buckle your britches, because this update is somehow bigger then the last one. same as before, pictures in spoilers because size issues
first off, a funny and very stupid story. you know those dead man chests that blow you to kingdom come if you so much as breathe on them too hard?
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so i was hunting for a mining shirt, the final piece of the mining armor set that i needed, and happened across a very unfortunate undead miner who was stuck in the same confined space with enough explosives to send a tank to the moon. as you can see in the screenshot, i was thinking of something that was very stupid, despite my insistence otherwise. despite the completely pointless danger i was putting myself into, i decided to send this man to oblivion. instead of killing him like a normal person who is sane, i decided, for no earthly reason, to completely obliterate both myself and him.
this is when i learned something about explosives that really, should've just been obvious after thinking about it for 3 seconds
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as the undead miner tried to stop me from vaporizing everything in a 10 meter radius for "the funi", i opened the chest, and proceeded to vaporize everything in a 10 meter radius for "the funi"; except for myself. as i had apparently not known before, and had just learned, you can completely negate the damage from explosives by just getting hit by something else and activating the explosives during the immunity. again, obvious when thought about for 3 seconds, but this never occurred to me. and of course, because this is me we're talking about here, this is now how i disarm every single dead man's chest i find. well, time to get back to looking for a mining shirt.
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oh. not quite the shirt, but the pants can be shimmered into the shirt, so it works out anyway. 20% mining s p e e d boost is definitely worth almost obliterating myself. they say fortune favors the bold, maybe rng favors the stupid. i guess the lesson to be learned here is "if you want a rare drop, do the dumbest possible thing and it'll work trust me bro"
it's always a good time to almost die because of more stupid. i'm noticing a pattern
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you know, fall damage is going to kill me one of- oh wait
2 CHESTS
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2 CHESTS
i swear, ice skates are always so hard to find, it's like they have a disdain for me. perhaps a future in ice skating is off the table
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well, now that that's done, i can finally make the frostspark boots, and i can finally not be wearing any accessory that calls itself a material. why does that statement feel wrong
the goblins decided to get back on their crap again, not realizing that i knew their game
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these guys never learn
after commiting more crimes against goblinkind, i was hit by the realization to convert my queen bee arena into a plantera arena. sure, i won't be fighting plantera, but someone has to kick that can eventually. and unfortunately, this is when rng decided to be "nice"
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hey look, a bezoar. that would've been nice to have during the queen bee fight, but eh whatever not the biggest deal
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oh hey look, another one almost immediately afterwards, atleast i can shimmer it into an adhesive bandage for an ankh shield ingredient. not pictured: me getting 2 more after this. because rng
there's no such thing as a "useless weapon" as the ballista sentry was kind enough to remind me of after i died while fighting queen bee
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in the end, i got the last (posthumous) laugh
you know what's great? armor penetration. you know what's better then armor penetration? f r e e armor penetration
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i can't shake the feeling that i've missed atleast 3 of these though
i've gotten alot of npc's but it feels like there's one i'm missing. oh yea, some of the town slimes are missing.
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oh right, you exist
came across a rather unusual sight while tearing the jungle apart looking for a second anklet of the wind (h a n d i t o v e r g a m e)
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not gonna lie, this looks pretty cool
sometimes, the game just works against you in the best ways. somehow, i managed to get a pair of water walking boots and a lava charm before finding a second anklet. now i don't need to worry about lava anymore
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i just wanted a second pair of lightning boots, but ended up with a pair of terraspark boots. alright compromise, i'd say
a wise man once said "i want to be able to see the the world generation process so i can see just what the hell it's trying to do". that man? doctor neo cortex
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i honestly do not remember if there was a web slinger in there or not
enchanted swords are always so hard to find, especially when they decide to grow legs and move underground for no apparent reason
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now, my math might be wrong here, but i do believe that's all the zenith ingredients i can get at this progression stage
oh yea, here's a tree that decided to grow in a very weird place that i somehow never noticed.
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nature is wonderful sometimes
also, i have found the longest minecart track in existence what on EARTH
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kinda hard to see with the image packing but still this thing's MASSIVE
you're in luck, i managed to get every component but the treasure magnet.
speaking (tangentially) of things relating to the dungeon, i also acquired all of the night's edge components expect for the muramasa, and the only not-fishing-related cell phone ingredient i'm missing is the tally counter. i also severely miss having a shield. oh yeah, i also cleared out the left side of hell to make it work as a wall of flesh bridge, the good news is that there's no annoying hellbats on it. as for the bad news? you might want to bring a water walking and an obsidian skin potion, i only got the one pair of terraspark boots
okay, moving onto something i really wanted to do with this: i cleared out a pretty significant area underneath the base for the people partaking in this event to make a small build for each week. i think someone mentioned an idea like that on one of the earlier pages, but i don't remember who. i've already made my build, which you can see in the image in the spoiler
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the signs in each build section will tell you which player/players have which bosses, you can build using any materials you can naturally find at your stage of progression, and you're free to build whatever you want in these sections or whether or not you even do so, but i do have a couple of requests for those who do decide to go along with this:
firstly, as noted in the general rules for this event, please don't just screw with other people's builds.
second, as mentioned earlier, the build sections have signs in them that tell you what players they're assigned to; please use only the area that corresponds to the bosses you have been assigned, and please don't break the stone slab borders on the sections, i want there to be cohesion with this. you can make your own borders on the inside like i did, and replace the smooth marble floor. feel free to write on the sign as well, get rid of it altogether, or even add more signs
third, there are obviously some building materials that are locked behind progression, and won't be usable by some people, if what you want to make requires items that you can't get yet, you can ask the people with bosses later on in progression for help when it becomes their time to play on the world (or wait for the world to become public, i guess), and if you are in the proper progression stage to have these items, you can contact the original builder (which shouldn't be terribly difficult, it's easy enough to see who goes where, week 1 is bottom right, going to the left until week 6, then going to the top right for week 7, and then going to the left until week 10) or just post about it in this thread and work out exactly what needs to be changed.
the extra large build section in the top center is for unit one to possibly build stuff in. considering the fact she coordinated this event, it feels reasonable to give her a section as well. i placed a couple signs down at spawn in case someone didn't read this update
okay, that should be everything worth remembering, there's a couple more things i need to do then i'll be ready to send the world off. also it's almost 7 am where i am and i have not been to bed yet, so most of this most might've come off as inane rambling View attachment 480258
edit: completely forgot to post my final time: 42 hours, 14 minutes, and 17 second
