How does wiring work in terraria

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Thread starter Yoraiz0r Start date Apr 26, Yoraiz0r Lead Developer Re-Logic. Hello everyone! I wrote this thread with the purpose of giving everyone an approachable starter guide centered around wiring in Terraria.

I hope you will enjoy reading through it and that it will open your eyes to the possibilities that wiring in Terraria provides! Terraria is a game with 3 primary goals: Dig, Fight, Build! The focus of this thread is to give you some guidance on building - more specifically, the wiring and mechanical side of building in Terraria.

Wiring in Terraria refers to using certain triggers , wires and devices to build automated or advanced contraptions to accomplish a wide array of tasks and functions. Using the Terraria wiring system, you can do many things such as, but not limited to: Using automatic doors that only open or close for players Placing street lights that only turn on at night Defending your home from monsters with a variety of traps Advanced machines limited only by your imagination - from animated fountains to player accelerators to digital displays and much, much more!

The list could go on and on - the possibilities are endless - so without further delay, let's begin your journey to understanding wiring in Terraria! So, as with most things in Terraria, you have to explore your world in order to gain access to wiring.

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Pre-Hardmode Boss Strategies. It's very simple really. You can set up triggers that only trigger certain items or all items at once. In this image, the switch on the upper left will only turn the red torch on and off. The lever, covered in purple wire, will turn both torches on and off. So, this allows me to trigger one by itself, or both. This could be even further complicated by using the green wrench to place green wiring.

And, now, the section of the guide that I honestly have to say is the most requested: Teleportation. To get teleporters, I'm afraid you have to go do something other than mess with wiring - you have to actually beat a hard mode boss.

You don't actually have to have hard mode on the world, though it makes it easier to find a hard mode boss. You can summon them using crafted items brought from a hard mode world.

If you do enter hard mode, be aware the enemies are more difficult, but the perks are fun. After defeating any hard mode boss, you gain access to the Steampunker. She's hip, she's cool She's got a lot of stuff not relevant to this guide. The most important item she carries, for our purposes, is the teleporter.

The teleporter is a 3 wide by 1 block high device. Each block of the teleporter acts just like regular bricks. You can, for instance, use your hammer to flatten it down a bit or change the shape of the edges.

Like regular brick, you can stack things on top i. And, like regular brick, you cannot stack things on top if you have changed the shape with your hammer. Each of the three blocks of the teleporter can be connected to a different switch, and different colored wire can be used to connect one teleporter with another.

There is, however a limit to how far apart these devices can be. Conflicting information on the various wikis state that it is either or bricks of wire between the two devices.

Basic Teleportation Moving from point A to point B is instantaneous with the teleporter. The basic setup requires two triggers switches, levers, or pressure plates , two teleporters and some wire.

Teleporter A is connected to teleporter B via the wire and the triggers are connected using wire of the same color - one by each teleporter. Stand on the teleporter, hit the trigger, and you go from A to B or vice versa. Examining the image on the left, you'll notice there is a second setup. Green wire connects switches and actuators. This is because I have my teleporter in something of an airlock. Because teleporters will move monsters if they are on one when it is activated.

So, since I can't see the situation on the other end, I've added the airlock to make sure none of them potentially gain access to my NPCs. The image on the right is the same picture without the wiring, so that you can see how compact the setup really can be. Connecting Multiple Teleporters The act of connecting multiple teleporters is a little more difficult than just wiring in a straight line.

The color of your wiring is extremely important when you set this up, so pay attention to it. Make notes, sketch out a plan, whatever. An example plan is depicted at left. Note that wire color is indicated. Also, note the two Hell teleporters. Those are used - in concert - to take you to the deepest level of the map. The relay may or may not be needed, depending on the map size and the location of your 'Home. This is because you technically have three points to connect on the teleporter.

It's a rough sketch, obviously, but you can tell that the two wires are not supposed to connect. If they did connect, the system would not work. To put it as simply as I can, each length of wire can only have two teleporters on it. Each teleporter, though, can connect to multiple lengths of wire. As an example of the basic teleporter wiring with seven nodes teleporters , see the picture at left. Note how the wires connect to the central teleporter, but not to each other?

That's what we want. Each wire runs to it's corresponding teleporter and to triggers that start the teleportion. Each wire must have its own trigger, within reach of the teleporter!

If you are not standing on the teleporter, you will not teleport. There is no delay or countdown. The triggers are easier to see in this picture. The central teleporter is using switches and the exterior ones are using levers. Ignore the extra lever on the upper right for the moment. We'll come back to it later. It is possible to use pressure plates.

However, as each trigger only controls one destination, that severely limits your flexibility with this extremely useful tool. Adding a second destination to the next section of your circuit is not difficult. Remember that extra floating lever? Well, check out the wiring schematic now, at left. Now, when we stand on the upper right teleporter and flip that extra lever, it will take us to the bottom right teleporter.

The bottom right one, however, has no return switch wired in. With our current schematic, it would be easy to simply flip the lever to go 'home,' then back to the upper right. Pro Tip: Switches do not have to be placed on walls and floors. You can also place beams in the background and set the switches on them! This allows you to run and walk through them. No blocks to maneuver around! This can save you a lot of space, making it easier to design and build your teleportation areas without having to worry about how many switches you'll need to plaster to a nearby wall or floor.

Edit: As of version 1. A simple method of keeping your wires straight at a teleporter involves making a simple loop around your switches. First, we place switches like this. Please note the spaces between the switches and the teleporter.

Next, we can make an outer loop containing ALL the wire colors available. Note that the top and bottom of the loop are a bit longer than the switches themselves.

This just makes things look neater as it keeps them from attaching to the top and bottom switch from that location. Across each switch, we run the individual color. And, a single line containing all colors again to the connection point on the teleporter. A wire can connect to any point on the outer loop without worrying about overlapping a switch, light or whatever other electronic that may be nearby.

At two gold each, plus wires and triggers, teleporters are not cheap. I hope this information will help all of you get the most out of each one, thereby reducing your costs and grinding time. As most of us wander through the world, specifically the Underground areas of it, we discover a strange building.

The structure is made of brown blocks that just won't break, no matter how long we sit there with the pick. It requires a key to enter. This is the jungle temple, also called the Lihzahrd Temple. Inside this structure, are many strange and new things. However, we cannot access it until we have defeated Plantera. This hard mode boss drops the key and allows entry to the rich treasures within!

I am going to say this now, the Lihzahrd Temple is an electrician's dream. There are multiple new traps and plenty of pressure plates to scavenge. There's also wire to grab, if you bring your cutters. Best of all, there is a trap for every ten squares of temple floor.

And, here we see them. Starting at the top right is a Spiky Ball Trap. True to it's name, it drops an orange ball with spikes on it.. The ball bounces around for several seconds before it disappears. The average damage seems to be around 90, and it isn't difficult to get two or three bouncing around from one trap if you have them on a timer.

The Spiky Ball Trap is apparently on a five second cooldown. Next, to the left, we have a Spear Trap. In the dungeons, these tend to be found in banks of spears that drop down to skewer you. Rather similar to the opening scenes of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, only from the top instead of the side.

They can cover rather large distances - up to 20 squares. The cooldown is supposedly one second. There is - also supposedly - a bug where the spear head can be flung upwards as a projectile if the trap is made inactive with an actuator.

I have not personally tested this. Our next mechanism, down and left, is the new Super Dart Trap. It shares many similarities with the original dart trap, but deals more damage. It seems to have the same cooldown as a normal dart trap. Our final hard mode trap is the Flame Trap. This trap shoots fire horizontally.

That is, left to right or right to left. If you are standing on the trap, or within a square or so, you can still be damaged by it. Yes, even if you are not in the direct line of fire. The Flame Trap's cooldown is about 3 seconds. As you can see from looking at the picture, the straight line of fire from the Flame Trap is not precisely straight.

So, one square up and down still need to be cautious. All right, let's discuss the new stuff. We have a bunch here that is just fascinating to get through. Here, we have just a few of the new things. First, there is a Yellow Wrench.

Yes, folks, you can now use a fourth wire color. This makes things a lot easier for us designers, as we can wire without accidentally triggering and add - gasp- two more nodes per teleporter.

But, wait! There's more! The next tool is the Actuation Rod. This one is There are only a handful of situations in which I would need it. Still, the ability to change the state of actuators without a switch is, I suppose, not that bad. But, the price is prohibitive. For actuators alone, that's silver. Next, we have the Junction Box. If having four strands of wire isn't enough, this box can prevent wires of the same color from connecting.

Use your hammer to change which direction the wire inside connects - also potentially useful for things you need to reconfigure on the fly. The Mechanical Lens. If you have it in inventory, allows you to see all wires on the screen. Get this from the Mechanic and you'll never be surprised by a trap again. The wire visual can be configured for bright, normal and faded - and is separated by color if you are tracing a specific strand.

My only complaint is that you have to remove it from inventory to turn it off completely. The Multicolor Wrench This thing of beauty allows you to place any color wire, or pick up any color wire. With this tool, you only use one inventory slot instead of four. Craft this at the Tinkerer's Workshop using all four wrenches and one wire cutter as ingredients. The Grand Design is the grand-daddy of all wiring tools.

It requires a ruler, mechanical lens, 60 wire and a multicolor wrench to create. Hot steamcommunity. Live forums. Live terraria. Good steamcommunity. Hot community. Online www. Free terraria. Free www.

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