If this is your first time playing, you'll have to create your own. Note: None of the settings are mandatory and you can skip any number of them. His defenses are lower in this form and he no longer spits minions, but he's faster and more aggressive. This location is known as the You will notice you have a set of starter tools in your inventory. If it's coming, you'll get a warning message sometime during the evening, and you'll only have a few seconds to prepare before the Eye is upon you.
You'll also want to make sure the battle area is fully illuminated with artificial light. What’s next in life for the intrepid explorer?
None of the Appearance options have any effect on gameplay aside from visuals and occasional NPC quotes.
These two options won't have much effect if you're starting out. That said, remember that eye color, skin color, and character difficult… You can choose different character difficulty options: The character difficulty setting determines what happens when the character dies - it does not affect any other aspects of gameplay, including how hard the enemies will be. The second way to reach Cthulhu is to fulfill a number of in-game conditions. Explore any caves you find above or below your shaft, and search these caves for likely thin walls leading to other caverns. Up until this point in the game a melee weapon may well have seen you through, but it's almost impossible to get close enough to the Eye to harm it with a Two standout weapons are available to the early-game Cthulhu-Also important to this battle is good terrain. The preparations are ready. Damage done to enemies by players is shown with an orange number.
There is some absolutely essential topographical and subterranean data you need to gather through exploration, and for a time you're going to be criminally under-equipped to handle the search. During your adventures in Terraria you will encounter many In Terraria, any damage done to the player will appear above their head as a red number. You can even skip all of them and head directly to the next section, Finishing Up, below. To avoid dying, the player can heal themselves using one of several healing items. As the air supply runs low jump into the hole. Our Terraria Wiki Starter Guide is intended to help you through your initial hours of Terraria, from your appearance on the surface through your first When it comes to Difficulty, do yourself a favor and select Craft enough panels to fill in every open space in the background layer of your house. On Terraria's title screen you can pick the game mode you would like to play. Grab some You should go ahead and build at least four houses early on in the game, all near your own home. While exploring underground, try and find as many open caves as you can.
Items in the inventory can be moved using the cursor.
Cthulhu will burst into a pinata of useful items, dropping Dig, fight, explore, build!
We'll get to the details of preparing for that fight in a moment. He'll remain in one position in space while he does this, so pour on the fire. Remember that you can use simple components like earth, stone, and wood to build bridges over impassible hazards. Also line the bottom of the field with torches in a similar fashion.
Keep dodging and blasting away, and use your potions as necessary. Progressing beyond a certain point in Terraria is made much easier by slaying the A word of warning. Use the It’s dark inside your house. Build two tall pillars on either side of your flattened battleground, each one roughly the height of the screen, and line both or these with torches along the inside. All guides have the following list of Guide pages, such as below, that you can use to move between guides very quickly.
Health starts regenerating after a short period of not taking damage. The stage of Terraria between grabbing your first gear and fighting the Eye of Cthulhu is the most wide open section of the game.
Just before dusk, step into your eyeball trap. Terraria can randomly generate a huge world in a few seconds and fill it with dungeons, monsters, chests, underground jungles, flying islands and boss monsters. Don't fear diving down underwater to continue moving downwards, as the character has a rather large air meter. Your first goal when starting a new world is building a house. Time to take on the Elder God himself. In the upper-left corner of the screen you will see ten inventory slots labeled 1 through 10. The blue star on the right side of the screen indicates the character's After loading up the world your character will be standing at the spawn point, with an NPC nearby, the To place blocks, select a block by either putting it on your hotbar and selecting the hotbar slot or attaching it to the cursor and moving the cursor out of the inventory screen. You have two main geographic concerns in the Cthulhu fight: mobility and illumination.