#darksidegryphon

[beethereal-knight]

So if mosquitoes die from dragon blood, wouldn't the blood from human buff dragons kill them as well? If so, would that be great to get rid of mosquitoes at least on their bedroom?

Yep! Usually, mosquitoes and other blood-eating creatures will sniff out dragon blood and avoid feeding from them, but they can get unlucky and feed from something in an early infection stage. So if a full-fledged dragon walks into a room of mosquitoes, they’ll definitely avoid them.

[slushblock]

Have you got any jumpscare while playing Terraria?

I mean...

...yeah.Bonus:

see also: explosives

[ask-the-garuga]

Ruru, wanna get a warm bath?

“Look me boots.”

[slushblock]

Don't mind me, I am just going to crash into anyone... and EVERYONE! *runs in with the basilisk mount*

To be honest, I baaarely use mounts. I think the two that see the most use are slime (since I get it early frequently and it has a few good uses, especially in Expert mode against some bosses), and the flying saucer (on the two characters who don’t have a press-down-while-flying-to-nyoom accessory).

As for favorite mount that I almost never use because I’ve only ever effing seen it drop while farming after it’s been made obsolete by wings?

[slushblock]

Have you thought of the Corruption chasms as nests, dug by the eater of worlds to harbor the shadow orbs which are its/her eggs? That would explain its anger after breaking three. I hope I did not miss anything from your worldbuilding.

I never really did cover the Corruption in-depth, so you didn't miss much of anything.And before I get started, remember, this isn't a theory as to what the devs may have intended, and this shouldn't have any bearing on how other people may decided to worldbuild the Corruption. This is only how I've decided to characterize it for my own stuff.The crux of my interpretation is that I don't consider the Corruption creatures to be biological entities, seeing as they're made of rotten flesh. They seem more like animated conglomerates pulled from a set of very similar templates, with a singular goal of spreading, killing, absorbing dead biomass, and spreading more.

That said, the chasms ARE dug by the Eater of Worlds, but also all the other burrowing Corruption creatures, of which there are many. They're just not a nest; they don't need to breed since they're not actually living things. It's more for living space and surface area for spreading the corruption, especially in its weakened state.

The Shadow Orbs themselves aren't eggs, they're actually more like pearls, where random objects that have fallen into the chasms get coated in layers of demonite or a demonite-like material. This mainly explains why you can find some fairly mundane items inside of them, some older ones being sufficiently suffused with Corruption energy to have changed their nature (whilst more 'modern' objects, like the Musket, remain unchanged, simply from not having been there very long). Smaller and heftier 'pearls' from minute particles are much denser can simply be taken, hence the light item.

They still act as acute focuses, drawing in the soul energy upon which the Corruption denizens feed. It explains why you hear screams when you break them, and why destroying or stealing them enrages the Eater of Worlds, which tends them and carefully shapes them into the familiar orbs. Who really knows why. Probably something to do with optimizing distribution or the material matrix for keeping the energy stored until needed.

[slushblock]

There's a good reason why you shouldn't put neither bombs nor dynamite on your hotbar/at hand.

I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with prompts like this or the following one that’s just reiterating NPC lines (I’ve read them all; I needed to in order to get ideas for the NPC lines for my own characters), but in the case of this one, yes.

Yes, it’s called “not blowing giant holes in your own house on accident.”

[slushblock]

Seeing the post with the angler and the aberrant, that got me wondering if the angler was keen on pranks, I was already suspicious of that when he planned to put the fish of Cthulhu on someone's bathtub and the things he plans to do with the cursed fish and he sometimes wants a suicide bombing fish, he wants to stick an ichorfish on someone's toilet and a zombie fish on someone's dresser.

That’s pretty much been the assumption I’ve gone off all this time. I’ve mentioned before that I liken his shenanigans to something from Calvin and Hobbes, which I grew up with and is probably still my favorite comic series (though I haven’t read it through in years, I picked up one of the smaller compilations from a thrift shop for $1 recently while waiting for my parents to send my collection from storage and remembered why I love it so much).

The adults let him get away with it because, well, he’s just a kid who might also be a peculiarly solid ghost but i don’t have enough built on that to really hold a discussion, and also while he talks up a big story about many of them, most fish are generally harmless. Most. It’s a kid thing. When I was young I thought some things were a lot scarier than they actually are (like the old family dog...). Couple that with the fisherman stereotype of exaggerating their catches, and you’ve got a fishing kid with one heck of a hyperbolic streak.

I still don’t quite know what he plans on doing with that dynamite fish... it might not even explode and he just assumes it would because kid.

[slushblock]

Sorry for the machinegunning of questions, but can Anomaly take the form of smaller people (shorter and/or lighter)? If not that would justify it not taking on the angler's form.

They can take on the form of the shorter townsfolk, the reason they don't do it for the Angler largely comes down to mechanics and NPC usefulness.

The Angler doesn't act as a vendor, just gives out quests, whereas any of the other townsfolk who act as vendors at least give the player an option to sell excess stuff while exploring, so even vendors with relatively useless inventories or ineffective attacks would have that as a crucial traveling function.

The decision of who to bring along largely comes down to the efficacy of their self-defense, the items they sell, or personal preference. Naturally, certain vendors would be more 'popular' than others. Having constant access to explosives or ammo or mana potions would be pretty nice to people who utilize those resources, but at the same time the the Dryad’s Blessing aura could be more valuable than anything she could sell. Or maybe someone just really likes the Witch Doctor, idk.

It’s quite a bit to keep in mind... there’s also the possibility of other passive benefits to each one that may be more than what the NPC would have by default (to make using the service a much more tempting offer). The Angler would still be considered ‘useless’ by comparison, which continues to serve the purpose of upholding the game’s decision to not murder children.

The only other townsperson that Anomaly would possibly not mimic would be the Guide, depending on how useful it would be to have crafting schematics on-call, versus plot-armor issues; his otherworldly vast knowledge may not be something Anomaly can mimic flawlessly, but is the crux of the Guide’s entire function.

Tax Collector would be another curious one, since while there could be some benefit to being able to collect the money at any time without having to go home (especially since the amount caps, which loses the collection opportunity after that), actually having gold on you while adventuring is just asking to lose it if you happen to die. Plus, there’s the slightly more meta question of how they're actually collecting that money if they're shadowing the player anywhere other than town (of course, that could just be handwaved by "magic needs no explanation").