four plus four

Turns out that not fishing for an enchanted sword and just making a world to get one in instead is a lot less stupid idiot of me, who would'a thunk. I also got a crimson key and a rod of discord randomly, which is pretty cooly.

Haven't lava fished in probably weeks. On my second crate potion I fish up 6 crates which gave me 2 lava charms. it, I'll fish up another pair of water boots to make useless hellfire treads.

For the first time ever in vanilla terraria, I've made the cellphone. Not only that, but the last item I needed was the detector of metal, rather than the fishing mcjiggles. Very cool and good.

I feel like if I didn't hate how rare fishing for items that make cool new items I want to get for my first 1.4 playthrough, I'd already be done with the update and wouldn't take multi day long breaks away from it. I don't hate fishing, but I do not want to fish.

If terraria 1.5 is ever made the only thing it will do is make the anglers quests take an irl day to refresh, instead of an ingame day. I am a prophet, what I say is most definitely probably true.

Blood moon fishing is unenjoyable. It feels like it's meant to make the blood moon more exciting but it just makes it more stale, since all you're doing is ignoring all the mobs you can and the enemies that you can catch are much too rare, with their drops being even rarer. It's such a cool idea too.

If master mode had something as simple as making all enemies/bosses be double their original size, then I think its existence would feel a lot less unnecessary. It'd still be in line with them not wanting to modify ai, while actually making it more than just 'expert mode but pointlessly buff'.

And I think it's just a real goofy idea.

Y'know since theirs now terraspark boots you'd think that lava charm would be feasible to get in my lifetime, but naw. It'd make sense if it came from shadow chests, but instead there's a ty magnet that makes more sense to be swapped with it than in purple chest.
In other news I've thought up an alternative fishing idea that I maybe might sprite at some point, so that's neat.

53 and a half hours and I am now in hardmode. Been going pretty slow through the update.
EDIT also fighting wall of flesh on a lava shark was not as fun as I'd imagined. tbf though wof died way faster than I'd have expected

In between all my occasional Terraria posting I just wanna say that Haikyuu's hella cool and good.

Random enemies dropping random food feels like the most incomplete and underbaked thing I've encountered in the update, and ultimately just feels like an excuse to have multiple types of well feds.
The worst part however is that pineapple doesn't combine with pizza, despite the tooltip

Terraria can add a new accessory in the desert that buffs mining speed by the same amount as the potion, but good old anklet of the wind is still not even half the movement speed potion. frowney face

somebody help them, they can't get out of the torture spike thing

So I've never built with skyware before because the base blocks were ugly, but god damn the set is just so extra and glamorous and I love it oh so much.

I need more gnomes to power my pylons :/

I swear sticky dynamite has been changed to just occasionally not stick to things.

I know my last post was about hating being forced to do something or you'll be worse off, but I actually love being forced to build across the world or you're ed. It helps that I really enjoy building(didn't used to, started to in 1.3), and how I was starting to really dislike how building in one area only was just superior. I know others hate the town forcing, but em' ehh. Big change is big.

I just learned about the new luck system and I hate it. At least, the torch stuff, the rest seems cool. I've never been particularly fond of using colored torches, so being forced to use them or incur the wrath of drops in some places sucks.
Damn. Guess I might try using the new torches, maybe I'll like em' more than I expect I do, idk.

In the middle of building, and I think it's neat that this works. Both pylons function, both npcs are happy with their biomes, and there are no other npcs nearby. Pretty cool.

Journey's End might be my favorite update to Terraria. 1.2 was my favorite, due to changing so much of the foundation, but everything about 1.4 feels so special and cool and the atmosphere makes it a much better experience.

I think what it comes down to is this - The quality of life in 1.2 makes the previous versions almost unplayable. The aesthetic and atmosphere in 1.4 makes the previous versions seem stale.