Items Whistle: a new item with variants to summon weather events

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Aight, it´s not secret for everyone that sandstorms and snowstorms can be inconvinient, and tedious when you need something from them, from snowstorms you can get frost cores and ice feathers, and from sandstorms you get forbidden fragments. Since these events rely purely on RNG the best thing you can do is sleep on a bed and wait till one of them starts (which is not ideal considering that at this stage is where evil biomes spread the fastest). So uh, I have a proposal to fix:

*Drum effects please*

Tadah! The whistle:

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  • Bought from the Wizard NPC for 5 gold
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    , this item when used gives a high-pichted sound (like a whistle would, what else would it do?). What matters of this item isn´t what it does, rather, what you can craft with it, just like the harp or the bell.

Presenting: The Forbidden and Frost whistle!

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  • Made at a hardmode anvil
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    , with 5 souls of night
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    and light
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    . To make the forbidden one you need in this recipe a sandstorm in a bottle
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    and for the frost one a blizzard in a bottle
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    .
  • When used in their respective biome, a sandstorm or blizzard will start and last for a full in-game day, if the event is already going on, it will stop instead, on use the item is consumed.
When the forbidden whistle is used in a desert the foollowing message will display along with starting a sandstorm:

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And when used in an active sandstorm:

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And when used in the snow biome:

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And when used in an active blizzard:

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It should not be single use. Make the materials:
  • 1 Frost Core
  • 99 Ice
  • 15 Souls of Light
  • 10 Amber
  • 1 Forbidden Fragment
  • 99 Desert Fossils
  • 15 Souls of Night
  • 10 Diamonds
and have it be infinitely usable.
 
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It should not be single use. Make the materials:
  • 2 Frost Cores
  • 99 Ice
  • 15 Souls of Light
  • 10 Amber
  • 2 Forbidden Fragments
  • 99 Desert Fossils
  • 15 Souls of Night
  • 10 Diamonds
and have it be infinitely usable.
The idea is to about not having to wait for a sand storm or blizzard, making the whistles need their materials just defeats the point of this suggestion since you gonna need to wait for the event anyway.
 
A new whistle? Say it isn’t so!
 
The idea is to about not having to wait for a sand storm or blizzard, making the whistles need their materials just defeats the point of this suggestion since you gonna need to wait for the event anyway.
I’d argue against your point. I feel you should at least have to experience one and prove ability to survive by getting the cores. Maybe knock the requirement down to one, though.
 
Aight, it´s not secret for everyone that sandstorms and snowstorms can be inconvinient, and tedious when you need something from them, from snowstorms you can get frost cores and ice feathers, and from sandstorms you get forbidden fragments. Since these events rely purely on RNG the best thing you can do is sleep on a bed and wait till one of them starts (which is not ideal considering that at this stage is where evil biomes spread the fastest). So uh, I have a proposal to fix:

*Drum effects please*

Tadah! The whistle:

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  • Bought from the Wizard NPC for 5 gold View attachment 486874, this item when used gives a high-pichted sound (like a whistle would, what else would it do?). What matters of this item isn´t what it does, rather, what you can craft with it, just like the harp or the bell.

Presenting: The Forbidden and Frost whistle!

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When the forbidden whistle is used in a desert the foollowing message will display along with starting a sandstorm:

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And when used in an active sandstorm:

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And when used in the snow biome:

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And when used in an active blizzard:

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You realize blizzards are just Rain in the snow biome, right? They’re just rain with visual and enemy spawn differences and are even tied to each other so rain and blizzards can’t happen separately. You should probably make the blizzard whistle a rain whistle.
 
A new whistle? Say it isn’t so!
Make it a flute; they are usually more “mystical” and fit in with the music items the merchant sells (drums, harp, bell.)
 
I’d argue against your point. I feel you should at least have to experience one and prove ability to survive by getting the cores. Maybe knock the requirement down to one, though.
You need to find the wizard npc first to even buy a whistle, that means venturing underground, you will problaby have good hm equipment by the time you find the wizard.
You realize blizzards are just Rain in the snow biome, right? They’re just rain with visual and enemy spawn differences and are even tied to each other so rain and blizzards can’t happen separately. You should probably make the blizzard whistle a rain whistle.
I feel like this rn:

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Since sandstorms are a separate event my dumb :red: thought blizzards were the same.
Make it a flute; they are usually more “mystical” and fit in with the music items the merchant sells (drums, harp, bell.)
Harp and bell are sold by the Wizard not Merchant, thought I would see no problem with it begin a flute.
 
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