat]

I’m not sorry 😈

[@Alphaminx]

I just beat Expert Hardcore for the first time last night/this morning (2 am), but if I ever try hardcore master mode, I'll be looking towards some of these techniques for sure [especially the cobweb one, as the torches I'll probably not run out of bc in hardcore you wanna be prepared.]

[@NoRealName2032]

Feeling your surroundings with a sunflower is too funny broo

[@arkjade7715]

7:08 lmao he FUCKED UP XD btw great vid

[@TheZiiFamily]

aside from the audio clips this is really cool thank you :D

[@potatophace2792]

Pro tip: If you're in a dark room, let whatever is trying to kill you mug you instead.

[@lilharm]

I like to use carefully planned decoration to block gravestones from landing if you have non-destructive blocks (ie torches, workstations, sunflowers) on the ground such that there’s no open, flat space more than 1 block wide, gravestones can’t land I suppose you could also hammer the ground so it’s not flat

[@susiex8144]

did actually learn some things, well deserved sub, buddy 😅✌🏼 thank you

[@codesymbi]

In that last one you can also drop a single torch like a glowstick It helped me a lot

[@Nightly97]

Another useful trick that’ll prevent you from ever having to use the hellen keller method… Save and exit is a free (albeit slow) recall potion. Gets you back to base for free, and always available ! Abuse it early

[@DoggoTheMan]

If you collect a trap in any way such as a pressure plate, dynamite, dart trap, etc, then when exploring a cave you can place down a torch, hold said item and see any traps nearby. easy and safe caving.

[@Entomofaunae]

The workbench trap is so goated I'm gonna be using this one in the future, I always just lower my base and put in platforms to the sides with one way hoik walls to catch stuff like zombies but this could work so much better

[@piratesidneyradwin2037]

If you make this a series, you should include the tricks for identifying floating islands and roping up. (Small puddles with only a couple tiles of water, usually between biomes. Also really steep walls in terrain)

[@griffinbastion]

Zoom in zoom out is unironically a great trick, i am often put off Terraria early game due to the visibility in dark areas Like caves

[@ZarkimL]

3:00 showing platform at the darkest place on screen is indeed interesting strategy 😏

[@Seorang121]

I just started my master save and im so struggle and stressed with mobs damage,this will help a lot

[@Yaeza31]

Bro forgot the most important tip: be careful how many torches you place in a local area. You don't wanna accidentally anger Torch God

[@Cloakks]

If this guy got into a fight, he'll probably craft platforms mid fight and fly over his opponent

[@shadybadger7896]

While your platform plays early game are commendable, I just put forth the little extra effort to add ropes in those places since I never play alone and it pays off more in the long run, plus then you can still use ropes for quick descents while leaving a quick way up

[@uhpenyen4291]

First time viewer here, you have the sims 1 music playing in the background. 100% like.

[@harmlesstech1524]

I cant wait to use these techniques in my starter phase only playthrough.

[@RealPhantom85]

Not me getting hyped thinking it was episode 4 💀

[@Boil7212]

really nice video bro, really funny though iv been playing this game since release and i never knew about money reflecting light :d

[@Gunslingerian]

wtf 150k subs i remember when it was like 12k, good job man

[@fruitsnommy]

remembered the platform tip on my newest save and it's actually incredibly helpful lol, a lot less ugly that random block pillars and ropes too

[@lks19]

9:08 Additionally, you can bind potions/armor slots to your side mouse buttons for easy buff, heal or swap. If your mouse doesn't have a good macro software, use X-Mouse Button Controller.

[@dennismeyer6744]

Loved the light halo music in the background ~7:15 on 😂😂😂