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Brilliant stuff! Glad you enjoyed it, as you never know if people will hate the grind and difficulty or not. I've just started up a new playthrough of eternity and can definitely attest prehardmode to post mech S U C K S. That early deviantt fight can kiss my ass.

Did you fight all the champions? Cause for some reason I literally never do. I only fight the cosmos champion cause he drops the important resource and ignore the rest.

Mutant. Down.

aw yeah

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mutant. man. i've always heard people talk about how good this fight is, and how they consider it one of if not THE BEST modded terraria boss fight. and, after experiencing it for myself, i would say that those claims have some serious merit.

mutant was awesome. i loved fighting him. the way it works with the flight-hover mechanic, the bullet hell-esque attacks, the way that you feel like you're mastering the boss more and more each attempt. somehow, someway, the devs behind this managed to create one of the BEST modded experiences with a character that looks like something i'd draw when i was 7. it's great. absolute cinema if you will.

my one and only complaint is that mutant does this funny thing where after attempting the boss something like 15 times, it skips the first phase and jumps straight to its second. this, to me, just doesn't feel right. it gives your successful attempt less merit. think about it--if you fuck up in the first phase, you lose health going into the second--encouraging the player to actually learn the first phase so they don't go into the second already crippled. but if you skip the first phase, all of the sudden you're always gonna go into the second phase will full health, no handicaps from any mistake you could've made whatsoever. it didn't feel like i beat mutant the first time i did, more like i just beat the second and desperation phase. luckily, i had to go back and fight it again with the same gear because it didn't drop enough Eternal Essence, so i was able to fully beat it from that. but still. not to mention that it just makes the fight unnecessarily shorter.

i mean, i get the idea behind it. you're fighting the boss for the 30th time, already mastered the first phase, and upset that it takes so long to get to the second to actually learn it. but i feel like this just isn't a viable solution to that. also Abominationn also has a weaker first phase and he doesn't have a phase skip. so idk what the problem is.

anyway. eternity mode was fun. shoutout for @kodithew for encouraging me to try it. (sorry for the mention but. yk.) i made the soul of eternity!! figure i should actually screenshot it but eh i already closed the game so. whatever.

i now sit atop the throne of the very few calamity players who have fully completed a mod unrelated to calamity. (well i mean i did mod of redemption before this but ehh i didn't like that one very much.)

i feel like people often claim that fargo is the go-to mod for players who want the same vibe as calamity, and i think that's a bit... oversimplified? like the two are fundamentally different experiences. you never had to collect 2,763 items from a completely different class just to make another stupid accessory that turns into a god. it's not a bad vibe---i personally enjoyed it a lot. (finally getting that warrior's soul or whatever it was was so satisfying.) it's different. and that's not a bad thing. might even be better. (fabsol, take notes, this is how you make a boss ya dunce.)

there's some more i wanna say but this post is getting LENGTHY. so to close this off, i really liked it :)

maybe ill try masochist mode one day. when i'm feeling masochistic. because brother i'm not touching this again for a long while that earlygame was PAIN.

anyway yeah. fun times. soul of eternity turned me into Jesus Christ himself

Ah, yeah, without mining you can't really separate the evil biome after prehardmode. Guess just go as fast as you can?

I'm pretty sure (don't quote me on this, this is purely memory) that in hardmode you can use crates fished before WoF and get hardmode ores. So if that's true, you can always grind out a shit ton of crates before moving on and then open them all after for a quick headstart.

That challenge does sound like it'd be incredibly grindy and pretty luck-based on worldgen and drop chance. But you'll never know if you don't try, so I hope it all goes well!!

For any terraria players. I'm going to start playing the game first time tomorrow

In order to see if a self imposed challenge idea i have can be done on the for the worthy seed and potentially get fixed boi

So, is it true their is a chance of a bomb dropped by shaking trees in those 2 seeds? If so what is the chance?

And do i really need wood for much before i can get the dryad? Seems can make a workbench out of cactus and bamboo for instance.

Florpo or bingus?

This is incredibly important I have to know

bingus all the way

Ah shit I missed it. Well there's always next month.

DAY 15

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

Yippee!

Wall was arguable easier than usual in this Eternity rework?

But I will say I found him far more entertaining, though default wall is basically just a DPS race with little else I guess, so maybe that's why and I just never judge default wall for being what he is 🤔

Either way!

Took 2 tries because on the first try he started doing his ichor attack and instead of doing literally anything that would make sense to do- I followed it because???? Which means I got hit like 30 times and died despite having infinite opportunity to just ???? not be in the rain????

Weird decision making on my part lol

Anyways wall was fun, really really easy and fast, and now we're in hard mode and ready to make every single boss a wall that I struggle with lol 👍 (stoked though :3)

Draw me like one of your French gibbons

A Curated List Of My Favorite Skeletons (and Skulls!)

We shall start, of course, with the obvious: Stringray!

Followed neatly by pufferfish!

gila monster skull (shh they are sleeping)

moving on to flamingos bc they have so little to work with but they stretch it so far

veiled chameleon skull (plus art by Elena Barbieri so you comprehend the importance of the sclerotic ring bone!) (bc some eyes have bones! some eyes have bones and that is so so valid)

love us a good old-fashioned mole

the tucan, always a fun classic

in conclusion, a few dainty gibbon skeletons to calm you soul, bc why the heck not <3

(yes the last one is a real vintage postcard sold in real Natural History Museum gift shops, before for some reason they reconsidered this marketing decision)

THE POWER OF THE DICE

So I started a playthrough with a few irl friends.

There's all the mods that we're using.

We didn't do too much, got some starter gear and stuff.

We had a blood moon, it was a massacre. So many gravestones littered the area we set up base.

We didn't do much else before the battery of the host's PC died.

Yes it is

Hehe, idiots.

Yeah I love manipulating my friends for my own gain, the gain is called "hanging out", obtained via such cruel tactics as "showing interest in stuff they like" and "being generally complimentary and charming"