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Games On Net?

Why is Tim Colwill's bizarre opinion accorded one third of the total paragraph space in the reception section? Who has ever heard of this man or "Games On Net", his apparent soapbox? His suggestion that Terraria drop mining and exploring to focus on its robust action-adventure elements has all the mad, cough-syrup chugging logic of suggesting that Halo's developers should drop all the first-person shooting and focus on the rich strategy-RPG framework. Also, 2.5 Stars out of 5 is a slap on the face. I can only conclude that Mr.Colwill and Games On Net are so tiny and insignificant that they are only authorized to use a handful of stars each year.

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I'm out of time, I'll have to come back and update this correctly at a later time. If anyone else wants to jump and do the corrections by all means please do. --RichardFry (talk) 06:34, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've got some time to put up a basic framework, I think. I can't remember the password to my previous editor account, so I'll put this up under this new account this afternoon. --DocStout76 (talk) 15:43, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've cleaned up all the copyrighted material from the Terraria official site, and replaced it with cited text. Digging up more citations, someone else may edit the text before I can get back to it. -- DocStout76 (talk) 16:49, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd remove the Key Features and system requirements if I were you. They dont help the person's understanding of the game. A link to the official site in External links would help, though.

Add a Gameplay section about it, talking about the Generated world, etc. Looking better than this morning though. Croben ^Problem? 19:43, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article is looking MUCH better! The system requirements not in the infobox was just plain ugly. Also, you forgot that the Blood Moon doubles monster spawnrates. I'll add that quickly. Great improvement overall. Keep it up. :) Croben ^Problem? 16:04, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the blog citation for the second time. Personal blogs generally aren't WP:RELIABLE 75.94.20.69 (talk) 18:46, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Thought provoking gameplay"?

The second paragraph in the Gameplay section lists "thought provoking gameplay" and replay value as elements of the game. I can understand the replay value, but come on, just what's so thought-provoking in its gameplay? Anyone care to help me understand? I'll be taking that out if no one can. 99.246.249.112 (talk) 19:10, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Definitely notable. It's currently the most played game today on steam and has been selling quite a few copies. 76.253.190.76 (talk) 06:31, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Notable. Tommkin (talk) 12:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Direct coverage by two separate reliable, professionally published sources. Definitely meets WP:NOTE guidelines. 75.94.20.69 (talk) 22:53, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Skeletron

In the gameplay section, the last sentence says "If one attempts to enter before defeating Skeletron, he/she will die instantly." This is false, as you will not die instantly. If you enter during the day you will be chased by Skeletron's head which can one hit kill you, yes. However, if you enter during the night you will be chased by more and more of the heads which at night do survivable damange. It is feasible to run into the dungeon and snatch items and magic mirror out of the dungeon or even lure a head out of the dungeon and kill it. If you do the latter, the dungeon will unlock. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.252.131.50 (talk) 21:47, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Critical reception

It probably doesn't even matter, but, shouldn't that section of the article be titled Reception? PR0T05T33L 05:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PR0T05T33L (talk • contribs)

"Request"

I would like to merger our pages im still working on but page and you can add to it and make it look better or just take it if you like but i want ed to get a page like this started the page is Terraria crafting thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Klaysha‎ (talk • contribs)

Note that this is en encyclopaedia first and foremost and crafting guide is inappropriate material for Wikipedia, especially unsourced. What you are looking for is Terraria Wiki. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 19:02, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Game Cleanup

H3llkn0wz just added a cleanup thing, so, how about we remove the info about the King Slime? PR0T05T33L 09:23, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

There are a lot of trivial details besides that, which give little information to general reader and could be rewritten into a general form. For exmaple "At the start of the game, players have a copper axe, a copper shortsword, and a copper pickaxe." The material of tools is not important to understand the game. In fact, the most important initial part of the game for new players is resource gathering and shelter building, which is omitted and not mentioned until next paragraph. There is no context for why the tools are more important to mention until a later explanation. It does not even explain the world is made of "blocks", it assumed readers are familiar with the games like Minecraft. In short, this section is supposed to adequately explain the game to someone who has never played a game before, instead of listing information that is useful only to those who already play it. There is Terraria Wiki for such detail. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 09:38, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(There needs to be an easier way to respond to posts...) No offense, but, why haven't you fixed the copper tools thing? Your first edit of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Terraria&oldid=433513193 (Reverted to revision 433419960 by Σ: it's copper.) PR0T05T33L 09:55, 24 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PR0T05T33L (talk • contribs)

"Fixing" would involve rewriting all the section for which I am a little too lazy now. Copyediting is hard. That edit was not really any addition though, rather revert of incorrect material that took a few seconds. Nothing currently in article is wrong, just unencyclopaedic. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 10:06, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"See Also" (i.e. related games)

I really think Clonk deserves a mention in the related games/see also section. It's a much older game, and it's largely similar in terms of gameplay and looks. I wouldn't go as far as to say that Terraria has copied Clonk, but seeing how similar they are, Clonk should definitely be mentioned somewhere in the page. PiippoN (talk) 19:22, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]