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Tips are phrases shown briefly during loading screens in the console and mobile version, chosen at random from the list below.
Tips
- Life Crystals are hidden around the World. Use them to increase your health.
- Build a furnace to craft metal bars out of ore.
- A room in a house can have wood platforms as a floor or ceiling, but NPCs need at least one solid block to stand on.
- The Cloud in a Bottle and Shiny Red Balloon accessories both improve your ability jump. Combine them to make a Cloud in a Balloon.
- If you store your coins in a house, you'll be less likely to lose them.
- The Goblin Tinkerer found in underground caverns will sell you many useful items, including a Tinkerer's Workshop.
- Defeat the boss in The Underworld to change the world forever. Find a Guide Voodoo Doll and hurl it into the infernal lava to summon him.
- Bows and guns require the proper ammo in your Ammo slots.
- You can plant acorns to grow new trees.
- Some projectiles such as arrows and shurikens can be gathered and reused after firing them.
- Swimming is dangerous without Flippers or a Diving Helmet! You can craft those at a Tinkerer's Workshop.
- Rocket science gave us Rocket Boots.
- The best wizard people use Mana Flowers.
- You can buy wires from a Mechanic and use them to create traps, pumping systems, or other elaborate devices.
- Torches and glowsticks can be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Torches won't work underwater, but glowsticks will.
- Time heals all wounds.
- Explosives are dangerous! ...and effective...
- Hold onto an explosive to attract a Demolitionist to your house.
- If you find a Magic Mirror, you can use it to teleport back to your spawn point.
- When you explore caves, it helps to have wood platforms. Craft them out of wood.
- You can chance your spawn point by placing and using a bed.
- You can remove furniture or background walls by crafting a hammer.
- You can destroy Shadow Orbs with a hammer or explosives, but prepare yourself for the forces they unleash.
- Some ores require better pickaxes to mine.
- Collect money to attract a Merchant to your house.
- The Corruption is full of chasms. Mind the gaps.
- To craft potions, place a bottle on a table to make an alchemy station. Double, double, toil and trouble!
- Make sure you have empty, valid rooms to attract new inhabitants.
- Wear a Mining Helmet if you don't want to use torches.
- If your house doesn't have background walls, monsters will be able to spawn inside.
- Torches require wood and gels to craft. Gels can be found on slimes.
- When dealing with a Goblin Army, crowd control is key.
- Monsters spawn more often in dark areas.
- There are floating islands in the sky.
- Walking on Hellstone and Meteorite can burn you! Protect yourself by equipping an Obsidian Skull or similar accessory.
- Killing bunnies is cruel. Period.
- Water will break your fall.
- Sometimes you can find NPCs hidden around the world.
- During a Blood Moon, zombies can open doors.
- Use suspicious looking items at your own risk!
- Watch out for falling Meteorites!
- You won't take falling damage if you have a Lucky Horseshoe. Look for them on floating islands.
- The Old Man at the Dungeon is a Clothier, if only someone could lift his curse...
- If you dig deep enough, you'll end up in The Underworld!
- A pet can be your best friend.
- You can harvest cobwebs and turn them into silk. You can use silk to craft vanity clothes or a bed.
- Seeds can be used to farm a variety of useful ingredients, especially for crafting potions.
- Don't fall into lava without an Obsidian Skin Potion!
- You can wear buckets!
- Falling Stars sometimes appear at night. Collect 3 of them to craft a Mana Crystal you can use to increase your mana.
- If you find chests out in the World, you can remove them with a hammer to take them with you.
- Wearing armor made all out of the same material gives you a extra bonus.
- You can make a grappling hook out of iron chains and a hook. The easiest place to find a hook is on piranhas in a jungle.
- Sand is overpowered.
- Other players can loot your chests! If you don't trust them, use a safe or piggy bank; those items have storage that is exclusive to each player.
- Template:Mobile iconTouch and drag items from the Inventory Bar to drop them into the world.
- Template:Mobile iconPinch the screen to zoom in or out.
Trivia
- There is a typo in one of the tips: "both improve your ability jump"
- One of the tips confirms that the Old Man and the Clothier are, in fact, the same person.
- Two of the tips erroneously state that a hammer is needed to remove furniture items.
- One tip says you need 10 Fallen Stars to craft a Mana Crystal, while you need only 5.
- A tip states that you should "watch for falling meteorites". However, meteorites can not actually hit the player.
- There are no tips for The Crimson.
- One of the tips " torches and glowsticks can be a light for you in dark places" is a reference to the crystal phial in "The Lord of the Rings"
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