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Terraria Discussion thread #2: Journey's end

I agree, so with that ancient item used to measure purely in game movement speed dropped would the Lightning be fine to use?
Most people that I've seen make calcs for the speed of the verse don't accept the speedometer and can easily get really high values. The Champion being able to dodge a laser shot from a Gastropod when the laser is literally touching their hitbox could be calcd at like 11c. In this case it would be combat speed only, of course.
 
Plus the Starfury’s stars are stated to come from the heavens and arrive in seconds, I did a calc on that and got high hypersonic results if I remember correctly. Along with you flying to space in short order
 
Most people that I've seen make calcs for the speed of the verse don't accept the speedometer and can easily get really high values. The Champion being able to dodge a laser shot from a Gastropod when the laser is literally touching their hitbox could be calcd at like 11c.
I would rate it like this
Massively Hypersonic (Can swing a sword around their body in comparison to natural lightning and dodge it, can easily run past meteors) | FTL (Can swing their weapon this fast in comparison to lasers stated to be light and from mechanic sources) | FTL (Faster than before and can dodge gamma rays)
 
the turtle armor is such a weird stage though i really dont know where to place it in tiers, its either 8-A or it jumps to 3-B from being the only available thing ever to post-plantera melee.
Wait did we lose the 5-C stuff from WOF/Mechs and eclipses?
 
Wait did we lose the 5-C stuff from WOF/Mechs and eclipses?
the 5-C stuff is not supposed to be a thing in the first place because its literally just WoF spiritually sealing them which wouldnt scale to his physicals, im aiming to nuke 5-C
 
the 5-C stuff is not supposed to be a thing in the first place because its literally just WoF spiritually sealing them which wouldnt scale to his physicals, im aiming to nuke 5-C
Alright. That's a little disappointing, is there not 7-C stuff from the destroyer's vibrations being able to be felt across the entire world? I think I've seen calcs that got in tier 7 for that.
 
the 5-C stuff is not supposed to be a thing in the first place because its literally just WoF spiritually sealing them which wouldnt scale to his physicals, im aiming to nuke 5-C
The solar eclipses isn’t related to the ancient spirits at all though. Which I found “it being a seal” to be a bit of a funny reason to scale to it, rather than the game just showing he prevents them. With the final boss and evil bosses stated holding celestial / space objects to be a showcase of power. The pylons directly stating it while the evil bosses are directly stated as a benchmark of power for the corruption and crimson.

Also speaking of tier 7, the evil bosses are stated to stop big meteors from hitting terraria and I calculated that to be high 7-C. I would prefer someone to do a cleaner calc though. Should still be high 7-C
 
The solar eclipses isn’t related to the ancient spirits at all though. Which I found “it being a seal” to be a bit of a funny reason to scale to it, rather than the game just showing he prevents them.
i thought it would be related since solar eclipses in this game only happen once a bunch of evil stuff is released and so does the solar tablets
im guessing the solar tablet is the reason wof is 5-C? since the solar tablet is straight up unusable, id understand it a bit better if it was.
 
Yes it is the reason he’s 5-C. It doesn’t work while he’s alive that was the main reason in the first revision the other part was just a bit of a fluff reason to try and give an explanation where the game just shows he does it
 
I only got into this thread (and the wiki in general) because I made a calc for the martian saucers traveling from their homeworld to the player's world in 1 tick at 160511c and possibly trillions to quadrillions of c depending on the location of the player's world, which actually has a ton of arguments for not being in the same star system as the martian homeworld, but I'm keeping those for later. The DD2 crossover stuff was just a side thought that is actually really consistent after I looked deeper into it.

If the speedometer is dropped, the Champion dodging martian saucers would have to be accepted as they can dodge the saucers max speed ram with the master ninja gear, the speedometer wouldn't be an excuse to ignore the feat if it really is dropped. The saucers instantly come from their homeworld to the lower atmosphere in the background as soon as the event starts, so the atmosphere limiting their movement or they needing to accelerate wouldn't work as counterarguments either.
 
Ooh I forgot about that, yeah the probes description heavily implies they aren’t near earth like the original downgrade assumed (because why send a probe to check if anything is even on the planet if you are right there)
The probe also travels to mars and the way to prevent the event is to chase it and destroy it
 
I only got into this thread (and the wiki in general) because I made a calc for the martian saucers traveling from their homeworld to the player's world in 1 tick at 160511c and possibly trillions to quadrillions of c depending on the location of the player's world, which actually has a ton of arguments for not being in the same star system as the martian homeworld, but I'm keeping those for later. The DD2 crossover stuff was just a side thought that is actually really consistent after I looked deeper into it.
i agree with mftl+ saucer because the only time martian probes are only ever seen are post-golem, which combines with the bestiary entry for the probes stating that they sensed champion's growing power and then got sent into super fast speeds.
even if this is disproved to be mftl+, its like barely minimum on FTL+
 
I got to go to bed for work soon, but I do want to suggest something tomorrow I think people may find a bit crackpot, but I am convinced the champion should have resurrection. Death has had so many mechanics added to it over the years. There is biome achieved only by dying which all npcs interact with, the nurse has dialogue about your deaths, many items can only be crafted in graveyards which are the biomes that require you to die to get, and certain weapons spawn only from tombstones which you also need to die to get.
 
I only got into this thread (and the wiki in general) because I made a calc for the martian saucers traveling from their homeworld to the player's world in 1 tick at 160511c and possibly trillions to quadrillions of c depending on the location of the player's world, which actually has a ton of arguments for not being in the same star system as the martian homeworld, but I'm keeping those for later. The DD2 crossover stuff was just a side thought that is actually really consistent after I looked deeper into it.
If they have probes on the planet what if they are already near by
 
If they have probes on the planet what if they are already near by
As stated by the bestiary they arrive the day of the golem’s death. Plus they are checking if there is even anything on the planet, why send a probe if you are going to be right above it in space when the probe can only be found in the line between earth and space
 
I got to go to bed for work soon, but I do want to suggest something tomorrow I think people may find a bit crackpot, but I am convinced the champion should have resurrection. Death has had so many mechanics added to it over the years. There is biome achieved only by dying which all npcs interact with, the nurse has dialogue about your deaths, many items can only be crafted in graveyards which are the biomes that require you to die to get, and certain weapons spawn only from tombstones which you also need to die to get.
mr bambu still disagreed with immo type 4 on my hax thread and didnt even answer the stuff me and lou_change said about it lol
 
If they have probes on the planet what if they are already near by
I'm keeping my good arguments for the MFTL+ martians for later when there's a CRT or something, I actually wrote an entire 6 page document with arguments for it, so I'm not going to flood this thread. I'm sure I could get them to trillions of c bare minimum. That's assuming the speedometer is dropped, of course.
 
mr bambu still disagreed with immo type 4 on my hax thread and didnt even answer the stuff me and lou_change said about it
He does that about alot of things. Reminds me of when the creeper calc got updated to use the same method we use now just on a different material and his only response was no. Glad though we can all agree on the immortality though. Want to include it in death battles I write and seeing pretty much everyone else agree on it is satisfying
 
What happens to the spinning skulls?

Also Bambu never responded to my argument in that thread.
 
The only person I see agrue against it on site is the same person who rejected the Terrarian having corruption despite it working on animals and humanoids in videos I sent him on the thread I made.
Plus the Terrarian should have shimmer powers from the shimmer gun. Which is nice
 
I really should finally make my personal blog on how I rate terraria. been putting it off for too long now. Definitely think prehardmode needs to be split up super differently. The weapons you get from breaking the orbs and hearts shouldn’t be in the king slime key, that is a requirement to summon an evil boss and is designed around fighting them. Also the new flail systems shows the blue moon and hell flail scale to each other
 
I really should finally make my personal blog on how I rate terraria. been putting it off for too long now. Definitely think prehardmode needs to be split up super differently. The weapons you get from breaking the orbs and hearts shouldn’t be in the king slime key, that is a requirement to summon an evil boss and is designed around fighting them. Also the new flail systems shows the blue moon and hell flail scale to each other
I am working on a revision for the profile I would argue fishing for crates and the fact there isn't really an armor set locked away unless we assume they are just using the bare minimum recommended by the guide
 
Prehardemode gets all floompy if we use items out of game order when it comes to scaling.
Plus the life crystals are used as a thing of power throughout prehardmode. The eye of Cthulhu sees you as a growing threat if you get enough health and the old man directly says you aren’t strong enough to fight skeletron then you are with just the life crystals alone being a trigger for that. Think it’s very clear the progression is suppose to be more gradual
 
Like the jungle armor specifically fulfills the eye of Cthulhu’s requirements along with iron armor so both scale to him (or higher for jungle armor, can try and explain all my reasonings in a sandbox). Jungle I believe scales to the evil bosses while iron and silver scales to eye
 
so early-game should be stuff like king slime and eye of cthulhu and then we add a "Post-Eye" key?
 
so early-game should be stuff like king slime and eye of cthulhu and then we add a "Post-Eye" key?
The eye has quite a bit higher spawn requirements but no feats beyond pure upscale to separate him. So it’s awkward because many weapons scale to 8-B while others would be possibly 8-A. I can talk about the evil bosses tomorrow. Want to see what you guys think of the guide saying they prevent meteors and it being shown because meteors absolutely can’t fall till they die including meteor swarms. One will always fall upon the night they die
 
Question: Would I need to make some kind of cosmology blog for Terraria about the most likely location for the player's planet and the martian homeworld before making a calc using different ends (like interplanetary, interstellar, intergalactic) for the distance between them? I don't think just throwing out that the most likely distance for the planets is interstellar in the middle of a calc would be accepted without a very big explanation for it, which I have.
 
just to be sure, i need more opinions on the high 3-A stuff from bottomless shimmer bucket because as of currently i dont really see a counter to my arguments aside from "the terrarian might not be lifting the pocket dimension"
 
For earlier game lifting strength, the king slime has a dash attack and you can block that with the Sargent shield, the old one army sword, and prevent them from moving you around with a grappling hook. I would like to calculate the force sometime. Also, should the king slime use the lightning for the tackle. I made a thread in the past about the canonness of moves in comparison to projectiles. I think the king slime should count, the lightning specifically has a mechanic of striking at bosses meaning them interacting is an intended mechanic. Unlike say the meteors which don’t have any specific interaction with them.
The Terrarian also swings a whip in comparison to a meteor as the intended move of the weapon, so at the very least would get out of class 5
 
just to be sure, i need more opinions on the high 3-A stuff from bottomless shimmer bucket because as of currently i dont really see a counter to my arguments aside from "the terrarian might not be lifting the pocket dimension"
All bottomless buckets state that they contain an endless amount of the liquid they are holding, so they aren't generating it, they contain it. It being bottomless also means it can't be coming out of a pocket dimension, as it being bottomless implies that there's no separation of spacetime from the infinite liquid inside it to the outside world, its a continuous tunnel of the liquid that goes on forever, like an infinite well. Its a small bucket when looked from outside, but a bottomless well of liquid when you look at the inside of the bucket, the infinite amount of liquid isn't hidden in an inaccessible pocket dimension, its physically there.

In my interpretation, the only thing stopping the bottomless buckets from giving infinite LS is the outlier argument. This is fixed by the endgame, so I don't see why bottomless shimmer bucket can't be accepted.
 
Plus the life crystals are used as a thing of power throughout prehardmode. The eye of Cthulhu sees you as a growing threat if you get enough health and the old man directly says you aren’t strong enough to fight skeletron then you are with just the life crystals alone being a trigger for that.
I figured that more meant you weren't tough enough to survive and just scaled durability. Guide has lines that also help define progression but here is a question is the evil ore post eye
 
The old man specifically talks about your overall power and strength. Plus the game very clearly intends for your Strength and durability to be equal throughout the story.
 
I figured that more meant you weren't tough enough to survive and just scaled durability. Guide has lines that also help define progression but here is a question is the evil ore post eye
platinum pickaxe gets evil ore just fine, so no.
the post-eye is more important for the fact that the dryad comes to your town
 
platinum pickaxe gets evil ore just fine, so no.
the post-eye is more important for the fact that the dryad comes to your town
Platinum can also mine meteor which is invincible to the 8-B explosives (though I want to argue we should go away from those (since red loves traps and thus all of them interact wonky with the player versus everyone else) and see if the king slime’s ke to lightning can replace it, it lines up with the evil bosses being high 7-C if we use the big meteors and as I said earlier, lightning is intended to be interacted with by bosses)
 
The old man specifically talks about your overall power and strength. Plus the game very clearly intends for your Strength and durability to be equal throughout the story.
“You are far too weak to defeat my curse. Come back when you aren't so worthless.”
“You pathetic fool. You cannot hope to face my master as you are now.”
“I hope you have like six friends standing around behind you.”
“Please, no, stranger. You'll only get yourself killed.”
I only think one of the quotes go that far
evil bosses being high 7-C if we use the big meteors and as I said earlier, lightning is intended to be interacted with by bosses)
The line about defeating them causing meteors to fall is that a stabilization feat or what exactly
 
“You are far too weak to defeat my curse. Come back when you aren't so worthless.”
“You pathetic fool. You cannot hope to face my master as you are now.”
“I hope you have like six friends standing around behind you.”
“Please, no, stranger. You'll only get yourself killed.”
I only think one of the quotes go that far

The line about defeating them causing meteors to fall is that a stabilization feat or what exactly
The exact way they do it isn’t really stated. But they are stated in another creatures description to be the most powerful thing the corrupt can make at the time. If it’s the power of the corruption, they scale to it as stated to be a mark of power for the corruption, if it’s magic that’s shown to scale all over the place, if it’s sheer celestial power the pillars state that scales too. All esoteric power systems in the verse are either directly stated to be a showcase of your might or shown to scale. Even an energy rising after the golem’s death was seen as a physical threat to the Martians to the point the left their planet to attack it, so even generic energies are a showcase of power.

The old man literally calls you “weak” and “pathetic fool” then says you are strong enough to break the curse (kill skeletron) if you had enough life crystals. The guide also only stating to gather life crystals for the fight as a sign you are ready.
 
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