My first attempt at terraria wiring was a blood moon lockdown button that barred the entrances to my prison base, and cycled lava on over it to keep mobs away. Now I just build my bases like 10 tiles off the ground. Keeps mobs and wraiths out.
I misread the title as saying "The Potential of Terraria's Writing" and was expecting a completely different video, but I can't say I'm disappointed. I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm interested already.
Wiring is fun as heck and can actually be used for a lot of practical applications like mob switches, faster farms, boss cheese machines/ invincibility machines. Love the video and keep wiring dude!
building in terraria in general is so underrated, the shapes are limited but you have so much more color and texture compared to minecraft this makes building more constrained but it also makes it fun and challenging
Have you looked into T-Mec? They’re a dead terraria group that seriously broke barriers with wiring, computers, auto boss fights, clocks, airlocks etc. very cool stuff.
You can use paint to help hide switches, buttons, and teleporters too. I like to make doors that look like old games you have to press "up" on to go through, to take players to a new room. On xbox, I would set up for example a wall, paint it black and put a nice looking little door frame to it, when player would teleport, it would take them somewhere in the house, (normally a room I have set somewhere underground, with surrounding area painted black to look like a single room like a bathroom). Or if I want to make a world feel 3D or flipped, I will do the same thing, and have you instead go to a duplicate of the house mirrored to look like you went to the otherside. Painting is a powerful tool for engineering. Either way, you did some cool stuff, and I hope it inspires other players to take a bit of time to learn and play with it.
I spent like 3 platinum on wire once to run a teleporter from base to the dungeon in the first play through with my kids, as we were all having a hard time with the cultists and needed that nurse heal, not the most practical but hey, nurse stayed safe
It's not that you can't make stuff with potential, but the more complicated it is the worse the game's engine handles it. For instance for each wire you put down the engine checks all 4 possible connection points it has. In other words, instead of them making a secondary array that verified where the wire was connected to (in the initial wire placing array) it just checks all the possible spots EVERY time it refreshes the clock - that makes it do 4 times more work for each single wire you place. 1 wire =x4 2,x8 3,x16 4,x32 5,x64 6,x128 7,x256, 8,x512 9,x1024 10,x2048, 11,x4096 12,x8192. After only 16 wires it's doing 131,072 extra calculations per cycle. After only 19, it's 1,048,576. After 29 it breaks over 1 BILLION USELESS OPERATIONS (1,073,741,824 to be exact) when if they'd written the engine mathematically it would use just 58 to do the same function. Yes the game does do a great job handling all that extra crap it's doing, well- but the point is it shouldn't need to- especially with how long the game's been out. (as an example Starbound's wiring system handles it properly. That said starbound's base game performance itself could be improved a good bit. That- terraria actually does well) If you had actually bothered to watch From Scratch's vid you'd know that, & also about the mod he wrote that eliminates that issue all together. (As reported by ThePrimeTime, From Scratch also got 3 real world job offers because of it.) Sounds to me like what he made in terraria has more potential than anything you've ever done- in both terraria & RL.
The airlock was actually super sick and just gave me an idea for a build, one recommendation i would make tho (and I’m gonna apply) is using grates under where the airlock is so water doesn’t fill the base bit by bit, make the water go under the airlock room so it stays dry
That "activate plantera with wiring" is useful in hardcore, so that you don't risk your life gettng chased to your arena or making a new one every time you want to fight her
I usually use wiring to make an area off to the side of main base where no enemies can spawn, but I can flip various levers and switches to essentially turn on mob spawns on one side or the other (or both, which is default, when I'm not using it). And when the mobs DO spawn, they are led into a nice little lava-layer trap, so it's also a mob farm. Can't quite AFK Solar Eclipses once Mothron can spawn, and if I do it wrong Wraiths can get in. But it works for my purposes. And if ever I don't feel like dealing with the blood moon enemies, I can just 'turn off' spawns, and wait it out. Though... That part isn't as necessary, now that Sundials and Moonsdials are a thing, and reset when either of those events kicks in.
first the snow gear vid, then enemy ai and now this im so glad youtube algorithm has been blessing your channel and keeps you on my feed, throughly earned a sub, hope to see you grow definitely deserve it :)
The bug diff between terraria and minecraft is there is a clear end to every terraria world where minecraft is a sandbox with optional quests. In minecraft it can be tedious and sometimes hard to get certain materials so farms are nessesary to get massive amounts of things like iron. If you’re a builder you might need chests on chests of materials! In terraria farms are mostly targeted to progression so mob farms and if you build traps for bosses people consider that cheating the game and the experience which I would agree with even though those insta kill boss traps are sick! Also with terraria being a 2D game the complexity of farms is limited since most pathing and spawning is simply around the player. To go back to building when you reach end game there are tools available that allow you to collect materials extremely quickly and most people don’t need a lot of materials when building and even then there aren’t many farms to get unique nice looking building materials. If there was a way to automate tree planting then you could make a tree farm but that’s not the focus of terraria so they never added that feature. What they do have is cool and you can do awesome stuff with it but I don’t think there will be a time where people are making contraptions to farm building blocks.
I was going to comment something along the lines of "Terarria can make more computers easier but not much else, and Minecraft's can actually be useful" but like... these are actually SICK I may or may not build the Human Extractinator for my next calamity playthrough because being able to have on demand nurse anywhere in an arena is great
The more spaced out the hoiks are, they faster they'll travel, so I don't know if you could have spaced them out more, but it would be more efficient if you could
With the item elevator you can make it a lot simpler, you don’t have to actuate the whole thing with all the half and half switching. All you need to do is actuate the blocks the items run into, once they are in the hoik blocks they’ll travel up on their own, no need for actuators etc
A little trick, but the logic lamps can be used as one way gates. You can use an and gate woth 2 logic lamps on top. The bottom one is a buffer, and the top one causes the lamp to send a pulse when it is toggled
Cool vid! Will you make another part where you use logic gates for a password lock? Not very useful, but so is every other contraption except traps and teleporters, also actiovators for jungle farm. I think terrarians build less wirings that minecrafters redstone builds because they are pointless. Block farm are non-existent as we cannot break blocks with wiring, and underwater bases can just use bubble blocks. the fountain is dope though
Still not completely pointless though. You can break the block beneath and like that you can farm mushrooms/life fruit. It's just difficult and not everyone wants to build an automatic farm so they can get 600 mushrooms a day they will probably just end up dumping in chests anyway.
I know this video is a bit old, but I kind of did the same with hallowed stone in a farm with a 5 second timer and actuators just to farm crystal shards and gelatin crystals. Though had no idea that you could make a vertical elevator. I just had the conveyors move stuff to my safety box that I'd go to once in awhile.
When I used to play the xbox 360 version of terraria, I tried moving water from the ocean to spawn, and it crashed my game. I think that was my last time using wiring to this day.
one time i came up with a concept for a moon lord farm. first it brings you to the lunatic cultist where it will automatically summon the cultist and then automatically kill it without you dying. Then it brings you to the towers and somehow does something to make sure you dont die. not sure how to do that. after all that, moon lord spawns and you automatically kill it. super hard farm to make, and im not even sure if it is possible.
ik im late but that human extractinator is a life saver! it saves me from having to waste 10 minutes building a house and putting the nurse in the house! well it doesnt save me time but it saves me trouble of having to build an overly complicated house.. wait..
@@wildlmao he replies?! respect bro and also love the editing on ur videos i play terraria and i love that u make the borderline torturous things like fishing and building hoik conveyors go by in an instant it definitely keeps my interest. cheers
Discord : discord.gg/rYytmQuSMN 👾 I wanna do some sort of community event sometime soon ish also always done for video ideas
The potential of your channel 🤤
i came
You can right click on a 1 second item or any timer and it’ll automatically activate and stay on. 4:00
Love it dude great job
I think echo coating can be used on tellaporters so that could make the pipes look better
Ohhh I never thought of that yeah
@@wildlmaobtw the water fountain too
Good job to YT recommendations for recommending this masterpiece only 11 minutes after launch
Yeah
Except 22 minutes
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@@aaaaaaaaaaa.a I didn't write the comment immediately
@@Noncropiant ik
The life fruit farm is impressive but the real gem is the working airlock
The lack of summoner gear for a build in the jungle is true pain
Snapthorn and summoning potions
Also feral claws
@@lipqwe_1he is saying he should've equipped summoner things so he didn't have to worry about fighting every enemy
Not me literally yesterday spamming sunflowers and peace candles inside a beehive in order to build and arena
@@Rztro1544
Use the calming potion too for 67% less enemies!
As funny as that bit was, after rewatching I realized you had 2 queen statues... darn I thought the zooligist was getting spicy.
Did I?? I think it was a male one
@@wildlmaoyea thats definitely another queen statue
but the side points on the crown are 1 pixel wider
zoologist with a joystick 😍😻
Yeah they’re two queen statues I was gonna comment this lol
instead of using darts you can just use an AND logic gate with one lamp
now does it work
...Did anyone else misread the title as "Writing" and thought this was gonna be about the lore LMAO
I thought it was just me lol
The npc extractinator could be useful for name cycling npcs
My first attempt at terraria wiring was a blood moon lockdown button that barred the entrances to my prison base, and cycled lava on over it to keep mobs away.
Now I just build my bases like 10 tiles off the ground. Keeps mobs and wraiths out.
I misread the title as saying "The Potential of Terraria's Writing" and was expecting a completely different video, but I can't say I'm disappointed. I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm interested already.
lmao me too
Lol me to
Same
Me too
We're in the Dyselxia club together
Wiring is fun as heck and can actually be used for a lot of practical applications like mob switches, faster farms, boss cheese machines/ invincibility machines. Love the video and keep wiring dude!
And could be more fun with freinds
2:23 Don't worry my guy....you accidently placed 2 queen statues
You could've used echo coating on the teleporters
My favorite part of the Bible was when Adam stepped into a weird green pipe and got shredded to cheese by a giant flying skull
Same
The jungle farm working was unbelievable. I'll never look at this game the same way again.
That Spongebob "Hi, how are ya?" killed me.
Redstone has on/off states. The wiring in Terraria is essentially just a pulse when activated. Contraptions are easier when you can hold a charge.
Bro the jungle becoming a graveyard in after a jump cut killed me
My man just built a filtration camp in Terraria what the actual f
1943 be like:
the thumbnail on this looks AMAZING I love it so much :D
Front-facing mechanic isnt real she cant hurt you. front-facing mechanic:
building in terraria in general is so underrated, the shapes are limited but you have so much more color and texture compared to minecraft
this makes building more constrained but it also makes it fun and challenging
I always make an effort to build a cool base for every pylon! Just gotta make sure my friends don’t speed run the game while I build lol
The secret is decorative clutter
2:18 you thought I wouldn't notice, BUT YOU PLACED TWO QUEEN STATUES! HAHA! >:D
lol
You beat me too it lol
With wiring I made a sextant that displays the moon phase in chat because the angler didn't give me one.
How did you do that?
Determination @@thoracis
@@thoracis determination
What materials did you use?
Have you looked into T-Mec? They’re a dead terraria group that seriously broke barriers with wiring, computers, auto boss fights, clocks, airlocks etc. very cool stuff.
4:25 I liked the fountain idea, I'm defiantly stealing that! 😂😅
You can use echo paint to make teleporters invisible. I do this a lot in multiplayer to teleport my friends into dynamite traps
LMAO sounds like what I would do 🤣
@SaraLanc3 I've never checked but probably
You can use paint to help hide switches, buttons, and teleporters too. I like to make doors that look like old games you have to press "up" on to go through, to take players to a new room. On xbox, I would set up for example a wall, paint it black and put a nice looking little door frame to it, when player would teleport, it would take them somewhere in the house, (normally a room I have set somewhere underground, with surrounding area painted black to look like a single room like a bathroom). Or if I want to make a world feel 3D or flipped, I will do the same thing, and have you instead go to a duplicate of the house mirrored to look like you went to the otherside.
Painting is a powerful tool for engineering. Either way, you did some cool stuff, and I hope it inspires other players to take a bit of time to learn and play with it.
I like how a lot of these are very very simple.
It feels like the video is satire, yet you actually create something fun and unique AND entertaining.
you _cannot_ hit me with a futanari joke this late in my day
the best tag
that well-made thumbnail really reeled me in, and the video is great!
Dude that water fountain idea is sick!!!! Well done
I spent like 3 platinum on wire once to run a teleporter from base to the dungeon in the first play through with my kids, as we were all having a hard time with the cultists and needed that nurse heal, not the most practical but hey, nurse stayed safe
I love hearing about peoples stories of playing video games with their kids! Hopefully I'll be able to play with mine when I'm a dad
you could've just built a house at the arena and assigned the nurse to it
@@ASSFARTER69don’t bosses attack through houses and blocks?
@@mvpchae So?
@@ASSFARTER69 She can't heal if she dead, bro. That's the point. 😅
2:16 You got so upset when you clearly used two queen statues (thought we wouldn't notice ,':) )
It's not that you can't make stuff with potential, but the more complicated it is the worse the game's engine handles it.
For instance for each wire you put down the engine checks all 4 possible connection points it has. In other words, instead of them making a secondary array that verified where the wire was connected to (in the initial wire placing array) it just checks all the possible spots EVERY time it refreshes the clock - that makes it do 4 times more work for each single wire you place. 1 wire =x4 2,x8 3,x16 4,x32 5,x64 6,x128 7,x256, 8,x512 9,x1024 10,x2048, 11,x4096 12,x8192. After only 16 wires it's doing 131,072 extra calculations per cycle. After only 19, it's 1,048,576. After 29 it breaks over 1 BILLION USELESS OPERATIONS (1,073,741,824 to be exact) when if they'd written the engine mathematically it would use just 58 to do the same function. Yes the game does do a great job handling all that extra crap it's doing, well- but the point is it shouldn't need to- especially with how long the game's been out. (as an example Starbound's wiring system handles it properly. That said starbound's base game performance itself could be improved a good bit. That- terraria actually does well)
If you had actually bothered to watch From Scratch's vid you'd know that, & also about the mod he wrote that eliminates that issue all together. (As reported by ThePrimeTime, From Scratch also got 3 real world job offers because of it.) Sounds to me like what he made in terraria has more potential than anything you've ever done- in both terraria & RL.
Shout out to the guy who made bad apple in terraria
The airlock was actually super sick and just gave me an idea for a build, one recommendation i would make tho (and I’m gonna apply) is using grates under where the airlock is so water doesn’t fill the base bit by bit, make the water go under the airlock room so it stays dry
That "activate plantera with wiring" is useful in hardcore, so that you don't risk your life gettng chased to your arena or making a new one every time you want to fight her
the human extractinator would actually be pretty decent for quickly shimmering them
no way you turned the mechanic into a stardew valley NPC
I love that you tried to get the NPCs to help with bosses and they just up and bailed 😂 Top 10 Anime Betrayals.
I usually use wiring to make an area off to the side of main base where no enemies can spawn, but I can flip various levers and switches to essentially turn on mob spawns on one side or the other (or both, which is default, when I'm not using it). And when the mobs DO spawn, they are led into a nice little lava-layer trap, so it's also a mob farm. Can't quite AFK Solar Eclipses once Mothron can spawn, and if I do it wrong Wraiths can get in. But it works for my purposes.
And if ever I don't feel like dealing with the blood moon enemies, I can just 'turn off' spawns, and wait it out. Though... That part isn't as necessary, now that Sundials and Moonsdials are a thing, and reset when either of those events kicks in.
I dont know where that sprite for the mechanic came from, but its super cute
You know it is a good day when Wild lmao uploads
Hey nice videos I found you yesterday, keep going man
bro just built a whole ass WORKING FOUNTAIN in Terraria 💀💯🔥🗣️
2:17 Gotta love the bugs
2:32 made me laugh irl
That ending machine is actually really cool
Bro was like "How come only Minecraft has 30,000 machines to kill NPCs? I want some of that action. Get my lava bucket and wrench." XD
looooooooooooooool loved this video bro, great edits and funny narration / mario references! Keep up the good work!!!
“I wanna make something useful” two thirds of the way through the video: “Let’s actually make something useful”
As a mincraft red stoner I accept your challenge to make crazy things in terraria
This is a high quality video. You deserve more subs man
I'm good with this content. Keep it up. Quite interesting and entertaining seeing you try and make these contraptions. Good luck! 👍
These videos are always so high quality I love it
Therapist: frontfacing mechanic is not real she cant hurt you
Thumbnail: feontfacing mechanic
"make one big contraption" says the man that made a upside down hellavator for a damn heart
Good job to RUclips recommending this only 5 months late
first the snow gear vid, then enemy ai and now this im so glad youtube algorithm has been blessing your channel and keeps you on my feed, throughly earned a sub, hope to see you grow definitely deserve it :)
The person who made the transmutation machine:
SPEAKS IN LUNATIC CULTIST LANGUAGE
just wait until he hears about vertical conveyors
I think The alternating hook for the item elavator could just be a simple on and off hook on a timer, good video btw👍
The bug diff between terraria and minecraft is there is a clear end to every terraria world where minecraft is a sandbox with optional quests. In minecraft it can be tedious and sometimes hard to get certain materials so farms are nessesary to get massive amounts of things like iron. If you’re a builder you might need chests on chests of materials! In terraria farms are mostly targeted to progression so mob farms and if you build traps for bosses people consider that cheating the game and the experience which I would agree with even though those insta kill boss traps are sick! Also with terraria being a 2D game the complexity of farms is limited since most pathing and spawning is simply around the player. To go back to building when you reach end game there are tools available that allow you to collect materials extremely quickly and most people don’t need a lot of materials when building and even then there aren’t many farms to get unique nice looking building materials. If there was a way to automate tree planting then you could make a tree farm but that’s not the focus of terraria so they never added that feature. What they do have is cool and you can do awesome stuff with it but I don’t think there will be a time where people are making contraptions to farm building blocks.
I was going to comment something along the lines of "Terarria can make more computers easier but not much else, and Minecraft's can actually be useful" but like... these are actually SICK I may or may not build the Human Extractinator for my next calamity playthrough because being able to have on demand nurse anywhere in an arena is great
I used a 1 second timer with a fish statue with a pit below and around the statue. When it rains,you get infinite fish,or corrupt fish in a bloodmoon
penguins could be better since it wouldnt trigger during rain
and it would just fill the spawn caps preventing any enemies from spawning
honestly my fav terraria youtuber, best editing and actually funny bro
lmao the guy who made a computer inside terraria
I appreciate this. Please try this again some time. Im sure there’s more you could do with the wiring
The foutain though... best idea i seen in a while
That water fountain is actually sick af!!!
Just use the steampunkers logic and timers
you dont need long distance darts
12:01
use a steampunker timer.
The more spaced out the hoiks are, they faster they'll travel, so I don't know if you could have spaced them out more, but it would be more efficient if you could
the foutain one is awesome + nice vid as always
With the item elevator you can make it a lot simpler, you don’t have to actuate the whole thing with all the half and half switching. All you need to do is actuate the blocks the items run into, once they are in the hoik blocks they’ll travel up on their own, no need for actuators etc
OH SHIZ NEW WILD VIDEO!
Is that THE Cold Toast in my comment section???!
it is@@wildlmao
A little trick, but the logic lamps can be used as one way gates. You can use an and gate woth 2 logic lamps on top. The bottom one is a buffer, and the top one causes the lamp to send a pulse when it is toggled
Liked and subbed when the mechanic started laughing at the guide rofl
Cool vid! Will you make another part where you use logic gates for a password lock? Not very useful, but so is every other contraption except traps and teleporters, also actiovators for jungle farm. I think terrarians build less wirings that minecrafters redstone builds because they are pointless. Block farm are non-existent as we cannot break blocks with wiring, and underwater bases can just use bubble blocks. the fountain is dope though
Still not completely pointless though. You can break the block beneath and like that you can farm mushrooms/life fruit. It's just difficult and not everyone wants to build an automatic farm so they can get 600 mushrooms a day they will probably just end up dumping in chests anyway.
You’re amazing for a small creator, content quality is the same as people with several hundred thousand subscribers, good job
4:40 you should echo paint the pumps
this was really cool
the activator thingy for pre hardmode in the jungle was a great idea im going to do it.
That mario pipe was pretty sick.
The item elevator might be genuinely useful for crystal farms.
I remember there is a youtube video of someone making pong in terraria with wiring.
I know this video is a bit old, but I kind of did the same with hallowed stone in a farm with a 5 second timer and actuators just to farm crystal shards and gelatin crystals. Though had no idea that you could make a vertical elevator. I just had the conveyors move stuff to my safety box that I'd go to once in awhile.
When I used to play the xbox 360 version of terraria, I tried moving water from the ocean to spawn, and it crashed my game. I think that was my last time using wiring to this day.
you could use hoiking to pull the player into the pipe and put the teleporter inside hidden in the darkness
the npc extractinator is literally just tinder
Bro Frrrr
I deadass though it said ‘the potential of terraria’s writing’
Yeah someone else thought that too GG
Bro ur editing was good! Totally 14:46
True terrraria engineers play summoner.
10:52 he has become the one thing he sought to destroy; a giant turtle.
I always love that mr kitty randomly put there ahaha
one time i came up with a concept for a moon lord farm. first it brings you to the lunatic cultist where it will automatically summon the cultist and then automatically kill it without you dying. Then it brings you to the towers and somehow does something to make sure you dont die. not sure how to do that. after all that, moon lord spawns and you automatically kill it. super hard farm to make, and im not even sure if it is possible.
ik im late but that human extractinator is a life saver! it saves me from having to waste 10 minutes building a house and putting the nurse in the house! well it doesnt save me time but it saves me trouble of having to build an overly complicated house.. wait..
💀yeah pretty much
@@wildlmao he replies?! respect bro and also love the editing on ur videos i play terraria and i love that u make the borderline torturous things like fishing and building hoik conveyors go by in an instant it definitely keeps my interest. cheers
I love how your terraria character looks like a lil moth dude 😋
just wait for a plantera bulb on the auto farm
Theres also a transmutation glitch that people found and a machine that gives you anything using wires.
The Npc extractinator could be useful for farming Npc drops.
Bro discovered a new glitch called a "Hoink"