User talk:Oscuritaforze

Re: Welcome
Hey,

Thank you for welcome message, I'm not used to wiki pages but as I play this game I thought I could update some informations that are wrong after 1.2 update.

I have a lot of work (IT leader), that said I'm not going to be very active but late night I can share my time.

Take care, Simon.

Day7 (talk) 21:04, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Talk Pages
Hello, thanks for the welcome! Out of curiosity, as an administrator of another wiki, why did you choose to stick with Talk pages? c: I personally find Message walls to be a neat, user-friendly alternative, but that's just me, haha. I wish you good luck with maintaining this wiki, especially with the oncoming rush due to the 1.2 update.

Kida155 (talk) 10:13, October 3, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey there, welcome to the wiki! :)


 * The decision to continue to use talk pages on this wiki was made long before I was made an admin here. I'm personally OK with that, as I'm quite interested in reading through the history of wikis, and I find that it is far easier to look through old messages on talk pages than it is on message walls (for instance: unless I'm mistaken, messages on message walls cannot be archived).


 * Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:17, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congratz on admin! This may be super late due to me losing interest in terraria then re-gaining interest and going onto the wiki again, but still, congratulations! ~Sincerely, Love, Best wishes, Wutnold124. Wutnold124 (talk) 12:45, October 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. :) Oscuritaforze (talk) 17:13, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Welcome Message
Wow, i didn't know you sent me my first ever message when i edited that bee.jpg. I knew it was from you but i thought it was just an automated message sent to everyone, i like the work you put into it, thanks a lot for the welcome, by the way and congratz on admin!

Ninjahuey (talk) 21:14, October 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi there, thanks for the congratulations! However, if you are talking about this message, that is indeed an automated message – specifically the  template. It is automatically added to the talk pages of new users once they have made an edit in a content namespace. I believe that the signature at the end is taken randomly from the list of administrators (though it seems to use my name more often than most; I suppose it could also be the admin who has edited on the wiki most recently?).


 * With all that said, welcome to the wiki! Looks like you've been one of the most active new users, so hopefully you'll stick around!


 * Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:51, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

Chat
Come to chat please!

Techman129 04:01, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

Question
Will 1.2 come out on console version too?

Just asking because your a person that looks like that you know

Gabs9996 (talk) 16:06, October 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * According to 505 Games, their intent is to bring as much of the new content to the console version as possible.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:11, October 5, 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Banner Contest
Hi!I am posting this to inform and ask the adminstrators of the terraria wiki that there are posts in the forum to define a new banner.Several members of this wiki DO want to start a contest to choose a new banner.I am asking permission to start this contest,but under control of a administrator.Plase DO answer,

Wikiacontribuitor (talk) 10:05, October 6, 2013 (UTC)


 * If you want to start a contest for the wiki banner, you don't need to ask for permission from anyone to start a new thread for it. Decisions like that are up to the wiki's community, after all. :)


 * (With that said: you don't have to, but I would prefer it if you would wait to start the contest until the existing thread hasn't been commented on in at least a few days. That way, we can make sure that discussion is fully moved to the contest thread rather than being split between two places. Also, it would be a good idea to include a "keep the banner as-is" as an option in case there are people who don't want to switch the banner.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:54, October 6, 2013 (UTC)

Block Request
User:Yolomcswagins is a user whose only edits have been vandalism. I would like to request that they are blocked, just in case they decide to keep up this behavior.


 * Thanks for the report. User has been blocked.


 * (Also, this is probably a good time to make note of the Block Requests and Merge/Move Requests threads. I know that at least two admins (myself and Mathmagician) are watching those threads, so if there isn't an immediate response regarding a problem on the wiki, they are good places to report them.)


 * Thanks again, Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:28, October 8, 2013 (UTC)

Congrats
Hello,

Congratulations on your promotion to admin! By the way, thank you for the warm welcome to the wiki, though my response is a bit late.

Regards,

Metael (talk) 01:11, October 9, 2013 (UTC)

Hello! ThaGamerNinja (talk) 02:30, October 9, 2013 (UTC)

Rollback/Chat Mod Rights
Hey, to reply to the message you left me in chat: I would love to have those rights, if I qualify and the other staff approve, of course. Rollback would definitely help curb any vandalism and such, and there have been some instances where Chat Mod privilages would have been handy recently. I definitely try my best to be active both in the chat and here on the site, I'm just glad it's been noticed. ^^

Sorry about not replying sooner in the chat, I was attempting to get Terraria set up on my Macbook, hehe. - Kida155 (talk) 00:36, October 10, 2013 (UTC)


 * Alright, then! I can give you the chatmod rights right away (I'm pretty sure those have historically not required any discussion), but the rollback rights may take a little while; they can only be given out by a bureaucrat (which I am not), and there isn't a consensus or clear policy on whether they require a nomination or not.


 * Keep up the good work!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 00:50, October 10, 2013 (UTC)

iOS Information
Hey, your friendly neighborhood user here, just wondering if information from the iOS version of Terraria is going to be added, or if it's just going to be completely ignored by players of the other two versions, as is the case with most Minecraft players. If this wikis staff do plan to add iOS to it's database, I'd be glad to help in any way I can.

AmericanNirvana (talk)


 * Hello AmericanNirvana.


 * I believe that differences in the mobile versions of Terraria were supposed to be covered in a subsection of the Console Version page at some point, but no one knowledgeable ever got around to it. If you are interested in adding that information, please feel free. :)


 * (Though if the page mentioned above is updated in that way, it would probably need to be moved to the title "Console/Mobile Version".)


 * Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 00:08, October 16, 2013 (UTC)

Green Tent
Hey, I am new to posting on this wiki and what not. But regarding this page I made : http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Tent, you said i should "(should probably add a section or page or something for those, at some point...)" how do I do this?


 * Hello ChickenJewel, welcome to the wiki!


 * You don't have to pay any attention to that deletion notice if you don't want to (as I was basically just thinking aloud), but if you are interested in helping with the issue I was talking about, I was just thinking that aesthetic features like that could all be listed on one page rather than making separate pages for each. I don't know whether they would be added in a subsection on an existing page (say, on a renamed Vegetation page) or if they would be listed on a new page (probably at the title "Aesthetic Features"), but I figured that either way would make more sense than having a bunch of pages for entities which don't actually do anything (though those pages would still exist, just as redirects to wherever the appropriate location is).


 * (I'll probably post about this in more detail as a community discussion on the forums a bit later.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:57, October 16, 2013 (UTC)

Spanish Terraria Wikia
Hello! I'm MARDXX, a user from spanish Terraria Wikia ... I only come here to ask for permission to transfer information from the English page to page in Spanish. I know it could simply copy the information and take it to the page in Spanish but I prefer that you are aware of this and only do so if you consider that there are no problems with this. With information I refer to images and text. Our Wikia is a bit messy and therefore I would like to see how much you can emulate to improve page :)

I do not know who all shipping moderators so that when I see it has a more recent activity (or so I think)

Sorry for my English (Google translator).


 * Hey there MARDXX,


 * I don't think that will be a problem at all – considering how information on this wiki is freely available under the CC-BY-SA license, I doubt that anyone here would voice any complaints about the information here being used benignly on another wiki, especially when the information is being translated to serve another community. :)


 * Good luck!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:15, October 17, 2013 (UTC)

Filter error
This wiki's Abuse Filter is preventing me from editing the Known Bugs (Console) page. It insists my edit is considered vandalism when all I did was remove false bugs, add new ones and reconstruct the page format. My edit can be found here.


 * Hello Mountain Lion.


 * You should be able to go ahead with that edit now – after looking at the filter in question, I ended up just disabling it for the time being. Its original purpose was to stop page blanking and excess content removal by anonymous users, but now that such users are unable to edit the wiki anyway, it will probably need to be updated in order to be useful again.


 * Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 20:39, October 19, 2013 (UTC)

A couple delayed replies
Hey, I've replied to a couple of your posts on my talk page. Sorry for the delay! :(

P.S. How is the updated Terraria? Just wondering if you had any first impressions or rave reviews – I see that a ton of new pages have been added to the wiki, so it sounds like there must be some pretty cool new stuff? I haven't played it at all yet, but (hopefully) will get around to it sometime.


 * RE: Rollback: My bad, I didn't realize you had started a nomination page at Terraria Wiki:Chat Moderator and Rollbacker Nominations. Yeah I think what you and Path were saying makes sense, so having a nomination page can work. Since you started the nominations on the 18th - I'll wait a couple more days. Typically we leave all the nominations open for at least 1 week to allow everyone a reasonable opportunity to comment on them.


 * Alright then. In that case, after these nominations close, I'll see about linking the chatmod/rollbacker page from a policy page (and perhaps it would be a good idea to rename Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Policy to something more general (ie. Terraria Wiki:User Rights Policy)?)...


 * Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 07:22, October 24, 2013 (UTC)

Oops
Forgot dyes aren't consumables sorry :c

Acidic TACO (talk) 02:55, October 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Not a problem; that category could stand to have its meaning be a little clearer (it has historically been the most misunderstood category on the wiki).


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 02:57, October 24, 2013 (UTC)

Attempting to buy a clue =)
Hiya!

This is my first time really committing to contribute to a wiki page. I'm pretty capable, I just recently began taking over my fathers printing business so I do have a pretty good idea about professional illustration work. Not that this is some kind of an application =)

I just kinda wanted to see if you wouldn't mind pointing me to what (if any) good guide might help me get started with the basics. I could easilly enough figure it out myself, I've taught myself various amounts of coding, object oriented programming, HTML, desktop publishing, database creation...etc. Just kinda whatever needs doing for whoever I'm interested in helping.

The initial learning curve of wiki editing looks a little unintuitively steep in comparison to say...a guild / clan webpage. But I'm sure it isn't too bad to just get started.

Anyway! Thanks for the time! If its too much of a bother, I can totally do some trial and error on my own when I find the time. I was just hoping to jump right into it with the little time I have and wanted to use for editing some stubs I ran across which were about the Halloween event, which I'd just collected some decent screenshots of that I was going to crop down / transparency out. Thats why I wanted to see if I could get a jump on it and get some neat and small illustrative pictures up.

I think events totally deserve their own page, considering the boss pages aren't just boss info but usually have all sorts of info about the event itself and the preparation and outcomes. I think it kinda fits to have a Halloween page. I couldn't figure out the talk page I thought I was looking at, but I just realized this says "User talk:..." so maybe ... eh, I'm a little lost. I wonder if this message is gonna be posted publicly, lol. Oh well! If so, then the subject matter of message and general wiki confusion is perfectly appropriate! =D

Happy Halloween!

GateCrasher

GateCrasherVI (talk) 00:57, October 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey there GateCrasherVI, welcome to the wiki! :)


 * Regarding the first part of your message, about guides:
 * For starters, if you go to Help:Contents, you will find a directory of pages designed to help new users learn their way around wikis in general. Given the type of content you seem to want to contribute, it sounds like the best place to start there would be Help:Contributing.
 * If you have a question that is not answered by the help pages, then the best place to ask would be on Community Central's forums (our forums may help as well, though we don't necessarily have as many people who are able to offer extensive wiki help).
 * For help that is specific to this wiki, there are a couple of resources:
 * The Community Portal has a general list of things around the wiki that need doing.
 * You may have noticed that a message showed up on your talk page, signed by me. That is an automated message generated by the  template, and it is designed to provide links to a number of resources which should prove helpful to a new editor (such as Special:ListAdmins and Special:WikiActivity).
 * Doing as you did here and asking an administrator on their talk page is always an option. If the admin is active (ie. has edited within the past few weeks or so), then they'll probably be happy to help. :)


 * Regarding the second part of your message:
 * Events definitely should get their own pages, as that is standard procedure on this wiki (eg. Frost Legion, Blood Moon). However, I was under the impression that the Halloween event is called "Pumpkin Moon"? If so, then I believe that the Halloween page should be deleted, as it seems like the only thing it could refer to would be real-life Halloween and its implications for Terraria (ie. a place to list in-game changes that occur on and around October 31). To me, this seems unnecessary, as such changes would be noted on the pages of relevant entities (eg. Pumpkin, Goodie Bag) anyway. (At the most, it would probably be made into a redirect to the Pumpkin Moon page.)
 * Talk pages are pages on wikis where people go to discuss a topic (as I imagine you figured out). The page you posted on here is a user talk page (specifically mine), which is where you would go to ask a user questions, discuss their edits, etc. Currently, regular article talk pages (ie. pages in the Talk: namespace) are not visible on this wiki, as we have enabled article comments instead. That said, you can still feel free to make a talk page for an article (if you wished to discuss the Halloween page further, for example, you could use Talk:Halloween to do so), and it will be visible on Special:WikiActivity and Special:RecentChanges.


 * Hopefully that answers most of your questions, or at least directs you to someplace useful which can answer any remaining questions. If not, feel free to ask here – I'm always willing to help. :)


 * Happy Halloween!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 03:01, October 26, 2013 (UTC)

Help
please help me with the skeletron, because im kinda n00b at bosses. i have a water bolt book, a godly enchanted boomerang, space gun, vilethorn. enchanted sword that shoots beams, and loads of other weapons, but not the minishark, because i dont have enough gold coins yet ;p. i have got meteore helmet and pants. i also wear a blue robe for 60 extra mana. i have 400 health and i just cant defeat the skeletron. please help!! he always kills me with his hands becuase they sometimes glitch and then i kinda attract them and i get loads of damage. D: Xanderpetersen (talk) 12:18, October 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * Do you mean give advice, or actually provide support in-game?


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 00:26, October 27, 2013 (UTC)

Mobile Terraria
Can you classify iOS and android in Mobile because iPhones aren't xboxs nor ps3s

--Cam0620 22:56, October 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * If you are asking about creating a "Mobile Terraria" page, then I don't really know enough about the differences in that version to create the page. If you are asking about a category page for mobile Terraria, then I believe it already exists at Category:Mobile Terraria.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 00:26, October 27, 2013 (UTC)

Vandal
Zirman: User Acidic TACO is vandilizing pages and is not stopping. If wouldn't mind dealing with him that would be great. Thank you.


 * I'm vandilizing pages? What...


 * Acidic TACO (talk) 03:53, October 28, 2013 (UTC)


 * Zirman &mdash; If you were referring to Arachnid14, he has been blocked. Thanks for the report. Oscuritaforze (talk) 04:30, October 28, 2013 (UTC)

Arachnid14
Hes obviously a troll, could you extend his block?

Just look at what he did to his talk page...

Acidic TACO (talk) 15:34, October 29, 2013 (UTC)


 * By the looks of things, he's been globally blocked. I don't think there's anything more I need to do until/unless that block expires.


 * (Though, as a side note, there aren't a whole lot of restrictions on what users can do with their user and talk pages. Removing content from talk pages is generally frowned upon (as we prefer it when people archive their talk pages), but it isn't forbidden.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:36, October 29, 2013 (UTC)
 * He changed his gender to troll too...just saying, he seems to be enjoying being blocked...
 * Acidic TACO (talk) 18:48, October 29, 2013 (UTC)

Can you look into this guy?
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User:Carson.mcelwee

^Look at his edits.

They all have horrible grammar and spelling. I'm half thinking hes a troll and half thinking hes nine years old.

Thoughts?

Acidic TACO (talk) 03:31, October 30, 2013 (UTC)


 * His edits are of pretty low-quality, but it looks like they are all well-intentioned, so we can probably rule out the possibility of him being a troll.


 * Regarding the possibility of his being underage: it seems possible to me, but I wouldn't be able to do anything about it unless he makes an edit distinctly identifying himself as such.


 * With all that in mind, if he returns and continues making the same kinds of edits again, all that can really be done is to link him to this wiki's Editing Policy to note that his contributions will need to be higher quality in the future if he wants them to remain on the page.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 06:19, October 30, 2013 (UTC)

Contents section
Hey Oscurita,

I noticed you edited my blog to add a contents section. Could you tell me how to add that?

JjStAr992 (talk) 09:15, October 30, 2013 (UTC)


 * I assume you mean the table of contents? If so, then that will be added to a page automatically once there are four or more headings on it (denoted by =h1=, ==h2==, ===h3===, or ====h4==== ) unless  is posted somewhere on the page.


 * Similarly, if you want to insert a table of contents into a page manually, then  will insert one at the location it is placed.


 * (In the case of your blog, the former should have been the case; the only change I made was to add the User Guides category.)


 * Edit: On a related note, I noticed that your most recent blog has commenting disabled. Was that intentional?


 * Hope this helps, Oscuritaforze (talk) 17:50, October 30, 2013 (UTC)


 * Oops...
 * JjStAr992 (talk) 06:24, October 31, 2013 (UTC)

Filter
What words set off the filter for abuse and stuff? Like some words are innocent and stuff but won't go through. Is it because they contain other words or what?

Acidic TACO(talk) 19:39, November 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * The profanity filter (which is Abuse Filter 5) has a fairly large list of words that are not allowed, though I'm not familiar enough with the syntax to know exactly how it detects badwords and what its limits are. Though as far as I know, that is the only one which is tripped by specific words: the other abuse filters are tripped by different conditions.


 * Edit: By the looks of things, the user who has historically kept the abuse filters updated is Mathmagician. You may want to direct further questions on this matter to him, as he will probably be able to answer them better than I can. Sorry I wasn't able to help more. :/


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 20:18, November 1, 2013 (UTC)

I saw this guy
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User:Fallingninja725

Hes only edited one page and he just vandalised it with random stuff then delteted it. Is that allowed?

Acidic TACO(talk) 20:30, November 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * It's not allowed per se, but so long as the end result is no vulgar/untrue/otherwise bad-faith content being on the page, I see no need to take any particular action against a user who is probably not going to stick around all that much. In this particular case, all that will likely happen is an update to the abuse filter.


 * (However, in particularly nasty cases, a page may be deleted briefly in order to remove the offending edits from its history. In this case, the disruptive user in question would probably be blocked.)


 * Edit: Actually, upon looking at the abuse log for that user, he will probably be blocked. Thanks for the heads up.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:40, November 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * Anything to help man, thats why I like posting on your talk page lol.
 * 2013-10-25-19-26-23-1.jpg Acidic TACO(talk) 23:23, November 4, 2013 (UTC)

Item 'Marrow'
Hey, I have been going through the wiki pages, and the Item Marrow should be in the Bows and Repeaters table. The table does show on the page. This is because I have no idea how to do it myself, or if it is possible to do this myself. Thank you. King of Wolf (talk) 03:30, November 6, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey there King of Wolf.


 * The table which you are referring to is controlled by the bows template. It's available to be edited by anyone, so feel free to add anything that is missing if you want – you can look at the other entries on the page to learn how the formatting works. :)


 * Otherwise, I'll probably get around to updating it at some point in the near future (maybe tomorrow...).


 * Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 04:33, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

Cool, ill update it right now. Thank you! King of Wolf (talk) 04:53, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

Coin Drops
Hi, Sorry, I was just trying to add specific drops of coins since I've been accidentally farming Wyvern. I realized I didn't know what I was doing so thank you for correcting it!

Thanks,

Darklordgabriel


 * Not a problem!


 * Anyway, for future reference, all you need to enter for the "coins" parameter in the monster infobox is a single number, which is automatically converted to the proper format by the ValueCalc template. The specific number used is the "base" coin value for the monster in question, which is hard-coded into the game. This value has several modifiers applied to it when one of the corresponding monsters is killed, which leads to variable coin drops. (For a more full explanation, see: Monsters.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 04:33, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

Golden 'Toliet'
I've readded the Candidates for Deletion category on the Golden Toliet page. Somehow I missed the typo in the page before. Figured I'd note it personally, since you just stripped that category. KickMeElmo (talk) 07:34, November 6, 2013 (UTC)


 * Alright. Looks like you already took care of turning it into a redirect, too!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:43, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

Some changes
Hey, Oscurita. I've found myself with an extra bit of free time, and I plan on doing some housekeeping of the site's CSS and JavaScript. I was wondering if there was anything you'd like done. I hope to make all the changes at once so that users' browsers won't need to download the files multiple times. Also, if there's any template work you want me to do, just let me know. I'm at your disposal :).

(and Math, if you're reading this, remember that infobox mod you asked me to make a few years ago? I plan on doing that too. Just FYI)


 * Hey Dyzlon!


 * Apart from something I asked Math about a few days ago, the only things I could think of would be these (if they are actually possible within the software/Wikia's limitations to implement):
 * Implementing something like the to-do bar at the top of this page could be helpful for the users who are looking for more advanced ways to help out.
 * Having a list of users in Category:Requests for unblock displayed somewhere on the Admin Dashboard would be nice. I just touched up the unblock template yesterday after seeing a blocked user attempting to use it, but it seems to me like simply adding a user to a category isn't making their request visible enough.
 * (I imagine some other things would be useful to put on the Admin Dashboard as well, but I can't think of them right now...)


 * (Also, I believe another user asked about making some aesthetic changes to the chat window, but then fell into inactivity and didn't follow up on it. So there's that, too.)


 * Welcome back, and thanks for the offer!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:33, November 8, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. I'm glad you like the sparkly wing page I made. It is in the console version but no one else added it so I thought I should. Anyway if you have any info on these new wings please feel free to add it.