The Traffic Lord
Terrarian
Hello, everyone! I have a very specific question, so bear with me here.
When looking at a map of a Terrarian world, a lot if not most of the map is covered in black as a 'fog', as it were. Looking around for a solution for how to erase this fog blocking the map, one will find very scarce resources explaining how to do it. Looking it up online will bring up results of map viewers, but I want to play the game, not cheat my way through.
I have figured out a method to do this with, but it's pretty tedious to do. Flying around the map to reveal the skybox is easy enough with some equipment, but revealing the underground sections can be a daunting task. As stated in the title, I want to reveal the map 'legally', in a manner of speaking. I am looking for any items that can shower a lot of particles into walls to light up the map. I'll list some items I use right now. If you have good items to suggest, let me know, but if you could please refrain from spoiling too much with your responses. I'm around early Hardmode, as you'll see.
****SPOILERS****
The most recent boss I've defeated was Golem after beating Plantera. I have an Ancient Horn, a Spooky Hook, and a Rod of Discord, as well as miscellaneous items to help like the Super Absorbent Sponge. I have a clemtaminator, which reveals a considerable amount, but still doesn't reveal it SUPER clearly.
My primary method of revealing/lighting up the map is using the Rod of Discord to warp into different parts of caves without the hassle of breaking all of the walls, using my grappling hook, and spamming the Quick Mount button. With the momentum built up from the grappling hook, the particles emitted from my mount spray in one direction through the wall, revealing it, even though the mount does not spawn when using a grappling hook.
My secondary method is a regular bow with no additional arrow transforming effects(i.e. Bees Knees) and Jester Arrows, which can get a little costly and time consuming to make. As you can tell, this is a bit of an arduous task, and revealing the whole map like this would take a long time.
Has anyone asked about this kind of question before? I'm new to this game, so I was wondering if anyone else was a little frustrated with this like I am. Here are reference images.
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As you see here , the particles jettisoned into the wall to the top left erases the dense black fog cleanly, without a grey, translucent fog in its place afterwards(ignore the odd lines here and there. Those are from one of my summons).
When looking at a map of a Terrarian world, a lot if not most of the map is covered in black as a 'fog', as it were. Looking around for a solution for how to erase this fog blocking the map, one will find very scarce resources explaining how to do it. Looking it up online will bring up results of map viewers, but I want to play the game, not cheat my way through.
I have figured out a method to do this with, but it's pretty tedious to do. Flying around the map to reveal the skybox is easy enough with some equipment, but revealing the underground sections can be a daunting task. As stated in the title, I want to reveal the map 'legally', in a manner of speaking. I am looking for any items that can shower a lot of particles into walls to light up the map. I'll list some items I use right now. If you have good items to suggest, let me know, but if you could please refrain from spoiling too much with your responses. I'm around early Hardmode, as you'll see.
****SPOILERS****
The most recent boss I've defeated was Golem after beating Plantera. I have an Ancient Horn, a Spooky Hook, and a Rod of Discord, as well as miscellaneous items to help like the Super Absorbent Sponge. I have a clemtaminator, which reveals a considerable amount, but still doesn't reveal it SUPER clearly.
My primary method of revealing/lighting up the map is using the Rod of Discord to warp into different parts of caves without the hassle of breaking all of the walls, using my grappling hook, and spamming the Quick Mount button. With the momentum built up from the grappling hook, the particles emitted from my mount spray in one direction through the wall, revealing it, even though the mount does not spawn when using a grappling hook.
My secondary method is a regular bow with no additional arrow transforming effects(i.e. Bees Knees) and Jester Arrows, which can get a little costly and time consuming to make. As you can tell, this is a bit of an arduous task, and revealing the whole map like this would take a long time.
Has anyone asked about this kind of question before? I'm new to this game, so I was wondering if anyone else was a little frustrated with this like I am. Here are reference images.
As you see here , the particles jettisoned into the wall to the top left erases the dense black fog cleanly, without a grey, translucent fog in its place afterwards(ignore the odd lines here and there. Those are from one of my summons).