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Terraria Armor Dye Simulator (TADS)

I think the armor set pages (crimson armor, hallowed armor, frost armor) could have a Dye Simulator. like, each dye has its own button that when pressed, dyes the whole armor that color. or like, you enter a color in a text box beside each piece, and press a button labeled "Dye it!" and the piece is dyed that color! I thought this up when I was nearly run over. I should throw myself up in front of cars more often! ha! (no I shoudn't)

I bet nobody will agree with me. maybe somebody should make a program for this. I'm sure we can work this is java script, right? maybe. I have no idea! -- Robstar14 16:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Good idea. -- Reno 17:08, 05 August 2014 (EST)

I "third" that idea! Nerman8r (talk) 16:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Corrupted player?

Just wanting to ask this for my friend, in the character selection, it is red colored and unclickable, do this means his character is corrupt?

Screenshot: http://prntscr.com/32yg9u FunAlways (talk) 01:54, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

possibly. no your computer you should go to Documents,My games,Terraria,Players and then the characters folder. with a world file the world and the back up will have "bad" at the end meaning that the world data is messed up. it might be the same with players. Michelangelo42 (talk) 14:38, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

This hardly seems like the place to be asking for tech support. Anyone mind if I delete this? Nerman8r (talk) 16:42, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Generally we don't delete stuff from talk pages, except outright vandalism or things like that. It's also worth noting that you're responding to conversations from almost half a year ago; please check the dates before posting in reply to talk pages. Gearzein (talk) 16:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Alright, but be aware that it creates a precedent. If people see others getting tech support here, they'll post more topics about tech support, because of normative influence. Nerman8r (talk) 17:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm aware. In my experience, deleting comments means they either get re-added or repeated down the line. There's no problem with small instances of support- telling someone what version an edition of the game is currently on or how to find a page here isn't a big deal. For everything else we direct people to the forums- not just "block them and hope for the best" but specifically direct them to a place where their issue can be resolved, if possible. That's what's been done elsewhere on the wiki, including this page.

This may not have been policy a year ago when the original comment was made, so my primary concern was that comment being responded to a year later and the precedent it sets to repeat that action. Talk pages are meant to be a record of discussion and ideally remain as unaltered as possible, which is why they're committed to archive rather than wiped, but at the moment this page isn't long enough to dump into a second archive. Gearzein (talk) 18:12, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Add mount page

Add Mounts page to main page?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 16:34, 29 May 2014‎ (UTC) (talk • contribs) at Xianith

I think this is a good idea since pets have been added to the main page but I don't know how to do that... --66.214.76.114 03:35, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

I think it's a good idea to add Mounts to the main page, but.....there is not much space in there. The main page should contain only the most common things and basic information. Mounts may not be that important to be shown in main page. -- MrGlowing (talk) 17:33, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Fan theories in trivia sections

Nearly every item page has a point in its trivia section speculating(with no evidence) that the topical item is a reference to something; Many of these theories are very tenuous. It's nothing but gossip and has no place in a wiki.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 01:16, 7 June 2014‎ (UTC) (talk • contribs) at 97.83.179.39

There are several users (myself included) who often remove such dubious trivia, though unfortunately it seems to pile up even faster. If you want you could make an account and remove trivia you find inappropriate yourself. NoseOfCthulhu (talk) 01:43, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Link

In the section "Environment", the link to "snow" leads to a disambiguation page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 11:09, 22 June 2014‎ (UTC) (talk • contribs) at 74.77.183.241

Seems it has been fixed. NoseOfCthulhu (talk) 13:46, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

How can I create it into Spanish?

Hello! The wiki is translated intp Spanish (http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Terraria_Wiki/es) but how can I create http://terraria-es.gamepedia.com/Terraria_Wiki ? Regards! --Ryo567 (talk) 13:28, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure how that's done yet. I put in a request with another admin who probably knows and I'll report back. Equazcion ^(talk) 13:33, 8 Dec 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thanks a lot! --Ryo567 (talk) 13:35, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

It seems that this probably can't happen until all of the links on the main page at least are translated. In other words, the links on this page should all lead to fully translated Spanish articles. Once that happens, I can request that everything get moved to a separate Spanish wiki. Sorry the news wasn't better :( Equazcion ^(talk) 14:04, 8 Dec 2014 (UTC)

Ah... okay! I understand! Thanks for your attention! Regards! :) --Ryo567 (talk) 14:08, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Meteorite heads

Hey guys, I have placed 50+ meteorite and the heads are not spawning I have no idea what is happening.

Bug with goblin tinkerer

Hey guys, for some reasons I couldn't reforge my new terra blade with the gloving tinkerer (ios version). When I drag the terra blad on the spot to reforge, the block just turns red and couldn't reforge it. Any help?

The wiki's not a good place to put bugs since the developers don't read it. I'd tell you to report this at the mobile bug report forums but it seems to be pretty well known by this point. Some people are reporting that a 1.2.1.1 fix has come out, so try updating. Other than that, we can't really help you. Gearzein (talk) 04:41, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Asking about tizonas and high damage for other people wondering

I was wondering if I could make a tizona in the ios version and how. I also want to know what weapon does the most damage. Thank you203.206.39.149 05:43, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, since this is a wiki and all, you could try looking up Tizona or checking the List of weapons. Normally we route questions to the forums, since this isn't really a place for discussion, but all of that information is readily available here. All you have to do is look. Gearzein (talk) 05:48, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Mushroom bed

I'm trying to make a mushroom bed but it's not showing up in my crafting menu. I have 15 glowing mushrooms and 5 silk. I'm standing at my sawmill yet nothing. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Seems to work for me. You might want to post this question at the forum, you're likely to get more answers there. Equazcion ^(talk) 23:33, 9 Jan 2015 (UTC)

When's Fishhook

My friend and me on Xbox just wanted to know when the fish hook is coming on xbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by ImKizzing (talk • contribs)

Fish Hook was introduced in 1.2.4, so it's a few updates off. For future reference, though, you'd be better off asking this sort of question on the forums. Gearzein (talk) 14:26, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Breakable background

I suggest the creation of a page who speaks about the breakable background and what can they drops... Lightg4 (talk) 19:25, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

That would be Ambient objects. It could probably be made more accessible, but it's hard to find ways to give pages more visibility. Gearzein (talk) 21:25, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

The Undead Miner is missing

The Undead Miner is missing in the rare enemies section. -- Dinoxel ^discussion 12:05, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Item exponential growth exploit.

This is an exploit: if you wish to play in Re-Logic's intended manner, do not use this. Currently, the world save and character save happen at two different moments in game. Character save is pretty much automatic, to prevent Hardcore saves from being prevented upon death. World save, however, seems to only happen when you Save and Exit. Knowing this, I devised an experiment, and my results led me to this exploit. You could save an item into a chest by saving and exiting. Then, upon returning to the game, take the item from the chest, then close the program by forcing it to close (right click icon to close, end process via task manager). Doing this causes the game to leave you with the items in your inventory, and in the chest. Repeat this, and you could exponentially grow the amount you had by a factor of 2 to the power of the amount of times you did this. For instance, if you repeat this 10 times, you will multiply your total number of the items by 1024 (2^10). This means potentially gaining infinite stacks of Platinum coins, ores, armor sets, etc. I know this method is irrelevant, because you can just character edit, and bam, everything I said can be yours. The catch is that technically, my method is "vanilla", requiring no download to achieve it.

I believe this is already noted on the Making money guide. --0icke0 (talk) 09:28, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Discount Card

Possibly, add a buy price that shows how much the item is worth with the Discount Card equipped. I think it would be helpful.

It's a flat 20% discount, the math isn't that difficult. It's not feasible to calculate out every instance of a percentage on the wiki. Gearzein (talk) 01:11, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

i deleted my game data by accident and was hoping there were some gamers out the on xbox that could help me with some donations comment gamer tags

The wiki can't provide you with any technical support and isn't a place for social gatherings. You'll have to consult the official discussion forums for help like this. Gearzein (talk) 22:14, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

addition to main page & update

It would be great to add the Giant Tortoise to the Hardmode enemy section, and Undead Miner to Normal. Both are missing. The section could also use an alphabetizing. Looks wonky as hell w the Giant Fungus Bulb in the C's, Mummy in the D's. Some other names are also off.

Next, I like the consolidation work ya did w Enemies on the Main page (slimes, mummies, etc.).

67.183.29.146 05:19, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

I have no problem alphabetizing what is already there, but you may notice, there are way more than just those two enemies missing. If all were added, you can imagine the page would get quite long. Chrisf1020 ^(talk) 05:55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Tier page

It would be nice to have a page listing all the various tiers of equipment that gives a rough idea of which are better than others. I would find it very helpful, at least. If there's something like this that I missed, I apologize. Nerman8r (talk) 17:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

does someone know a quick way to get soul of night

Character Creation page

Could somebody make this? It would be great, telling about hairstyles and how long your name can be and such. A "Character" page could redirect to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamazeldafan (talk • contribs)

If you have a good enough idea, feel free to try writing it up yourself. There's already pages for most character gen options, like Hairstyles and Difficulty, but if the page is worthwhile and informative then we'll see. I personally don't think it'll work though- it might make a suitable guide page but there isn't a lot to character generation that would warrant a mainspace article. Gearzein (talk) 16:08, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Pages in different Languages

Hello, I just noticed while editing the Zombie/de page that some of the wiki pages in languages other than english are seriously lagging behind on updates and are filled with incorrect data. Could someone help with that? For example, the german zombie page only lists two of the different zombie types in Terraria and includes information that may have been correct at some point, but isn't anymore.Terrariapc1 (talk) 12:03, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of users fluent enough in other languages to bring all the translations up to date; most of the translation projects that are still active have only one or two active users, if that. It's not acceptable to just run them through google translate, as that's usually worse than no page at all, so most of them are pretty out of date. The staff and other users here are more than willing to help out with templates and formatting stuff, but all the text is up to people who speak the language.

If you'd like to keep contributing, though, we really appreciate anything you have to add, even if it's just a couple of lines or some spelling corrections. Having the wiki available in as many languages as possible is an important goal for us, and every little bit helps. Gearzein (talk) 19:19, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I would like to keep at least the main, basic pages in order, but I only speak English and German well enough to edit those pages. I don't know anybody whose speaks the others and has enough spare time to edit and cares about the Terraria wiki. So, anyone who does speak these languages and happens to see this, please edit too! I just noticed as well that when I'm configuring the drops, if I enter the drop name in english, then the link and the picture file work, but the wiki displays the name in english. How do I get the .png files and links to work while displaying the, for example, german name? Terrariapc1 (talk) 10:53, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

There are a couple of translated templates lying around, but because of the way item names are set up, they all seem to display drops and other items in english. Many templates that refer to an item's picture count on the image being the same name as the page title because of their reliance on {{Template:Item Link}}. There are a few fixes I can think of for this, but for the moment you might just have to make do and work around it. Gearzein (talk) 16:01, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again. Looks like some people will just have to work with english item names for now. Terrariapc1 (talk) 05:19, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

By the way, when I created a new page in German, (the Spawn/de page) I finished, but when I visited the english site, it didn't say that I could see this page in another language. Did I miss a command I have to enter or is that some sort of bug? Terrariapc1 (talk) 14:22, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Okay. So, the NPC template exists in other languages, as well as the item template, but the crafting template is only available in english, which defeats the entire point of translating in the first place. Can somebody please fix this? Terrariapc1 (talk) 05:52, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

You should probably address these concerns to the admin noticeboard; they'll probably draw more attention there.

As for the problem of having the templates predominately in English, that's a little complicated. The end goal of almost any translation project is to have their own subdomains- the best example of this is the French Terraria Wiki, which this wiki helps out from time to time but otherwise has its own separate infrastructure, userbase and administrative staff. As far as I know, every translation project started at this wiki has either reached that point or failed and fallen to the wayside, and this has so far been the ugly solution to so many templates requiring the page title and image title to be identical. Some templates can be modified to display translated names, but a lot of them are really messily coded, and at the very least it would take time to get them set up. The wiki just isn't structured to be easily translated. Another admin might have some more insight into this, but the best advice I can give you is to translate the text you can at the moment- try to get the German front page as free of redlinks as you can- and see if Curse is willing to let you "graduate"

As far as the translation links, that's fortunately much easier. Just add a translation link of the format [[de:PAGENAME/de]] at the bottom of the page, like so. Gearzein (talk) 06:28, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

I really have to thank you now. You've told me a lot of things I would have had trouble finding out or might have never found out. I really wish that everybody on online servers could be this helpful, but there are lots of people out there who just don't care. I'll do the best I can. Terrariapc1 (talk) 08:28, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Hey, I'm back! This time, I have a request: On the page Door/de, could you show me how to get the picture working while also displaying the right name inthe crafting table? I've tried different methods, but it either says "File:(Picture of Wooden Door)Holztür(german for Wooden Door).png (Picture of Wooden Door)Holztür" or "[[File:(Picture of Wooden Door)Holztür.png.png]] (Picture of Wooden Door)Holztür.png". Could someone show me please? Terrariapc1 (talk) 14:13, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

I have tried to kill her many times what is the proper gear to use???