I tried this a while back. Remember how you grabbed some "useless cobwebs" at the start? In my run, I got a single cobweb, placed it on a pot to break the pot, ran into the web to recollect it, rinse and repeat. Just replaced that annoying torch part.
This is a lot easier actually because you can break pots with anything you can place, which includes coins. Just get the guide to kill a few slimes and you can break pots. Now, you cannot pick the coins back up but you can just keep doing it until you get torches so that you can break more pots until you either find a chest with wood or bombs or break a pot with bombs in it.
You also can't see deep into caves, especially since black is truly black (did it always used to be like that? I can't remember when I really should having played so much).
@@johnhunter7244 I first played 1.4 a year ago as a ps vita player (ps vita was like in 1.1 or 1.2) and when I went into a cave I was like "WHERE'S MY BELOVED SUBTLE GLOW?"
also one silver coin is 100 copper so its cheap you could also use the cobweb instead of making the ropes. and you can pick that up then u can get torches for the light and boom
Guess beforehand: You find a weapon in a surface chest, then break pots to get bombs, blow up a tree or two, then proceed as usual Afterwards edit: Not exactly, but about right.
At first, I was thinking get bombs, find desert, blow up cactus, make workbench and pickaxe. From there, getting an axe is relatively easy. The problem with my idea is that it is very seed-dependent.
Could be a cool speedrun. The "It's A start" speedrun category where the goal is to get to your starter tools (of any material type) as fast as you can. verry RNG heavy ofcourse but there might be some interesting tactics and overall thinking required with the usage of bombs for example.
It would literally just be find_a_dessert.spdrun cause that's literally the fastest way to complete this challenge unless you get super lucky with bars in chests.
I always felt the loot chests on the surface didn't have much purpose except for trinkets but it makes sense if you accidentally threw out your tools or lost them somehow
This is how I start all my runs. Exploring the world without anything, then torches, rope, wooden tools and finally a pickaxe. This progression really hits the metroidvania feels and I love it.
@@bisli1235 isn't it, though? It's a 2D action platformer where you need new tools to reach new areas and bosses that can be completed in a non linear fashion. Sure, it is also a bunch of other things, but the metroidvania elements are pretty strong.
@@blorpburnday4249 Reading comprehension, my guy. He's not saying this video is old. He's saying that because he's recently been watching his older videos that this one stands out in quality. Probably because it's newer.
@@DEMANATI i think they may be talking about the shortness of the video and everything here is going right to the objective of the video, without any long ass ad breaks or something
I remember finding 120 wood in chests and being like: "I gotta build these houses VERY carefully". Proceeds to completely mess up not even building a single house
I remember my first time playing, I saw the trashcan slot and as a test I put items in it that I didnt care about and figured out really quick that it was a delete slot. But then later I had obtained a chest and I excitedly shift-clicked stuff into there, out of habit from playing minecraft. But this was in a version of 1.3 where shift-clicking items immediately sent them to the trash slot. I remember being horrified when I finally realized what I had done, I had deleted some precious ores that I just mined. I also remember feeling relief that I didnt delete my tools because if I had, I would have become softlocked like in this video. For that reason, the idea has stuck with me to this day that 1.) the guide should always respawn first thing in the morning, regardless of if he has a house or not, being the only NPC that can do this, and 2.) if you have no tools in your inventory, the guide should give you copper tools for free when you try to talk to him. This would effectively make it impossible to be softlocked in any world like this.
Oh, you meant for Cactus tools. I got iron from chests. And an anvil from underground. Really, as long as ypu can live through a cave it becomes normal.
Only if you’re lucky enough to get a seed with a desert you can actually reach. For example, Gungnir was blocked by a living tree and a chasm so that’s not always a possibility
@@Kalmaro4152 very true. They make for very interesting content to showcase said mechanics, but I'm sure it's soul crushing to actually play through one hahaha
i remember doing this challenge once in a for the worthy playthrough instead- i was surrounded by two giant living trees off spawn, but every once in a while, out of no where, a tree would bomb itself. i still don't understand it, but hey, i ended up beating that run
the reason this video is so good and caught my eye is because i think everyone who has every played terraria has questioned this exact question. props to you my good sir you should be proud of this idea
This actually becomes quite interesting when attempting a "no O" or "no E" run, since you'd have to throw the starting tools away. I tried this a while back for "no O", and I had used Waterleaf Seeds to break pots for shurikens, so I could maybe reach dynamite. Though first I needed shurikens to get the seeds.
The initial way I think to solve this is run around and look for surface chests for torches, bombs, ect, break pots with torches and explode trees or an underground structure for wood. by then hopefully you’ve found some iron or lead in a chest to make an anvil and tools
Now here's an idea for a challenge, how far can you progress never using a pickaxe/axe/hammer ect. Just progress as far as you can with only items you find in chests/pots/world gen and can craft without traditional gathering tools. (and I think I'll try and do this myself sounds fun)
Get chests, get items, get bombs, blast mine ores, get a fishing rod, fish for hours, beat WOF, you don’t need to break demon altars i don’t think*, fish for more, summon bosses, you don’t need chlorophyte or ectoplasm*, beat plantera - moonlord and you win
I once questioned this, yet I thought up different options upon going about things. if you play during october, slimes, and most likely other mobs, have a extremely small chance to drop a throwable knife, allowing you to quickly break pots and defend yourself. and obviously, chests and pots may contain items to help you soon craft your needs. other items can also be found in slimes as well, and zombies also have an overall chance to drop their arm to be used as a weapon. The way you went about this on the other hand was pretty unique :P
There are two things wrong with this comment: 1. He created this video to be a guide in starting the game with no tools all year-round 2. The zombie arm is expert mode exclusive, it's also a small chance. Would you really play this challenge in expert mode? With stronger mobs, the guide wouldn't be able to keep up and die.
There's plenty of other ways to do this. If you wanted more of a challenge you could try and make the reaver shark be your first tool. To get to that point you would need a rod, some bait, and the ability to reach the ocean and not die. The probability of catching the reaver shark, as a "very rare" tier catch, is your Fishing Power divided by 2250, and the highest that value can be is 1/5 or 0.2 for a 20% chance. And then after that it has to pick the reaver shark from the "very rare" catch pool in the ocean which would be the reaver shark, the sawtooth shark, and a golden crate. So you have to get a fishing rod and some bait and then survive to reach the ocean and then have a FP/2250 (max 1/5) divided by 3 chance to get the reaver shark. I'm sure I'm missing something in the probability because of the complicated nature of fishing power, external factors, luck, and more.
Hey I was just thinking about doing this myself recently and now youtube shows me this. I know you can throw away/delete your tools and can''t actually make them again easily... Update: So I tried it myself but kept the wooden sword because having Kevin shoot everything for me wasn't the kind of challenge I wanted. I consider it a sharp stick he found on the ground. Every time I thought the world gen had me stuck I eventually pushed forward more and ultimately I did it after I found a sparkle wand I missed which helped me get into an underground jungle area that was punishing me, through to the two chests which had silver and platinum bars inside! Not enough for a pickaxe but enough for an axe which I used to get cactuc and craft a pickaxe. I really had a risk of running out of wood the most even though I was lucky to find some early on, but I needed the platforms to get further too. Like I say I wasn't really going for the challenge I like to roleplay different limitations sometimes, so now I have the axe and pickaxe I'm kinda sticking to not chopping down trees except to clear land or mining except to make a furnace and visible surface ore. Luckily I can get wood by shaking trees with this axe every morning!
I actually remember doing this challenge myself before! And I'd highly recommend doing it yourself just because it does offer a pretty unique although slightly grindy and pretty rng beginning to the game
Step one: find a surface chest with any weapon Step two: break several pots and slimes Step three: use explosives found in pots on trees Step four: make two to three houses out of the wood Step five: use the merchant to buy a pickaxe and an axe.
when minecraft player watches this video: me: starting off with nothing? does not sound much of a problem gungnir: you cannot break stuff with your fist me: okay just search for village or other structures
I'm gonna guess how it's done without watching the video. 1. Find a chest 2. Open the chest 3. Find bombs 4. Use bombs to blow up wood and materials 5. Craft tools 6. You are now where you would usually start.
i actually tried this once. i had so much fun with it. i remember having to restart because there were cliffs that i could not jump over. still fun to me nonetheless
I really like the idea of adding this into an already daunting challenge, a Calamity difficulty mode for example. So many possibilities, but it might be a bit too much.
"bit too much" Nah. It's more-so just kinda pointless. Especially with Calamity since literally all you'd need is like 2 bombs and enough rope to reach the first planetoid in a small world, which really isn't much. And that's ignoring the extremely easy way to just grab ONE bomb, ONE torch, and be entirely set with a living wood tree house. This entire process would at most add like 25 minutes (most likely closer to 5-10) to the length of the single hardest challenge I've personally ever done, which is still to my knowledge the hardest genuine challenge that wasn't "no jumping or whatever" types of pointlessly inflated difficulty challenges anyone has ever done for terraria. (both youtube and google searches for anything remotely related to it still only find my own comments talking about it so uh... yeah... and I still haven't found a harder combination of mods despite actively trying. (there's a couple recent ones that came somewhat close, but they still didn't reach the difficulty of "spam teleporting 100 mph EoC that shoots a 12-directional projectile and charges/teleport spams at you every second")
If you'd had enough wood, an alternative option would've been to build two houses and get the merchant to move in and buy an anvil from him. EDIT: Couple of things since they've been brought up. 1) Yeah I completely forgot that tiny split second where he said he'd skip building houses for a new plan. My bad. 2) I also thought I heard him say at some point that he was going to make the anvil his goal rather than the tools, hence my comment. (but in reality he just says he needs one because it is literally the only way to get tools without the merchant).
@@adiplier That'd require you to get into the big tree to begin with and unless you get a really weird/lucky seed you'll typically need a pickaxe for that.
You could also have used the living tree to get or skip the anvil. Convert the rooms into NPC houses by placing torches, plus a chair and the crafting bench in the empty one, then spawn the merchant and buy an anvil or basic tools.
I didn't watch the video yet, but I think this is quite simple. I would just do as follows; find a weapon (such as a spear) in a wooden chest, get bombs from a gold chest (or any way) then try to blow up as many trees as possible. make a house for the merchant after getting 50 silver coins, then you're set for the rest of the playthrough.
Before watching this is what I'd do Find chests Get bombs/throwables Use throwables to destroy pots With bombs get rid of dirt and wood Make a house Let merchant move in PROFIT
Did this. Named my character Steve and gave him a look like him. First world I started had a giant tree on the right, and a giant hill on the left. Immediately soft locked
Here's a theory: Get some bombs from a chest and use that to blow up some trees for wood. Then craft at least a hammer so you have a weapon. Kill skeletons form bombs till you can blow up the most abundant ore you can find to make a pickaxe. From there it's pretty easy to progress
Even if your guide spawns before you get any of the drops, you can still use coins. But, its kind of hard to get coins when you cant kill anything. However, if you are lucky a falling star can kill a zombie or something and you can still break pots.
(0:38 into the video) playing terarria for only about 40 hours myself, all you'd have to do is avoid dying until you found tools in chests, or had monsters ko themselves in lava...
oh true yeah you can make a workbench too honestly this could be speedrunned in like, sub 1 minute with good rng... find a seed with pots near spawn, then a desert close by (not too insane) get lucky with some bombs and find 3 tall cacti, or some in a group, run complete
I havnt watched the video yet, but you could get wood in a chest, or farm slimes untill one drops torches, then allowing to break pots, the get bombs Edit: ok litterally 5 seconds after posting this you did that lol
I've been looking for something to help combat my depression as my family falls apart, I came back to good ol terraria and have been looking for a challenge. Thank you Gungnir for giving me this challenge. Now to come up with a world name and seed
Just thinking for a second could give you the answer. Wood can be gotten from some chests or by using bombs on trees / chest houses. Iron / lead can be obtained via chests. Boom, pickaxe, axe, weapon. + weapons from chests / enemies. Guide could kill slimes and zombies, that could give slime staff or zombie arm.
Yeah, It's underestimated how freakishly strong Steve is. Considering how many cubic meters of gold he can casually carry around on planet with higher gravity he is Dragonball Z level of absurdly strong. Also he can literally punch holes in all destructible materials with his bare fists.
Yeah but late game terrarian still curb stomps Steve, Steve is just outclassed in both range and mobility and the terrarian can instantly teleport away to an unpredictable location if it somehow is taking too much damage whereas Steve really can’t get away from the terrarian because of the harmony staff. Not to mention the best weapons and armor Steve can get is netherite which doesn’t hold a candle to the late game armors/weapons in terraria
Plus the amount of gold Steve Carrie’s only totals to about 44,519 tonnes, whereas the terrarian with a full inventory of thrones and platinum armor can carry about 1,775,652 tonnes.
Tip: If you get lucky world generation and get enough bombs you could get wood and hopefully build a house for a merchant. If you didn't know a merchant can sell a copper axe and pickaxe. But remember you need lucky generation + enough money (you can get money by shurikens,bombs and grenades. Also loot chests for wood and iron so you could get iron stuff. Then you can beat the game.
I won't even lie, I thought this would be some basic little joke video. But it turned out to be rather enjoyable to watch and is a nice introduction to the first video I've watched of yours I'll considering subscribing for sure
@@benkoehler9799 for the same reason why people play games like Dark Souls. Pain and suffering is well rewarded by feeling that you are better than the others, because you are able to overcome the difficulty that others are afraid of.
Tips: in a world where you can reach desert from spawn without mining, consider go there and get 25 cactus, this allow you to craft the cactus pickaxe, with cactus pickaxe, head underground for underground cabin. Here you can find anvil and enough wood for axe.
Before watching and coming from a noob, here's generally how I'd expect it to go: 1. Get boomerang/enchanted boomerang from overworld chest 2. Use boomerang/enchanted boomerang to break pots to get explosives 3. Use explosives to acquire wood (if not from normal trees than living trees) 4. Build a crafting bench and start playing like you would normally
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I tried this a while back. Remember how you grabbed some "useless cobwebs" at the start? In my run, I got a single cobweb, placed it on a pot to break the pot, ran into the web to recollect it, rinse and repeat. Just replaced that annoying torch part.
Thats actually a really interesting way to beat this
Look at megamind over here.
IQ 200 smart one
Ok mr showoff
i thought that as soon as he got the torches
My guy planning how to beat Moonlord with nothing to his name, and actually goes ahead and does that
What an absolute legend
This man did what i already did 1 year back just as a fun challenge. On video . I respect how he managed . For me it was hader
It's as simple as it gets. If you're not softlocked then you just progress as usual
@@felipdn3329 the thing is i was locked until a slim droped a bomb
@@Mightyscandare slim
@@Dikketyvus slime
Just the simple classification of the bomb as a "multitool" is hilarious.
He's not wrong.
TnT is the solution to many problems if you ask me
If you consider dirty bombs it’s also a building tool
@@sasugaainz6824Dirt bombs are a block duplication item.are you even still playing Terraria after all these years?
This is a lot easier actually because you can break pots with anything you can place, which includes coins. Just get the guide to kill a few slimes and you can break pots. Now, you cannot pick the coins back up but you can just keep doing it until you get torches so that you can break more pots until you either find a chest with wood or bombs or break a pot with bombs in it.
You also can't see deep into caves, especially since black is truly black (did it always used to be like that? I can't remember when I really should having played so much).
@@johnhunter7244 I first played 1.4 a year ago as a ps vita player (ps vita was like in 1.1 or 1.2) and when I went into a cave I was like "WHERE'S MY BELOVED SUBTLE GLOW?"
@@thatcat1762 read the comment
also one silver coin is 100 copper so its cheap
you could also use the cobweb instead of making the ropes. and you can pick that up
then u can get torches for the light
and boom
and coins act like slabs so you can't get softlock
I’m surprised no one mentioned the cactus pickaxe. You could get it with a few bombs and nothing else.
He couldn’t reach the desert on that world seed
@@fuzzysparkle9152 100% could with the rope and/or bombs. Just didn't.
@@fuzzysparkle9152 he has ropes
@@fuzzysparkle9152 he could eventually use the ropes and get to the dessert and use bombs for the cacti and it’s done
@@iromero.5how is he going above a living tree with that small amount of rope?
Weapon of choice
Everyone: Zenith/last prism
Gungnir: Torch
Gungnir = Torch God confirmed?
I forgot the name of the yoyo that drops from moon Lord but it's my weapon go to.
@@KingWillow the terrarian?
Gungnir: gungnir
Terrarian
Guess beforehand: You find a weapon in a surface chest, then break pots to get bombs, blow up a tree or two, then proceed as usual
Afterwards edit: Not exactly, but about right.
I think bombs only spawn from pots in the cavern layer which may be hard. I'm not sure about this
Yeah, if you watch Wand Of Sparking’s no Es run, it’s literally just this but harder
At first, I was thinking get bombs, find desert, blow up cactus, make workbench and pickaxe. From there, getting an axe is relatively easy.
The problem with my idea is that it is very seed-dependent.
@@geo4876 that was my thought too, since there’s no wood pickaxe, cactus is probably the easiest route in any world that has an accessible desert.
I'm sure that you can get ~50 pieces of wood in wooden chests that are in the surface
Could be a cool speedrun. The "It's A start" speedrun category where the goal is to get to your starter tools (of any material type) as fast as you can. verry RNG heavy ofcourse but there might be some interesting tactics and overall thinking required with the usage of bombs for example.
It would literally just be find_a_dessert.spdrun cause that's literally the fastest way to complete this challenge unless you get super lucky with bars in chests.
@@Briskeeen you could make some rules for example get copper / tin tools to finish the run
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@@uietwyatt4841 I would like you to meet my friend, his name is bomb, he helps me go deeper. He also helps me kill things.
Honestly doing it this feels way more rewarding and it add a whole new period of progress to the game. This is actually really interesting
I always felt the loot chests on the surface didn't have much purpose except for trinkets but it makes sense if you accidentally threw out your tools or lost them somehow
when you die, you do lose stuff if your in a different difficulty. This is mainly how people get back on their feet.@@tigertoxins584
This is how I start all my runs. Exploring the world without anything, then torches, rope, wooden tools and finally a pickaxe. This progression really hits the metroidvania feels and I love it.
i mean terraria isn't a metroidvania
@@bisli1235 isn't it, though? It's a 2D action platformer where you need new tools to reach new areas and bosses that can be completed in a non linear fashion. Sure, it is also a bunch of other things, but the metroidvania elements are pretty strong.
@@redlunatic2224 more of a sandbox game
@@bisli1235 yeah. I'd say it's both and more (it's even a golf game).
@@redlunatic2224 true
Idk if it's just because I've been binge-watching older videos but the editing and quality look especially great on this one!
this video was made 1 day ago
@@blorpburnday4249 Reading comprehension, my guy. He's not saying this video is old. He's saying that because he's recently been watching his older videos that this one stands out in quality. Probably because it's newer.
@@blorpburnday4249 don’t worry, happened to me too for a second
Not hating but I didn't notice any hard work editing besides zooming in and basic stuff
@@DEMANATI i think they may be talking about the shortness of the video and everything here is going right to the objective of the video, without any long ass ad breaks or something
3:46 gung trying to pull of a hollow knight skip
Ha
Lol True
I didn't think of it that way.
Hollow knight pogo. Truee
bro failed the pogo
I remember finding 120 wood in chests and being like: "I gotta build these houses VERY carefully".
Proceeds to completely mess up not even building a single house
I remember my first time playing, I saw the trashcan slot and as a test I put items in it that I didnt care about and figured out really quick that it was a delete slot. But then later I had obtained a chest and I excitedly shift-clicked stuff into there, out of habit from playing minecraft. But this was in a version of 1.3 where shift-clicking items immediately sent them to the trash slot. I remember being horrified when I finally realized what I had done, I had deleted some precious ores that I just mined. I also remember feeling relief that I didnt delete my tools because if I had, I would have become softlocked like in this video.
For that reason, the idea has stuck with me to this day that 1.) the guide should always respawn first thing in the morning, regardless of if he has a house or not, being the only NPC that can do this, and 2.) if you have no tools in your inventory, the guide should give you copper tools for free when you try to talk to him. This would effectively make it impossible to be softlocked in any world like this.
...And yes, I know the merchant sells copper tools, but I always thought it would be better if he actually sold "well ventilated armor" instead.
I've thought of doing this before, but once you get bombs you can just craft a cactus pick and it becomes a normal playthrough..
Yeah, same. I just blew up trees, though.
Oh, you meant for Cactus tools. I got iron from chests. And an anvil from underground. Really, as long as ypu can live through a cave it becomes normal.
@punk-ish Zach simpler to find a group of cactus, blow them up for a pick, and then mine the bottoms for the rest of what you need.
Only if you’re lucky enough to get a seed with a desert you can actually reach. For example, Gungnir was blocked by a living tree and a chasm so that’s not always a possibility
@@tehwafflhouze2281 but you need to break the anvil...
This reminds me of terraria skyblock, using slightly obscure mechanics and abysmal drop rates to progress the game lol
cant wait till crabbar uploads another one
Skyblocks are never fun, especially those that require RNG and railroaded progression... *cough* Project Ozone *Cough*. Survival Island is better.
@@Kalmaro4152 Well, if you want to dopamine detox but don't want to stay away from games, that might be a solution
@@Kalmaro4152 very true. They make for very interesting content to showcase said mechanics, but I'm sure it's soul crushing to actually play through one hahaha
@@Kalmaro4152 I'm playing Project Ozone right now, can confirm.
i remember doing this challenge once in a for the worthy playthrough instead- i was surrounded by two giant living trees off spawn, but every once in a while, out of no where, a tree would bomb itself. i still don't understand it, but hey, i ended up beating that run
That happens in Ftw
Pots Can have bomb that explode
@@poofyfox6751 it only happens with you shake the tree afaik
Sigma
shaking trees and breaking pots will drop lit bombs in ftw
plot twist: he knew combwebs could also break pots but just wanted to make the video actually interesting
Never even considered playing Terraria like this. Only adds a short challenge but I like it!
the reason this video is so good and caught my eye is because i think everyone who has every played terraria has questioned this exact question. props to you my good sir you should be proud of this idea
Yes, I love questioning questions!
I didn't but yeah
@@cherrymarshmallow same lol
I started my Master Mode character with 20 max health and no tools. Was a nice extra challenge
The challenge is actually way easier if you get the spawning luck of a dessert
Hey great video but i noticed somthing you missed you can simply use copper coins and place them on pots to break them really cool though!
Exactly
Coins can also be used as weapons so...
Edit: That was in 1.2 sorry...
@@Magyargyerek2222 don't you need the coin gun?
@@slurmygunch6010 They can be dropped on things just like sand.
And cobwebs
You can also place coins to break pots, too! They fall like sand.
Pots, too! Didn't need the comma there
@@hipjoeroflmto4764 no no no, he’s just talking to his friend, “too”. That’s all lowercase too, too!
@@Theathe-fm2xl what kind of drugs does a mother have to take to name there child that.
@@hipjoeroflmto4764 some languages have names like that, for us it sounds like "too" (I'd lower the judgements)
@@hipjoeroflmto4764 it works fine
This actually becomes quite interesting when attempting a "no O" or "no E" run, since you'd have to throw the starting tools away. I tried this a while back for "no O", and I had used Waterleaf Seeds to break pots for shurikens, so I could maybe reach dynamite.
Though first I needed shurikens to get the seeds.
The initial way I think to solve this is run around and look for surface chests for torches, bombs, ect, break pots with torches and explode trees or an underground structure for wood. by then hopefully you’ve found some iron or lead in a chest to make an anvil and tools
Now here's an idea for a challenge, how far can you progress never using a pickaxe/axe/hammer ect. Just progress as far as you can with only items you find in chests/pots/world gen and can craft without traditional gathering tools. (and I think I'll try and do this myself sounds fun)
wasn’t that kind of what he did in the no E’s run?
Get chests, get items, get bombs, blast mine ores, get a fishing rod, fish for hours, beat WOF, you don’t need to break demon altars i don’t think*, fish for more, summon bosses, you don’t need chlorophyte or ectoplasm*, beat plantera - moonlord and you win
@@cringeconnoisseur6037 it only sonds eazy i will try
Didn't happy days do that challenge
@@cringeconnoisseur6037 hellforge.....
Your run is invalid by that thing existing bruh
I once questioned this, yet I thought up different options upon going about things.
if you play during october, slimes, and most likely other mobs, have a extremely small chance to drop a throwable knife, allowing you to quickly break pots and defend yourself. and obviously, chests and pots may contain items to help you soon craft your needs. other items can also be found in slimes as well, and zombies also have an overall chance to drop their arm to be used as a weapon. The way you went about this on the other hand was pretty unique :P
There are two things wrong with this comment:
1. He created this video to be a guide in starting the game with no tools all year-round
2. The zombie arm is expert mode exclusive, it's also a small chance. Would you really play this challenge in expert mode? With stronger mobs, the guide wouldn't be able to keep up and die.
3. How would you kill the slimes or zombies?
@@MetalQueerSolidTwinQueers as demonstrated in the video, he used the guide
@@gold7610 i get 3 zombie arm in classic/normal world
Wut?
@@gold7610 its not a expert mode exclusive just its more common
perhaps you could of tried placing coins on the pots? not sure if that works
holy shit. you are a genius!
Yep thought the same way
exactly what i was thinking lol but torches still would've been nice so he could see :)
Can someone check this in game? Let me know if someone has the answer to this
I completely forgot you could even place coins
There's plenty of other ways to do this. If you wanted more of a challenge you could try and make the reaver shark be your first tool. To get to that point you would need a rod, some bait, and the ability to reach the ocean and not die. The probability of catching the reaver shark, as a "very rare" tier catch, is your Fishing Power divided by 2250, and the highest that value can be is 1/5 or 0.2 for a 20% chance. And then after that it has to pick the reaver shark from the "very rare" catch pool in the ocean which would be the reaver shark, the sawtooth shark, and a golden crate. So you have to get a fishing rod and some bait and then survive to reach the ocean and then have a FP/2250 (max 1/5) divided by 3 chance to get the reaver shark. I'm sure I'm missing something in the probability because of the complicated nature of fishing power, external factors, luck, and more.
english please, we are gamers, not mathematical professors...
That's just stupid and pointless waste of time
Doing it this way is fine enough
Hey I was just thinking about doing this myself recently and now youtube shows me this. I know you can throw away/delete your tools and can''t actually make them again easily...
Update: So I tried it myself but kept the wooden sword because having Kevin shoot everything for me wasn't the kind of challenge I wanted. I consider it a sharp stick he found on the ground. Every time I thought the world gen had me stuck I eventually pushed forward more and ultimately I did it after I found a sparkle wand I missed which helped me get into an underground jungle area that was punishing me, through to the two chests which had silver and platinum bars inside! Not enough for a pickaxe but enough for an axe which I used to get cactuc and craft a pickaxe. I really had a risk of running out of wood the most even though I was lucky to find some early on, but I needed the platforms to get further too.
Like I say I wasn't really going for the challenge I like to roleplay different limitations sometimes, so now I have the axe and pickaxe I'm kinda sticking to not chopping down trees except to clear land or mining except to make a furnace and visible surface ore. Luckily I can get wood by shaking trees with this axe every morning!
I actually remember doing this challenge myself before! And I'd highly recommend doing it yourself just because it does offer a pretty unique although slightly grindy and pretty rng beginning to the game
0:32 the timing with the ost are just... amazing
Perfect timing
A bit random but yeah I guess so
On what part
When he's talking about how he can't do anything or the Minecraft part
@@Ritzyblockkthe shimmer is timed well with "can't"
can't *jingle* anything
can't *jingle* anything
Step one: find a surface chest with any weapon
Step two: break several pots and slimes
Step three: use explosives found in pots on trees
Step four: make two to three houses out of the wood
Step five: use the merchant to buy a pickaxe and an axe.
Or you could use explosives to get cactus pickaxe.
@@scarieallan IF there's a desert nearby
step six: beat moon lord
Step 7 profit
Step 8 repeat
Fun fact, I’ve actually done this on accident before. I didn’t know how to play and just gave up on my new character.
when minecraft player watches this video:
me: starting off with nothing? does not sound much of a problem
gungnir: you cannot break stuff with your fist
me: okay just search for village or other structures
this will be interesting...
True
Very
Youre worse than solar eruption 😏
@@xenoflare1099 am i really tho 🤔
@@xenoflare1099 Daybreak has better dps if you aim
this kind of challenge is only really interesting until you find something to use, then there's just no challenge
Well.. then just try to beat the game without using any tools
@@Gandhi_Physique demolitionist
Finding the living wood room also would have been helpful as all you'd need to do is drop a torch in there and boom, a place for NPC respawns.
No, in 1.4 they changed it.
You need to add your own walls
@@neki134 still absolutely fine, he has plenty of wood for a hammer by that point
@@vincentwei9869 you cant break living wood wall with wood hammer
@@Cat-yx7xc yes you can. It's slow but you can.
You know, when you had that one bomb left, you could have instead made a house and have a demolitionist move in. Also the Merchant can sell an anvil
I'm gonna guess how it's done without watching the video.
1. Find a chest
2. Open the chest
3. Find bombs
4. Use bombs to blow up wood and materials
5. Craft tools
6. You are now where you would usually start.
7:51 Starter items obtained! Now face God.
Three easy steps to:
1) get a torches
2) get a bombs
3) bomb a cactus
And there it is, your normal playthrough
You say it as if it's extremely easy to do so
@@joshricaborda1014 it' not that hard, you just need a good rng
Or, just place a copper coin to break your first pots
Where do you get the torches, govyazhiy doshirak?
@@godricktheminecrafted3113 as said in video you can get them from slimes or zombie
As someone who doesn't play Terarria, I just thought you always started out with nothing, like Minecraft.
Well, you learn something new every day.
I tried this challenge before the video came out, and was actually able to beat the game. It was pretty fun! I recommend trying it.
i actually tried this once. i had so much fun with it. i remember having to restart because there were cliffs that i could not jump over. still fun to me nonetheless
I really like the idea of adding this into an already daunting challenge, a Calamity difficulty mode for example. So many possibilities, but it might be a bit too much.
In newer versions you can just find wood In a chest then the challenge is basically over.
"bit too much"
Nah. It's more-so just kinda pointless. Especially with Calamity since literally all you'd need is like 2 bombs and enough rope to reach the first planetoid in a small world, which really isn't much. And that's ignoring the extremely easy way to just grab ONE bomb, ONE torch, and be entirely set with a living wood tree house.
This entire process would at most add like 25 minutes (most likely closer to 5-10) to the length of the single hardest challenge I've personally ever done, which is still to my knowledge the hardest genuine challenge that wasn't "no jumping or whatever" types of pointlessly inflated difficulty challenges anyone has ever done for terraria. (both youtube and google searches for anything remotely related to it still only find my own comments talking about it so uh... yeah... and I still haven't found a harder combination of mods despite actively trying. (there's a couple recent ones that came somewhat close, but they still didn't reach the difficulty of "spam teleporting 100 mph EoC that shoots a 12-directional projectile and charges/teleport spams at you every second")
If you'd had enough wood, an alternative option would've been to build two houses and get the merchant to move in and buy an anvil from him.
EDIT: Couple of things since they've been brought up.
1) Yeah I completely forgot that tiny split second where he said he'd skip building houses for a new plan. My bad.
2) I also thought I heard him say at some point that he was going to make the anvil his goal rather than the tools, hence my comment. (but in reality he just says he needs one because it is literally the only way to get tools without the merchant).
Or just put torches in one of the underground big tree rooms, get the merchant and demolitionists to spawn and buy what you need
@@adiplier That'd require you to get into the big tree to begin with and unless you get a really weird/lucky seed you'll typically need a pickaxe for that.
@@DJFlare84 Fair enough
He did mention that he stopped going for the house route so I think he already had that in mind.
or just make wooden tools... lol
Have you tried placing down coins? It might work the same as torches
You could also have used the living tree to get or skip the anvil. Convert the rooms into NPC houses by placing torches, plus a chair and the crafting bench in the empty one, then spawn the merchant and buy an anvil or basic tools.
Would’ve spawned gnomes
@@elfinstuff8934 YOU JUST GOT GNOMED!
Terraria: Bombs? you want it?
Gungir: yes
Terraria: too bad
I didn't watch the video yet, but I think this is quite simple. I would just do as follows; find a weapon (such as a spear) in a wooden chest, get bombs from a gold chest (or any way) then try to blow up as many trees as possible. make a house for the merchant after getting 50 silver coins, then you're set for the rest of the playthrough.
3:46 : Carefully planned out
3:56 : When you execute it
Before watching this is what I'd do
Find chests
Get bombs/throwables
Use throwables to destroy pots
With bombs get rid of dirt and wood
Make a house
Let merchant move in
PROFIT
you would need to also get at least one gold for him to move in, which wouldn't be too hard
@@gamersnake1475 50 silver, right?
@@juniperrodley9843 right
You can break pots using coins.
The world has a lake next to a big tree, and it has crimson. It looks like one of Ningishu's speedrun worlds.
Did this. Named my character Steve and gave him a look like him. First world I started had a giant tree on the right, and a giant hill on the left. Immediately soft locked
Such a simple but fun idea
Always makes me want to play more terraria
Nice. Putting yourself into these types of situations helps you think of other ways to do things.
Here's a theory:
Get some bombs from a chest and use that to blow up some trees for wood. Then craft at least a hammer so you have a weapon. Kill skeletons form bombs till you can blow up the most abundant ore you can find to make a pickaxe. From there it's pretty easy to progress
As a side note I said this before I heard him say bombs and I was just like kek he said it. Looks like I'm smort
Even if your guide spawns before you get any of the drops, you can still use coins. But, its kind of hard to get coins when you cant kill anything. However, if you are lucky a falling star can kill a zombie or something and you can still break pots.
(0:38 into the video) playing terarria for only about 40 hours myself, all you'd have to do is avoid dying until you found tools in chests, or had monsters ko themselves in lava...
The best way is just finding bombs and the look for a desert, because you just need a few cacti for a cactus pick
oh true
yeah you can make a workbench too
honestly this could be speedrunned in like, sub 1 minute with good rng... find a seed with pots near spawn, then a desert close by (not too insane) get lucky with some bombs and find 3 tall cacti, or some in a group, run complete
I tried this, it's hard if u can't find a chest
This video is very entertaining, that was insanely lucky world-gen you didn't get soft-locked!
Literally 1 year ago and 2 likes, from a verified.
can't believe he missed the crimson pot at the crimera jump, smh my head.
The beginning of the game is the most interesting part of Terraria to me. I may try this challenge.
I havnt watched the video yet, but you could get wood in a chest, or farm slimes untill one drops torches, then allowing to break pots, the get bombs
Edit: ok litterally 5 seconds after posting this you did that lol
I'm getting more and more convinced that you're a masochist with each upload
Come on . That was fun
I did it and yeah it was hader in my word but still fun
how did this man not produce a lick of anger when he died all those times lol
It depends on RNG, If a hill with a chest spawns with bombs thats basically good since you can get stuff with the wood
100% rng, if you find a chest with like 3 bombs, find a desert, make a cacti pick lol
I've been looking for something to help combat my depression as my family falls apart, I came back to good ol terraria and have been looking for a challenge. Thank you Gungnir for giving me this challenge.
Now to come up with a world name and seed
Just thinking for a second could give you the answer.
Wood can be gotten from some chests or by using bombs on trees / chest houses.
Iron / lead can be obtained via chests. Boom, pickaxe, axe, weapon.
+ weapons from chests / enemies.
Guide could kill slimes and zombies, that could give slime staff or zombie arm.
@random content uploader you can only make a wood sword
no pickaxe or axe
I would have loved to see the whole playthrough. Starting from absolutely nothing to end up defeating moonlord! But great video anyways!
I mean to be fair after you get the tools its jist a normal run
Wand of sparking did a harder version of this, beat Terraria without the letter E. (all starting tools have an E)
Sworde?
@@akutaidark coppEr shortsword
I remember trying this challenge about a month ago. My first goal was to find either wood or bombs in a chest.
Having played thousands of hours of Terraria this was very painful to watch. GREAT VIDEO!
My Minecraft Brain didn’t realize this was a challenge
Yeah, It's underestimated how freakishly strong Steve is. Considering how many cubic meters of gold he can casually carry around on planet with higher gravity he is Dragonball Z level of absurdly strong. Also he can literally punch holes in all destructible materials with his bare fists.
Yeah but late game terrarian still curb stomps Steve, Steve is just outclassed in both range and mobility and the terrarian can instantly teleport away to an unpredictable location if it somehow is taking too much damage whereas Steve really can’t get away from the terrarian because of the harmony staff.
Not to mention the best weapons and armor Steve can get is netherite which doesn’t hold a candle to the late game armors/weapons in terraria
Plus the amount of gold Steve Carrie’s only totals to about 44,519 tonnes, whereas the terrarian with a full inventory of thrones and platinum armor can carry about 1,775,652 tonnes.
Bro in terraria maximum stack is 9999 soo...
I didn’t think this would be as big of a deal as it ended up being!
I would love to see an entire playthrough without tools!
Also, you can get wood early without bombs by shaking trees
need an axe to shake trees
after you get tools, its just a normal game, so there's no point in continuing with it since it wouldn't be that special
Tip: If you get lucky world generation and get enough bombs you could get wood and hopefully build a house for a merchant. If you didn't know a merchant can sell a copper axe and pickaxe. But remember you need lucky generation + enough money (you can get money by shurikens,bombs and grenades. Also loot chests for wood and iron so you could get iron stuff. Then you can beat the game.
I won't even lie, I thought this would be some basic little joke video. But it turned out to be rather enjoyable to watch and is a nice introduction to the first video I've watched of yours I'll considering subscribing for sure
3:35 as a mediumcore player, I had a heart attack.
Lmao, I liked my own comment half a year later. What a coincidance.
why would u play that
@@benkoehler9799 for the same reason why people play games like Dark Souls. Pain and suffering is well rewarded by feeling that you are better than the others, because you are able to overcome the difficulty that others are afraid of.
mediumcore is so underrated.
@@Jepegish No.
There needs to be a speedrun challenge for this. No weapon/tools to start and the challenge is to get some.
wow that was honestly entertaining, that's what I call a quality content :)
Tips: in a world where you can reach desert from spawn without mining, consider go there and get 25 cactus, this allow you to craft the cactus pickaxe, with cactus pickaxe, head underground for underground cabin. Here you can find anvil and enough wood for axe.
You could do cobweb->bomb->cactus->cactus pickaxe and you’d save a lot of time
7:00 airport security when a middle eastern man takes off his backpack
1:03 Demn that's a loooong tree 🥵
HEELL NAHH 💀
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Why not construct a cobweb over a pot and walk over it to get it back, reduces luck required for this by a small bit.
Instead of the cobweb method that people are suggesting you could place coins from slimes to break the post
Man goes from cowering behind a random guy with a primitive bow to poke slimes for light to killing a moon god. Sounds about right
Ok, but what if you placed coins over the pots?
how come you didnt go for a cactus picaxe?
because... there was no desert
@@Redddragon there should be one past crimson
When you forget that leaving the rejoining teleports you back to spawn
Before watching and coming from a noob, here's generally how I'd expect it to go:
1. Get boomerang/enchanted boomerang from overworld chest
2. Use boomerang/enchanted boomerang to break pots to get explosives
3. Use explosives to acquire wood (if not from normal trees than living trees)
4. Build a crafting bench and start playing like you would normally
Ive watched this video like 3 times now something about the idea just feels so interesting.
could you not just bomb some cacti and make a cactus pick
yes you can no problem he prob did not think about it
Minecraft players: First Time?
5:06
WAIT YOU CAN CLICK IT
3:40 mark u say you have no way down, but you can place a web underneath you as you're falling to avoid dying to fall damage.
Before watching this video ima guess that he makes the guide kills slime for money until the required amount for the merchant and buy tools from him
but how's he gonna make a house for the merchant?
You could have totally have used the trees insides for houses and spawn the demolitionist there! lol