How Speedrunners Broke Terraria

earlier this month streamer haboo speedrun Terraria at gdq and got a really impressive time of 1 hour and 41 minutes now even though I've played a lot of Terraria I would still consider myself a very casual player and I watched this whole stream with my jaw to the floor and it got me thinking about the methods that speedrunners use to break Terraria and how much of that could actually translate to tips for casual players I don't know about you but I've played a lot of Terraria and every once in a while I want things to go a little bit quicker so in today's video I've gathered seven tips directly from haboo that should help you break Terraria in your own little way so this first tip is a clever use of the housing tool to hopefully help you find pyramids a little easier now I did a couple tests with this and it seems to only really work on a small world where pyramids spawn a little higher up and all you need to do is use it and click underground in your desert and if you are lucky you may notice that it changes to this room is too big and that's because it sensed that there's a room down there and if you're lucky that might be your pyramid and yeah take a look at that there's the pyramid now this trick was specifically used by haboo to lower the time of the speed run by not having to rely on guide Voodoo Doll demons but I feel like if you are in a rush this is very handy so one of the things you can do is you can make a home for your guide slightly above hell and then if you need the Wall of Flesh all you got to do is drop them straight into the lava and it works like a guide Voodoo Doll and it's super convenient for re-fights too because all you need to do is patch up the house wait for the guy to move in and you don't need to rely on a demon this next one is called a bed warp and it allows you to set your spawn point on a bed but then have the ability to go back to your regular World spawn and then back to the bed which currently isn't possible in Terraria without this little trick now I think this one would be especially useful for those that have maybe built a house in a different biome that they intend to spend a good amount of time in but they've forgotten something at the regular World spawn they want to go back quick and they don't want to have to walk all the way back so the idea is that you have a perfectly normal house which we're going to break which disables the bed and then we're going to repair the house as we recall sounds a little strange let me show you so right now this is my spawn point but if we break this corner piece it no longer recognizes this as my spawn point and this bed is no longer active so how we're going to repair this is by building a platform upwards and then dropping sand down to repair the house which is this corner piece here so then all you need to do is drop the sand recall at the same time and we've gone back to our regular spawn point but if we recall again we are now in the bed but before we continue let 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dungeon and Gathering a couple of golden keys and then just opening every chest at random and the thing you need to know is that loot actually spawns in a set order in the dungeon and if you're looking for a Cobalt Shield or a muramasa it's more than likely that that's going to be one of the first chests that you encounter in the dungeon so the set order for this is apparently meant to be muramasa Cobalt Shield Aqua scepter Blue Moon magic Missile velor golden key handgun now I tested this a bunch of times and I can't get it to spawn in that exact order but I have now found Cobalt Shields a lot quicker so to demonstrate this we are heading Underground on a brand new world and we are going to open the first locked chest that we find and it should contain either a muramasa or a Cobalt Shield or an aqua scepter let's actually put this one to the test alright here it is let's open it up and see it's a Cobalt Shield yeah I wish I knew this about 11 years ago now an essential part to every Speed Run is the ability to take down a boss quickly and I don't think I've seen anything as fun as this so with this method you'll be able to take down the destroyer in like five or six seconds it's kind of wild so to pull it off you need to go to an air area where there's no blocks around you and that's because we're going to be forcing the Destroyer to spawn every single segment on a single block and with that we're going to be using Dynamite to take down the boss so this is best done in an ocean so you are completely away from everything a great little tip that haboo showed off is that you can actually use junction boxes to place blocks mid-air so very handy if you don't have an ice rod yet so to get this started you need to place down an indestructible block which for us will just be Adamantite there's there's quite a few in Terraria now what we need to do is we need to create an area where we're going to hook up to just above so that we can rain down dynamite and then we're going to take down the Destroyer to further explain it if you don't get the concept essentially the Destroyer needs a block to latch onto when it spawns in the game now if you're up here it's not going to spawn down here so instead it will pick the only block it can find find which is this one and all of the segments will be in the exact same place at the exact same time which is how the dynamite manages to do so much damage right so let's throw it down and once we hear explosions we'll spawn in the fight okay there we go so as you can see the dynamite is doing its work and it's gone it's wild it's just it's just so cool like what a way to kill the Destroyer now when it comes to speedrunning a battery Forge can make quite the difference when compared to a good reforge and let's say you're speeding through Terraria and you don't have a lot of money well how do you guarantee that you get a good reforge well Shimmer is here to her Advantage because whenever you throw an item into Shimmer it gets deconstructed into the materials that you've crafted it with and every time you craft an item in Terraria well you have a random chance at a good or a bad reforge so what you can do is you can say throw your sword into Shimmer get back the bars that you crafted it with and craft up a new one and just kind of go from there and see is it any good is Nimble all right well it might be and for the final one today let's talk about a crazy method to instant take down Plantera now I purposely left this one until last because visually it's quite uncomfortable to watch so if you're sensitive to strobing images or just screen shake or fast moving images it's probably time to click away because like it would be for Plantera it's about to get uncomfortable now I'm not a very technical player when it comes to Terraria as you probably know even though I have a lot of hours I'm more casual so I'm going to explain this really simply I don't know all the technical jargon in numbers all I know is you go fast and Plantera dies it's a really cool method so we're going to be using the jousting Lance for this one and for anybody that's never used it before because a lot of players like myself don't ever really use it in an adventure it's a weapon that gets a damaging buff the faster that you move so to get the maximum amount of damage out of the Lance all you need to do is make the player move fast and how do you do that well you abuse Minecarts so to demonstrate this it's actually really easy place down two rails Hammer them twice so that they're both bumpers get on head a little bit to the left or to the right and allow your player to build up momentum and this can get even worse and I'm going to jump off now because the screen Shake is pretty bad now for the Plantera fight what we're going to be doing is essentially combining this with teleporters so the idea is that you're going to be bumping Between Two bumpers here but we're also going to be using a pressure plate Minecart tracks so that we're also teleporting away from Plantera at the same time because we're here and there Plantera will be rested nicely in the middle and you'll just be using your joust like this which will now have a much higher damage because you're moving so quickly so the setup for this is actually super simple all you need is two rails on either side of a teleporter and a pressure plate one in the middle hit these end ones twice so that they become bumpers and then do the exact same thing on the other side and wire it all together once again this is going to look very uncomfortable but this is how it looks in motion you want to build up a lot of speed like this and hold out your lamps so that you're damaging Plantera alright so let's give it a go and see how awesome this is actually in motion so we'll wait a second for Plantera to to come down our way all right here she is let's see does it actually work yeah it does and it's it's incredible it is actually incredible now I've butchered this now listen haboo you never told me anything about medusas so the hitbox with the jousting Lance is is honestly really strange like it's not exactly what you expect and that's it for today if you want to check out haboo's full Terraria speedrun at gdq I highly encourage it it's going to be linked down below unfortunately because I don't know too much about Terraria speedrunning I wasn't able to credit each person that maybe came up with these methods but I do know that there is a Terraria speedrunning Discord so I'll leave a link to that down below if you want to learn more about speedrunning

Channel: ChippyGaming

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Keywords: Terraria, speedrunning, how speedrunners broke terraria, gdq, speedrun, chippy, chippygaming

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Length: 11min 23sec (683 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 29 2023