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Alright, I started up Terraria. This is the first game I've played in a while that has a character creator. A lot of the time I like to base my character on a pre-existing one, and this time I decided to celebrate a classic of video games by naming my character Marche. It's been so long that I don't remember much about the game's progression path, so I probably wasn't being all that efficient, but things went okay. You can't punch rocks in this game like you can in Minecraft so it starts you off with some crappy copper tools. The first step is to cut some wood to make a crafting table and a wooden sword with, and I also used wood to build an early shelter. It's also useful to kill the low-level slimes that spawn at daytime since you can make torches, which are essential for exploring caves. Just like in Minecraft, tons of mobs spawn at night, so you have to bunker down inside (and block the doors) and wait out the night, at first. Your starting weapons are too slow to kill the enemies so it's tough not to get overwhelmed at night. I dug a cellar underneath my house and started mining for stone and clay until sunrise.

Early on, what you really want to find is iron. I think I remember slowly saving up iron for ages when I first played. Either they made it more common in patches since then or I just got quite lucky, because between finding some decent iron veins and a full 10 iron bars in a chest, I had enough to make an anvil (the most important immediate use of iron as far as I know,) a sawmill, a broadsword, and some armor within the first couple hours. I found a little bit of tungsten and platinum too, and made a tungsten axe because I was tired of how slow the copper one was. I also poked around the naturally spawning caves for treasure chests, both to raid the contents and to take the chests themselves back home for storage. I found a lot of rope to explore with and a blowgun that fires seeds, which has been a fun and surprisingly decent ranged weapon so far. I found the desert and jungle biomes to my east and stopped at a lake not far to the west.

With iron equipment I was prepared to fight at night and do some spelunking. The main reason to go out at night is to find fallen stars, which increase your max mana - although that isn't super relevant at this point. There are also eye enemy types that drop lenses, which can be used for a lot of different things including summoning the first boss. I know an important early step is to start digging up the crystal hearts that increase your max health. I haven't found any yet, so my next step will be to look for them.

Although we do have a goal here, which is to take down the final boss of a hard mode world, this is one of those games where you have to make your own fun to a certain extent. The little project I've set out for myself is to build a big home base - kind of like an apartment building - mostly using red bricks, which means I have to mine clay to depletion wherever I find it. Here's how it looks so far:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/380275424208617474/818865701640863744/terrar.jpg

I'm playing on "mediumcore" mode, which means you drop both money and items when you die. I'm not sure if that was the right call, because it is a little bit annoying. I got offed by a random explosive trap underground and dropped a full inventory's worth of items that it was then kind of tough to retrieve. There was a little bit of fun to be had figuring out how to get back with no weapons then, though. I'm having fun with it so far - probably more than I expected to.

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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 17/129
Currently Playing: Terraria