Terraria

[Garlyle]

Floating Islands on large maps are at about 900+ ft, right? Feel like I've been making this sky bridge forever...

Something like that.

One way to find them is to get Meteorite Shot in a gun and use the fact that it bounces.

[Jes_Isaive]

So after I made a much needed upgrade to the Molten bow (30 damage what), Skeletron decided to let me in. Muramasa is beautiful.
Also, I've noticed the ruined buildings in hell. Does this mean we're Walking the Streets of a Former Hell?

[Kips McKipzerson]

Actually no I think thats for people who dont have picks and just come down to hellworld for the ash or something.

Well, now that I think about it, I guess its just easy access through the building since the only thing out of place in most of them is the wooden platforms. Also, Get a lot of obsidian. You will need it for all dat hellstone. Try to get a Hammer too, as then you could get the HellFurnace which is the best furnace in the game.

[A Complete Mystery]

Another tip for floating islands: a friend of mine claims to have had a 100% success rate at finding them by towering up where there's clay on the surface, I can't confirm the success rate, but the one time I tried it I found one too.

[Hanzo K.]

Okay, so I start up multiplayer with a friend of mine, and things are going great, I even get a near-complete npc list going thanks to him.
Missing the dryad though.

We go along, mindin' our own business, making diggy 'oles like we always do, and guess who shows up to wreck our fun?
EYE OF CTHULHU.

Not once, not twice, not thrice, but FOUR FREAKIN' TIMES.
Every. single. time. it. was. when. we. were. underground!

Damn!
And the worst part of it all?
The bastard runs away after about 500+ damage!

[Garlyle]

Another tip for floating islands: a friend of mine claims to have had a 100% success rate at finding them by towering up where there's clay on the surface, I can't confirm the success rate, but the one time I tried it I found one too.

If you ever find Gold or Silver on the surface, this is supposed to happen as well.

But it's rare and even then you'll probably only see it happen on small or medium maps, to my understanding.

[Helix ⑨]

I think my floating island derped.

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By the way, I have 3 islands on this map. 2 of them do indeed have clay in the soil underneath, the third is above corruption and therefore cannot be analysed

[Hello Purvis]

So I'm doing an insane terraforming project while waiting for Eye of Cthulhu to show up, and I need dirt. Do you have a few 250 blocks of dirt laying around you don't need? Tell me how to find you, and I will take it off your hands!

I'd level some mountains, but the huge walls in the background are ugly and a pain to hammer away =[

[Kips McKipzerson]

Purvis, Do what any sane man would do.
Max out your inventory with Dynamite. Completely level a mountain, And go onto the next, and another, And still have some spares.

[E-Nazrin]

Wait, dynamite destroys background blocks, too?

And sorry, Purv, but I've been using dirt for making land bridges myself because GRASS/MUSHROOMS/TREES. Though I'd be fine with playing with you one way or another, if you want.

If anyone needs stone, though, I've dug up way more than I ever expect to use.

[Kips McKipzerson]

I've seen a bomb blow up an inside of a house before, So I'm pretty sure it destroys walls too. The good part? The dirt walls dont "drop", They just disappear.

[Hanzo K.]

I can attest to that, as Dynamite is my preferred method of reaching Shadow Orbs.
And It does indeed blast away background.

[E-Nazrin]

Well damn. I may have to consider digging in to my platinum coin.

[A Complete Mystery]

I love farming, especially when you can hear the results

[ArteShy]

I just found this in a chest deep underground :

Silver Broadsword
Silver Helmet
Silver Chainmail
Silver Greaves
Ivy Whip
Cloud in a bottle
Hermes Boots
Band of Regeneration
Magic Missile
Silver Pickaxe
Silver Broadsword
Silver Axe

I didn't know you could get armor from chests.

[KomeijiKoishi]

Finally got a decent weapon out of the underground jungle. A chakrum that deals more damage than my Light's Bane and is actually worth a damn.

[Eraiya]

Thanks to you guys, I've decided to buy the game as soon as I have the money, which should be anywhere from five minutes ago to three days from now! After I buy it, I should be able to give anyone any item in any amount they please. Does anyone have any requests?

[GuardianTempest]

Damn guys you had me on a TV-Tropes-esque Youtube spree sprawling Infiniminer, 2D Minecrafts, some metal slug-like mmo and some other stuff.

Interested if I can play it on my desktop AND pay for it.

[Hanzo K.]

Well, the other day was pretty fun.
Me and a friend roll up a fresh world for multiplayer, and we wind up breaking 3 shadow orbs by pure accident.
Thankfully, orb 2 had the Ball O' Hurt, which is now one of my main weapons.
Cue Eater of Worlds showing up fora quick bite.
Cue it getting this. Right in the face. REPEATEDLY.

And the crazy thing? We won that round, but being the derps we are, we went for three more orbs.
And of course, nothing to show for it but new armor for me.
And surprisingly enough, I had enough materials to make the last part of the shadow set.
And after the eye decided to drop in unannounced, we got more demonite. Which I promptly forged into a pick and the axe.
My friend made the pick and sword, but I have better damage output due to the armor's effect, and the axe's inherent ability to not need to press the mouse repeatedly.
Only downside? Once I start swinging, I'm locked into facing one direction until I stop again.

[Mishaguji]

Got myself a sunfury flail from one of the bone serpents in hell! Figured out it works best swinging it around like a retard at enemies. Also found the underground jungle on my large map and got the items to make an ivy whip. 

[E-Nazrin]

I really need to try and find the jungle in my dicking around offline world.

Also apparently Purvis wants stone: I have like 1500, will that be enough?

[Eraiya]

COMPLETE EDIT: Anyone know of any good/fun servers to play on, like an MotK one? This'll be my first time playing! Also, if anyone needs any help, I'd be glad to be of service.  :3

[E-Nazrin]

Correction - I HAD 3000, and Purvis actually wants grey blocks.

An MotK server would be really nice, but finding someone capable of hosting it could be difficult; I know my laptop doesn't have the power. It died after having Terraria running for a few hours in this heat :[

[A Complete Mystery]

Anyone know of any good/fun servers to play on, like an MotK one?

You could play with me and a couple friends on a server that I run with hamachi if you're interested, it's not quite dedicated but it will be running a lot.  The only problem I see at this point is time difference.

[E-Nazrin]

So what time zone ARE you in, and what hours do you usually have it active?

[A Complete Mystery]

I'm in the central time zone in the US, therefore if you live in the US it doesn't really matter what your timezone is, but I was thinking about trying to leave it running through weekends, most of the time I can try to have it running from about 11 AM to 9 or 10PM(or even 11 in some cases), my time, and that does mean 5 or 6 days of the week.

[Kips McKipzerson]

And how laggy is said server? I may try to join up on it as a regular if its not too laggy.

[A Complete Mystery]

That's the other thing, I don't know for sure how laggy it is, but it is my parents internet which means it is most likely used by them quite a bit, both of the other people who play haven't really complained about it so it's more of a see and decide for yourself thing.

[Kips McKipzerson]

I'll keep the server in mind. Also I hope you dont mind me flaunting at how much stuff I have and how the random item drop loves me :V

[Mishaguji]

I also have a large map I host if anyone is interested. Finally found what the new secret item is too. Killed some rare spawn below the jungle that popped for a friend and myself named Tim, he dropped a wizard's hat with 15% increased magic damage!