User talk:Oscuritaforze

Re: Welcome Message
hello Oscuritaforze. thank you for warm wellcome. i will use your advices for sure. everything best. :) Athemnea (talk) 21:21, February 2, 2014 (UTC)Athemnea


 * Excellent, welcome to the wiki! Let me know if you have any questions. Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:33, February 2, 2014 (UTC)

User images
Oh woops! Sorry about that! So do I post it on Imageshack or Tinypic first, THEN post in on my profile? Or do I not post it on my profile at all? And sorry if I'm not doing this right, this is my first time posting on someones profile. DubstepWhale (talk) 17:35, February 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * No worries, it's not really a major concern. :)


 * Anyway, from my understanding, you upload the images to whichever external source you want to, then you post links on your profile here leading to the images on the external source. I think that is all you need to do, though I'm not 100% sure. (If it isn't, I would suggest looking at/copying the code from the profile pages of Math and Path, as they have working external images displayed there.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:47, February 9, 2014 (UTC)

Categories
Thanks for putting my first 3 Pages in the right catagory :)

TerrariaBoss (talk) 23:13, February 10, 2014 (UTC)TerrariaBoss


 * Not a problem! However, what I actually did was move those pages to your blog, as that is where ideas and social content like that belongs. Enabling commenting and changing the categories on the new page is just part of the process. :)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:26, February 10, 2014 (UTC)

Axes
Could you give your opinion on this when you have time?

http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:259984

Exitwound 45 (talk) 04:03, February 11, 2014 (UTC)

Mining Demonite
thank you for the message, Oscurita. But why can I not mine Demonite in the corruption with my gold pickaxe? AFallenAngel (talk) 18:22, February 11, 2014 (UTC)


 * Welcome to the wiki. :)


 * I responded to your question in the thread you made a little while ago.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:41, February 11, 2014 (UTC)

Clothier Voodoo Doll
hey. i have a question.. i cant kill the clothier. its night, i have the doll equiped,  npc is living next to dungeon. i try to kill him and there is noting going on. ist it 'cause i'm still pre-hardmode? thank you  Athemnea (talk) 15:50, February 13, 2014 (UTC)Athemnea


 * What weapon are you using? The first time I tried to kill him to re-summon Skeletron, using any weapon except a sword did nothing for some reason.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 17:31, February 13, 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Server page
Hello Oscuritaforze, I wanted to see what your thoughts are regarding closing this particular thread, as it is getting very long, goes off topic, and is mostly getting filled with newcomers saying how excited they are to play in it and stating obvious things. Perhaps a new thread could be started with the specific goal of discussing volunteers to run the server, and ideas on how to get the server up and running.

Squazzil (talk) 18:30, February 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * That's not a bad idea, actually. I was hoping that the edit I made to the OP of that thread would be enough, but I guess it wasn't.


 * Thread's been closed; I'll start the next part of the topic in a few minutes.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:59, February 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * Great! thanks for doing that. Hopefully this helps to get things moving in a forward direction.
 * Squazzil (talk) 20:47, February 13, 2014 (UTC)

Changes to GetDataID template
Hey there, Oscuritaforze. With the release of 1.2.3, I've noticed quite a few name conflicts between the item list and NPC list such as Bird, Scorpion, and the other critters. I believe GetDataID is an 'all-in-one' kind of template, when it probably shouldn't be. I was thinking that we could split the template into two separate templates (or however many separate lists are included in it) and use those separate templates within the corresponding infoboxes. Let me know what you think. :)

Drkpanoz (talk) 19:53, February 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * I get the feeling that that would be for the best – we've already had some Data ID confusion over The Destroyer vs. The Destroyer (Painting) in previous updates, and it would probably be more work to keep the GetDataID template working properly and without conflict as it is now than it would be to split it in two.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 20:36, February 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * Alright, sounds good. I was thinking of maybe renaming(?) the current GetDataID to GetItemDataID, use the first section of data IDs from the current template, and create a new template GetNPCDataID for the remaining data IDs. After that, modify the infoboxes to use the item template for items and the NPC template for NPCs (monsters/bosses).


 * Drkpanoz (talk) 21:44, February 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * That sounds like a good idea. Only thing is that the GetDataID template is called in the "Navbar-right" template, so it might take some finagling to get it to call a different template depending on what kind of page it is placed on.


 * (Also, would you check to see if the "Rename" option appears on the template for you? I seem to remember moving pages in the template namespace only being available to admins...)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:38, February 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * Ah, I didn't realize the template was included in the navbar... Yeah, that'll require some thought before changing anything. As for renaming the template, it shows me the option to rename it under the same drop down to edit, view history, and refresh.


 * Drkpanoz (talk) 00:06, February 15, 2014 (UTC)


 * After some thought (and other things), why not pass an argument to the navbar template from the infobox pages indicating which 'type' of navbar it is? Then inside the navbar template, simply switch/if on that argument to determine whether to include a certain GetDataID template. Let me know what you think, although I'd have to play around with templates a bit more to fully implement this.
 * Drkpanoz (talk) 16:44, February 19, 2014 (UTC)

(Reset indentation) So, you mean have a switch result in the navbar template which takes an argument from the infobox to determine which GetDataID template to use? If so, then I think that would work.

Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:06, February 20, 2014 (UTC)


 * Exactly, so you'd have and , for example. That would then allow the navbar template to include the correct GetDataID template.


 * Drkpanoz (talk) 04:24, February 21, 2014 (UTC)


 * Made some preliminary changes to the versions of those templates on the testing wiki. I'll try implementing them here later this week, but feel free to make any adjustments/corrections that you want to in the meantime.


 * Changes to Navbar-right template
 * Changes to the monster infobox
 * Finally, I split GetDataID in two: w:c:fortesting:Template:GetDataID-NPC and w:c:fortesting:Template:GetDataID-item


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:32, February 25, 2014 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late response. Everything looks good and appears to be exactly what I was thinking about. :)


 * Drkpanoz (talk) 14:24, March 3, 2014 (UTC)


 * Alright, excellent. I'll implement those changes over here straightaway.


 * (Considering how I completely forgot about this until now, don't worry about the late response. >_>)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:13, March 3, 2014 (UTC)


 * The changes have been implemented, and everything seems to be working. Let me know if you see any problems or have any other suggestions.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:11, March 6, 2014 (UTC)

(Reset indentation again) Alright, I guess the lists can be updated to 1.2.3 now, since there were major conflicts between items and NPCs before. :)

Drkpanoz (talk) 19:42, March 7, 2014 (UTC)

Critters Category
Hey Oscurita, somebody added a category named "critters" to all the Passive monsters, but wouldn't all those monster fall under the "Passive monster" category anyways making his "Critters category" kinda pointless?

Let me know what you think of it. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 21:51, February 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * Yeah, Category:Critters was definitely redundant with Category:Passive Monsters. I took care of it.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:38, February 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * Awesome, thanks for looking into that.TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 02:01, February 15, 2014 (UTC)

Cross-wiki Issue
I cannot contact you on Smashpedia, so I'll try here.

The incident last night wasn't my fault. It was in fact my little brother's. I would never do something like creating blank curse word titled articles or delete posts. I think that Smashpedia is a fun wiki to show all you know about Smash.

I've been trying to contact you all night and day. I've tried talking to people over community chat, I've tried making a post titled, "Issue With Admin Block". I've tried everything!

I know you probably still don't trust me, but if I ever do this again, even if it wasn't me, feel free to ban me forever.

If you find this on all your favorite Wiki's, I have copied and pasted it into each one to get your attention. I REALLY want to get unbanned. I promise I won't do this again, and if I do, ban me for a ridiculous amount of time.

Sorry to leave a message right after I left another one, but I just checked the Community Central stage and it said admins can ban as long as they give a warning.

I was not warned ahead of time. Was it a mistake or do you think "I" was so mean you had to block me?

Titaniumshow: Attack of the Chinese spambots (?)
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User:Titaniumshow

Just look at all her (its?) edits - they are all about some Chinese metal company or something. I suspect this might be some spam bot and I think that something needs to be done. Just a heads up. Sank Ur Ship (talk) 18:05, February 17, 2014 (UTC)


 * Blocked. Thanks for the heads up.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:01, February 17, 2014 (UTC)

User:Mubindodo
There's a guy who's adding random crap to pages and leaving it there so other people have to correct it! Rololuvsterraria (talk) 20:34, February 19, 2014 (UTC)


 * Responded on the threads on this topic. Thanks for the report.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:15, February 19, 2014 (UTC)

Blogs
Hello, I had a question.

I was wondering if there was anything that could be done about blogs. Recently almost none of the blogs are actually "blogs" but actually just spam (I'm assuming for the achievement). I was curious if there was anything that administrators might be able to do about this because they contribute nothing and from what I've noticed, it really bothers myself and ,more importantly, the other active wiki contributors in the community. It seems like a situation that would draw scrutiny to itself as a sort of misuse of the wiki. Thank you for your time.

Best,

Tungsten Beetle (talk) 06:18, February 20, 2014 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I sent several of the other admins (,, , , , and ) a yesterday on this very issue. I'll see if there are any replies in the next couple of days, then we'll go from there.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:06, February 20, 2014 (UTC)

Visible Accesories
Hey Oscuritaforze, somebody has begun to add a new catergory named "Visible Accesories" the creator of the page stated "This is Page made for accesories that changes look of your character." I'm not so sure this is valid, can you look into it?TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 14:55, February 21, 2014 (UTC)

Never mind, It seems to be fine.TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 15:00, February 21, 2014 (UTC)

User Warning
Hey Oscuritaforze, there is a user called Clemain Legend who has recently been adding a large number of pages to inappropriate, or ill-thought out categories, which took a lot of time for TerrariamcSwaggins to clean up. I do not think this is worthy of a User being blocked or banned, so could you please give him an official warning to take the wikia seriously and stop mucking around.

Thank you

CobraJD (talk) 18:27, February 21, 2014 (UTC)


 * Looks like those edits were intended in good faith, so I don't think a warning is necessary at this point (especially since we don't exactly have a policy to tell users how to categorize pages). That said, I will leave him a short explanation of how categorization works on this wiki.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:33, February 21, 2014 (UTC)

Reply
I am very for taking down achievements. As most tiny edits (I mean the edits which change nothing) and spam blogs are a result of the achievement system. --♪ I shot the sheriff! ♪ ~ 19:40, February 21, 2014 (UTC)

Infobox images
yes i need a small help

when you are doing a monster template how i put a picture to it


 * If you want to put an image in an infobox, all you need to do is add the "image" parameter to the template.


 * Here's what it would look like in practice, using the Green Slime as an example:


 * Hope this helps!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:32, February 25, 2014 (UTC)

Multiple Zombie Pages
Hey Oscuritaforze, you may have noticed all the new Zombie Pages being added to the Wiki. (Twiggy Zombie, Swamp Zombie, etc) Well, Squazzil and I were questioning whether they are valid pages or they were put up out of ingorance.

Could you look into it? TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 18:06, February 26, 2014 (UTC)


 * Checked in-game to see if zombie variations are called anything other than "Zombie", but none of them are. Thinking that this will need to be discussed further, but we can keep them all on one page for now.


 * (Made those pages into redirects.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 20:39, February 26, 2014 (UTC)


 * Ok, sounds good.


 * TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 20:45, February 26, 2014 (UTC)

drops
so i killed a Pink Jellyfish and then the next real day i got invaded by goblins so i used my lava trap. They both dropped Mechanical Skull's i am cunfused has this happened to you or another admin

Nickhoude21 (talk) 00:09, February 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * If you are in Hard Mode, then that is intended behavior; all mobs gain a chance of dropping a Mechanical Eye, Mechanical Skull, or Mechanical Worm once the Wall of Flesh is defeated in order to speed up progression through the game.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 00:55, February 27, 2014 (UTC)

Concerning the Heart Arrow page
Hi Oscuritaforze! I see that you removed the speedy deletion template and category in Heart Arrows. I added the speedy deletion template and category as as there is already another Heart Arrow page with more information. What I did was a bit risky, but I don't think it should have cleanup, as the other page has the same info, only more complete and clean. Please tell me what I could do next time when this type of problem occurs. Thanks for reading. :) Jonathang (talk) 08:33, March 1, 2014 (UTC)


 * Ah, I didn't realize that there was already an established page for that item. Thanks for letting me know!


 * Anyway, in cases of duplicate pages where both titles seem likely to be linked to or searched for, one of the pages (depends on the context which one) is usually turned into a redirect to the other one. In this case, since the titles used for all other ammo types on this wiki are singular, Heart Arrow is the one which remains.


 * (Syntax for making a redirect is to simply replace all content on the page with .)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 08:55, March 1, 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. :D Jonathang (talk) 08:59, March 1, 2014 (UTC)

Profile Picture
Oscuritaforze, what's that thing in your profile pic?


 * It is Lehran's Medallion (aka the Fire Emblem) from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:13, March 3, 2014 (UTC)

Image Policy Question
Hello Oscuritaforze, I had a quick question about the Image Policy page.

I support the proposed Policy but I'm not sure how to show my support.

Do I simply click the edit button in the Support Section and type out my two cents, or is there something else I need to do?

TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 22:19, March 5, 2014 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that's the gist of it. Just replace the "..." under "Support" with your opinion + signature.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:52, March 5, 2014 (UTC)


 * Alright, thanks man. :)


 * Have a nice day. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 23:00, March 5, 2014 (UTC)

Petty Vandal?
Hey Oscuritaforze, Deepwater99 seems to be a petty vandal, so far, he has deleted useful information, added a useless tip, and completely deleted an Infobox. Not sure if I should assume good faith because it seems like vandalism.

Could you look into it?

TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 14:30, March 6, 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm willing to give this user the benefit of the doubt for now, as it looks like almost all of their edits were trying to be helpful. In particular, this series of edits looks like an attempt to replace the infobox with a table which has mostly the same information. It may be a little misguided, but it's probably not vandalism.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:11, March 6, 2014 (UTC)


 * Alright, sounds good.


 * Have a nice day. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 02:31, March 7, 2014 (UTC)

Suggestions
may i just ask a question friend? on re logic web i sent a messege with the mobs and pets and items and bosses and mini bosses that i want. and in the message i said sent me an email on my email opilamanghep@yahoo.com after aweek i found nothing new in my email. THE THING I NEED YOU IN TO HELP ME THAT COULD YOU HELP ME BY CHECKING? hope you help

i sent that to you because you are an admin


 * Hi Ghepo.


 * Unfortunately, I don't actually have any direct ties to the creators of Terraria – I just administrate this wiki. However, for future reference, I imagine that email would not be the best way to contact Re-Logic on matters like that, as the only times I've seen people directed to that email address were when they were making business inquiries. Instead, I would recommend making game suggestions in this subforum on Terraria Online, as it seems like that is where they would be most likely to be seen.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 20:39, March 7, 2014 (UTC)

Guidelines for naming objects with two variants
Hey forze, strange title, I know. Anyway, I was just going through the new critter items added in 1.2.3, and I noticed that they all have an accompanying NPC (Monarch Butterfly creates Monarch Butterfly(Material)). I'm curious to know what the correct page naming policy would be for these kinds of pages. I like the (Material) tag on the end, but the spacing is wrong and I feel Material is too specific a designation -- maybe simply Monarch Butterfly (item) or Monarch Butterfly (Item) would suffice? I've updated the GetDataID-item template to reflect the (Material) tag but it can easily be changed.

Drkpanoz (talk) 22:25, March 7, 2014 (UTC)


 * Hmm, I never thought about those items in that way before; they are technically used as more than just materials, aren't they? I think that changing the tag after their name to "(Item)" makes the most sense as a naming convention for that type of situation.


 * (Also, what would you think about the GetDataID templates being based on the   parameter in the infoboxes* rather than using  ? Considering how we now have separate templates for items and NPCs, I thought that we might as well take advantage of it to store Data IDs with the actual names of entities as they appear in-game.)


 * * For example, having  in the infobox of The Destroyer (Painting) would mean that the Data ID retrieved would be that of "The Destroyer" stored in Template:GetDataID-item.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:00, March 8, 2014 (UTC)

Admin
hello oscuritaforze i need another small help

its a wierd question but HOW I BE AN ADMIN

(when you leave an answer put it at my page)


 * first thing thanks for the help but i didnot understand


 * second thing what admin do?

Mobile Updates
Just wanted to give you a heads up on the recent St. Patrick's Day Mobile update. There is new information being added to the wiki that may need some cleanup. I have also attempted to do some edit cleanups, but I don't play this version so my knowledge is very limited. Also, I made a redirect page for the Pet Leprechaun O'Fyffe but there may have been a mistake made that I cannot trace back to fix. The original page was spelled with a lowercase 'o' in O'Fyffe. Thanks for your help,

Squazzil (talk) 14:41, March 8, 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up, but I'm afraid that I don't play mobile Terraria either. I won't be of more use than anyone else when it comes to updating those pages.


 * (Though after cross-referencing with the changelist on Google Play, it looks like "O'Fyffe" is the correct spelling for the new pet that was added. For future reference, adding "?redirect=no" to the end of a redirect's URL will allow you to navigate to the redirect page without being redirected.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:00, March 8, 2014 (UTC)

Potential Vandal
Hey Osuritaforze, Kidsnakeeyes111 seems to be a vandal, for an example, he made the damage for the Undertaker 100000000000000, and he made a "Balls" reference on the flare gun page.

Could you look into it? TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 22:05, March 8, 2014 (UTC)


 * Looks like already took care of that.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 00:54, March 9, 2014 (UTC)

Images
another question.

can you put an image to page pet spider and pet leprechaun o'ffye and pot o gold and pet cupid and broken heart crystal and pet zombie and pet werewolf?

this is a help for the wiki. usually terraria wiki is my always the help for me when i play terraria

Concerning Policies
Hey Oscuritaforze, I had a question, are Admins the only ones allowed to write up and propose Policies, or can any Confirmed User write up a Policy.

I'm asking you this because I'm getting ready to start working on a Policy for Blogging, just wanted to know if I'm good to go.

Thanks. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 17:45, March 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * Go right ahead! The policy proposal system is intended to be able to be used by anyone.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:11, March 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks man, I'll get right to it then.


 * Have a nice day. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 19:23, March 9, 2014 (UTC)

Don't mind me, just never here
Ah, sorry that I'm never around. I've spent so little time on Terraria and school/friends tend to get in the way, so I've been coming around too little to contribute much. My bad.

I never really saw the appeal of achievements in the first place, and think that they are a bad idea (in anything ever) so, yeah. So you have my belated support for the decision.

I'll try and pop in from time to time to help with checking in, and I'll definitely put aside time to show up after patches. Port5 (talk) 22:26, March 10, 2014 (UTC)Port5


 * No worries, real life trumps wikistuff any day.


 * Anyway, glad to see you back (for the moment, at any rate...)!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:05, March 10, 2014 (UTC)

Concerning the Blog Policy
Hey Oscuritaforze, feel free to make any changes to the Blog Policy that you feel will improve it, I'm totally fine with it as long as you don't alter it too much.

Have a nice day. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 22:44, March 10, 2014 (UTC)


 * Alright then. I'll publish the changes I made now.


 * (On a side note, though: please try to keep all of the conversation regarding the policy discussions on Terraria Wiki talk:Policy. It's just easier to keep track of that way.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:05, March 10, 2014 (UTC)

Blocked?
Hey Oscuritaforze, I think I got blocked, I'm not sure if its a probelm with my computer or maybe I did something wrong? I was on the Starbound Wikia when this happened.

Like, whenever I go to edit a page, the edit button dissapears, but I can still join the chat, comment, leave messages and edit page by going through the Stub edit option.

I'm not sure what going on, could you look into it.


 * You definitely haven't been blocked here, and it looks like you weren't blocked on the Starbound Wiki, either. I would guess that it was just a bug with Wikia, so you should probably try to contact a Wikia Staff member on Community Central if the problem persists.


 * (You could also try submitting a bug report via Special:Contact/bug. If you do this, make sure to provide as many details as possible.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 20:17, March 12, 2014 (UTC)


 * Alright, thanks, I think it might be a problem with my laptop, thanks for the help though.
 * Edit: Looks like its back to working, thanks again.


 * Have a nice day. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 20:23, March 12, 2014 (UTC)