Early game masterpieces

[Tyro]

Many of the builds featured here require resources not available near the beginning of the game - pearlwood, mechanisms, temple traps, etc. This thread is for showcasing what you can do with basic, easily obtained materials.

GUIDELINES:

• Nothing that requires a boss fight or smashing orbs/hearts, with the exception of King Slime (since you can cheese him with a rope very early on). This means no mechanisms, no meteorite/dungeon bricks/obsidian/hellstone, etc. It also means no planter boxes.
• Normal or expert mode, either is fine.
• Dungeon shelves and books are allowed, as they can be raided from the upper levels. Other dungeon furniture is not.
• Fishing rewards are allowed, so long as the quest in question is doable within the given boundaries (so no hardmode-only items).
• Exceptions made for small amounts of non-integral content (so you don't have to destroy your automatic door or replace all your paintings in order to submit a build).

I'll post some pictures later when I'm on my desktop. Show me what you can do!

[Edit 11 May 2020:] This video is very relevant to the thread topic.

 

[Tyro]

West facing guard tower and moat. Aerial access if you come in at the right angle, no pedestrian gate because I don't have access to actuators for a drawbridge yet. Designed so you can easily lob grenades into the moat (just deep enough to impede jump height).

 

[Tyro]

Fake well, entrance to inner keep. The world's default spawn point is on top of the platforms at the bottom, between the torches / centered on the rope. The chests there are for specialized equipment (bezoar, ice skates, etc), ammo & explosives, consumables (potions mainly, but also torches and rope and so on), and overflow (for when I need to dump now & sort later).

 

[ManaUser]

That's pretty cool. I've never really made a proper "fort" like that. Just a slight quibble on the requirements, it is possible to get dungeon brick and hellstone without killing bosses or breaking orbs/hearts using a reaver shark.

 

[Tyro]

That's pretty cool. I've never really made a proper "fort" like that. Just a slight quibble on the requirements, it is possible to get dungeon brick and hellstone without killing bosses or breaking orbs/hearts using a reaver shark.

I'd forgotten about that. I would consider that cheating in this context, but you're right that it was an oversight.

 

[ChadTM]

Im just looking for bases to build because im sick and tired of building squares XD I see all these people with crazy detailed bases and im just like "meh"

 

[Tyro]

Small plant nursery

 

[Tyro]

A full view of the central shaft, with spiral stair and false wellhouse entrance. I based the stair off of the tower of a winter castle I found through a Google image search (2nd image); it appears to be from the old Terraria Online forums, so unfortunately I can't give attribution unless someone steps forward.

 

[Tyro]

It's bigger on the inside!

 

[Tyro]

I added banners on the insides of the doors to prevent incursions during the Blood Moon. You can still open them by facing outward, as can NPC's. (Brown-painted Omega banners from a pyramid, lime colored dynasty lantern. I might dye the platforms gray to blend into the stone of the wall.)

[Edit:] Gray didn't look good; I switched them to boreal wood.

 

[Tyro]

Alternate well house with no banners or dynasty lamp (both of which can be hard to come by). The only thing there you can't get early on is the pumpkin - the stairs are the hardest, being hammered dungeon platforms.

 

[ManaUser]

I added banners on the insides of the doors to prevent incursions during the Blood Moon. You can still open them by facing outward, as can NPC's. (Brown-painted Omega banners from a pyramid, lime colored dynasty lantern. I might dye the platforms gray to blend into the stone of the wall.

[Edit:] Gray didn't look good, I switched them to boreal wood.

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Personally I think it would look better if the banners didn't touch the floor. That always looks kind of cramped to me.

 

[Tyro]

Personally I think it would look better if the banners didn't touch the floor. That always looks kind of cramped to me.

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion (and was also unhappy with the color coordination). I changed it to the second design with the torches.

 

[Tyro]

Goblin's lab. Shelves are boreal, gray painted save for the bookshelf. Ebonwood workbenches and standard bar stool, also gray painted. Glass lanterns & candles, dye vat, books raided from the upper dungeon, and painted bottles. That's Grubby, Buggy, a frog, and Sluggy, from left to right.

 

[Mr. Mastodon Farm]

here's my version of the goblin alchemy lab

 

[Tyro]

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here's my version of the goblin alchemy lab

Very nice, though I think I'd omit the cooking pot and center the workbench/potion stations relative to the nightcrawler tanks, and maybe replace some of the bottles with books. It's a bit off kilter as is.

 

[Mr. Mastodon Farm]

you mean like this?

 

[Tyro]

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you mean like this?

Very nice

Thanks for submitting, please feel free to post any similar stuff you might have made. Focus is on simple, elegant, and creative.

 

[Tyro]

Challenge: How would you modify this kitchen to work with only early game materials?

(from Pinterest: Link)

 

[ManaUser]

Challenge: How would you modify this kitchen to work with only early game materials?

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(from Pinterest: Link)

WOW, I don't even know what some of that stuff is. What's the thing next to the crimtane bars above the cauldron?