You'll need 20 stone, 4 wood and 3 torches to make one. Wander for a few minutes in either direction and you should find enough to let you craft a furnace. It's an extremely common material, and you're likely to find outcrops of the stuff on the surface. Check out the Terraria wiki for more information on the different NPCs. If you discover a crystal heart undergound, smash it and then activate it, a nurse will move in. Once you have fifty silver coins, a merchant will appear. Different NPCs will move in when different criteria are met. Voila, you have a house! Later, friendly NPCs will move into abodes, if they're big enough, well lit, and have a table and chairs inside. Also note that your structure won't count if its frame is narrower than 10 blocks, or shorter than eight.įinally, craft a few torches, assign them to your taskbar, and plant them on the walls with a quick left click. If you build walls using dirt blocks, it won't count as a home, and you'll have plenty of awkward night time encounters with zombies appearing in your bedroom. Create a rectangular background as big as you can, and then wall it off with wood blocks. You can place unprocessed wood directly onto the landscape to build walls. Once enclosed, this will stop monsters from spawning inside your house. Placing wood walls on the landscape will create a wood panel backdrop. Then, craft lots and lots of 'wood wall' blocks.Ī safe structure in Terraria must have a background wall. All of your starting items will be made out of the stuff. Before you start building, make sure you have lots and lots of wood.

If you open up your inventory while standing near your new crafting table you'll be able to craft more advanced items. Given time, they will grow into a new forest. If you're worried about all the mass deforestation you're doing, you can plant acorns gathered from chopped trees. Gel can be combined with wood to create torches, invaluable for the cave exploring we'll be doing later on. Dead slimes drop flammable gel and money. Bludgeon them to death with your pickaxe (it has a faster swing and is more effective than a wooden sword against annoying hopping enemies like slimes). They're as useful as they are irritating. They hop around the surface in daylight hours, generally making a nuisance of themselves. You'll find yourself interrupted constantly by Slimes. Once you're back in the world, select the crafting table, with your mouse, or with one of the 1-9 hotkeys, and left click to plop it down on a flat bit of ground. Once you've got a workbench, drop it into your task bar. Clicking on these items a couple of times will deposit them straight into your inventory. Below this, you'll see a list of the items you can craft with the materials in your pockets. Pressing escape brings up your inventory menu. Once you have wood, you can make a workbench.

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