If you're looking for the new video on how the Guide makes or breaks Terraria, it will be released next week. It was a fascinating dive but in the meantime the video at the end will lead you a video about that first noob I mentioned in the beginning. He played the game entirely differently and had some very similar and very different problems.
I think if they made him respawn similar to the old man when no npc housing is present (so he can actually explain it) then that would absolutely fix the issue with housing going unexplained, additionally if they reworked how his help function works (maybe turn it into more of a quest system where you can pick which individual hint to look at based on title??) to make it not as random that would go above and beyond fixing the issues
I remember when I first started playing Terraria and I didn't look anything up on the wiki until I looked up special seeds when I discovered from a a Don't Starve video. I didn't look anything up besides NPCs, but only after I made it down to the lava deep down towards the base of the world. I didn't even have someone with the base knowledge to help me out. It took a long time to get there, but it is possible to do most of the game without the wiki. It's hard to figure out, but can be done 😊
"Push buttons until something happens" is actually *phenomenal* advice for learning technology, especially digital technology where you often have tooltips to help explain things. The amount of times I've seen people who can't learn anything because they're just terrified of pushing ANY buttons they don't understand is *painful.*
Hey, when the buttons are attached to devices that are worth more than my, admittedly cheap, car. I tend to be very careful about touching anything without instruction either.
@vulpes133 but lets be honest, devices should be made with a way for you to be almost unable to break it without a warning, like if you are using windows, you can ruin the installtion, but for you to do that you will have many alerts before you can do this. just the default windows installation will warn you many times about installing things from untrusted sources and so on.
It's the first thing I do in ANY new game. I "press ahll dehr buhttuns" to see what makes what tick. Helps me get a feel for the game's movement, offensive or aerial mechanics (if present), and just general controls. I also often go through the Options before I even click "New Game", because I wanna avail myself of what I might find useful in there too. Things like "moving Sprint to LShift or R (if there's no Reload already on R), or swapping things to thumb buttons. I may only have two thumb buttons, but having Unique Ability or Throw Grenade set to them is quite handy... handier than trying to reach for G or whatever.
@SolstaceWinters SAME! I *always* go to the options *first thing* before starting the game. Some of my friends poke fun at me for it. But I think the best way to experience a game is to make sure it's as tailored to your expectations as it will let you be before you even begin. I don't think I've ever ran with fully default settings before, I always adjust *at least* volume levels lol. It's so ingrained as a habit that if I ever design a game the very first thing I'd do after the splash screens on first boot would be bring the player to the options screen instead of the title screen.
the copper short sword is such a meme weapon. Basically point blank range and the thinnest hitbox. I always start new worlds with making a wooden sword.
the first time I played terraria I spent about 15 minutes to finally discover that you need to press esc to open the crafting menu and then craft the Workbench 😭
I mean, that feels completely fair. esc is almost always just a pause or exit menu. Inventory is usually E, I, or TAB. It's something that still gets me quite often every time I go back to play XD
@vulpes133 maybe I’m misremembering but I think back when terraria came out that esc was typical as an inventory/settings screen. And I can’t think of any examples but there’s just something in my brain that always has to try esc as an inventory menu so there’s gotta be some reason for it lol
Easy change: whenever the Guide dies, make the next one spawn even if there isn't a house available. If a new player checks his happiness, they will eventually see the lines about wanting a home and friends, which will encourage players to build houses for him and all other NPCs whose initial spawn _doesn't_ depend on having a house available (Goblin, Fisherman, Golfer, Tavernkeep, Stylist, Mechanic, etc.). Then the player might build extra houses for future-proofing and suddenly there's a Merchant, Arms Dealer, Nurse, etc. moving in. And just in case, there could be a new line added to the Guide's help dialog saying something like, "I feel like this community could grow if there were more homes available," that would have a chance to appear _only_ when the game has at least one NPC who's ready to spawn but waiting for a house.
A problem i had was my guide died really early and I didnt know how to make an npc house so the only way for me to learn what to do next is either the wiki or bash my head against the wall for hours to know what to do next.
Not for me, I have ONLY ever seen them in slime rains. Until watching this video I actually thought pinky was a slime rain exclusive! Given how life tends to work I'd bet a million bucks now the next time I boot up the game pinky spawns in 2 minutes Edit: One did not
Speaking of Travis’ assumption about trees needing water and light to grow because he saw one tree coincidentally grow by a torch, that is a psychological phenomenon called operant conditioning! A scientist named Skinner did an experiment with pigeons where he put them in individual cages with a timer-based food dispenser. Every five minutes, the food would dispense without any kind of cue other than time passing (ex: sound, light). Skinner observed that when the first food was dispensed, most of the birds tried to repeat the behavior they had been engaged in at the time of the dispensing (ex: if a bird coincidentally jumped at the same time the food would dispense, it would try jumping again to get food because it correlated the two behaviors, even though they were completely independent of one another). Interesting stuff!
Alveus Sanctuary has an ambassador cow named Winnie, and they built a feeder that twitch chat can donate to feed the animals. One day Winnie mooed right as someone donated and the feeder dispensed feed, so now when she wants feed she goes and moos at the feeder. Best part is, it works 😂
that's probably one of the most regular occurrences in games specially playing blind 😂😂 ive lost count the amount of stuff i thought it was because i did x or y and ended up being nothing like it. really interesting
This is such a fun adventure to be a part of. Thanks @Throarbin for helping me learn the ropes and have a great time. Even while I just stand still and scratch my head 😅
@xrafteryea but its the little things. I didnt know about hammering walls until post hardmode, dispite having one in my inv the whole time. The game sorta clicked for me at plantera and i started checking every shop and the wiki, years later i still learn new things
You're missing some context. "Newb", derived from "newbie", is the term you're thinking of that refers to new players. "Noob" is an intentional misspelling, because it's the internet, that refers to people who have many hours in a game but aren't any better than when they started. That, or new players who act like big shots and proceed to get demolished. It was always intended as an insult. It was still the early 2000's when the terms were coined, and over time people started using them interchangeably. It also didn't help that people started using the "noob" spelling pretty much exclusively. So instead of two different words with different spellings we have one that is contextual. It's funny, because it's backwards in relation to how it usually works. Many such insults started with a normal meaning and became insults over time. Noob was an insult from the beginning and basically overshadowed and absorbed the original word that it was derived from to the point that many don't even remember there was a different spelling for the non insult meaning.
@damoclescent69 Thinking on it, I don't think I've ever been called a noob, mainly because I don't play the kinds of games where that'd be likely to happen. I'm just interested in linguistics and old enough to have been there to watch these sorts of changes happen in real time. Slang used to take a full generation to shift. Now it's like 2 years or less.
@spiritnova42 i was born 2007, so ofcourse i didnt know origins or any of that, mainly because i never looked it up. I also don't play the massive only multiplayer games like cod or stuff that can have people call me 'noob' out of spite or anger, but i stick to small indie games like Ryse: son of rome. It's fascinating to see something like that happen, and even better when you have the full context
I mean both are the same meaning, people just use noob more in an insulting way. Same way some people might say "this guy's a complete novice he hasn't got a clue." Being bad at a game isn't something you should feel bad about, it's a video game. I don't know why you present it like that. I'm a noob at Hollow Knight and FPS games, doesn't make me feel bad if I'm playing BF6 and someone calls me a noob. It's like yeah, I am bad, they're not wrong.
@Throarbin Nono he knows, he was making a joke about how even veterans just carelessly keep bombs in their hotbar sometimes, and end up blowing stuff up for no reason. Even my brother (who has done hardcore mastermode runs and is currently doing one right now) has accidentally thrown bombs out from time to time, blowing up parts of our house. The joke was that Travis is somehow BETTER than a veteran in that one aspect LOL simply because of his great common sense.
this thought has 3 stages 1: Oh I shouldn't have these in my hotbar 2: always forgets and bombs every house on accident 3: gets so used to having em in the hotbar that a missclick never happens and you just accumulate thousands of em without noticing
I actually watched a smaller Minecraft RUclipsr named SilverThrone play the whole game without a wiki and it was really fun to watch. It was interesting to see how helpful the guide can actually be in progressing the game
I just came from binging that series. It was somehow very charming watching him trying to utilize his own initiatives and prior game knowledge to his advantage. I'd genuinely never seen someone rely on the guide so much, as he was intended to be. Though it was funny how much he overthought certain parts of the game (such as trying for hours to get Luminite before Moon Lord only to find out it drops from him)
I like how this new guy plays a lot better. Reading things, exploring menus. That’s how I play and it boggles my mind how other people just fly through all kinds of content straight out the gate of a new game, never reading anything, and then complain when they don’t know how anything works.
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826True. Terraria came from a world of games that leaves the player to play the game on their own. Unfortunately, I know people that already recoil at the thought of having to look things up just to play a game which is 100% on the game’s fault. Today’s survival crafting games now actually structure their UI and story boarding better to not even need a built in guide, only occasionally needing the Wiki - like Subnautica.
my first time playing was with my friends so i didn't really get to figure things out on my own and we also made a hellevator for some reason (and stopped playing after) so i still don't know why it's called that and what the real point is
@nicodiangelo1942 a "hellevator" is a hole to the bottom of the world, called hell. Hell has some stuff like lava, thats all i'm gonna say. Go play the game again, you really should
A "Hellevator" is a hole straight down to hell. A elevator to hell. A "Hellevator" I don't know why terraria veterans call it a Hellevator but it became so commonly used most of us don't even think at first a newbie would not know what it is so it takes us a second to remember they don't know.
making a hellevator is "minecraft knowledge" to some because there was a time in minecraft when digging straight down was the quickest way to find diamonds
4:37 dear lord the tree stump... WHY 13:54 he understood not to have explosives in his hotbar after using two bombs, in my opinion he is better than 75% of actual players
There's a Let's Player named About Oliver who tries to play games as blind as possible. I think he managed to get as far as defeating the Wall of Flesh and entering Hard Mode before giving up.
14:32 this reminds me of my first "house" in 1.0. I made a box from wooden walls. Then the night came, and zombies could phase through walls. I was terrified
I first played Terraria on mobile on the 1.1 update. I was so clueless. I remember beating Brain of Cthulhu really easily and then using the armor from it to rush Wall of Flesh because I thought that would give me even better armor and weapons to fight other bosses. I then went into hard mode with only a flesh tendon bow. And pirates spawned within a minute of Wall of Flesh dying. It took me weeks to learn about how to make hellstone in this horrid world I put myself in.
They _really_ should prevent pirates from spawning until you’ve smashed a demon altar or something because pirates spawning immediately into hardmode made me ragequit my first two master mode playthrough attempts, so I can only imagine how infuriating it would be for a new player
@SonnyVRhe maybe meant am but house robberies do happen at all times because someone could get a tip that a person is off somewhere for couple of hours, unlikely but does happen
(1:31 "wait they have a slider for these two tiny pixels"), (11:10 "I guess his path finding is too genius") got me laughing hard XD. 17:50 tbh I don't even know how tree mechanics work and I have had this game for like at least 9 years. All I think I know is that you should put saplings on flat ground and far apart from each other, then pray something grows after like an hour.
When I first played terraria it was on mobile and I remember there being a tutorial world that explained the basics up to suitable housing, I wish they still had that tutorial available because without it the game is so hard to get in to
Having watched a number of new players, I've noticed 2 main factors that determine how easy a new player has ut learning Terraria. The first is how much gaming experience they have. Do they have enough experience with other games to be able to intuitively understand the mechanics? If so, then they'll generally figure out stuff fairly quickly. If not, it's going to be a slow and possibly frustrating experience. The second is entirely dependent on how willing they are to interact with the Guide. The guide *can* give you fairly useful step by step instructions on how to proceed, but only if you figure out that you need to repeatedly click the "help" prompt. If the player likes interacting with npcs, that's a huge advantage over ones who avoid them and anything to do with reading.
i generally do not interact a lot with npcs , my biggest problem was after i made a wood house , got iron armor and sword , how can i progress in the fkin game , i just went and covered whole worlds surface lol
@ZraX6952Also I would recommend talking to the NPCs in this game in general. Some of them have unique functions. For example, the guide has the "Help" and "Crafting" options when you talk to him. Help gives a small hint about various ways you can progress in the game, just select help a couple of times to see what he has to say. For the crafting option, if you click on it, it will open up a crafting menu and you can put something into it to see all the recipes you can make with the item.
@pythonallegoryYea this was when i started playing like a year ago or so , i am not too good at terraria rn but decent enough to understand major progression last i remember i defeated wall of flesh
I love how new player is playing such a hard game like terraria without wiki or smth like that,I was that “noob” who didn’t use wiki and only guide (and I watched only 1 small video about terraria), now I have 1200 hours on terraria, my friend is also started to play, we complete game in classic and he said :”that was fun, I wanna try calamity mod, idk what is that but it’s sound fun”.. oh yea… it’s gonna be really fun…
Calamity was so much fun, what class do you play? I have around 900 hours on terraria and ive been a mage for the last couple years, been loving this game since I was little
6:07 the reason he teleported is a bug within the game with lag, when you lag, on non-laggy devices they expect you to be ahead but when it realizes, it fixes it and teleports to the actual location
20:23 Y’know, it’s weird how you can still eat mushrooms for a small bit of health recovery but can’t use fallen stars for a little mana recovery anymore, especially since it still does that animation for some reason
never seen your channel before but I bought terraria like a year ago, played for an hour and couldn't really figure out what i was missing to do the things I was trying to do and how to progress because of that and ended up giving up this video watching your friend futz around like I did and you pointing out solutions to us actually really helped and i might try and give the game another go! i tried looking up guides back then but i was already frustrated and a lot of guides are coming from the perspective of veteran players so simple little things like you showed here wouldn't really occur to them to point out thanks a lot man genuinely good content
I cant.. Watching him learning Terraria is so wholesome.. The way he talks so calmly (espacially the bunny moment at 19:47 - 20:02) and learns the things step by step.. This is so great thank you for the video!
Terraria was shown to me in 2017, on my old fire tablet by my older brother. He played with his friend and he just gave me stuff while I was there to be there. I only got good at the game when I got older and I got my own Nintendo switch. I played it for over 400 hours and finally switched to pc. I would like to say that I didn’t learn the game from playing it, but from watching videos.
A lot of these obscure UI elements (hello crafting hammer) would probably be a lot more intuitive if they would get some floating text by the mouse cursor when hovering over them. Like labeling the hammer "Grid view" or something.
19:40 Just to note, when i first played the game I instinctively pressed the hammer to view a bigger menu. I think that just is very much up to the person.
Your friend the guide and a little exploration/curiosity is all you really need, I played terraria several times without help from the wiki the experience was well worth it. I think it’s alot more rewarding/fun figuring everything on your own.
I remember that when I first played terraria I played on Classic to "Test the waters" After I got used to some of the contols and was doing very well I bumbed it up to Expert from where I did my first proper playthrough. In general that is what I'd personally reccomend doing in any new game. Start easy, get a feeling for the game and then adjust.
I did the same over both my playthroughs, especially after learning and relearning that expert has a lot of unique boss drops! My classic worlds are largely for storage now
I remember when I first played Terraria what was the main problem for me were the background walls. I knew the game beforehand, but from gameplay of midgame, so I was like "Tf you talking about, guide! I have the fucking walls" when I couldn't make the NPCs move in and I only caught on when I realized the underground houses did have something in the back intead of usual underground background and I found the recipe for dirt walls while crafting
I've wondered the same thing about minecraft, especially since it used to not have a crafting guide. It was a crazy concept to have a game built around relying on external sources to play it.
Yeah even as someone who played old old minecraft im so glad they added that in cause it was roughhhh but theres a lot LESS available to craft in Minecraft compared to terraria
Minecraft is honestly still like that to a degree. I feel like if you were a completely brand new player to Minecraft with no prior knowledge you would be stuck for awhile trying to figure out what exactly you are supposed to do at the start. I don't think it's at all intuitive to turn wood logs into planks then make a 2x2 in your small crafting grid of planks in order to make a crafting table. Granted you could say that's the part of exploring the crafting grid and in what shape you need materials to be in but I think if I had not seen tons of minecraft videos prior to playing myself I would have googled it to figure out what I'm suposed to do.
17:51 I only learned how saplings work there after reading the wiki, had near 500 hours in game by that time probably, was just planting them randomly before that
What do you mean? Like how simply placing a torch on the ground might prevent growth? You can figure that out with the smart select though, you can see that it puts a specific gap between each sapling to indicate it requires space, then you just assume it is not growing because there's a torch/mushroom/rock in the way.
@Zaikite I never really cared about them not growing though, and about the reason for that. I just planted them randomly and maybe even correctly with the help of smart cursor, and some of them grew up eventually and I was fine with that. I only noticed the gap that smart cursor does after I read the wiki...
I actually came back to this video after watching the finale, I can weirdly tell the devs had watched your videos and actually worked on those QoL on the new 1.4.5 update
18:00 funnily enough, I have learned the mechanics but have since forgotten. It's always been easier to just make a new world, load in on your character and chop down the starting forest. It's cheat-y but it's soooo efficient.
Playing Terraria blind as a kid was a hell of a ride. I didn't knew a damn about what to do, didn't knew there were any NPCs aside from Guide, and just made collecting statues my ultimate goal. And i haven't used Guide as well, because at that time i didn't knew english😂
Funnily enough, Travis actually started collecting pretty early on but stopped pretty quickly, so I didn't really mention it. He ended up being much more attached to collecting banners
@Throarbin Oh yeah, totally relatable. Every single endgame base of mine ends up filled to the brim with banners, every room, every possible surface. I don't even care about duplicates: every banner i get, i place.
When I played the first time I made it my mission to collect atleast one of every banner. I'd use duplicates to mark farming grounds, my platform for The Eye was covered in them as a warning to all I summoned that their end was near!
Fun fact I never used the wiki myself as I didn't know the terraria wiki existed, but the main version I played on was the Wii U / PS3 / 360 version of terraria, and it actually took me FOREVER to find the temple in what is very much a templeless world on the switch version So I had to go into a different world, kill WoF, kill the mechs, Kill Plantera, and go through the temple to fight golem enough to get the picksaw to mine the alter
19:40 so I've been a casual terraria player for a while now and uh, I had no idea that hammer did something because I assumed it was just a menu decoration 😅
This reminds so so much about when I was a noob in the 1.2 days, except I was so much of a noob I didn't know wiki existed, or even if you could search up stuff on the internet. I remember the thrill of figuring out how to increase my health, summon bosses, and (way to late) make housing for NPCs. It's a thing you only can experience a few percious times
Back in like 2014, I got Terraria on my Xbox One and played the crap out of it. At the time, I wasn’t allowed to use the internet. So I learned everything about the game through trial and error. It took me forever to play it. I got all the way to the point of fighting that big shark boss, but I couldn’t figure out how to summon him. I then lost my save files. I’m thinking about playing Terraria again, maybe the algorithm is trying to tell me something.
Throarbin, really hoping you see this because it might help you understand something critical: the guide flies in the face of most game design. New players don't recognize him as an important NPC in any way because they fumble about, maybe build a quick shelter if they're used to minecraft or other survival crafting games, and then he lets zombies into their house and with no safe zone, they get killed over and over. The first time I made any progress at all(which was still basically none, I've never been past the first biome's cave), it was after burying the guide because then I gathered stuff in the day, and looked at crafting lists at night.
That's an interesting experience you had but I haven't actually seen any of my friends experience anything like that. Travis for instance was never bothered by the Guide and never noticed him. In other cases the Guide died immediately and my friends could no longer use him for help. Not sure how he flies in the face of any game design either as he's essentially the built in tutorial which is not uncommon and for something as complex as Terraria, is more of less necessary.
@Throarbinas far as in-game tutorials go the guide is kinda bad. He lets you view crafting recipes and gives loose hints that require talking to him. If you're stuck, often the hint he gives you isnt the one you need at that second, IME. When i first played the game, i never got to the first boss, so the game didn't hook me, and the boss i *did* find was too hard for a pre-Eye player.
As someone who never played Minecraft, learning Terraria was a lot of work where I kept asking my little brother who played the game questions I had and occasionally checking the wiki.
Oh no worries, there will be a lot of videos about Travis. It won't be a series in the same sense as others I've done but it'll largely go through his whole experience.
I watched someone a few weeks ago who played Terraria and finished it without the help of the wiki whatsoever, just the hints given to him by the Guide and just going with the flow of the game.
I am genuinely so glad the video title wasn't "Terraria Expert Teaches Noob How to Play!" That would've pissed me off so much. Thank you for remaining humble and making this content for the purpose of having fun with a friend, along with dabbling in a little experiment. I hope you have a great day, Throarbin.
Out of everything that happened. I love that Travis almost killed Pinky before cutting down a tree. That would have been his first achievement on steam forever. To me that’s hilarious.
This is one of the most enjoyable Terraria videos I think I've ever watched! There's something magical about watching someone experience a game you love for the first time.
Im gonna use this video series and try to create a mod that fixes all the issues with new players. One thing i know for a fact i wanna do is update some tooltips to be a little more informative and make the guide invincible in pre hardmode (aside from when you have the doll equipped, throw the doll in lava, or damage the guide himself with lava)
Something about laser analyzing someone's actions like a documentary is extremely funny "trying to pick up this flower raises a good point about terraria"
I'm in my teens and was so young when I first played through Terraria that I really have no clue how long it took me to learn everything. Pretty sure it took me months to kill WoF, and I had no idea hardmode was even a thing. Unlocking the second half of the game was mindblowing
I think when you get older you just realise other peoples brains work in vastly different ways than what you'd expect at face value. Some can hop on a game and grasp everything quickly, others might immediately notice the artistic details that the former person completely missed in their analytical and logical thought process, and another might ignore the key aspects like learning/building/art, but get enthralled with the thought of finding a new shiny weapon and testing them all, maybe even simply looking up how to acquire it. We are all very different.
"Game logic" as I call it is really a language of its own. The more games you play the more you grow the intuition to pick up on the hints that work for "gamers" but may not work so good for the more casual audience or non-gamers.
@Joonixx I pick up stuff too quick as an austistic that's gamed since I was like 5 when I got a Gameboy Colour, my friends get kind of annoyed when doing co-op with me since I just know everything... or pick it up very quickly. Then again, there's some "obvious" things I've humorously missed since I didn't think outside of the box for it.
I love terraria so much and I got my boyfriend into it and now he absolutely loves the game. He was intimidated at first but I’ve been playing it for around 8 years so I was able to show him the ropes. It’s so fun to watch someone try to figure it out on their own!!
I completely agree, I have lots and lots of hours on this game and it's fun playing through with someone who doesn't. I started a calamity world with my brother recently
The friend that introduced me to this game was like your first friend left me in the dust. I was still playing blindly while he used the Wiki/RUclips heavily to progress in the game. I've always been a person who would step foot into something blindly mainly because I like the challenge and learning the game as I go.
when i first played the game MANY years ago i played without a wiki or really any prior knowledge of the game and i got very far into pre-hard mode but the wall of flesh was just an impenetrable task. At first i never even knew it existed and just assumed skeletron was the final boss and the dungeon was post game stuff (since i used molten armor etc) but then i discovered the wall of flesh on youtube and defeating it was a whole other task itself 💀
If you're looking for the new video on how the Guide makes or breaks Terraria, it will be released next week. It was a fascinating dive but in the meantime the video at the end will lead you a video about that first noob I mentioned in the beginning. He played the game entirely differently and had some very similar and very different problems.
Man I gotta appreciate the use of core keeper music. Core keeper is almost the perfect sandbox game
I think if they made him respawn similar to the old man when no npc housing is present (so he can actually explain it) then that would absolutely fix the issue with housing going unexplained, additionally if they reworked how his help function works (maybe turn it into more of a quest system where you can pick which individual hint to look at based on title??) to make it not as random that would go above and beyond fixing the issues
Ah yes please! I want to play with my kiddo but it's sooooo overwhelming!!
Plis make this to series
I remember when I first started playing Terraria and I didn't look anything up on the wiki until I looked up special seeds when I discovered from a a Don't Starve video. I didn't look anything up besides NPCs, but only after I made it down to the lava deep down towards the base of the world. I didn't even have someone with the base knowledge to help me out. It took a long time to get there, but it is possible to do most of the game without the wiki. It's hard to figure out, but can be done 😊
"Push buttons until something happens" is actually *phenomenal* advice for learning technology, especially digital technology where you often have tooltips to help explain things.
The amount of times I've seen people who can't learn anything because they're just terrified of pushing ANY buttons they don't understand is *painful.*
Hey, when the buttons are attached to devices that are worth more than my, admittedly cheap, car. I tend to be very careful about touching anything without instruction either.
@vulpes133 Idk, if a device can be broken by just pressing buttons, it either has to have warnings or it's a very shitty device
@vulpes133 but lets be honest, devices should be made with a way for you to be almost unable to break it without a warning, like if you are using windows, you can ruin the installtion, but for you to do that you will have many alerts before you can do this. just the default windows installation will warn you many times about installing things from untrusted sources and so on.
It's the first thing I do in ANY new game. I "press ahll dehr buhttuns" to see what makes what tick. Helps me get a feel for the game's movement, offensive or aerial mechanics (if present), and just general controls.
I also often go through the Options before I even click "New Game", because I wanna avail myself of what I might find useful in there too. Things like "moving Sprint to LShift or R (if there's no Reload already on R), or swapping things to thumb buttons. I may only have two thumb buttons, but having Unique Ability or Throw Grenade set to them is quite handy... handier than trying to reach for G or whatever.
@SolstaceWinters SAME! I *always* go to the options *first thing* before starting the game. Some of my friends poke fun at me for it. But I think the best way to experience a game is to make sure it's as tailored to your expectations as it will let you be before you even begin. I don't think I've ever ran with fully default settings before, I always adjust *at least* volume levels lol.
It's so ingrained as a habit that if I ever design a game the very first thing I'd do after the splash screens on first boot would be bring the player to the options screen instead of the title screen.
i have 400 hours in terraria and my fights with pinky at the beginning still look the exact same
the copper short sword is such a meme weapon. Basically point blank range and the thinnest hitbox. I always start new worlds with making a wooden sword.
like 1200 hours beat calamity infernum and me too
@Joonixx I just use the copper pick
keeps them from jumping into you
@Joonixxit's such a meme that they made it the strongest weapon in terraria
I've seen enough... give him Calamity
Calamity is insane with how many items there is, I am almost 2 weeks in and just about to fight the lunar cult
@quinn7174ngl, depending how often and for how long you play, that sounds pretty average imo
Your going to kill him 💔
You're*
@quinn7174 bro I’ve been playing regular terraria for like 4 years and I have not beaten the game and I’m post golem
the first time I played terraria I spent about 15 minutes to finally discover that you need to press esc to open the crafting menu and then craft the Workbench 😭
I mean, that feels completely fair. esc is almost always just a pause or exit menu. Inventory is usually E, I, or TAB. It's something that still gets me quite often every time I go back to play XD
English made games not following the I for Inventory rule of most games will be the death of me
@vulpes133 maybe I’m misremembering but I think back when terraria came out that esc was typical as an inventory/settings screen. And I can’t think of any examples but there’s just something in my brain that always has to try esc as an inventory menu so there’s gotta be some reason for it lol
It took me hours to know how to craft stuff and open a door lmao
@Roflmao6173 i aways hate I for games i can't reach with without moving my hand. E or tab is much beter.
I’m really glad you mentioned the old video in the intro - I thought I was going insane
Yeah, figured I might need to clarify that
lmaol yeah
@Throarbin did you delete the other video? I thought I was going crazy too.
@Mr.SimpleTDFSsorry I’m late but apparently time flies fast! That video was 5-6 months ago lol
Easy change: whenever the Guide dies, make the next one spawn even if there isn't a house available. If a new player checks his happiness, they will eventually see the lines about wanting a home and friends, which will encourage players to build houses for him and all other NPCs whose initial spawn _doesn't_ depend on having a house available (Goblin, Fisherman, Golfer, Tavernkeep, Stylist, Mechanic, etc.). Then the player might build extra houses for future-proofing and suddenly there's a Merchant, Arms Dealer, Nurse, etc. moving in. And just in case, there could be a new line added to the Guide's help dialog saying something like, "I feel like this community could grow if there were more homes available," that would have a chance to appear _only_ when the game has at least one NPC who's ready to spawn but waiting for a house.
The game used to say “*NPC name* would like to settle down.” Idk why they removed it
They are allowing NPCs to spawn in your world in 1.4.5 without valid housing
A problem i had was my guide died really early and I didnt know how to make an npc house so the only way for me to learn what to do next is either the wiki or bash my head against the wall for hours to know what to do next.
Not nearly as friendly as I’d like it to be. I have a few friends who are too afraid to learn bc of how much content the game has.
My very first Terraria playthrough was Calamity. I think your friends will be fine with the vanilla game.
@xVDRxayyoooo
How was it?
@xVDRx LMAO
They probably just aren’t interested at all. It’s not that hard to learn if you seek it out. Especially if you can help them.
@fathernature6880 It's still pretty difficult because seeking it out and knowing _what_ to seek out are very different things.
pinky is a rare enemy but every new player i´ve seen always gets one pinky within the first half hour of them playing this game
me included
Not for me, I have ONLY ever seen them in slime rains. Until watching this video I actually thought pinky was a slime rain exclusive! Given how life tends to work I'd bet a million bucks now the next time I boot up the game pinky spawns in 2 minutes
Edit: One did not
Speaking of Travis’ assumption about trees needing water and light to grow because he saw one tree coincidentally grow by a torch, that is a psychological phenomenon called operant conditioning! A scientist named Skinner did an experiment with pigeons where he put them in individual cages with a timer-based food dispenser. Every five minutes, the food would dispense without any kind of cue other than time passing (ex: sound, light). Skinner observed that when the first food was dispensed, most of the birds tried to repeat the behavior they had been engaged in at the time of the dispensing (ex: if a bird coincidentally jumped at the same time the food would dispense, it would try jumping again to get food because it correlated the two behaviors, even though they were completely independent of one another). Interesting stuff!
Thank you for this fun fact :)
Makes sense.
moral of the story: Travis is secretly a pigeon
Alveus Sanctuary has an ambassador cow named Winnie, and they built a feeder that twitch chat can donate to feed the animals. One day Winnie mooed right as someone donated and the feeder dispensed feed, so now when she wants feed she goes and moos at the feeder. Best part is, it works 😂
that's probably one of the most regular occurrences in games specially playing blind 😂😂
ive lost count the amount of stuff i thought it was because i did x or y and ended up being nothing like it. really interesting
Really happy you're trying this again with a "dont play offscreen" rule, thank you!
This is such a fun adventure to be a part of. Thanks @Throarbin for helping me learn the ropes and have a great time. Even while I just stand still and scratch my head 😅
Pst if you are travis in the video, then walls can be broken with a hammer. Have a nice day.
If you are Travis then you are fucking perfect. You are too cute to be real, I want to see more
@xrafterno spoilers. Id even argue he shouldnt be watching this
@livingalife8879
Technically, he already learned how to use a hammer before this video was released. So, no spoilers!
@xrafteryea but its the little things. I didnt know about hammering walls until post hardmode, dispite having one in my inv the whole time.
The game sorta clicked for me at plantera and i started checking every shop and the wiki, years later i still learn new things
i really hate how the term 'noob' is stuck to 'bad at the game' instead of 'new player' as it was initially intended. Thank you for using it right
You're missing some context.
"Newb", derived from "newbie", is the term you're thinking of that refers to new players.
"Noob" is an intentional misspelling, because it's the internet, that refers to people who have many hours in a game but aren't any better than when they started. That, or new players who act like big shots and proceed to get demolished. It was always intended as an insult.
It was still the early 2000's when the terms were coined, and over time people started using them interchangeably. It also didn't help that people started using the "noob" spelling pretty much exclusively. So instead of two different words with different spellings we have one that is contextual.
It's funny, because it's backwards in relation to how it usually works. Many such insults started with a normal meaning and became insults over time. Noob was an insult from the beginning and basically overshadowed and absorbed the original word that it was derived from to the point that many don't even remember there was a different spelling for the non insult meaning.
@spiritnova42 damn. bro was called noob 1 too many times i guess
@damoclescent69 Thinking on it, I don't think I've ever been called a noob, mainly because I don't play the kinds of games where that'd be likely to happen. I'm just interested in linguistics and old enough to have been there to watch these sorts of changes happen in real time.
Slang used to take a full generation to shift. Now it's like 2 years or less.
@spiritnova42 i was born 2007, so ofcourse i didnt know origins or any of that, mainly because i never looked it up. I also don't play the massive only multiplayer games like cod or stuff that can have people call me 'noob' out of spite or anger, but i stick to small indie games like Ryse: son of rome.
It's fascinating to see something like that happen, and even better when you have the full context
I mean both are the same meaning, people just use noob more in an insulting way. Same way some people might say "this guy's a complete novice he hasn't got a clue."
Being bad at a game isn't something you should feel bad about, it's a video game. I don't know why you present it like that. I'm a noob at Hollow Knight and FPS games, doesn't make me feel bad if I'm playing BF6 and someone calls me a noob. It's like yeah, I am bad, they're not wrong.
4:30 You should have gone into hardcore purposely died, and spectated him as a ghost
But then once leaving, he won't be able to rejoin! Or... host it? Uhhh.the character world be erased. There.
7:50 uh... REAL LIFE MAYBE?!?! 😭
"I should take these (bombs) out of my hotbar"
You'd think this is a normal thought for veterans on the game
Travis...is not a veteran...that's kinda of the point of the video........
@Throarbin Nono he knows, he was making a joke about how even veterans just carelessly keep bombs in their hotbar sometimes, and end up blowing stuff up for no reason. Even my brother (who has done hardcore mastermode runs and is currently doing one right now) has accidentally thrown bombs out from time to time, blowing up parts of our house. The joke was that Travis is somehow BETTER than a veteran in that one aspect LOL simply because of his great common sense.
@Throarbin yo you totally misunderstood the comment like a fool, even other similar comments have been made
this thought has 3 stages
1: Oh I shouldn't have these in my hotbar
2: always forgets and bombs every house on accident
3: gets so used to having em in the hotbar that a missclick never happens and you just accumulate thousands of em without noticing
@deeeeniiiiss I'm number 3, you just get so used to avoiding them😅
I actually watched a smaller Minecraft RUclipsr named SilverThrone play the whole game without a wiki and it was really fun to watch. It was interesting to see how helpful the guide can actually be in progressing the game
I just came from binging that series. It was somehow very charming watching him trying to utilize his own initiatives and prior game knowledge to his advantage. I'd genuinely never seen someone rely on the guide so much, as he was intended to be. Though it was funny how much he overthought certain parts of the game (such as trying for hours to get Luminite before Moon Lord only to find out it drops from him)
"You want the moon?! [...]"
that whole saga where he was trying to figure out what the guide's martian invasion hint was ✌️😭
@saddampcanine 'You want the moon? Just grapple it and pull it down!'
I remember watching Captain Sparkles. That was also a lot of fun.
I like how this new guy plays a lot better. Reading things, exploring menus. That’s how I play and it boggles my mind how other people just fly through all kinds of content straight out the gate of a new game, never reading anything, and then complain when they don’t know how anything works.
This is actually quite good content that would likely be helpful to game developers
Agreed. Knowing how people learn (especially in your target demographic) is crucial to making a good game.
@hauntedshadowslegacy2826True. Terraria came from a world of games that leaves the player to play the game on their own. Unfortunately, I know people that already recoil at the thought of having to look things up just to play a game which is 100% on the game’s fault. Today’s survival crafting games now actually structure their UI and story boarding better to not even need a built in guide, only occasionally needing the Wiki - like Subnautica.
I appreciate a player who can let a new player learn and just observe. Maybe even elevate the fun.
My kind of gamer
I play sometimes with my friend, he instructed me to make a “hellevator”, like I was supposed to know inherently what tf that was
my first time playing was with my friends so i didn't really get to figure things out on my own and we also made a hellevator for some reason (and stopped playing after) so i still don't know why it's called that and what the real point is
@nicodiangelo1942 a "hellevator" is a hole to the bottom of the world, called hell. Hell has some stuff like lava, thats all i'm gonna say. Go play the game again, you really should
@nicodiangelo1942 a hellevator is a tunnel that usually has a rope so you have an easy access to hell and caverns.
A "Hellevator" is a hole straight down to hell. A elevator to hell. A "Hellevator"
I don't know why terraria veterans call it a Hellevator but it became so commonly used most of us don't even think at first a newbie would not know what it is so it takes us a second to remember they don't know.
making a hellevator is "minecraft knowledge" to some because there was a time in minecraft when digging straight down was the quickest way to find diamonds
7:44 have you ever heard of real life
21:15 the Guide totally didn't wonder off to the bottom of some random cave at the start of my first ever playthrough
Killing Pinky with Short Copper Sword is wild, I dont even rememeber the last time i played in classic or without Calamity
4:37 dear lord the tree stump...
WHY
13:54 he understood not to have explosives in his hotbar after using two bombs, in my opinion he is better than 75% of actual players
Can the tree regrow somehow or is he a bozo
@vincent-p4l not a bozo, since new player stuff, but it does not regrow like that
There's a Let's Player named About Oliver who tries to play games as blind as possible. I think he managed to get as far as defeating the Wall of Flesh and entering Hard Mode before giving up.
14:32 this reminds me of my first "house" in 1.0. I made a box from wooden walls. Then the night came, and zombies could phase through walls. I was terrified
Me too
I still remember my first house in 1.2. I found a tunnel going through a hill, and built my home right there in the middle of the tunnel.
18:38 used a bomb, to fix a bomb
I first played Terraria on mobile on the 1.1 update. I was so clueless. I remember beating Brain of Cthulhu really easily and then using the armor from it to rush Wall of Flesh because I thought that would give me even better armor and weapons to fight other bosses. I then went into hard mode with only a flesh tendon bow. And pirates spawned within a minute of Wall of Flesh dying. It took me weeks to learn about how to make hellstone in this horrid world I put myself in.
If I remember correctly the Brain of Cthulu and Crimson were added in 1.3.
@JustAddMuffins We're both wrong. It was 1.2.
They _really_ should prevent pirates from spawning until you’ve smashed a demon altar or something because pirates spawning immediately into hardmode made me ragequit my first two master mode playthrough attempts, so I can only imagine how infuriating it would be for a new player
2:40 I would also note that having Journey mode in the difficulty row will probably confuse the hell out of all Minecraft players
0:51 dude it's 12pm and I thought someone just broke into my house or something
SAME WTF
Who breaks into a house in the middle of the day 😭
@SonnyVRhe maybe meant am but house robberies do happen at all times because someone could get a tip that a person is off somewhere for couple of hours, unlikely but does happen
15:03 Bro i just started terraria, have 12 hours and didnt even know you needed a hammer to break the walls, I just thought they were invinsible 😭
I love Travis, he would never die to a deadman’s chest immediately after slandering them
(1:31 "wait they have a slider for these two tiny pixels"), (11:10 "I guess his path finding is too genius") got me laughing hard XD.
17:50 tbh I don't even know how tree mechanics work and I have had this game for like at least 9 years. All I think I know is that you should put saplings on flat ground and far apart from each other, then pray something grows after like an hour.
"you played on your own?" "yes this game is super fun" "we are no longer friends" xD
When I first played terraria it was on mobile and I remember there being a tutorial world that explained the basics up to suitable housing, I wish they still had that tutorial available because without it the game is so hard to get in to
Having watched a number of new players, I've noticed 2 main factors that determine how easy a new player has ut learning Terraria.
The first is how much gaming experience they have. Do they have enough experience with other games to be able to intuitively understand the mechanics? If so, then they'll generally figure out stuff fairly quickly. If not, it's going to be a slow and possibly frustrating experience.
The second is entirely dependent on how willing they are to interact with the Guide. The guide *can* give you fairly useful step by step instructions on how to proceed, but only if you figure out that you need to repeatedly click the "help" prompt. If the player likes interacting with npcs, that's a huge advantage over ones who avoid them and anything to do with reading.
i generally do not interact a lot with npcs , my biggest problem was after i made a wood house , got iron armor and sword , how can i progress in the fkin game , i just went and covered whole worlds surface lol
@ZraX6952 A month late, but have you explored underground and found life crystals?
@ZraX6952Also I would recommend talking to the NPCs in this game in general. Some of them have unique functions. For example, the guide has the "Help" and "Crafting" options when you talk to him. Help gives a small hint about various ways you can progress in the game, just select help a couple of times to see what he has to say. For the crafting option, if you click on it, it will open up a crafting menu and you can put something into it to see all the recipes you can make with the item.
@pythonallegoryYea this was when i started playing like a year ago or so , i am not too good at terraria rn but decent enough to understand major progression last i remember i defeated wall of flesh
I love how new player is playing such a hard game like terraria without wiki or smth like that,I was that “noob” who didn’t use wiki and only guide (and I watched only 1 small video about terraria), now I have 1200 hours on terraria, my friend is also started to play, we complete game in classic and he said :”that was fun, I wanna try calamity mod, idk what is that but it’s sound fun”.. oh yea… it’s gonna be really fun…
Calamity was so much fun, what class do you play? I have around 900 hours on terraria and ive been a mage for the last couple years, been loving this game since I was little
6:07 the reason he teleported is a bug within the game with lag, when you lag, on non-laggy devices they expect you to be ahead but when it realizes, it fixes it and teleports to the actual location
20:23 Y’know, it’s weird how you can still eat mushrooms for a small bit of health recovery but can’t use fallen stars for a little mana recovery anymore, especially since it still does that animation for some reason
I didn't know about that hammer till this video, rip.
7:29 Yeah I wonder why he thinks cobwebs indicate spiders… could it be that spiders create webs in real life?
never seen your channel before but I bought terraria like a year ago, played for an hour and couldn't really figure out what i was missing to do the things I was trying to do and how to progress because of that and ended up giving up
this video watching your friend futz around like I did and you pointing out solutions to us actually really helped and i might try and give the game another go! i tried looking up guides back then but i was already frustrated and a lot of guides are coming from the perspective of veteran players so simple little things like you showed here wouldn't really occur to them to point out
thanks a lot man genuinely good content
What a wholesome guy
I cant.. Watching him learning Terraria is so wholesome.. The way he talks so calmly (espacially the bunny moment at 19:47 - 20:02) and learns the things step by step.. This is so great thank you for the video!
I miss the moments of introducing Terraria to my siblings. Thank you for capturing this moment
20:05 the 5 birbs from one tree 😅
I love how expressive he is in everything that he does. My guy has the personality to be a great streamer.
Terraria was shown to me in 2017, on my old fire tablet by my older brother. He played with his friend and he just gave me stuff while I was there to be there. I only got good at the game when I got older and I got my own Nintendo switch. I played it for over 400 hours and finally switched to pc. I would like to say that I didn’t learn the game from playing it, but from watching videos.
A lot of these obscure UI elements (hello crafting hammer) would probably be a lot more intuitive if they would get some floating text by the mouse cursor when hovering over them. Like labeling the hammer "Grid view" or something.
please make this a series, this guy's energy fixes me
19:40 Just to note, when i first played the game I instinctively pressed the hammer to view a bigger menu. I think that just is very much up to the person.
Terraria is such a good game. I spent 40 hours on one world with my friend, we never got bored and the best weapon we got was ice blade
I was today years old when i found out that toilet thing
Him not cutting the bottom block of every tree drove me insane at 5:00 😂😂😂
Your friend the guide and a little exploration/curiosity is all you really need, I played terraria several times without help from the wiki the experience was well worth it. I think it’s alot more rewarding/fun figuring everything on your own.
I remember my first experience with Terraria, I was struggling for like 10 hours of gameplay just to understand basic mechanics and how to progress.
Travis is so full of joy and whimsy, I enjoy this
I like travis :D
16:47 that is HIS tree yipyy!!
I remember that when I first played terraria I played on Classic to "Test the waters"
After I got used to some of the contols and was doing very well I bumbed it up to Expert from where I did my first proper playthrough.
In general that is what I'd personally reccomend doing in any new game. Start easy, get a feeling for the game and then adjust.
I did the same over both my playthroughs, especially after learning and relearning that expert has a lot of unique boss drops! My classic worlds are largely for storage now
I remember when I first played Terraria what was the main problem for me were the background walls. I knew the game beforehand, but from gameplay of midgame, so I was like "Tf you talking about, guide! I have the fucking walls" when I couldn't make the NPCs move in and I only caught on when I realized the underground houses did have something in the back intead of usual underground background and I found the recipe for dirt walls while crafting
I've wondered the same thing about minecraft, especially since it used to not have a crafting guide. It was a crazy concept to have a game built around relying on external sources to play it.
Minecraft does have one to some extent, at least in the crafting table there should be that left menu which prompts items to auto build
@Tratttthat used to not exist
That's a very new addition, for more than half of its lifespan, that menu did not exist @Trattt
Yeah even as someone who played old old minecraft im so glad they added that in cause it was roughhhh but theres a lot LESS available to craft in Minecraft compared to terraria
Minecraft is honestly still like that to a degree. I feel like if you were a completely brand new player to Minecraft with no prior knowledge you would be stuck for awhile trying to figure out what exactly you are supposed to do at the start. I don't think it's at all intuitive to turn wood logs into planks then make a 2x2 in your small crafting grid of planks in order to make a crafting table. Granted you could say that's the part of exploring the crafting grid and in what shape you need materials to be in but I think if I had not seen tons of minecraft videos prior to playing myself I would have googled it to figure out what I'm suposed to do.
2:00 cant you just hover over it to see its description?
17:51 I only learned how saplings work there after reading the wiki, had near 500 hours in game by that time probably, was just planting them randomly before that
What do you mean? Like how simply placing a torch on the ground might prevent growth? You can figure that out with the smart select though, you can see that it puts a specific gap between each sapling to indicate it requires space, then you just assume it is not growing because there's a torch/mushroom/rock in the way.
@Zaikite I never really cared about them not growing though, and about the reason for that.
I just planted them randomly and maybe even correctly with the help of smart cursor, and some of them grew up eventually and I was fine with that.
I only noticed the gap that smart cursor does after I read the wiki...
I actually came back to this video after watching the finale, I can weirdly tell the devs had watched your videos and actually worked on those QoL on the new 1.4.5 update
As someone who started playing terraria like a week ago and going in completely blind there is so much that is obscure
That is what's great, not looking up makes you feel accomplished going "that's a thing!?" over and over.
18:00 funnily enough, I have learned the mechanics but have since forgotten. It's always been easier to just make a new world, load in on your character and chop down the starting forest. It's cheat-y but it's soooo efficient.
7:57 its becuase in real life spider make webs
Playing Terraria blind as a kid was a hell of a ride. I didn't knew a damn about what to do, didn't knew there were any NPCs aside from Guide, and just made collecting statues my ultimate goal.
And i haven't used Guide as well, because at that time i didn't knew english😂
Funnily enough, Travis actually started collecting pretty early on but stopped pretty quickly, so I didn't really mention it. He ended up being much more attached to collecting banners
@Throarbin Oh yeah, totally relatable. Every single endgame base of mine ends up filled to the brim with banners, every room, every possible surface. I don't even care about duplicates: every banner i get, i place.
When I played the first time I made it my mission to collect atleast one of every banner. I'd use duplicates to mark farming grounds, my platform for The Eye was covered in them as a warning to all I summoned that their end was near!
Fun fact I never used the wiki myself as I didn't know the terraria wiki existed, but the main version I played on was the Wii U / PS3 / 360 version of terraria, and it actually took me FOREVER to find the temple in what is very much a templeless world on the switch version
So I had to go into a different world, kill WoF, kill the mechs, Kill Plantera, and go through the temple to fight golem enough to get the picksaw to mine the alter
19:40 so I've been a casual terraria player for a while now and uh, I had no idea that hammer did something because I assumed it was just a menu decoration 😅
Same lol, for 6 years to😂
This reminds so so much about when I was a noob in the 1.2 days, except I was so much of a noob I didn't know wiki existed, or even if you could search up stuff on the internet. I remember the thrill of figuring out how to increase my health, summon bosses, and (way to late) make housing for NPCs. It's a thing you only can experience a few percious times
Back in like 2014, I got Terraria on my Xbox One and played the crap out of it. At the time, I wasn’t allowed to use the internet. So I learned everything about the game through trial and error. It took me forever to play it. I got all the way to the point of fighting that big shark boss, but I couldn’t figure out how to summon him. I then lost my save files. I’m thinking about playing Terraria again, maybe the algorithm is trying to tell me something.
Your friend found Pinky immediately. I got a friend of mine to try Terraria too, he also found Pinky immediately... AND GOT A SLIME STAFF
Throarbin, really hoping you see this because it might help you understand something critical: the guide flies in the face of most game design. New players don't recognize him as an important NPC in any way because they fumble about, maybe build a quick shelter if they're used to minecraft or other survival crafting games, and then he lets zombies into their house and with no safe zone, they get killed over and over.
The first time I made any progress at all(which was still basically none, I've never been past the first biome's cave), it was after burying the guide because then I gathered stuff in the day, and looked at crafting lists at night.
That's an interesting experience you had but I haven't actually seen any of my friends experience anything like that. Travis for instance was never bothered by the Guide and never noticed him. In other cases the Guide died immediately and my friends could no longer use him for help. Not sure how he flies in the face of any game design either as he's essentially the built in tutorial which is not uncommon and for something as complex as Terraria, is more of less necessary.
@Throarbin But he will. It took me under 1 minute into a new world's first night to catch video. ruclips.net/video/Rfgy6ZM1X6U/video.html
@Throarbinas far as in-game tutorials go the guide is kinda bad. He lets you view crafting recipes and gives loose hints that require talking to him. If you're stuck, often the hint he gives you isnt the one you need at that second, IME. When i first played the game, i never got to the first boss, so the game didn't hook me, and the boss i *did* find was too hard for a pre-Eye player.
Guys, Olivier is the perfect example of how a player can beat terraria without ANY outside help - a complete blind playthrough
Would love to see more of this series if both of you are up for it, Travis was a lot of fun to watch and this type of series is really cool imo
I have played terraria for over 200 hour and did not know about the little hammer.
As someone who never played Minecraft, learning Terraria was a lot of work where I kept asking my little brother who played the game questions I had and occasionally checking the wiki.
19:45
I actually figured it out by accident, my phone slipped and I clicked on the hammer by accident
I love seeing this game from a new perspective. Hope this becomes a series.
Oh no worries, there will be a lot of videos about Travis. It won't be a series in the same sense as others I've done but it'll largely go through his whole experience.
Travis truly is a star
I love this guy's voice, he sounds so friendly!
I watched someone a few weeks ago who played Terraria and finished it without the help of the wiki whatsoever, just the hints given to him by the Guide and just going with the flow of the game.
I am genuinely so glad the video title wasn't "Terraria Expert Teaches Noob How to Play!" That would've pissed me off so much. Thank you for remaining humble and making this content for the purpose of having fun with a friend, along with dabbling in a little experiment. I hope you have a great day, Throarbin.
Out of everything that happened. I love that Travis almost killed Pinky before cutting down a tree. That would have been his first achievement on steam forever. To me that’s hilarious.
I am impressed at your ability to be a passive observer because I would have already complained about leaving tree stumps 5 minutes in
This is one of the most enjoyable Terraria videos I think I've ever watched! There's something magical about watching someone experience a game you love for the first time.
Im gonna use this video series and try to create a mod that fixes all the issues with new players.
One thing i know for a fact i wanna do is update some tooltips to be a little more informative and make the guide invincible in pre hardmode (aside from when you have the doll equipped, throw the doll in lava, or damage the guide himself with lava)
Let me know when it's finished!
Something about laser analyzing someone's actions like a documentary is extremely funny "trying to pick up this flower raises a good point about terraria"
Doors, player wide gaps, flattening terrain, not knowing how crafting works... i had the exact same experience
I'm in my teens and was so young when I first played through Terraria that I really have no clue how long it took me to learn everything. Pretty sure it took me months to kill WoF, and I had no idea hardmode was even a thing. Unlocking the second half of the game was mindblowing
The guide taught me so much.
I think when you get older you just realise other peoples brains work in vastly different ways than what you'd expect at face value.
Some can hop on a game and grasp everything quickly, others might immediately notice the artistic details that the former person completely missed in their analytical and logical thought process, and another might ignore the key aspects like learning/building/art, but get enthralled with the thought of finding a new shiny weapon and testing them all, maybe even simply looking up how to acquire it. We are all very different.
"Game logic" as I call it is really a language of its own. The more games you play the more you grow the intuition to pick up on the hints that work for "gamers" but may not work so good for the more casual audience or non-gamers.
@Joonixx I pick up stuff too quick as an austistic that's gamed since I was like 5 when I got a Gameboy Colour, my friends get kind of annoyed when doing co-op with me since I just know everything... or pick it up very quickly. Then again, there's some "obvious" things I've humorously missed since I didn't think outside of the box for it.
removing 3 difficulties & only having Journey would change nothing, Journey all the way
I love terraria so much and I got my boyfriend into it and now he absolutely loves the game. He was intimidated at first but I’ve been playing it for around 8 years so I was able to show him the ropes. It’s so fun to watch someone try to figure it out on their own!!
I'm doing the same thing
I completely agree, I have lots and lots of hours on this game and it's fun playing through with someone who doesn't. I started a calamity world with my brother recently
The friend that introduced me to this game was like your first friend left me in the dust. I was still playing blindly while he used the Wiki/RUclips heavily to progress in the game. I've always been a person who would step foot into something blindly mainly because I like the challenge and learning the game as I go.
0:50 the way the guy was just boxing the pinkie is hillarious
when i first played the game MANY years ago i played without a wiki or really any prior knowledge of the game and i got very far into pre-hard mode but the wall of flesh was just an impenetrable task. At first i never even knew it existed and just assumed skeletron was the final boss and the dungeon was post game stuff (since i used molten armor etc) but then i discovered the wall of flesh on youtube and defeating it was a whole other task itself 💀
Player: "Hey. I'm new to the game and I don't know what's going on"
Terraria: *takes drag* "Send pinky"
PEAK, i found your chanel from the original vid and literaly watch you every day
Thank you :)