User blog:KR1570 YT/Guide for Newbie Terraria Players

What's going on guys, here I'm back with another blog by KR1570! This time, I won't discuss about my Terraria Expert Mode series, but instead, I'll give a complete guide for newbie Terraria players. So, here it is:

1. Starting a new world:

First, create your character first, you can customize it and set a name for it (Don't choose Hardcore or Mediumcore, because it's too challenging for newbie players. Instead, choose Softcore). After you finished creating the character, double click on your character and a new menu will show up.

Create a world, I recommend choose Small world because Medium and Large worlds are way too big for newbie players. Medium and Large worlds took a very long time to create, and to travel from the edge of the world to the other side took some time, unless you use a teleporter.

This part is veerrryy important. CHOOSE NORMAL!!! Don't choose Expert, UNLESS... you are experienced, or you want to die a lot. Expert World's enemies and bosses are wayyy more harder than the Normal one. Even I died a lot in Expert Mode. Loots are more rare in Expert Mode, but bosses will drop a special item called Treasure Bags. You'll understand that later, but choose normal. Normal Mode is the Original Terraria.

Then, choose your world evil (Corruption or Crimson). It's very recommended to choose Corruption because the enemies and the boss is not that hard compared to the Crimson. But the weapons and items are more weak compared to the Crimson. In conclusion, Crimson is hard and have better loots, Corruption is easier, but weaker loots. But be careful though in the Corruption, because it has big gaps and can be very dangerous for newbie players.

Lastly, Name your World, and let the game create your world. After your world is created, go in your world.

2. Your First Day:

So, In your world, you'll see the ground, many trees and the Guide NPC (Non-Player character). Be sure to talk to him by right clicking him. Move your character with WASD and SPACE (default controls). When you talk to the Guide, he will give you some useful tips (useless for me :p), and give you the Crafting session, where you can see all of the possible crafted items with an item. We'll talk about that later.

Ok, now you can see that there are some tools in your hotbar. Press esc to see your inventory, press it again to go back. Now, go choose the Copper Axe to cut down a tree. Scroll your mouse or use the numbers. press ctrl for easier mining and building. Aim you cursor to the bottom of the tree and start cutting until you have around 500.

Next, go craft a workbench, and try to explore your world. You might go into another biome, like snow or desert. If you find the desert, go cut some cactus down, until you have at least 50. Then go back to your original spawnpoint (where you first go in the world) and craft cactus stuffs. Make sure you have full set of cactus armor and a cactus sword, because it's so good for beginners.

After you've crafted the cactus set (If you didn't find any desert it's ok. Next, go build a simple house for you and the Guide to settle in. It may sound like "Are you nuts? I've just played Terraria like a few minutes ago, and you asked me to build a house?!" but actually it's easy. Go make at least 5x10 square made of wood (4x8 in the inside), and make a 3 blocks high doorway in the end of each side of the square. Place your workbench inside your box, and craft some wood walls, a chair and 2 doors. Next, place the doors on the space at the end of each side, and fill your house with the wood walls until it's full. Make sure you have killed at least a slime, so you can craft a torch to place in your house. and boom, you've finished your first house!

It should be evening and night will come soon... you better stay in your house and do nothing. If you want, go dig down from the middle of your house to make a hellevator (the gap that goes from the surface to the underworld, or dividing the world into 2 parts). But this isn't recommended, unless you are bored waiting for the day to come in.