Dakota Spine
Headless Horseman
Hey guys, Dakota here. Any of you ever play Paper Mario? In the first two games, you had a partner that would give you information on an enemy in battle. I thought the same thing could be done with other enemies in Terraria. This item would be called the Monster Journal. Allow me to elaborate!
Obtaining
I have four proposed ways of obtaining the Monster Journal.
1: You get it upon starting a world, along with your three copper tools.
2: You obtain it from the Guide by talking to him.
3: You buy it from the Merchant for 1 Silver.
4: You get it by killing the first slime you see. It will be a Green slime with the book's sprite inside. Like the Ninja inside the King Slime.
Usage
It's usage, as I said at the top of the thread, would be tracking down information on any enemy. Even bosses!
-Throwing
To get the information in the first place, you need to left click with the book chosen in your hotbar. It would launch out like a Boomerang, and return at a fast speed. Speed almost that of the Paladin's Hammer. Now, before you freak out on me, just know that it doesn't deal damage of knockback to the enemy. As soon as it touches an enemy, you can read about them in it.
-Reading
In order to read it, you simply right click it in your hotbar. It will bring up a GUI that appears similarly to your inventory. On it's left page, a scrolling page that has a slot for every enemy. On it's right, a normal page that will show an image of the enemy. As well as it's health, damage, defense, drops, and all other stats. Almost like a portable Wiki of sorts. It can track down Bosses as well, the Bosses having slightly fancier pages than normal enemies. The image you click on on the left will have an image of the full enemy on it.
As well as that, if you fill out the entire thing, it's sprite will gain a golden lining, and the pages as well will be lined with Golden Leaf.
It will also track how many of the enemy you have killed with small white numbers under their image on both the left and right page. The right page's numbers being a bit bigger. It gradually grows more red the more you kill, going from white, to yellow, to orange, to red, and finally to dark red.
Closing
That is what I have to share for the idea of a Monster Journal. I hope you guys like it. Feel free to leave ideas in the replies.
Thanks for reading. Dakota, out.
Obtaining
I have four proposed ways of obtaining the Monster Journal.
1: You get it upon starting a world, along with your three copper tools.
2: You obtain it from the Guide by talking to him.
3: You buy it from the Merchant for 1 Silver.
4: You get it by killing the first slime you see. It will be a Green slime with the book's sprite inside. Like the Ninja inside the King Slime.
Usage
It's usage, as I said at the top of the thread, would be tracking down information on any enemy. Even bosses!
-Throwing
To get the information in the first place, you need to left click with the book chosen in your hotbar. It would launch out like a Boomerang, and return at a fast speed. Speed almost that of the Paladin's Hammer. Now, before you freak out on me, just know that it doesn't deal damage of knockback to the enemy. As soon as it touches an enemy, you can read about them in it.
-Reading
In order to read it, you simply right click it in your hotbar. It will bring up a GUI that appears similarly to your inventory. On it's left page, a scrolling page that has a slot for every enemy. On it's right, a normal page that will show an image of the enemy. As well as it's health, damage, defense, drops, and all other stats. Almost like a portable Wiki of sorts. It can track down Bosses as well, the Bosses having slightly fancier pages than normal enemies. The image you click on on the left will have an image of the full enemy on it.
As well as that, if you fill out the entire thing, it's sprite will gain a golden lining, and the pages as well will be lined with Golden Leaf.
It will also track how many of the enemy you have killed with small white numbers under their image on both the left and right page. The right page's numbers being a bit bigger. It gradually grows more red the more you kill, going from white, to yellow, to orange, to red, and finally to dark red.
Closing
That is what I have to share for the idea of a Monster Journal. I hope you guys like it. Feel free to leave ideas in the replies.
Thanks for reading. Dakota, out.
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