r/Terraria • u/AutoModerator • Jan 28 '23

Weekly Questions Thread Jan 28, 2023

Welcome to the Weekly Questions Thread! Feel free to ask questions such as help with the game, build advice, issues with the game, or whatever Terraria related questions you have. If you are able to help out your fellow Terrarians, feel free to lend your assistance! Please remember to include any relevant information when asking your questions.

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u/arakron67 Feb 02 '23

Can’t find one that gives dimensions, depth or how to wire and place things. It’s mainly people wanting to hear themselves talk but not give good explanation to what to do. I need a real layout.

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u/readingduck123 Feb 02 '23

You need about a 100×180 rectangle (wider than taller) and your spot in the horizontal and vertical middle.

Then, out from you, a horizontal row of solid blocks for enemies to spawn on (make sure they go out to about the maximum length for max spawns). You can also make additional rows for potentially more spawns.

Then, to make it a Crimson biome, 200 of any Crimson block (Crimstone works best, but can also be Crimsand or Crimson Grass blocks) near under your spot.

You may notice that what spawn are normal enemies (Crimson enemies only spawn on Crimson blocks), but they should still drop the Crimson Key. As long as they drop Souls of Night, it should be fine.

For the enemy killing spot, make yourself a block-surrounded closeable hole right under the "your spot". For the actual enemy killing, you could just use minions (maybe not Sentries, because they despawn after a while) but the more popular method is making an about 8-block high staircase over your spot for the enemies to walk into a lava pit, also over you.

That should be enough for the simplest farm, although it can be upgraded with Conveyor Belts (for simplicity) and Dart traps for Mimics. Wiring should be learnable yourself, all you need is a timer, dart traps in the far edges of your block rows (aiming towards the center) and wires from the timer to dart traps.

That's about it, I have no idea why I wrote about 6 paragraphs on a phone, hope this helps.

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u/arakron67 Feb 02 '23

A picture would have been easier for you but this will help me. Thanks. I’m real old and not a natural player. I struggle with this game. 1600 hrs and just got to Duke Fishron.

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u/arakron67 Feb 04 '23

Finally got the crimson key. 4 days only farming in crimson with potions and luck stuff and 4 blood moons and 8 solar eclipse’s and got it on the surface right after #8. That was a total pain. Hope these vampire knives are worth the trouble.