Items add a tooltip to sunflowers that references their ability to resist corruption/crimson

[fork_head]

a little known yet very useful mechanic in terraria is sunflowers' ability to repel evil biomes in terms of valid housing. this is oftentimes the reason many players try very hard to make many hellevators to prevent it from spreading, as they believe if they fail to do so, they will not be able to have npcs in houses. however this is not actually necessary by any means, as if you place enough sunflowers in a corrupted area, it will cancel out the evil nearby and the npcs will live in the otherwise invalid house just fine. and yet, this is basically impossible to figure out without looking up the one line on the wiki that says it. which, to me, is strange considering how game changing this interaction is

biome spread might be the most disliked mechanic in terraria, so more players having knowledge of this information would help a lot and give these players a better experience.

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

What would the tooltip look like though? “Smiles scare away Evil!” Or something?

 

[LisanPaez05]

"Good vives to spread evil away"
"I'm walking on sunshine, yeah yeah"
"Green neutralize any color"
"Nothing is pure as a Sunflower"
"Vitamin D to put away all this purple"
"Vitamin D to cure all earth sickness"

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

"Good vives to spread evil away"
"I'm walking on sunshine, yeah yeah"
"Green neutralize any color"
"Nothing is pure as a Sunflower"
"Vitamin D to put away all this purple"
"Vitamin D to cure all earth sickness"

- I think you misspelled “vibes”
- Not very descriptive
- Not grammatically correct
- That could work
- Only works in Corruption
- That could work

 

[LisanPaez05]

- I think you misspelled “vibes”
- Not very descriptive
- Not grammatically correct
- That could work
- Only works in Corruption
- That could work

-I have an Spanish-English keyboard, I misspelled "vives" (you live) with vibes
-yeah, that was a joke
-I forgot the s at the end of the verb, 3rd person verb rule
-yeah
-True, it could vary changing purple for red
-Yes

 

[EliteDangerGamer]

Masks the earths sickness(it doesn't clear away corruption and crimson, just protects an area from it)

 

[Novenore]

Usually, a line in a tooltip that describes what the item does, is done so clearly. So it would probably be something more like "Slows down evil biome spread in the surrounding area."
Only other thing I can think of is a reference to either a movie or a game referring to purity or something similar, since this game is notorious for having that in item tooltips.