Even though I did a review of Terraria recently, I have gone full out with this game the last couple weeks playing nothing else. If you played Terraria at all you are well aware of the starting mode which is basically “Easy Mode” and the new and harder “Hardmode” that was introduced with Patch 1.1 a while back. So the past couple weeks I have resigned myself to get every single item, armor, weapon, etc. in the standard Terraria game and defeat hardmode.
Things have been amazing. When Hardmode is activated the world spawns a diagonal line of both Corruption and Hallow (introduced in hardmode as a new biome). They both start at the bottom of the map in Hell, and split in a “V” going opposite directions from each other to the surface starting at the direct point where your very FIRST spawn point was when you created the world. Then they both spread like wildfire if you don’t contain them. I have managed to contain ALL of it! BTW this is a MEDIUM world. (With help from this map generator: http://seancode.com/terrafirma/ (I don’t think it would even be possible without using a map unless you were extremely lucky. More on that later.
This is not as easy as it may sound. These things spread damn fast. A little bit of luck is involved with it too since they can get out of control quickly. Fortunately, the Hallow cannot convert Jungle grass so I was really lucky with where it spawned. I have a massive jungle from the surface to Hell in my world that basically blocks off the spread of Hallow to the left side of my map. Only needed to block off a small bit at the bottom, and I blocked off a good bit up top to keep it from getting into my town.
The Corruption on the other hand was sort of lucky, but much more out of control. Before I entered hardmode I blocked off the existing corruption in easy mode first before activating hardmode. There were 2-3 areas that AI was able to stall. When hardmode came up I was fortunate in that the corruption from the transfer ran into one of the existing corruption areas so I had a head start on blocking it off, but it was still a massive effort.
One of the things that makes this a fruitless effort most of the time is that when you defeat the Wall of Flesh you obtain the Pwnhammer. This is the first item that allows you to break Demon Altars. When you break these it blesses the world with Cobalt, Mythril, and Adamantite. One for each your break. It also spawns a block of corruption somewhere in the world, or Hallow. This is why not using amap makes containing this stuff almost impossible. This stuff spreads so fast if it finds a good spawn spot that you would never stop it in time. In mine I broke 3 right off so I could hopefully find ores to upgrade while i was blocking off the corruption. Didn’t find much on this early part so I was extremely underpowered compared to all the new mobs. This makes blocking it all off a real test of fighting and dodging skills. You also whould have a serious stockpile of potions to help with defense and any other boost you can find.
That brings me to the base. The pic below shows my base as it was going into hardmode. Doesn’t show my Hellevators connected a bit higher than that mushroom farm since I took it before that, but there is one there to help prevent possible spread by my town. Hallow and Corruption cannot spread over 3 blocks, and it cannot spread to anything other than dirt, grass (regular), or stone. ANything player made like brick stops is, although it still has to be 3 wide at least to keep it from the other side. Corruption should really be blocked off with these materials since the vines can definitely jump gaps in the dirt/grass areas and continue to spread.
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I made my town from Dungeon Brick, which is the only material that cannot be broken with BOMBS. Clowns in the hardmode world throw bombs so you must keep them at bay. Also, outside my main dwellings I placed glass wall in the background inside my outer borders to prevent mobs from spawning inside my base. There are SOME that still can I guess, but nothing major. I pumped lava to the surface from way down below to make lava moats on both sides of town. This is a real pain as wires/pumps can only pump about 1,000 blocks which is much further than the distance to the surface from the lava. I had to make 2 stops along the way to pool lava. Could have used a nice industrial rubber hose that was 2000 feet long for sure. Two Hellevators to block spread under my base. Plus 2 connecting tunnels between the Hellevators. One towards the top and another down by the lava level. In addition make sure you have plant farms easily accessible before this as they are tough to get to and you NEED potions if you attempt to quarantine the world right away with easy mode weapons/armor. Daybloom, Moonglow are in pots, Waterleaf and Fireblossom (lava pools) are in small pools so they spawn seeds. Blinkroot in some mud inside my base. An Obsidian generator inside my base. You can see my Glowing Mushroom farm below and I have a blocked in jungle area below that. I also set up a small dart trap area with statues for bunnies and fish that I turn on with a switch on a 1 second timer for during Blood Moons since they drop a boatload of gold. Only thing I don’t have is a regular mushroom farm, but they are still plentiful. My base is basically impenetrable.
So now…I have a world in hardmode that has every biome you can muster (except snow, which I should explain a bit below), and is quarantined from spread of both Hallow and Corruption. LEaving roughly 85% of my map open to do as I please and spread anything I want.
I have almost collected every item in the game, but as I said I have no snow area. The game only generates a snow biome in 33% of created worlds, OR in 100% of the worlds between December 15 and December 31. So…we have to cheat a little to get one here since Santa Claus has a suit i need and you can’t get a Frost Lagion Invasion without it being in this time period. So I will need to change my computer clock to these dates in order to get enemies to drop the presents that allow you to summon the Legion and get Santa Claus. If you try to use the snow globe any other time of year Santa Claus will spawn, but immediately die. He dies when you change your clock back too, but I should have all his goods by them.
I guess that leaves all the Terraria MODS left to play with after this. 
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Posted April 7, 2012 
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