Terraria: So I Spawned, What Should I Do Now?

Luke wonders what’s next.

- Luke Greenfield

This is a follow-up from an article I wrote pertaining to the inventory system and what it all meant; if you haven’t read that and feel you need to, you can find it in Issue 130 of GameOn Magazine!

Now you know your way around the inventory, it’s time to start filling it with crap! Wood is your bread and butter in Terraria; you use it to construct almost anything and everything you need throughout the game. You’re going to want to collect a lot of wood straight off the bat. As soon as you spawn in, just go on a minor deforestation spree by using your trusty copper axe to murder several dozen trees. Make sure you save the acorns, as you use these to replant the trees. You can use wood to make weapons and armour right away; they aren’t exactly good, but it’s better than running around naked. If you can find alternate biomes with different variants of trees, try to (safely) cut some of those down as well, as the equipment you get from that wood is superior to the basic wood equipment. The type of wood that will offer the best equipment is Shade or Ebonwood, which can be found in the Crimson and Corruption respectively, depending on which one your world is generated with.