Other Crashtronaut's planet of Tooltips

[Crashtronaut]

Aaaahhhhhhgggggghhhhhhh

*WHAM*
*Explosion*

Should have activated return thrusters

Oh uhh, hello! As you can see from the cracked, smoking remains of my ship, I'm Crashtronaut. This is my first time crashing in the suggestions section, so any constructive criticism is appreciated.

To business: I always liked interesting or helpful tooltips for items, buffs, and equipment ("not to be confused with a hamdrill"-Pickaxe Axe) but it seems that most items have nothing to explain their use or make them interesting. I'm going to try to change that.

I am not going to write a tooltip for every item in the game, just a few from different "categories" to illustrate what this could become. Any suggestions for tooltips can and will be added to this post, and I will periodically update with more if people like the idea.

Here they are.

Spoiler: Blocks

Dirt: great grass grower

Mud: wetter than your average dirt

Sand: prone to eye assault (sand gun anyone? Suffocation?)

Silt: tiny objects shine inside (hint for extractinator)

Ash: the remains of a thousand heroes

Stone: the bones of the world

Ebonsand: unholy power courses between the grains

Pearlsand: holy energy swirls between the grains

Crimsand: blood drips between the grains

Clay: a potter's best friend

Slush: tiny objects shine inside

Ice: slippery, and oh so cold

Snow: winter wonderland

Sunplate block: sun and sky

Copper ore: can be smelted

Heart statue: a carving of pure vitality

Angel statue: overpowered

Spoiler: Items

jungle spores: jungle magic given form

Stinger: dripping in poison

Vertebrae: torn from a fleshy creature

Rotten chunk: torn from a corrupted creature

Feather: the secret of flight

Amber: gold as the sun

Diamond: white as the snow

Ruby: red as the lava

Emerald: green as the jungle

Sapphire: blue as the ocean

Topaz: yellow as the sands

Amethyst: violet as the mosses

Deathweed: the bulbs reek of death (or decay for Crimson)

Daybloom: solar powered (blooming time)

Blinkroot: a lost miner's dream

Moonglow: bloom by the moon

Bone: spooky scary skeletons

Fire feather: fly like a spark

Ice feather: fly like a snowflake

Turtle shell: harder than any mortal metal

Dark Shard: a sliver of deepest shadow

Light shard: a sliver of purest light

Fallen Star: a tiny spark of magic glows within

Heart crystal: crystallized life essence

Mana star: permanently grants a bit of cosmic power

Spoiler: Potions

Buff potions

Featherfall: Light as a feather,press up or down for control

Ironskin: skin as hard as armor ("armor increased by 8" would remain on the buff tooltip)

Rage: <playername> SMASH!

Wrath: let the hate flow through you

Endurance: push it to the limit

Archery: eyes of a hawk

Gravitation: screw gravity!
(Alternate: change your perspective)

Heartreach: steal their hearts away

Hunter: eye of the tiger

Inferno: it's over 9,000

Invisibility: shhhhhhh

Lifeforce: die another day

Love: let loose the power of love

Stink: ewwww

Magic power: wield the power of an archmage

Mana regeneration: feel the power swell within you

Mining: mine like a dwarf

Night owl: see into the gloom

Obsidian skin: never fear fire



Health:

Bottled water: quench your thirst

Lesser healing potion: heals bruises

Bottled honey: sweet and heals bruises

Healing potion: mends cuts

Greater healing potion: seals wounds

Spoiler: Weapons/tools

Excalibur: a sword fit for a king

Night's Edge: the blade of darkness

True Excalibur: truly meant for a king

True Night's Edge: the blade of endless void

Terra Blade: behold the unity of Terraria

Copper shortsword: poke poke

All other shortswords: stabby stabby

Wooden swords: overhead action

All normal (tin-platinum) broadswords: hack and slash

All normal hammers: bonk goes the weasel

Silver hammer: bang bang (guess the reference)

Ball o' Hurt: a great big one

Meatball: drenched in bloodsauce
-yum

The Rotted Fork: barbed for tearing flesh

Blood Butcherer: dice your enemies

Light's bane: wrought from corrupted power

Waraxe of the Night: cleave your enemies in darkness

Gem Staves: blast raw arcane energy

Venus Magnum: high velocity, trigger happy

Tactical Shotgun: say hello to my li'l friend

Sniper rifle: right click to quickscope

Rocket launcher: aim towards the enemy

Laser Machinegun: unleash electric death

More crashing soon

I will refine my format and content and add as many tool tips as possible if the general idea is accepted.

 

[Crashtronaut]

*reserved*

Can anyone direct me to a page explaining how to insert small, backgroundless images into posts? I want to put a small image of each item next to each tooltip for aesthetic purposes

Should I simply use the "insert thumbnail" image option?

 

[Sigma90]

Tooltips are something I have a love/hate relationship with. Most suggestions for new items includes a tooltip, despite comparatively few items in-game having a tooltip.
Personally, I don't want more fluff text on items. So I don't want more tooltips unless they convey useful information to the player. The suggested Silt / Slush tooltips are OK, though the Extractinator already mentions this.

Sorry. While I appreciate the effort that's gone into it, I don't support it.

 

[Crashtronaut]

Tooltips are something I have a love/hate relationship with. Most suggestions for new items includes a tooltip, despite comparatively few items in-game having a tooltip.
Personally, I don't want more fluff text on items. So I don't want more tooltips unless they convey useful information to the player. The suggested Silt / Slush tooltips are OK, though the Extractinator already mentions this.

Sorry. While I appreciate the effort that's gone into it, I don't support it.

Thanks! That makes sense and I see how it could be annoying to people (more text when mousing over things that you are intimately familiar with and so forth)

I like it mainly for accentuation of the ambiguous "background situation/story" that terraria seems to have (just look at all the fanfiction on this forum!)

Thank you for being honest and pretty fair, I do appreciate it

 

[Sigma90]

I like it mainly for accentuation of the ambiguous "background situation/story" that terraria seems to have (just look at all the fanfiction on this forum!)

I like background stories in games too. (NWN and NWN2 come to mind as examples of games with items that can have comprehensive back stories.) But I just don't think a tooltip text is the right place for it in Terraria. If there was an item "properties" or encylopaedia of items, it'd be perfect and I'd gladly read through everything.

 

[Crashtronaut]

encylopaedia of items

Yup this thread must die.

No more shall the items of terraria be cluttered with pointless flavor text.

But the legends of the items of terraria will be born anew as the Phoenix

A new thread shall rise, and devour the planet of tooltips.

And it shall be truly beautiful.
I hope

Prepare for the...


ENCYCLOPAEDEA
TERRARIA



I'm basically going to remake the thread with more detail and grandeur, and let it tell you useful/cool things about (if possible) every other item in the game.

Thank you for the idea. I will request a lock on this thread and create a new one soon. If you like I will mention you as the author of the original concept.

 

[Sigma90]

I'm basically going to remake the thread with more detail and grandeur, and let it tell you useful/cool things about (if possible) every other item in the game.

Thank you for the idea. I will request a lock on this thread and create a new one soon. If you like I will mention you as the author of the original concept.

Good luck - I look forward to it! I'm a collector / completionist, so I need everything. An encyclopaedia or similar would suit my gotta catch 'em all tendencies.

No need to mention me - another idea for an encyclopaedia of enemies was around recently; I was just extending that thinking to items.

If you're going about making a reference-like thing for items, here are some additional things you can include, as applicable: How it's crafted, what recipes it's used in, what enemies drop it, where it can be found, and exact stats (for knockback, use time, etc.).

 

[Crashtronaut]

If you're going about making a reference-like thing for items, here are some additional things you can include, as applicable: How it's crafted, what recipes it's used in, what enemies drop it, where it can be found, and exact stats (for knockback, use time, etc.).

I think that I may omit really specific stats (the wiki is for that I suppose)

This is going to be a ton of fun for me! Perhaps the interface could have different "tabs" for different letters ( tab 1 is all items a-g)

or for different kinds of items (potions, weapons, accessories) and items within those tabs would ba alphabetized.

I'll think hard about format of content, and I'll be working on this for a while. Thanks for your support!

I'm going to lock this thread now tho.