#calamity-update-talk

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dull heart
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Summon tag stacking is dead

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Except where specifically whitelisted

dense sundial
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specifically whitelisted, huh

dull heart
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Usually that's for non-active weapon summon tag effects

dense sundial
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is that for unique effects like firecracker/cool whip/dark harvest that aren't a problem compared to melee speed

dull heart
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basically, armor or accessories

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fearmonger armor set bonus will incorporate a stackable tag

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so will Forbidden Circlet

torn cairn
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But if whip only has flat tag damage wont that be kinda underwhelming in post moonlord and stuff ?

dull heart
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whip on hit buffs are not a part of summon tag btw

torn cairn
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Since your damage is so high

dull heart
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that's entirely separate but similar

dense sundial
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calamity doesn't add any whips yet so it's not really their problem yet

hoary bay
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Summoner players when their hotbar suddenly has 4 spots freed up LETSFUCKINGGOOOO

somber fulcrum
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where's calamity mod announcements channel

dull heart
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on tag

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we'll balance the amounts and type of tag to what is right for the tier it's on

torn cairn
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Alright

dense sundial
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giving percent tag specifically to later cal whips seems fine

dull heart
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well

somber fulcrum
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oh

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did fabsol leave??

dull heart
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We're likely not doing multiplicative tag

somber fulcrum
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oops

dull heart
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Vanilla already HAS multiplicative tag effects in tag crit

dense sundial
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multiplicative tag damage was a disaster XD

dull heart
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20% tag crit is almost identical to 1.2x tag damage

dense sundial
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and yeah, tag crit

hushed hazel
naive ice
torn cairn
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Wait what

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Fabsol left ??

somber fulcrum
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wait so who's making yharim then

dense sundial
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any cal dev can make yharim now

naive ice
dull heart
dense sundial
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boss design is completely open

dull heart
somber fulcrum
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but it wouldn't be the original vision?

dull heart
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(this is a joke)

dull heart
somber fulcrum
dense sundial
lapis oak
hushed hazel
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calamity has not been entirely "the original vision" for a while

lapis oak
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not everything is made by Fabsol

dull heart
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like you'll see in 2.1

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DoG is getting a bunch of ai changes

dense sundial
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2.1 DS šŸ™

somber fulcrum
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i need my hype moments and aura

naive ice
dull heart
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I did most of those, I think the fight is much better than it's ever been

hushed hazel
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the only part that was still mainly him by the time he got nuked was bosses

dull heart
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likely a top 3 boss in calamity now at least

hushed hazel
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and that's only because he all but refused to let anyone else do boss changes

dense sundial
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not that i'm not looking forward to doze dog but the bar is low

naive ice
# somber fulcrum

I refer to Fab as ā€œItā€ instead of he because IT doesn’t deserve a gender.

dense sundial
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What

somber fulcrum
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kinda weird but you do you i guess

hushed hazel
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i refer to fab as he because he is a he

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he's not voldemort

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you're not giving him power by referring to him as a person

torn cairn
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So now who's the calamity "leader" ?

hasty tangle
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ozz

somber fulcrum
hushed hazel
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ozzatron owns the mod

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lilac owns the server

dull heart
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I am the calamity

naive ice
hushed hazel
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mind you i believe ozz was already basically the leader before

dense sundial
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??????????

dull heart
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yeah ozz was lead programmer

lapis oak
naive ice
torn cairn
dull heart
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ozz is just now owner

somber fulcrum
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Was. They killed him.

torn cairn
somber fulcrum
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What they don't want u to know is that owner ozz is a different person

dense sundial
dull heart
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Not always

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up to 1.5 it was under fabsol's personal GitHub account

hushed hazel
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people don't have to have "earned" the right to be called by their preferred pronouns

wary igloo
dense sundial
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me when i make assertions

wary igloo
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so please dont

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thanks

dull heart
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anyhow

fringe quiver
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Evil fucking spoiler chat

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guys what a calamity this is amiright. haha

dull heart
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ravager might be overtuned now

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If he is uh

somber fulcrum
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roaring knight

dull heart
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Not sorry

lapis oak
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good

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give me bad time

dense sundial
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can you make ravager missile movement comprehensible

dull heart
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it is comprehenible

dense sundial
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also the head maybe

dull heart
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It literally uses flying pet ai

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iirc

dense sundial
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WHAT

naive ice
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I’ve been camping for 3 days and I’m going home today. So I’m making very bad choices thanks to being tired

hasty tangle
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thats amazing

dull heart
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I remember being told that

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I should check

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But last I was told yes it used flying pet ai

boreal edge
naive ice
dull heart
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oh so sad

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anyway no I'm not changing the nuke movement it's fine

lapis oak
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grilled shark for breakfast

vivid hemlock
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kiri must die

boreal edge
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Message loud and clear, you think it's peak

lapis oak
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😨

brave star
dull heart
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Ok yeah it's not floating pet ai

brave star
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The seven anahita notes

dull heart
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I was just bamboozled

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It's pretty dang close though

somber fulcrum
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What is it

pine vortex
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CATCLOPS

hard hearth
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i'd win

analog helm
hard copper
iron dew
mystic eagle
mystic eagle
iron dew
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it is very easy to make things go through blocks

dull heart
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Demon Eyes don't float around you aimlessly

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Nukes do if you're close enough to them

brazen siren
# boreal edge

is this real
please be real
I want to jumpscare my friends with this

lapis oak
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no

brazen siren
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šŸ’”

boreal edge
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It's real (in GFB)

lyric trellis
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Thankfully GFB isn't real

lapis oak
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every day thanking my potato chips that GFB isn't real

boreal edge
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Hey ombgus thoughts on adding 16 neutrinos to Kiri

lyric trellis
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Probably a good idea idk

boreal edge
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Perfect

lapis oak
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wtf!!!

misty wren
lean relic
buoyant pulsar
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sso tomorrow

lapis oak
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is Dia's Terra Spear rework concept getting real? šŸ¤”

fathom girder
# boreal edge

Yharim: NOOO, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO OBEY ME!!!
The seven siren souls:

pliant lantern
arctic cliff
lapis oak
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yes

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is it dead or still breathing

stone zephyr
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woah

cobalt wharf
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this feels weird

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i can’t explain why

lapis oak
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the MM Spear should be somewhat close-medium range

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Exoblade has already gobbled up too much range wires

rose laurel
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I AM MAKING CRAFTABLE LOOTBOXES

dull heart
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L

lapis oak
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'S GO GAMBLING

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right?

lyric trellis
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Genshin pfp and making lootboxes…..

rose laurel
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I am currently revising every fucking vanilla recipe Cal adds

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Currently I have settled with

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One thing

lapis oak
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coming in SSO? ultimatesmug

rose laurel
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Probably because they're all simple to implement

lapis oak
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cool

rose laurel
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Basically what I settled with is that

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There are only 2 chest loots that need recipes

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Those being Sky and Dungeon loot

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Sky and dungeon loot are very very easy to run out of

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Everything else? No not at all

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Running out of, say, Jungle loot

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Would be fucking insane

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Therefore

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What if we just

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Fucking removed every recipe outside of Sky and Dungeon loot

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And just made everything else have shimmer chains?

rose laurel
lapis oak
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shimmer sounds great, especially now that we'll have a marking structure for it

rose laurel
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Namely

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Shit like Aglet

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And also Flippers because crafting Diving Gear is lol

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Lmao

mystic eagle
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Looking back at changelogs, are the Podoboo Koi and Carrion Swarmer still happening

dusk bronze
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carrion swallower?

mystic eagle
rose laurel
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Yes but it sucks to find Water Chests

mystic eagle
rose laurel
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And in multiplayer servers you'll need like, 4 Flippers

dull heart
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4 flippers with shimmer chains is really not hard to get

rose laurel
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Or else half the server can't go to the Abyss

mystic eagle
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just use journey mode smh

lapis oak
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wait maximum player counts for Terraria is 4?

dull heart
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no

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8 for host and play

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255 for dedicated servwr

lapis oak
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aight

rose laurel
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Ultimately I just think that everything that goes into the Diving Suit line should be incredibly easy to access to the player because otherwise that's needlessly halting their capacity to explore the Abyss

dull heart
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ngl

dusk bronze
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i just wish water chests were more common and they had useful shit more than 0.0000723% of the time

dull heart
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I don't remember the last time I made diving suit over just using reaver explore hotswaps

mystic eagle
lapis oak
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makes Trident meta

rose laurel
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"You need to go farm for an upgrade to be able to do this level"

dull heart
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Trident is good nowadays

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Holding it gives unlimited water mobility

dusk bronze
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seriously throughout all my thousands of hours of playthroughs i've actually gotten water walking boots from a water chest maybe

six times

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it's ridiculous

dull heart
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Water Walking Boots are so rare

dense sundial
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i think they could have put the water mobility on swordfish

fathom girder
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Maybe make parts of it drop from sulphurous sea minibosses?

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idk

rose laurel
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Every part will have better drop rates and/or recipes

fathom girder
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Oh even better

rose laurel
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Like, for the time being

dull heart
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Trident also glows underwater

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Huh

naive ice
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Has Shattered Community always been dedicated to Ozz or was it dedicated to Fabsol before the purge? Because I’m genuinely unsure.

dense sundial
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huh??

dull heart
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Wait

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Spear shimmers to trident

lapis oak
rose laurel
naive ice
naive ice
rose laurel
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Until we get around doing shit in the Abyss

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And make those items just

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Inherently renewable

fathom girder
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amidias should sell them...

dull heart
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no

fathom girder
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AAA

dull heart
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Zoologist will probably sell fledgling wings though

naive ice
rose laurel
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But before you ask I don't intend on making those recipes like, super duper easily accessible lmao

dusk bronze
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make them like infernum clueless

1 per world šŸ”„ šŸ”„

dense sundial
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is this all 2.1 stuff or are you saving it for some patch

naive ice
rose laurel
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Iron Boots will be crafted with

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Titanium

lapis oak
rose laurel
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Because it's cool

dull heart
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Bestiary is like one of the only good shop things terraria has

dull heart
naive ice
rose laurel
dense sundial
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ah yeah

fathom girder
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My whole view on the abyss diving set is that it should be relatively simple to craft/farm because I'm pretty sure it's simple to get the maxed vanilla diving stuff

rose laurel
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It's just tweaking and adding or removing recipes

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There are some edge cases but they won't be problematic

dull heart
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It is not easy to get vanilla diving stuff

rose laurel
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Like making Pulse Bow drop from the Travelling Merchant if you kill him

fathom girder
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I suhwear it wasn't that bad

dull heart
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I don't think we should do that one still tbh

dense sundial
fathom girder
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I'm a nebraskan that's normal for us

dull heart
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I think that pulse bow should be the same as everything else in his shop when we fix the shop

dense sundial
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okay that's a little hyperbole

fathom girder
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guess that's why I'm used to it

rose laurel
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When we, y'know

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Fix the shop

dull heart
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that should be really easy

fathom girder
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SSO delayed another 5 months

rose laurel
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Well if you get it done for SSO

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Yeah

dense sundial
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2.1 2027 !!

dusk bronze
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sso september/october 2032

dull heart
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2.1 in year 2.1k

lapis oak
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that's optimistic

mystic eagle
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SSO? More like SSC, Super Scope Creep

rose laurel
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Oh I almost forgot to put Life Crystal recipes on my list because they really need an update jeez

fathom girder
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the recipe needs an update? like, nerf or buff

dusk bronze
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why does it have a recipe at all again

mystic eagle
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Nerf maybe

rose laurel
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This is a good basis but

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Meh

dull heart
rose laurel
fathom girder
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yeah was thinkin' it's a bit easy to make

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at least kinda

dull heart
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Ruby isn't super easy to find

fathom girder
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rubies are easier to get in caverns nowadays right

lapis oak
rose laurel
dusk bronze
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i saw someone suggest adding blood orbs

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bc post eoc

dull heart
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ngl I don't think that recipe is really that messy at all

hard copper
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make them drop from nurse BrimFace

rose laurel
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I think it is because it doesn't have a "core" if that makes sense

fathom girder
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TRUE

dull heart
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the core is the healing potion

rose laurel
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Making good recipes is a craft, believe it or not HDfailure

fathom girder
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Wouldn't ruby be the core?

dull heart
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or the ruby

dusk bronze
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then why are there 2

fathom girder
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...or the rocks

dull heart
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Depending on what you look for defining a coee

fathom girder
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ugh okay no I see the point

dull heart
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The rocks are definitely not a core

fathom girder
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WAIT

dusk bronze
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wat

fathom girder
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Large ruby instead of 2 rubies >:)

dull heart
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oh

fathom girder
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There's your core

dull heart
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goodness

rose laurel
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Usually recipes are comprised of

  • A core basis (what the item is physically made of)
  • The magical nucleus (what gives the item power)
  • General fluff or a tier lock (just whatever, really)
dull heart
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I see

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this has that

fathom girder
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But that's where it's kinda weird

rose laurel
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It doesn't have a core because it's split between rocks and rubies

fathom girder
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because gems in terraria have power

mystic eagle
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Why can't we just make a new ore called Life Crystalium that is used purely to create Life Crystals ultimatesmug

fathom girder
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also so do potions

dull heart
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I'd say the core isn't the issue as much as

dull heart
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The catalyst is the issue

latent portal
fathom girder
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YEAH

rose laurel
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Well, regardless

hard copper
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Could be made with pink gel? Like its crystalized gel ig

rose laurel
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The recipe can be better

dull heart
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make it out of life fruit

latent portal
dusk bronze
fathom girder
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Just sayin', if you want to use my genius idea of using a large ruby

dusk bronze
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also pink gel is much too rare

fathom girder
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it's there now

dull heart
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large ruby is way too expensive

fathom girder
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...2 ruby to 15 ruby nerf

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yeah lmao

rose laurel
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Ok now the question is WHAT THE FUCK IS AN ANECHOIC PLATING

fathom girder
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BUT HEY that would make silt more relevant

rose laurel
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AND WHY IS IT USED IN AN ABYSS ITEM

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WHY DO YOU NEED SOUND PROTECTION IN THE ABYSS

dusk bronze
dull heart
fathom girder
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is sound ACTUALLY an abyss mechanic though

dull heart
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So abyss creatures can't detect you as well

cobalt wharf
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heartwarming: calamity developer plays the mod for the first time

dull heart
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it's dark down there

fathom girder
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or the detection thing even

rose laurel
dull heart
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How would they find you

dull heart
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Sounds, duh

fathom girder
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I usually just bumrush the abyss anyway and treat it like any other biome

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and enemies will see me anyway

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it feels like a bit of an irrelevant mechanic

latent portal
rose laurel
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Gotta love the completely inconsequential stealth of the Abyss

latent portal
dull heart
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Oh hey reb

cobalt wharf
dusk bronze
dull heart
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did you know there's already a shimmer cycle for iron boots and anechoic

still bluff
lapis oak
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Rebecca plays Calamity for the first time (emotional)

fathom girder
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oh god

latent portal
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REALLY

lapis oak
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ye

rose laurel
dull heart
latent portal
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oh my god and i was fishing for those things when i couldn't find them, how dumb

rose laurel
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You still need three of them to make one Abyssal Diving Suit

dull heart
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like good luck finding me by eyes when I'm glowing like the sun

rose laurel
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That's three Abyss chests burnt out of like

dense sundial
rose laurel
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20?

dull heart
rose laurel
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Assuming 15 of those will have weapons that's 1 and 2/3 of an Abyssal Diving Suit you can make

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Not even enough for two players

dull heart
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it's like staring into the sun I'd imagine

dense sundial
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Alright true

fathom girder
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I could take it

dull heart
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same

lapis oak
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I stared into the sun as a kid am I cooked

dull heart
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Staring into the sun is fun

dusk bronze
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honestly the post skeletron abyss weapons are weird because it just piles on the terraria issue of there already being completely irrelevant dungeon loot AND shadow chest stuff literally right after

dense sundial
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I’d imagine Abyss animals have pretty good eyes to be able to pick up bioluminescence anyway

dull heart
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yeah saying bad eyes is misleading

rose laurel
dull heart
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Eyes tuned for small light

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Not bright light

cobalt wharf
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that’s a separate issue

rose laurel
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2 and 2/3 Abyssal Diving Gear suits which

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Yeah

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Still not good

latent portal
fathom girder
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the moth with eyes attuned to dim lights when I summon the entire goddamn sun in front of it:

dusk bronze
rose laurel
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At absolute bare minimum

dull heart
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yeah shadow chests suck

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Some of my favorite weapons but

cobalt wharf
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yeah and none of the abyss weapons conflict with them except for like archerfish kind of

rose laurel
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I want there to be enough material for 3 players to make whatever the fuck they want

dull heart
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Horrible placement

fathom girder
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Shadow chests at least can be fished up

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I forget

fathom girder
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are there abyss adjacent crates

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that have abyss items

dull heart
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I should make fishing cool

rose laurel
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Fuck fishing

dusk bronze
rose laurel
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Hatred aside

fathom girder
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okay it's been awhile since I've engaged with the abyss lol

rose laurel
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Fishing is a last resort and I absolutely DO NOT want to rely on it

cobalt wharf
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only accessible post slime god tho 😊

rose laurel
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If you have to resort to fishing, that's because you REALLY just

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Scoured the entire fucking world

dusk bronze
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yeah terraria uses fishing as a crutch SO FUCKING MUCH

fathom girder
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ig fishing is still so hated that doing runs involving it are usually challenge runs

dull heart
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it would be fine if

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Fishing didn't suck

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give me good fishing

latent portal
rose laurel
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Even then I don't think it would because of how many instances you'd have to resort to it

lapis oak
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fishing is so ass šŸ„€

mystic eagle
cobalt wharf
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name one fishing system that is fun after several hours

rose laurel
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Like, we do have moments where I think fishing will become fairly common, namely

cobalt wharf
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there isn’t one

rose laurel
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For Shadow Chests and Abyss weapons

fathom girder
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I like terraria fishing when there are specific items that you can only get from fishing

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like uh, the bladetongue

dusk bronze
dull heart
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I don't think that's an inherent issue on its own

rose laurel
latent portal
rose laurel
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Because Shadow Chest items barely ever upgrade

dense sundial
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And then there’s Golden Crate

fathom girder
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heehoo

rose laurel
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And Abyss weapons also don't

fathom girder
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we love golden crate

dull heart
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the problem isn't that fishing isn't fun after several hours

it's that it takes several hours to begin with while also not being very fun to begin with

rose laurel
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Anyways the one item I'm definitely the most conflicted about here

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Is

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Frog Leg

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I genuinely don't know what to do about Frog Leg's recipe

dusk bronze
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oh god

dull heart
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Frog leg is

fathom girder
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MORE FROGS

mystic eagle
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Remove the recipe

still bluff
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lock it behind a random jungle crafting component

fathom girder
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Idk frog leg could be some sorta alchemical recipe

still bluff
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instead of forg

dull heart
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1% chance from killing frogs

cobalt wharf
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what exactly is the issue

mystic eagle
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It's frequent enough when fishing

fathom girder
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get some potions and stuff them into a frog

cobalt wharf
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other than the recipe being slightly illogical

latent portal
fathom girder
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bam frog leg

dull heart
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To the point that one of the specifically fishing items is

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easier and quicker to get without fishing

rose laurel
latent portal
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that's so sad

fathom girder
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My little idea would tie it to blood moon if you wanna get the potions quickly

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though idk it doesn't need a recipe, does it

rose laurel
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On the other hand, it's also the most universal fishing drop while being really damn fun to fuck around, SPECIALLY early game

lyric trellis
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Frog Leg now drops from nuclear toads

dull heart
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I lean towards remove it if we have to pick

rose laurel
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My problem is that Frog Leg is just

dull heart
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but there's gotta be a good middle ground

rose laurel
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Really fucking fun to use

lapis oak
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add frog boss that drops 10 frog legs per kill

rose laurel
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And I don't want to subject people to fishing to get what is like

lapis oak
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preboss boss

rose laurel
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Top 2 most fun phm accessories

fathom girder
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What about... making it more common during fishing, and then make them shimmer into 7 frogs

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and remove the recipe

rose laurel
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Only behind Sandstorm in a Bottle my beloved

fathom girder
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so if you're fishing and get a shitton of them you can turn them into free bait

dull heart
fathom girder
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instead of them being useless if you get them too often

dusk bronze
latent portal
dull heart
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not true

dense sundial
rose laurel
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They will now Doze made WAP PEAK

dense sundial
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Or are they

rose laurel
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Even peaker

dull heart
fathom girder
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oh yeah I'm definitely gonna WAP all over the place with the uh

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...rework

dusk bronze
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the official shortening is "wacro"

latent portal
fathom girder
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gonna replace wings

rose laurel
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Are you talking about WAP or about saying you made it peak?

dull heart
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:explods

fathom girder
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lmao

lapis oak
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he wants the wacro not wap

latent portal
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i just want to try the new gravity globe

cobalt wharf
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haven’t thought about wap in like 5 years

rose laurel
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But yeah

fathom girder
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Sounds like you've got a trip ahead of you for fixing up recipes

rose laurel
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I'm conflicted on Frog Leg and agree with Doze that there HAS to be a good middle ground

fathom girder
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aaAAAAA did you see my idea

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🄺

rose laurel
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I would like to untie it to fishing but uuuuugh

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I don't knwo

dull heart
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good fishing system would be the best solution imo...

fathom girder
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fishing should have something

rose laurel
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It's weird to untie it from fishing when it's one of the few fishing exclusive rewards

hard copper
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Add it to jungle planetoids?

latent portal
rose laurel
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But also FUCK IT'S SO GOOD TO USE

fathom girder
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I'd argue removing relevance from fishing is the same as the reaver shark nerf reversion that Fab pulled

latent portal
#

tbh i already love fishing lol

hard copper
dusk bronze
#

that's a good idea

dull heart
#

that's so easy

fathom girder
#

as long as it isn't overused then it should be fine I'd say

dull heart
#

jungle planetoids are also really easy to get to and faster than fishing it

rose laurel
#

Yeah

fathom girder
#

it would reward exploration

dull heart
#

however it is obtained it needs to not replace fishing being the main method

dull heart
fathom girder
#

right yeah

dusk bronze
fathom girder
#

no no no

dull heart
#

lies

fathom girder
#

you don't understand

dull heart
#

I have a plan to make fishing good

rose laurel
#

Ok

#

YOU KNOW WHAT?

dull heart
#

it's top secret

rose laurel
#

THAT'S IT

fathom girder
#

the solution is to create an accessory made from wulfrum that enhances fishing in a completely new way

latent portal
rose laurel
#

I'M KILLING FROG LEG RECIPE

dull heart
#

based

fathom girder
#

YEAHHHH

latent portal
hard copper
dull heart
#

I am considering something similar

dusk bronze
#

šŸŽ‰

dense sundial
#

Please don’t do a ā€œfishing reworkā€ for Calamity with proper new mechanics or something

dull heart
#

but the accesory is also a fishing pole

fathom girder
#

turn it into stardew valley fishing and then it gives you like 10x rewards depending on how well you fish

#

problem solved you can thank me never

dull heart
dense sundial
#

Oh alright

dull heart
#

not universal

iron dew
#

maybe im the minority but fishing is not as terrible as you guys are acting like it is

dull heart
#

Or it would be accessory tied

dense sundial
#

Something like Chum Caster or WotG’s Dreamcatcher

dull heart
#

yes

#

I have ideas for wulfrum pole at least

#

and feral double rod

rose laurel
fathom girder
#

it's very tedious

rose laurel
#

And I DESPISE that it's used as such a massive crutch for renewability in Vanilla

dull heart
#

I am also genuinely considering making fishing poles also work as accesories

dense sundial
#

I wouldn’t say mind-numbing but it’s definitely comparatively boring

dull heart
#

equip a fishing pole and that fishing style gets used on all fishing poles you use

mossy sapphire
fathom girder
#

have like, a reel accessory

rose laurel
fathom girder
#

a rod accessory

rose laurel
#

The answer is either continue looking for the needle in the haystack

fathom girder
#

a line accessory

rose laurel
#

Or fishing

fathom girder
#

things like that

dense sundial
mossy sapphire
#

ooo

#

not as effecient for normal fishing but very useful otherwise

dull heart
#

My poles would be a little different

#

in that it would actually fundamentally change how you fish

dense sundial
#

I don’t think it’s the most interesting example but it’s an example

latent portal
rose laurel
# rose laurel Or fishing

Recipes were an attempt at solving Vanilla's renewability issue, but also the general "grindness" of the game

#

Problem

#

It went so fucking far that it turned the game into a Boss rush

dull heart
#

we should just make a loot box that can drop any obtainable item at your stage in progression

dense sundial
#

That was Fa

dull heart
#

Renewable solved

fathom girder
#

Reb literally just mentioned making craftable lootboxes

#

lul

rose laurel
#

Therefore what I'm doing is pulling back on the recipes, but offering replacements for renewability

dull heart
#

yeah but reb meant Golden Lock Box

rose laurel
#

And also making things like, slightly easier to get

#

Which

#

I don't think is bad!

#

Remember Calamity practically doubles Terraria's content

#

The game has to be faster

#

Or else each playthrough will last 20 years

dense sundial
#

There are 400 Terraria weapons and 700 Calamity weapons (this is Not a good thing)

rose laurel
#

However, the game being faster doesn't mean

fathom girder
#

BOSS RUSH

rose laurel
#

"Fucking craft everything"

#

It means

#

"Getting a specific item is easier"

dusty tinsel
dense sundial
#

Hey what if you make it significantly easier to obtain the dials, buff them, and do something about Cosmolight

rose laurel
#

I am going to do something about Cosmolight alright?

#

I already have

dense sundial
#

Ah

rose laurel
#

Very elaborate plans about it infact

fathom girder
#

700 calamity weapons because they're funny and cool

#

don't harsh their brows

rose laurel
#

Tl;dr move Cosmolight to Post ML

#

Make it require an amount of Light and Night Souls to use

#

Place an item that freezes time in its place in Early HM

latent portal
#

i already have cosmolight always in pre-hm clueless

dense sundial
#

Ohh yeah I think that makes sense

#

Particularly if post-ML Hives drop souls, although they wouldn’t provide Light I guess

rose laurel
#

Thing I wrote a while ago

hard copper
#

Youd have to carry souls around with you?

iron dew
#

i like the idea of an item that slows time down

rose laurel
#

The biggest reason Cosmolight exists is because otherwise it's impossible to make Mech Bosses hard

#

Enjoy dying twice and having to wait for the next night

#

And then doing that 10 times

#

Times three

fathom girder
#

yippee...

dense sundial
#

Why are mechs night bosses anyway šŸ„€

rose laurel
#

Ask Vanilla

#

Anyways a timestop solves this issue

#

You can just

#

Keep night going forever

#

And you can grind Mech Bosses however long you want

latent portal
rose laurel
#

And whatever other timed boss you want

fathom girder
#

I like the timestop idea

latent portal
dense sundial
rose laurel
#

It is also, ironically, better than Cosmolight at mass farming events like Moons and Eclipse

#

And allows you to make AFK farms for those

#

Which I would consider a good thing because all four of those events have unique Calamity stuff to them

lapis oak
#

beds are so slow 🫠

rose laurel
#

For now, Seasonal Moons won't in the future

lapis oak
#

looking at screen like I'm playing an idle game

dusty tinsel
#

Me on my way to make a blood moon farm and then forgetting I had my game on for like multiple hours

rose laurel
#

Potions

#

Infinte potions

#

But no potions

pine vortex
#

Jschlat mention

dense sundial
rose laurel
#

Solar Veil will likely continue to exist and be expanded upon

dense sundial
#

Expansion seems better ig

rose laurel
#

But we should still add event blockers because yeah they are good

#

Accelerating time is doable within Vanilla as I said and in the future if you really need to go fast you'll get Cosmolight in Post ML

hasty tangle
#

is this planned for sso btw

#

or just at some point in the future

rose laurel
#

Probably not happening in SSO

#

But I absolutely think it should be in Part 2 because otherwise uuuuuuuuuuh

#

Enjoy! You just unlocked an infinite Wrath Potion farm!

#

:D

latent portal
dense sundial
#

Is something being done with blood orbs in 2.2 or what

pine vortex
#

Make sleep time 5x fast

rose laurel
#

I remember one idea I wanted to have was like

#

Make so Blood Orbs don't craft options

#

But they unlock alternate recipes

#

Where you can use Blood Orbs to increase the yield of any potion you want, given you have the means of making it

#

So let's say you have the materials to make 1 Lifeforce potion

#

Put some Blood Orbs in there, you can make 3 for the cost of one

#

Personally, I would make so doing this requires something from the Crags

#

Because I don't think bulk crafting potions should be available so early into the game

#

But I also don't think it's something so strong that it needs to be locked to Post ML

lapis oak
#

post Brimstone Elemental

rose laurel
#

Yeah

#

And then like

#

If I wanted to be funny

#

Make a Post SCal upgrade

#

That makes the yield even better

vivid hemlock
#

holy shit alchemy table upgrade tree

lapis oak
#

everything progression

rose laurel
#

Byeah after Blood Orbs I think the last of the old "fuck grinding" mechanics that needs to be looked at is Zerg

#

But Zerg is also the hardest one of them all

#

Because it's not really problematic

#

I had this idea where like

#

Zerg wouldn't start at full power

#

And then after 5ish minutes it reaches max power and spawn rates go nuts

#

At the same time I also imagined the possibility of making Zerg make you take 2 times damage

#

Ultimately if we do change Zerg I think the best option would be to add skill expression to it

#

Instead of nerfing it, just make it harder to capitalize on

#

And then my ultimate crackhead idea

#

Make Zerg Potion actually just turbofuck spawn rates

#

But give you a completely unique moveset of throwing hands

lapis oak
#

Sunny writing 3 whole google doc of "no" with this one

orchid finch
#

"The fuck around to find out curve" potion

rose laurel
#

Byeah I don't think what Zerg accomplishes is a problem, basically

rose laurel
#

I just think that, due to what the game eventually becomes

#

It just means you hold M1 and do nothing

#

Because let's be real here guys I don't think anyone likes farming for the 2% drop you need to make your core class accessory

#

At least, not for half an hour

#

But that's not because the droprates are super small or whatever (well it's part of it)

#

No it's because the process is holding M1

#

Therefore, that's what I think Zerg should accomplish

#

Making grinding for that 2% drop way faster

#

But also make it more involved

#

Now, if you'll excuse me but

#

I LOVE GAME DESIGN!!!!!!!!

#

Also if you're wondering, no I don't need the opposite needs to be done for Zen potion

#

The problem with Zerg is that it cuts down on grinding but replaces it with nothing, making the experience shorter and equally as boring. It's just boring for a shorter period of time

rose laurel
#

Zen Potion is used when you don't want to focus on combat

fathom girder
#

100% more health, speed and damage

lapis oak
#

Zen should makes you take 0.5 damage of course

rose laurel
#

It's for when you want to just go building

dusk bronze
#

or f*shing

rose laurel
#

Zen is exclusively made for you to interact with other parts of the game

#

So

#

There's absolutely no reason to touch it

fathom girder
#

Yet at least

rose laurel
#

It doesn't make the game faster, it makes the game slower

fathom girder
#

Once the boss rush gets taken out back and shot, it'll see more relevance I bet

rose laurel
#

Not really, the only time Zen Potion is really usable is if you're like

lapis oak
#

šŸ¤” ? what does boss rush has to do with Zen

rose laurel
#

SPECIFICALLY going after a wordly resource

#

But if we want to solve that just

#

Make Zen not work in specific biomes

#

Abyss? Crags?

fathom girder
rose laurel
#

Sorry fam, Zen ain't working

silk pebble
#

furina .w.

rose laurel
#

Hi that's me

fathom girder
#

Basically how to tweak the game to be less boss rush and actually have the player interact with the game but in a faster manner as opposed to skipping it all or making it the same but faster and that's it

rose laurel
#

Byeah the unholy trinity of boss rush are

silk pebble
#

yas. still wondering what is the progress with the scal updated dialogue.

fathom girder
#

So if mod is less boss rush, then I figure zen would be more useful. That's what was swimming in my brain

rose laurel
#

The countless recipes, Cosmolight and Zerg

#

I have solutions for two of those already

#

One is almost certainly being at least partly solved in SSO

#

Cosmolight hopefully will in the near future

fathom girder
#

...recipes I assume?

rose laurel
#

And then Zerg will take a while because

#

I need to figure out how to solve it

dusk bronze
#

we need to kill ai artist cosmolight

fathom girder
#

Tossing my hat in the ring again

#

Zerg could force some sorta event similar to frost or pumpkin moon in any given biome

#

Which would be a shitton of work

rose laurel
lapis oak
#

forced event 😭

dusk bronze
#

using zerg during a death blood moon should instantly explode you

fathom girder
#

Lmao

dusk bronze
#

peak game design

rose laurel
#

So the solution I'd like to seek is to just make Zerg actually require the player to interact with the dozens of enemies that are approaching

fathom girder
#

The "how" for that sounds rather complex

rose laurel
fathom girder
#

Especially given how every class interacts with enemy hordes

rose laurel
#

Strip you of your items

#

You become the doom slayer

#

Rip and tear

dusk bronze
#

that could be neat

sand dome
#

Cage match, trapped in a box, final destination

fathom girder
#

3 lives no items

brave star
#

Will there be an actual snowgrave in calamity

rose laurel
#

what

sand dome
#

Realistically any option would feel too limiting to player freedom, it could just be a thing that exists for people who don’t really want to grind but for people who don’t mind it they could just ignore it

rose laurel
#

I don't think it'd be necessarily limiting of player freedom as long as we don't

#

Creative shock.

fathom girder
# rose laurel Rip and tear

This would be rather tricky wouldn't it? Wouldn't you have to figure out scaling for each stage of the game, as well as figure out a kit that can actually handle enemies of all kinds?

rose laurel
#

Which I have no intention of making

rose laurel
#

Though I think the scaling part is what's hard

#

A moveset? Not so much

boreal edge
#

Why are we giving an entire moveset and gear to a potion

rose laurel
#

Read my insane ranting

fathom girder
#

Make it an accessory >:)

boreal edge
#

No sorry you already lost me no matter what it says

lapis oak
#

you don't wanna know

dusk bronze
#

read it

lapis oak
#

schizo talk

fathom girder
#

The context was a zerg potion rework on the basis of trying to restructure the things that turn calamity into a boss rush

#

Roughly

#

And the doomslayer showed up

rose laurel
#

The tl;dr is just that Zerg Potion is slightly problematic in the sense that it accelerates the game but doesn't entirely cut down on what makes grinding enemies boring

#

Therefore, I think the solution to make Zerg Potion not problematic is to make so it is far more involved in a way that forces you to deal with the horde of monsters that are approaching you

fathom girder
#

Reminds me of the dungeon defenders event in vanilla

#

Kinda

rose laurel
#

I think there are many ways of accomplishing this, however my personal favorite idea would be making so the player is stripped and put in a position where they can't just Hold M1 and win

boreal edge
#

That sounds intrusive and scope-creepy to hell

rose laurel
#

I mean yeah but it's cool, and if it's not liked then all I'll do is iterate on it more

dusk bronze
#

i have idea

fathom girder
#

Y'know, weren't draedon turrets made for this

#

Making farming easier

lyric trellis
#

Zerg's downside is that you can't just use it for free or else you'll risk dying by being overwhelmed, and if enemies are too weak then that's an enemy/weapon problem (which we know cal has)

rose laurel
#

That's true

boreal edge
#

Though like I don't understand what the problem is with grinding being made easier by the swarming spawns

rose laurel
#

It could be that once Cal has actually meaningful enemies, Zerg will become more involved

rose laurel
lyric trellis
#

Enemies with more than 5hp

rose laurel
#

Instead of holding M1 for half an hour

#

You hold M1 for 10 minutes

boreal edge
#

This sounds more like an overarching problem of finding grinding in general boring

#

Not specific to Zerg Potion

dusk bronze
# dusk bronze i have idea

so yknow how stomp said to make zerg an accessory?
while i don't like that, i was thinking of how to de-potionify it and what if:

it's a furniture item that increases spawnrates in a radius around it, and the aura does whatever reb wants it to do to the player
(kinda like the really really old scrapped demon trophy event)

boreal edge
#

Chaos Candle

dusk bronze
#

but better

rose laurel
#

The fusion.....

boreal edge
#

Is that a Dragon Ball Z reference

rose laurel
#

No it's a fusion of three fucking items

lyric trellis
#

Bringing back demon trophy to be permanant zerg

rose laurel
#

I don't think it's a terrible idea to make Zerg into a Pylon of sorts

lapis oak
#

Terraria Otherworld

rose laurel
#

That does help with the case of

#

If the problem is that it's a potion, yeah here it is

#

And there are many, many ways of making fighting endless hordes of mobs fun

#

Being really evil for a second

#

If it was a pylon

#

We could make so it took a specific amount of resources to activate

#

And it functioned like the OOA crystal

lyric trellis
#

Make every weapon into Grand Dad and then it'll be fun

rose laurel
#

Where if it was killed

#

It will deactivate

#

So now your objective isn't just staying alive

#

It's also making sure the Zerg pylon isn't deactivated

#

But even if it was, not the end of the world

#

You just gotta spend a few extra resources to go back to the slaughterhouse

#

I really like this idea, honestly

#

It's the simplest way of solving the issue I think

#

And unlike OOA it won't have the stupid fucking restrictions, allowing you to, should you please, construct an AFK farm around it

#

Still gotta make it have a time limit though

dense sundial
#

i like making it chaos candle tooltip taken literally

rose laurel
#

Only problem is that it'd probably be too easy to protect with blocks

#

But eh

naive ice
#

Huh?

rose laurel
#

Can probably add a check that like

dense sundial
#

maybe it could do a raycast for that

rose laurel
#

You can't cover it in blocks

dusk bronze
#

this housing is not suitable

rose laurel
#

But you can still make pitfalls, set traps and whatnot

dense sundial
#

make it apply death mode speed inflation clueless

rose laurel
#

But even then I'd be willing to just

#

Let players cover it in blocks sure

dusk bronze
#

wait actually it might be able to utilize meme's pathfinding algorithm to see if the enemies can still reach it

rose laurel
#

There are many enemies that go through

#

Could make the pylon specially fragile too

#

Not "one hit and you're out" but weaker than the crystal I mean

naive ice
#

What are we talking about

rose laurel
#

My insane ramblings on how to fix some of Cal's breakneck progression speed

#

Or, at the bare minimum, make them more fun

naive ice
#

Oh.

rose laurel
#

I already mentioned that I don't think Cal can afford to flow at the same speed as Vanilla

#

The Mod adds twice the content, making it stay at the same speed would make every playthrough last 20 years

#

But also, it's too fast at the moment

#

And there's too little substance

#

In the future, perhaps Cal can actually afford to take 20 years per playthrough

#

But right now? Nah

lapis oak
#

I can't wait for all of the Calamity broadswords to be different than usestyle1

pearl sentinel
#

um

lapis oak
#

that has to be the day of big celebration

pearl sentinel
#

approximately astrum deus i think

shell sapphire
rose laurel
#

Hey CST

#

What the fuck is Depths Charm meant to be

strong isle
#

Rebecca, I think it's supposed to be a Charm

lyric trellis
#

A charm of the depth

lapis oak
#

looks like a black swan figure

dusk bronze
#

it's pluey

brave star
#

Abyss swan

hard copper
#

Pretty sure the black bits is a ribbon, not a swan, loops through the middle of the charm as well.

orchid finch
# rose laurel

honestly I always saw this as some metallic... thing idfk, what does the depths charm even do

#

it has a display sprite and it's located on a knee of all things

brave star
# rose laurel

Was about to ask if it was upcoming but I was a dum dum bc it’s being used rn

orchid finch
#

a kneepad that magically reduces the harmful effects of the Abyss

summer shore
#

It's a pendant of some kind

terse dew
wide nova
#

nba youngboy

#

shoot dang!

fiery rampart
#

I just finished jjba part 6

misty wren
#

thats nice why does that matter here

fiery rampart
#

Its so peak🄺🄺

unborn aspen
#

its being resprited though ..!

wide nova
# rose laurel

its a moldy alarm clock horseshoe(????) with a hook on top(????????)

#

art!

vapid estuary
#

Tf?

#

Looks like a charm that is working like a talisman to protect from bad things

tropic ermine
clear compass
#

When new changelogs

#

Ahhhhhhhh

tropic ermine
#

the logs... they ain't changin

clear compass
#

logs….. logs never change

stuck kite
#

🪵

hazy pine
#

Noli before sso

plush carbon
#

please don’t bring fors*ken into this

azure oak
#

45 days until time between BH and SSO part 1 is longer than between R&D and draedon update

lean relic
#

dang

hazy pine
azure oak
#

exo mechs rework at some mysterious undefined point in time

granite smelt
#

forsaken is mid

plush carbon
#

its worse than mid my guy

#

i block every forsaken fan on sight

azure oak
#

buh

tame ridge
plush carbon
#

Well here’s the thing I hate DBD itself

#

It’s a given I wouldn’t like DBD but roblox

#

It being on roblox just means it has an even worse community somehow

fathom girder
#

yeah, because now it's all children

#

or manchildren

#

as opposed to DBD being only uh... MOSTLY manchildren

plush carbon
#

Dbd’s community is already notoriously toxic

#

I have ex-friends I lost because of how DBD noticeably changed them

#

Tbh i stopped playing roblox entirely it’s kinda just not worth it nowadays

valid crypt
#

Fair enough

plush carbon
#

This was quite a spoilerous talk

stuck kite
#

moon runes

#

i have no idea what any of that meant

#

except roblox i know what that one is

plush carbon
#

don’t worry about it

#

not worth it

stuck kite
#

big things are happening

#

unfortunately they're unspoilerable

plush carbon
#

Noooooo

#

The drought is upon us we need another ares

stuck kite
#

have something pointless

#

messages

true oriole
# rose laurel

I thought it's supposed to be a respiratory mask from another side

valid crypt
true oriole
#

But considering it's placement on the player sheet, I'm not sure anymore

#

(it's placed on the belt)

lean relic
azure oak
#

nhgnghnhggnehhrghrnghrnghnghgngrhgrnrrrr

stuck kite
#

itsa charm i think

lean relic
#

NOT AGAIN

azure oak
#

how

stuck kite
azure oak
#

how do people see those images and think it's legit

stuck kite
#

can ppl get less gullible Thanks!

valid crypt
#

Again??

#

How much money is mr bees giving people

azure oak
#

18 cases of beer

still bluff
#

please do send modmails when one of those comes up, especially if it sits there for a while like one of those did
they're just image embeds so they don't get flagged, and i don't lurk here 24/7 to catch them right away

azure oak
#

might be a bit of a bystander effect thing where everyone expects someone else to send in a modmail, resulting in noone sending a modmail

stuck kite
#

i wonder if the image links they send are the same everytime and if so can those links specifically just get eaten

#

i know its gonna be wack a mole if you do that

still bluff
#

pretty much just not worth it, yea
block one and it's different 15 minutes later

still bluff
valid crypt
#

Alright

azure oak
#

aight

plush carbon
#

what if I say no

azure oak
#

your SSO privileges will be revoked

plush carbon
#

concerning

still bluff
#

the ban rebounds and hits you instead :3

azure oak
#

raverger

fathom girder
#

Flesh mimic

summer shore
#

5 meter tall guy

dense prawn
#

ravagin time

fringe quiver
fathom girder
#

Who the hell is edwin

analog helm
#

flesh david

fathom girder
#

????