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= Vandal reports =

has infested specific pages of the wiki with quote "70.92.114.199 22:57, 5 November 2022 (UTC)- 11/5/2022
 * Blocked. — Ferretwings, Wiki Specialist ( talk ) 01:39, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

HUGE chunks of information being vandalized on several pages including transmutations and Shimmer.
 * I am not seeing it? I need the vandal's name, or ip #. If it was too vulgar, the revert may be hidden from me. In the future, please include the vandal's name in your report. Thank you! — Ferretwings, Wiki Specialist ( talk ) 01:39, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Created page BAN_SPEEDRUN_PLEASE_BAN_ME_LOLOLOL that contains a post from 4chan and a Pokemon Go screenshot --EddyMRA (talk) 08:09, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked. — Ferretwings, Wiki Specialist 02:14, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I wonder if it was the same person who posted the report. Would be a good speedrun strat. Flarn2006 (talk) 17:13, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

These two are active;y vandalizing the Terraformer Page with non related info (calling the item "Bob") and posting rick rolls in the History Section. PKR Pokerage (talk) 03:03, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked 03:12, 29 September 2022 (UTC). —  Ferretwings, Wiki Specialist

Petulant child altering blocks of text to be entirely unrelated and inappropriate, altering images to be entirely unrelated. Edits may also be doxxing an individual, themselves or not. 18:13, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Vandalizing pages to include a bunch of.. mush, basically. Still ongoing. His edits on the pages Golem, Guide:Getting started, Mobile version and Re-Logic could not be reverted by a normal user, due to abuse rules. 18:44, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

,, Vandalism, pornographic images, repeated vandalism after an edit --Mathbrush1 (talk) 15:29, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Edits banners to random semi-related images. Quotes random sentences from the page in the edit description to make them appear like legitimate edit. 107.2.104.203 01:25, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * They're still at it. 107.2.104.203 23:55, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Vandalism on /wiki/Reindeer_Bells, changed bells to balls -- Drinkaholik 18:11, 10 December 2021‎ (UTC)

3 different edits changing "post-Plantera" to "pre-Plantera". in all cases this was wrong, so its clearly vandalism -- Drinkaholik (talk) 15:55, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Multiple "troll" edits to pages on the wiki-- Drinkaholik 00:10, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --Eraloiz (talk) 16:30, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism on Re-Logic page -- changed Sarah "Waffles" Data's pronouns to he/him 47.157.79.137 02:45, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism on mutiple pages. -- BadPiggy1024 (talk) 04:46, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism, repeated an edit after reversion. --Silverthedragon (talk) 01:26, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

= Other issues =

Constant notification to try "Dark Mode" (which is not a gameplay issue)
Hello Admin folk,

Can a cookie be developed to make the "Reading hard on your eyes? Try dark-mode (blah-blah-blah)" to go away when I'm signed in and utilizing dark-mode for eons now?

I wasn't sure where to post this since it's a site issue and has zero to do with playing the game. Please advise if there's a better place to address this crucial (ha) matter (but still)... it takes up a decent and unnecessary amount of my browser page consistently.

I knew you'd understand ;)

Thanks, Motozappa (aka Dan) Motozappa (talk) 05:21, 7 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Clicking "[dismiss]" on the right side of the popup should hide it permanently, unless the  cookie gets reset. I don't think it's possible to automatically disable it if you already have dark mode enabled though, since it uses MediaWiki:Sitenotice. --Eraloiz (talk) 06:37, 7 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Eraloiz, I installed the "Cookie-Editor" add-on in Firefox, deleted the dismissSiteNotice cookie and when the notice returned I disabled Dark Hydra and then dismissed the notice on the upper right. I've returned to Dark Hydra and hope the notice stops popping up. Thanks for the quick help, Motozappa  Motozappa (talk) 18:11, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Developer API for JSON fetching
Hello! I was wondering if this mediaWiki has the developer API enabled so we could parse pages from JSON and create some neat tools based off of the information captured here?

For example, a fun side project would be re-creating the Guide's ability to look up crafting recipes, but in this case pulling the latest information from this wiki :)

Let me know if you have any questions! Best, Dan Hagmandan (talk) 17:51, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

EDIT: from reading earlier posts, i found my answer :) thank you!

Page Editing Glitch?
If the screenshot I tried to upload didn't appear, I'll explain what's happening; whenever I finish an edit and go to save the changes, the popup that's supposed to have me input my reason for changing the page and the 'save changes' button appears behind the page's paragraphs. Every time I try to press a button, it clicks onto the paragraphs instead.

I'm not sure if I'm the only one having this problem, or if it is caused by me not having an account, but this keeps happening. This time, a captcha popped up, and because I can't click on it (due to paragraphs being on top of it), I cannot save the changes I made. I'm not sure if this is where I'm supposed to bring problems like this, but I didn't see anywhere else to do so.

[EDIT] I zoomed in to 110% and it moved the box in front of the paragraphs, so I could save. Pretty sure this still isn't how the page is supposed to work though...

107.77.206.78 05:11, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Please add the Link for dedicated Server Downloads
Terraria was updated and there is a new Terraria Server Software. Found here: https://terraria.org/system/dedicated_servers/archives/000/000/043/original/terraria-server-142.zip

Please add the link to this list: https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Server#Downloads

Images do not display
The images on all pages are gone, they're even removed completely from the DOM. This happens consistently across different browsers and devices for me (and on all language wikis). Does anybody have a clue what's going on? --Rye Greenwood (talk) 15:53, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

I don't know if this is related but will post under this topic anyway. It seems to be a possible bug related to the template/code that generates NPC's icons in eg this page https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/NPCs/preferences (note that the page has not been edited so it's not related to the specific page). Also when previewing in edit mode the icons do appear. Timbof5 (talk) 00:12, 9 April 2021 (UTC)


 * This is most definitely just a caching issue, and not a site, db, or image repo issue. You can forcefully purge the page with ?action=purge (or from the "More" drop-down, if the Purge gadget is enabled), which should also resolve the issue. Since it's likely a browser caching issue, deleting the relevant portion of your browser's cache will also force an update and resolve the issue. Forcing a refresh of the page with Ctrl+F5 should resolve the issue, but possibly won't. Purging the page, however, should be consistent for all readers.MoltonMontro (talk) 01:02, 9 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Cache related sounds likely, I also noticed some code was modified related to caching recently but i can't say if that's relevant. I already tried force update and it did not help, but visiting the same page now it works, the images are showing correctly. I did not try ?action=purge or anything like that (nor should that be a viable solution to all ask users to do..) - I guess someone did something? Timbof5 (talk) 02:05, 9 April 2021 (UTC)


 * I tried purging cache on https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Healing_Potion which was still displaying without images since this issue started. Used the url https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Healing_Potion?action=purge and uit helped. But isn't this likely to be a problem for many users? I did nothing to warrant this behaviour. Does purging the cache work at server level? If so maybe a full cache purge is warranted at this time Timbof5 (talk) 02:19, 9 April 2021 (UTC)


 * It's certainly not my browser cache though, as I went to a page I haven't visited yet (https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Silly_Balloons) and it had no images. I did the ?action=purge and voila, but there's gotta be a way an admin could do a site wide purge?


 * I didn't mention it in my initial reply, but the caching issues won't be permanent for any reader, regardless of whether or not they end up manually trying to resolve the problem.
 * Someone with access to the server (specifically, the LocalSettings.php configuration file) should be able to resolve the issue "at the server level" by setting $wgCacheEpoch to the current date & time–this would forcefully invalidate every page, including media files. Ideally, the configuration FANDOM uses would avoid issues like caching irregularities, but I don't know what their setup is. In my initial reply, I said it was "most definitely [not] a site, db, or image repo issue", but what's most likely happened is that they've changed either the file repository being used, and/or the wiki's configuration for/to their repo. The fancy URL path to the image repo, for example, has most likely changed recently, which while still ultimately a caching issue it would help explain why you couldn't see Silly Balloons.MoltonMontro (talk) 16:42, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Template:Dotlist improvement
Hi! Can you please add zero width spaces in Template:Dotlist when  (on both sides of the dots)?

The HTML code is &#8203;

That’d help marking e.g. secret world seeds by double clicking them.


 * The dots are created using pseudo-elements, and there was in fact already a zero-width space in the ::before pseudo-element of each list item. It seems that it didn't have any effect, though, so I moved it to the actual content of each list item. You should be able to select a single list item by double-clicking it now. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 16:59, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Stardust Armor Trivia
Since the developers have confirmed that the Stardust Guardian is not a reference to Jojo, why not just remove that info from the page and leave a note in the codes? The editing restriction is now preventing the edits to change a grammatical error. BadPiggy1024 (talk) 12:08, 25 June 2021 (UTC)


 * That's fair, I have disabled the abuse filter. Sorry for the inconvenience! --Rye Greenwood (talk) 17:37, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Aglet page states two different values
Hello admins, I know this seems like an easy fix but I cannot find a way to change it myself. On the page for Aglet it states correctly that it is a 1/45 drop chance from crates but on the drop infobox it states 1/225 (on both wooden and pearlwood crates) which is incorrect. I think the problem comes from the Drops cargo table which also states the incorrect value of 1/225. I'm not sure how to edit the table so I believe that only admins can do it so that's why I'm bringing this up. Demonic680 (talk) 16:10, 28 July 2021 (UTC)


 * The crates have a 1/45 chance to drop a single item from the group of items the Aglet is in. Since there's 5 items in that group, 1/225 should be correct. I've updated the page. --Eraloiz (talk) 19:19, 28 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Alright thanks for clearing up the confusion Demonic680 (talk) 17:25, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Princess Trivia.
I found that the interaction quote "Like my dress? Gee, thanks! Just sewed it." could be a reference to 7 rings by Ariana Grande. Maybe add it to the trivia? Filip_Nwakor (talk) 20:23, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Upcoming features/Archive 1.4.0.1 Gallery
Please replace the Stardust Guardian attack gif in Upcoming features/Archive 1.4.0.1 with File:Stardust Guardian 1.4 teaser.gif. BadPiggy1024 (talk) 09:30, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Party bullets
I was in a master mode play through and was checking the wiki for types of amunition, but I noticed that it says party bullets arent a hard mode item, even tough they require the empty bullet item to craft. I just wanted to inform you all so this can be fixed.
 * This fits better on the talk page of the Party Bullets. Also, it does say they're Hardmode items. --AmsterWikis (talk) 02:06, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * They can drop from Pigronatas, which is a pre-Hardmode item. BadPiggy1024 (talk) 03:13, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

interlink
hello avery one, i need to ask, is there in this wiki a page to make a interlanguage link request for in-wiki translation projects ? i worked an this page Coal/ar that it's a subpage of this Coal, and i want to ask, is my work fellow the style guide or i have made a mistake. and thanks Goddamnpro (talk) 05:40, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Error on front page
On the front page of this wiki, I noticed that the Deerclops is incorrectly listed under the hardmode boss section. This is incorrect, as he is available in pre-hardmode.

Optic Staff page minor typo
In the "Projectile created" part of the Optic Staff's infobox, Retinamini's name is mistyped as "Retinimini". I don't think I can change this, and when I check the attached image's name, it too has the typo.

Icons for the old and new Chinese versions of the game
I've noticed that there's currently very little documentation on the two Chinese versions of Terraria on this wiki. I'm filling in a bunch of the information, but I've noticed that the icon templates such as 'eicons' and 'exclusive' lack icons for the versions. Adding these would be very much appreciated so that I can continue to fully document these versions.

Being able to add the recipe for the Otherworld Core would be great, too.

(--AntiGravityMaster 00:29, 26 July 2022 (UTC))

Item updates
Ankh charm ingredients list is now: Armor Bracing, Medicated Bandage, Reflective Shades, The Plan, Countercurse Mantra

Reflective Shades is a new item. Ingredients: Blindfold, Pocket Mirror

I don't know how to wiki, so there's some info for someone who does :)

Mechdusa
Mechdusa is a boss that is only availble in the Everything seed(getfixedboi). It is summonable with the Orcram's Razor, and can be summoned anywhere in the world. Which is made with the three mechanical bosses summons individually at an mythril/orichalchum anvil. All the mechanical bosses are fused into one. With The Twins as the Eyes, Skeletron Prime as the head, and The Destroyer as the body.

Axe of Regrowth
A recipe for the Axe of Regrowth needs to be added. It is made with the Staff of Regrowth, tin/copper axe, 3 vines, and 12 jungle spores at a workbench.

Cant reclaim my username VMan2002 on wiki.gg
Can't reclaim my username VMan2002 on https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Special:ClaimExternalAccount it says "This username is not claimable." VMan2002 (talk) 01:03, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You didn't do any contributions before the fork so there would be no point in reclaiming this account. You just needs to register on wiki.gg with same username. 116.233.177.252 15:00, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Hive-Five Page Missing Recipe
The Hive-Five page is missing its recipe. The recipe is 14 Bee Wax at a workbench, and since I can't edit the database to add it, I thought I'd let you folks know here.

Capitalized Town Slimes Page Name
Name for the Town Slimes needs to be capitalized. I can't do it myself because it says I need to edit the page more before I am allowed to change the name. TheShadowGold (talk) 19:03, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Trimarang recipe error
The Trimarang's recipe was entered into the workbench recipe database with a spelling error in the item's name. Viewing the page source shows that 'Timarang' was entered into the recipe name instead of 'Trimarang'.

Undo required for https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Platinum_Ore in the crafting section, I tried to fix a mistake but ended up screwing the crafting section links up :\
74.67.132.82 21:08, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Potion page elements cannot be expanded
Several users are reporting an inability to view the potion recipes on the Potions page despite having javascript enabled. See complaints here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/s82ymn/comment/isq71ry/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Here is an image of the issue : https://imgur.com/xF5MrTL

The Chlorophyte Extractinator currently has no recipe table.
So I was trying to fill out the Chlorophyte Extractinator's page, but it currently has no recipe table. Can someone please fix this? 74.67.132.82 21:08, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Typo present in Recipes/Work Bench/register
In the Recipes/Work Bench/register the "Trimarang" recipe has a typo and is listed as "Timarang", breaking links on subsequent recipe pages.

The wiki won't let me type the name of a block in the game
I was on the Fart Kart page and noticed that someone had referred to "P.oo blocks". I figured this was a typo so I removed the period from the name, only to see my edit was rejected because it tripped a filter for disallowing certain words. I think that word should be removed from the filter because it's literally the name of one of the blocks in the game, so references to that word aren't necessarily vandalism. Flarn2006 (talk) 17:11, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Do you have the Fart Kart? I don't think it can be used as a toilet, so I'm just going to remove that bit entirely. I am considering removing that word from the abuse filter, but I'm wondering jut how often that word would be legitimately used. — Ferretwings, Wiki Specialist 21:26, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

someone infiltrated the wiki
In the boss page of the terraria wiki, there is a person who changed the text to I am chase even westfall and i have infiltrated this wiki with my balls. It really annoys me because this wiki is an important tool for beginners of terraria. I wish you guys can change it back. Thanks. ;)

Recipes/Placed Bottle/register
Recipes/Placed Bottle/register is missing the recipe for the Biome Sight Potion added in 1.4.4, which prevents the Recipes template from working on its page. The page is locked to admin-only, so I'm mentioning it here :) Thanks! Super Saiyan 7 Somebody talk 19:16, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Got that fixed, it should now be working as expected. – Sad0atmeal09876 20:15, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Recipes/Heavy Work Bench/register
Recipes/Heavy Work Bench/register is missing the Ecto Mist recipe for both the Repaired Life Crystal & Life Crystal Bolder added in 1.4.4, which prevents the recipes template from working on the page. This is also the case for the Repaired Mana Crystal. ''Don't forget to change the "expectedrows" field for both the Life Crystal(5) & Mana Crystal(3) respectively, Thanks! :D''