Items Shimmerspark Boots - an Upgrade to the Terraspark Boots

[Tanukimario]

Currently Terraspark Boots are the final upgrade of the various boots. And while they are a good item, it has always bothered me that the most powerfull pair of boots is obtainable pre-boss. On top of that, there still are some boots beeing completly ignored in the recipe (see Fairy/Amphibian Boots and Hellfire Treads). To fix this (very minor) issue i propose Shimmerspark Boots as an upgrade to Terraspark Boots.
Theyd be crafted at a Tinkerers Workshop while near Shimmer using the following recipe:

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Effects:
- 38mhp Base movement speed
- 1.6 seconds of Flight time
- Movement on all liquids
- Permanent lava immunity
- Cosmetic Fire trail (color changes when dyed)
- Flowers grow when walking
- 0.5% chance to grow Natures gift / Jungle rose on Jungle Grass
- 5% chance to grow any of the Herbs for Potions
- 0.1% chance to grow Life Fruit / Planteras Bulb instead of Natures Gift / Jungle rose in Hardmode ( 0.0005% )
- Ability to Autojump
- no fall damage

Also yes, the crafting tree contains 29 Ingredients (i think)

 

[AmberTheSeal]

So they count as wings?

 

[Tanukimario]

no.
They are worse than all wings but Fledling and just because you use the Boots it shouldnt lock you out of wearing actual wings

 

[Korok 🪓]

I don't think the plant boots, hellfire treads, or the amphibian boots are very necessary. They are essentially just reskins of the Hermes boots, serving pretty much as vanity.

 

[Golden Heretic Snakeboat]

I don't think the plant boots, hellfire treads, or the amphibian boots are very necessary. They are essentially just reskins of the Hermes boots, serving pretty much as vanity.

i agree entirely with the hellfire treads (literally the only difference between them and the lava waders the terraspark boots use is a vanity effect with no gameplay effect) and the fairy boots, but amphibian boots are most definitely not just a reskin of the hermes boots, greatly increasing flight speed (compared to the rocket boots line boosting flight time). in fact, most people are against a terraspark boots + amphibian boots tinker because the resulting combo would be insanely powerful when paired with wings

 

[Big Sammich]

Hmm... a couple things.

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I don't know what purpose the Souls of Flight serve in this crafting recipe. The flight time proposed here is actually worse than the flight time that you get from Terrasparks already, and 15 feet of extra fall resistance isn't worth much. Buff the flight time back up to ~1.6 seconds, and remove the Souls of Flight.

- 0.5% chance to grow Natures gift / Jungle rose on Jungle Grass
- 5% chance to grow any of the Herbs for Potions
- 0.1% chance to grow Life Fruit / Planteras Bulb instead of Natures Gift / Jungle rose in Hardmode

Where are these effects coming from? Flower Boots don't do this. I'm not sure exactly why, but something about this just rubs me the wrong way.

 

[Tanukimario]

Hmm... a couple things.

I don't know what purpose the Souls of Flight serve in this crafting recipe. The flight time proposed here is actually worse than the flight time that you get from Terrasparks already, and 15 feet of extra fall resistance isn't worth much. Buff the flight time back up to ~1.6 seconds, and remove the Souls of Flight.

Where are these effects coming from? Flower Boots don't do this. I'm not sure exactly why, but something about this just rubs me the wrong way

I put all the gimmiky growing mechanics there because else it would just be another vanity feature in the boots, so i thought: why dont they just grow the rare jungle plants since it takes a lot of time to find them normaly. The herbs are just for fun.

- Flight time has been buffed to 1.6sec
- the recipe now only needs 3 Souls of flight

 

[Dapling]

Can we stop combining these boots with things instead of just ignoring the problems they have. It was bad enough when people were making a new "combine frostspark + lava waders pls" suggestion every single week back in the 1.3 days and ignoring the fact that the lava waders effects are outclassed by potions. Lava wader effects still are outclassed by potions even to this day, and as a result many players don't consider terraspark to be worthwhile as is. These boots are conceptually just a frog leg + spectre boots with a bunch of useless side effects no one actually benefits from because of them being worse than alternatives which don't use accessory slots.

That being said,

- 0.5% chance to grow Natures gift / Jungle rose on Jungle Grass
- 5% chance to grow any of the Herbs for Potions
- 0.1% chance to grow Life Fruit / Planteras Bulb instead of Natures Gift / Jungle rose in Hardmode

This is actually good and solves some of the issues with one of its components. You should probably take it further though. I would make it give fall damage immunity as justification for including the souls of flight, for starters, and also make it give permanent lava immunity instead of just 14 seconds (reminder you're all the way in post-mech once you have this thing, and lava simply isn't present very often anymore. not only that but you have the ability to get infinite herbs from this thing which makes the potions which give permanent lava immunity even cheaper.)

 

[Tanukimario]

Can we stop combining these boots with things instead of just ignoring the problems they have. It was bad enough when people were making a new "combine frostspark + lava waders pls" suggestion every single week back in the 1.3 days and ignoring the fact that the lava waders effects are outclassed by potions. Lava wader effects still are outclassed by potions even to this day, and as a result many players don't consider terraspark to be worthwhile as is. These boots are conceptually just a frog leg + spectre boots with a bunch of useless side effects no one actually benefits from because of them being worse than alternatives which don't use accessory slots.

That being said,

This is actually good and solves some of the issues with one of its components. You should probably take it further though. I would make it give fall damage immunity as justification for including the souls of flight, for starters, and also make it give permanent lava immunity instead of just 14 seconds (reminder you're all the way in post-mech once you have this thing, and lava simply isn't present very often anymore. not only that but you have the ability to get infinite herbs from this thing which makes the potions which give permanent lava immunity even cheaper.)

- buffed 14sec lava immunity to infinite
- buffed to now give fall damage immunity

 

[Golden Heretic Snakeboat]

reminder you're all the way in post-mech once you have this thing

wait, the recipe calls for a bottomless shimmer bucket

isn't the bottomless shimmer bucket only unlocked after moon lord is defeated?

 

[Dapling]

wait, the recipe calls for a bottomless shimmer bucket

isn't the bottomless shimmer bucket only unlocked after moon lord is defeated?

That’s a crafting station, not a material. Note how it’s grouped with the tinkerer’s workshop?

 

[Golden Heretic Snakeboat]

That’s a crafting station, not a material. Note how it’s grouped with the tinkerer’s workshop?

ah, i didn't notice that

 

[DARKWING78]

Ok why does nobody like this this would be so cool!

 

[vessal]

i feel like this is fine as a post moon lord item as a small boost to your endgame kit. after all no singular weapon accessory enemy or anything matters once you have beaten moon lord as you have done everything there is to do.

 

[HammerHoovy🌳]

Can we please just not combine everything into one accessory? Terraspark Boots already feel like it should be the last upgrade in the Spectre Boots crafting tree IMO.

I have always been one of the people that wanted the Lava Waders + Frostspark Boots tinker to happen, I have always felt like the tinker is a perfect fit and made a ton of sense but I think the Spectre Boots crafting tree should end there.

I have also always wanted Lava Waders to get full lava immunity because I have always been aware that the Frostspark Boots + Lava Waders tinker wouldn't add much if they were worse than the potions. If the Terraspark Boots had full lava immunity and Obsidian Skin Potion didn't give On Fire! Immunity then Terraspark Boots would be as good as the potions while saving 2 inventory slots. It would be a perfectly fine and fitting QoL upgrade.

When 1.4 came, Amphibian Boots got introduced to the game and are actually better than Terraspark Boots in Hardmode.
Basically Terraspark Boots + Bundle or even just a Cloud in a Balloon in Pre-Hardmode is perfectly viable as the combat doesn't need much aerial mobility but Terraspark Boots + Bundle or Wings in Hardmode isn't good enough, you pretty much need the extra jump speed from a Frog Leg accessory to be able to dodge some things and if you use Amphibian Boots instead of Terraspark Boots you save 1 accessory slot. You could of course use Terraspark Boots + Frog Leg + either Bundle or Wings but then you lose 1 accessory slot and you don't gain much from using Terraspark Boots + Amphibian Boots at the same time, it's more viable to just use Amphibian Boots + Bundle or Wings. Even after 1.4.4 nerfed Frog Leg from +48% to +32% they are STILL better than Terraspark Boots. The jump speed boost is invaluable when the players base jump height and speed is as low as it is. Wings ascend so incredibly slow when you don't have any kind of jump height or speed boost. Ever since 1.4 came I have wanted Terraspark Boots to get a buff so that they can be about as good as Amphibian Boots. My proposed buff to them is to give them 38 mph speed and full lava immunity. This would make it viable to use Terraspark Boots + Frog Leg + either Bundle or Wings as you would gain a lot of horizontal and vertical mobility. Would also be as good as using Obsidian Skin and Water Walking Potions. Redigit himself has actually liked my idea on 2 different occasions on Twitter recently so I am hopeful that the boots might get this buff in 1.4.5.

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

This would be a Sweet idea. The theoretically increased jungle plant farming is really the only reason this is any good imo though. The other things are just niche.

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

As cool as this sounds, it doesn't seem realistic for this to be added. If I recall, Red was already annoyed enough when adding the Terraspark boots into the game, and something tells me that he'd probably get even more annoyed to say the least.

Terraspark boots are already overpowered as they are. It doesn't feel balanced to make them even more so.

 

[Ferrin]

I mean ultimate boots yayyyyyyy
Still not worth the accessory slot in my opinion, don't get me wrong they are great for exploration but for boss fight their speed is lacking, and you know you still have to have wings
I feel that boots utility dies after earlyhard mode and it should probably stay that way unless we want to make them really op