The Jungle grass seeds are useless if you don't have mud. You need to manually mine every single dirt block the corruption has made from mud and craft them into mud using water as a crafting recipe, then place every single one of those thousands of block back manually in the exact same position and plant jungle grass seeds everywhere to return the jungle to somewhat normal again.
This thread was rewritten as of June 1, 2015, the old version of the thread can be found in a spoiler at the bottom of the page.
One of the things that always bothered me is how the corruption and crimson interact with the jungle. When one of these biomes gets too close to the jungle, they replace the jungle grass and turn the mud into dirt (a process that can only be reversed by replacing each individual block by hand). This never made any sense to me, as none of the other biomes can be permanently damaged by corruption and it gave me the impression that the player was expected to protect the jungle, even though there was nothing else in the game suggesting this. It became even worse in 1.2, when the jungle became an integral part of hardmode and we got the clentaminator to fight back against the spreading biomes, yet this mechanic was left unchanged and the clentaminator wasn’t able to reverse the damage. I think it’s time to fix that.
The first way this could be done is by simply giving jungle immunity to corruption and crimson, just like it’s immunity to the hallow. Mud and jungle grass would be completely unaffected by corruption, and the jungle would be immune to all the spreading biomes just like the dungeon and underworld. This would be the easiest way to protect the jungle, and also seems to be the most popular. However, it could also greatly reduce the amount of corruption/crimson generated upon the defeat of the Wall of Flesh if the stripe would have gone through the jungle. This is actually a problem with the hallow, and it can leave many players with only a small amount of hallow located deep underground, as seen here.
The second way this can be fixed is by allowing all the spreading biomes (including the hallow) to convert jungle grass and plants instead of replacing them, growing on the mud in the jungle instead of turning it into dirt. With this change the clentaminator could be used to restore the jungle, and it wouldn’t get in the way of spreading biomes when the wall of flesh is defeated. This would also make it easier for players to farm both jungle enemies and corruption/crimson/hallow enemies at the same time, and it could allow for more content like the light/dark mummies in deserts or pigron in snow biomes. Although this would take a bit more time to implement then the first option, it just makes more sense this way and is consistent with the other natural biomes.
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The jungle is one of the most important biomes in terraria. It is home to many vital plants and animals, but the corruption (or crimson) threatens to wipe them all out. Once hardmode is activated, the corruption can permanently destroy the grass that sustains every living thing in the jungle. If the corruption was already next to the jungle, or it spread there upon the death of the wall of flesh, it will be nearly impossible to stop it from wiping out the jungle.
I’ve always wondered why the jungle can be destroyed by the corruption and crimson, as well as why the hallow can’t touch it (but I’m not about to complain about that). Although it didn’t matter much in 1.1 because there wasn’t anything important in the hardmode jungle, this should have been changed when 1.2 came because so much progression is centered on the hardmode jungle now. Without the jungle it’s impossible to get chlorophyte ore, which is needed to craft most of the endgame armor sets as well as clorophyte weapons and tools. The jungle is also the only place that you can get life fruit and fight Plantera, meaning without the jungle it becomes impossible to obtain most of the endgame gear or get 500 health. If the jungle is lost to the corruption or crimson the player is forced to either build an artificial jungle or make an entirely new world, and that’s just not fair.
The easiest way to fix this problem would be to simply make jungle grass and mud un-corruptible, making the jungle immune to corruption and crimson like how it’s immune to the hallow. However, another way to solve this problem is instead of letting the jungle be completely destroyed by the corruption and crimson, the jungle could be converted into a corrupt, crimson, or hallow jungle like how the snow biomes can be converted with the different colors of ice. If happened the jungle content would still be there along with content from the biome the jungle was converted into. There should be aesthetic changes when the jungle is converted (New background plants and walls, as well as new music). There could also be cross-biome content that only appears when the jungle is converted, like how pigron and the scaly truffle only appear in converted snow biomes.
So what do you think, Do you want to stop the corruption and crimson from destroying the jungle? Do you want the jungle to get a lot of new cross-biome content, or do you want it to stay untouched? Vote in the poll on what you want. Personally I want to see a hallowed jungle just so I can hear the music you get when you mix the jungle and hallow themes together.
(P.S. I know this doesn't mean much, but this was my first thread on TO)
But I'm on the Xbox version and I'm not a modder.
That's too bad. Modding has completely rejuvenated Terraria for me -- to the point I'm having more fun now than I ever have. If you really enjoy playing and have any kind of computer around (PC, Mac or Linux) that can run newer games (but needn't anything 'high-end'), I'd highly suggest getting Terraria for it. There's really no reason not to. The insane amount of replay value feels criminal considering I purchased Terraria for 2 bucks -- some have picked up the PC version even cheaper yet.
I've heard people suggest that before, but I still don't believe that a converted jungle would be that much more difficult that it would need to be expert exclusive.I think that the whole converting the jungle is a good idea, but would make the game much harder. It depends who you are whether or not that's a good thing. Maybe some strange lore-friendly way to toggle whether or not the jungle is converted. Aha! How about in expert mode the jungle gets converted! Good idea? Yes? No?
Interesting... What about the Hallow? What theme would that have, I wonder...?
That it would, friend. That it would.
