***** Thanks! It's interesting how the Pumpkin Moon arena evolved since Tuxlar's excellent initial conception over a year ago, which reached the final wave at around 2am. Reaching a final wave time of 10:30pm was almost inconceivable back then, but after a lot of other smaller discoveries here we are :).
***** Yep, although that was non-AFK. It did set a record though for both platinum collected per night and the final wave time. It will be interesting to see what the new record will be fully AFK. I can get it around 9am currently, but I'm still working on it. The key is using the Stardust Dragon, but that creates an issue as far as survivability is convcerned (since the slime is out of the question). There are some interesting solutions though. Video coming soon!
Dysmal XBL / Supa Hot Boy Actually I wasn't. I was reading up on the wiki one day and saw that it was the last wave and ends when the night ends. I've actually never gotten to the last wave btw
I downloaded your map, and was stunned by the amount of work you put into it. I've yet to explore the entire map. I tried out the pumpkin farm, following your guide, and it worked perfectly. Very impressive and incredibly helpful. Thank you.
+Duke5150 Thanks for the kind comments! The map is up to version 12 now, and includes even more features including a fully automated Lunar Autoarm. I still plan to keep adding more and more features over time! :)
Materials required for this build (Walls and Wires are an approximation): Stone Slab x 1195 (1 stack + 196) Stone Slab Wall x 724 Gray Brick Wall x 28 Ruby Gemspark Wall x 207 Amber Gemspark Wall x 12 Lead Fence x 9 Obsidian Clock Obsidian Chest Campfire Heart Lantern Spear Trap x 156 Super Dart Trap Slime Statue Bird Statue 1 Second Timer x 6 Switch x 6 Teleporter x 3 Actuator x 52 Any mob-only pressure plate, such as Yellow x 13 Wire x 2226 (2 stacks + 228) This is slightly more than needed.
+Nero0 Thanks for the summary - should be useful for those that want to build this farm! I also have a brand new farm that I'll be showcasing in a day or so (75+ platinum per night!), and it is much more powerful and easier to build, but on PC only (it uses 1.3 items).
Very nice farm! Only one remark. If you keep buffing with the wrath and the crit potions throughout the night, your ravens and the spear traps will kill the mobs faster and you'll get even more money. I got 50-55 plat and even got 59 once. :)
Good job joe, you spent time on this cool farm. And you worked hard, and I worked hard too. I worked so hard to make my finger hit that subscribe button, and when I look at your farm it motivated me to do so
*You could even make more money by crafting Spooky Armor out of the valueless Spooky Wood!* The helmet sells for the most money per wood piece (50 copper each, one helmet = 100 silver, split on 200 wood pieces - 100/200 = 0.5 silver).
I actually had enough raven staff,Bat staff spooky armor,etc. To make my dream team with my 10 friends We call our team the "Spooky Halloweenie" Yeah... dont judge us. Btw with our brand new sets we can do clan fights with other teams...
Dunno if you saw it Joe, but I upload the highest damage video, it got 600 likes and 45K views in under a week. (the most ever for me in a week) so I would personally like to thank you so much for your help and use of the video :)
MrTheEpicNinja I'll be sure to check it out! Been so ridiculously busy in the past couple of weeks that I haven't had much of a chance to watch too many other Terraria vids :).
MrTheEpicNinja Great video! I wonder if you'd be able to set a new record with the snowman cannon by controlling the destroyer spawn location (blocking everything around you for miles and only keeping one small area free) and then teleport to that location the moment the destroyer is summoned and blast it while it's still curled up. Could end up with the fastest kill too - 1 frame :).
Joe Price ill have to try that! thanks joe! However it can't be one frame, the destroyer has 82 segments, that would mean each segment needs a crit of 1000+ to get in 1 frame
I'm currently in the process of wiring this up in my world, and I have a minor question: do the sloped blocks by the teleporters serve a functional purpose, or are they just like that?
You have some serious skills in this game bro, i really cant believe all the stuff im watching in your videos.. just one question, do you play softcore normal? i kinda allways play hardcore in all games, but this game doesnt have that feeling of playing hardcore unless you go for a race or something, i was planning on a softcore with the new mode (at least new for me, i played terraria like 1 year ago) expert.
I have a silly question, I've been looking online for a while now, and I haven't found anything solid to answer my question; do traps get benefits from crit hit chance still in v. 1.3.2? I found a forum post saying how someone lost their pumpkin moon farm when 1.3 hit, and a comment to it saying that in the 1.3 changelog, there was mention to how traps were fixed to not recieve boosts from crit gear that a player wears. I searched through the changelog, and I did find the hotfix that states that traps were fixed, but it said that they didn't receive bonuses from ranged crit hit chance. Just to make sure I understand the changelog right, and i wanted to ask if traps still receive bonuses from crit chance or not. I think they do, and it has to be melee based bonuses only, but not 100% sure on it, thank you for your time.
@Joe Price Hi. thanks for this cool video. But does it still work? I build it today myself but unfortunately the slime does far to much damage (about 33). Playing on expert mode. Did relogic nerfed this statue abusing?
Just a wiring question in general, but whenever i overlap different colored wire, ie :blue and green ,the pulses get mixed and messes up the times, do i have to put the wires further apart or what. Also, does every spear do damage, the damage tickes are not appearing very fast in my batteries
Overlapping wire, so long as the wires are different colors, should have no impact on the pulses, so I'm not sure why you're getting that in your game. Are you on PC or a different platform? Regarding spears - they do piercing damage, and piercing damage cannot hit more often than 1 hit per 1/6th of a second.
Just imagine if that 1 slime mysteriously died... Also imagine if your invincibility frames stopped working when it died... Just looking at the number of pumpkings is scary.
Hey joe, I'm having some problems replicating your build. I keep dying on the second set of mourning woods(rnd 4?)in the slime room. I have cleared all mobs prior and have everything the same as you except for the type of blocks used. Have you had this problem before? It's like I can't get the game to establish the slime as the primary attacker. I tried a different build before this one and only got to round 11 before the end of the night. I didnt have raven staff then. Im on the xbox360, does that have something to do with it?
***** When you teleport into the arena, do you wait a little to make sure the bird dies before activating the slime statue? Sometimes activating the slime statue too early is the culprit. With 1.3 this farm will be updated anyways - I'll be working on updating all farms and hoik-based contraptions in the coming weeks.
Joe Price dang I didn't think of that. Gonna try tomorrow. Thanks for the quick reply. I've probably used 20 medallions trying to figure out where I went wrong lol
Still waiting for Joe to try out the logic in LittleBigPlanet 3. It would be sweet to see what he can do. I'd even be willing to introduce the logic system to him if he would have the time to get LBP3 for PS4
I havent tried this yet, but maybe a water candle could improve the efficiency of this farm? As in spawn rates of the enemies. Higher spawn rate = sooner final wave + more moneys :3
IcantstopGAMING788 Unfortunately all events and invasions have a fixed spawn rate, so battle potions or water candles have no effect. It would be great if they did though!
FixateYourself Check out the guide linked in the description box - it shows the schematic of this autofarm including how the spear traps are wired. The spear traps are all actuated and hooked up to separate 1-second timers that are activated in staggered fashion (the bird passes over pressure plates to activate the timers in sequence).
WeatheredSphere 愛 I use a bird statue, not a bat statue. I think a different approach is needed for the bat statue, although I don't recall what it was specifically. You might have to play around with the statue to see what needs to be done for the bat to go down the tunnel. It's possible that you'd need to be below the statue, not above it, which means yo'd need to teleport below the statue first and then teleport into the slime box. ZeroGravitas's thread on activations might help: forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/fastest-engines-measured-with-hoiktronic-binary-skeleton-counter-video.6464/ He's got bat statue set-ups near the bottom of the guide.
I got to make the trap myself but my problem is that the Poltergeists seem to avoid my trap and go under me while taking so little damage and making it impossible for the other mobs to spawn if i dont kill the Poltergeists without hitting my slime.
ImParalyzed No I mean a spear trap battery which you construct out of spear traps, like you see in the video. Battery = column of actuated spear traps.
For some reason the slime invulnerability machine doesn't always work, sometimes it defends me through the whole night, some times I die instantly to a mourning wood, sometimes it defends me all up until the final wave, but I don't kill it. How do I fix this?
Myko Link Are you playing on a server or offline solo? If you're solo, the only way the slime can lose priority is if another mob spawned ahead of it - it's possible, although unlikely, that a mob spawns on the surface and right before it gets killed you summon your slime. I didn't install a workaround since I have yet to die to any moon mobs after running dozens of tests, but if its happening to you then there is a solution: you can put actuators on the surface and have lava underneath. Before you summon the slime you can actuate the surface to expose the lava, thereby blocking all spawns. After the slime is summoned you can deactuate the ground again. You'd also have to shift down the collection tunnel underneath the spawn surface. Should be pretty fast to make these changes.
Sheri Sipsis The speed with which to hit the pressure plates isn't important. They key is to keep the spear tips spaced out at regular intervals so that they make contact with the mobs every 10th of a second, since the limit of piercing damage is 6 hits per second.
Why not hold a sniper rifle in place of the obsidian swordfish? Surely that has a much higher crit chance? Or is that it is melee only that affects the crit chance?
TeslaPixel Ignore the other guy's reply, you only hold the weapon so that the spear traps have a higher critical strike chance. You should NOT attack with it under any circumstances while farming because this will kill the slimes and then, the enemies will kill you. (Damage priority...) According to the Terraria wiki, "The Sniper Rifle has a base 19% critical strike chance as opposed to the usual 4%." and "The Obsidian Swordfish has an extremely high base 24% critical strike chance as opposed to the usual 4%." Means, the Obsidian Swordfish does have a higher critical strike chance. Also, as far as I know, all weapons affect the critical strike chance if you hold them in your hand.
TeslaPixel The sniper rifle approach does allow the player to reach 100% crit strike chance, but only with shroomite gear. Since I have to keep tiki armor on, the Obsidian Swordfish is superior as Stefnotch mentioned.
Hey Joe, I was able to farm 47 platinum in one night (wave 15 ~10:10) and it was semi-AFK in expert mode. Is this worth noting/sharing as it requires potions and end-game gear... Great video.
Gyraffe In 1.3 it's now possible to reach about 120 platinum per night while going semi-AFK :). It's due to the sheer power of Last Prism. Fully AFK however still needs testing to see how high the platinum rate can go.
Hi, currently I have built this farm (mobile) and somehow the Slime Invulnerabilty method doesn’t work. Mourning Wood and Pumpkings instantly overrides the slime, is it patched already? And is there any other invulnerability method? I don’t want to waste my time and effort of building this farm for 5 hours. Thanks for the reply.
Hey, sorry to bother you but I found that the triggering mechanism didn't work. The bats didn't fit threw the 1 block hole to start the spear traps, so I modified it a little... Now it's 2 blocks wide and it starts good but I think mobs are spawning in there and it messes it all up. Anyway do you have and suggesting on how to make a more effective triggering system?
Same lol i only sell useless stuff like spears and beginning game stuff but i keep stuff with good modifiers to remind me. The first iron pick i made was legendary out the gate. ;D
Kael Exeter meh i am also a hoarder however i didn't feel bothered since he probably has at least 1 of each of the items already... i myself keep only 1 of each aswell
Myko Link Hold down the right mouse button and you can sell items quickly (because the moment an item gets sold, another takes it's place since the items are right above the player and get automatically picked up).
Joe Price am i doing something wrong? pressing the right mouse button while having a merchant's shop-interface opened won't do a thing, unless i right click on an equipable item - then it gets equipped. but no items get auomatically placed into the merchant's inventory ._.
***** Sorry, my bad. When selling to the merchant hold down shift and the LMB to automatically sell the item (and as you sell the item another item will take its spot if your inventory is full and you have lots of loot around you). I confused that with holding the RMB when buying in bulk from merchants.
I might be both late and possibly just plain ignorant for asking this, but why didn't you turn the place into a Jungle biome? I recall that Battle Potions, Calming Potions and Water Candles have no effect on the event, but is that simply because a Moon being in place simply automatically turns the spawn rate to its cap?
+Magikarp Biomes also have no impact on Moon/Invasion spawn rates, since spawn rates for them is locked. Still, adding the jungle biome (and crimson/corruption/snow biomes) can be good to allow for biome key drops, because of the very high kill rate in the farm.
Magikarp It's actually a bit stronger now due to the strength of the late-game minions even though spear damage took a hit. Still, I'm about to release a significantly better AFK moon grinder (which doubles as a boss grinder), capable of generating up to 80 platinum per night for Pumpkin Moon. The grinder is already fully built and tested, so all I need to do now is shoot the video :).
Also, do you know which minions deal piercing damage? While Ravens and Pygmies don't, it looks like Pirates do, despite their attack patterns being similar (melee attacks). Also, I had an idea for farming X mob in expert mode, that being Lucky Coined Slime on a particular enemy (such as a chaos elemental) to lure in hundreds of additional enemies (in this case massed Chaos Elementals) (I might try this, I need a Rod of Discord for my 20 maximum life challenge)
So how did you get the enemies to spawn that fast? I've built my own version of this, essentially identical, and the enemies don't spawn nearly that fast. Are there some jungle blocks hidden in the build somewhere?
pielover267 The Moon spawn rates are fixed at 1/20th spawn chance every game tick. Biomes have no impact. Are you on PC or console? If you're on PC and if the farm is identical, you should see the same spawn rates.
***** Yeah I forgot to show the merchant house. It's a basic house that tapers down to a floor 3 tiles wide, with a teleporter at the bottom of the floor. This traps the merchant above the teleporter, and that house teleporter is hooked up to the arena teleporter you see me using to summon the merchant in the video.
Huner Prather Thanks! I was planning on doing a tour of the world at some point due to requests in the past - I might do that after the next cannonball arena video!
inkjetlabel Thanks for the kind words! This is almost entirely applicable to both mobile and console minus the potions (summoner, wrath, rage) and the obsidian swordfish. However the swordfish can be substituted with a sniper rifle without losing much crit chance, and the potions won't impact the performance too greatly!
Tryangetbetter Frost Moon unfortunately is a terrible money maker :(. It's because it's almost impossible to reach the final wave solo, and hitting the final wave very early is the key to money farming. I'd only do Frost Moon for the weapon drops, and for money farm the Pumpkin Moon heavily instead. Although I never discuss it in the video (I will in a later Frost Moon video) this farm is capable of reaching wave 17 for Frost Moon, which is amazing for an AFK farm but not good enough for good money farming. I can possibly reach wave 18 by adding more spear trap batteries to kill roving Ice Queens sooner, but that's still a waork in progress :).
Joe Price Ah, well as long as I can still use it to get weapons drops (I somehow managed to delete my blizzard staff! D: ) Then all is well! Thanks for replying and I look forward to seeing your next one! Keep up the good work!
Tryangetbetter The Horseman's Blade arena is actually a pretty good farming approach to Frost moon for anyone willing to build a separate arena - video on that coming soon, since there's been some progress in improving such farms :). Still, this Omega Moon Farm farm is good enough, but it might take a few runs to get all the weapons.
Joe Price Just made this on a world and tried it multiplayer with a friend, and my God was it effective, my computer is a bit old but it's never had a drop in frame rate like that! I would let you know how much money it makes with two people for the sake of it but my friend tabbed out and clicked back in killing the slime. That left us 3 agonizing minutes of being repeatedly killed by an army of mourning woods (clearly getting their own back) and no merchant to sell our goods to :P. Thanks again, going to try it with 4 people later, hopefully no mistakes will happen, will let you know how much gold it makes total!
Tryangetbetter Cool, glad it also worked very well in multiplayer! Do more players result in a greater number of spawns? I'm quite curious how much money you can amass with many players over the course of one night - keep us updated!
I just built it and got 23 platinum per night, i believe that it is impossible for the spears to crit as of 1.3, so i think that is my problem. Still, thanks for the guide, i am richer than ever in terraria.
Old Bonnie - The Dismounted Nightmare BR It works perfectly fine. You must have done something wrong. Many others have already downloaded this map and never had any trouble reaching the destination.
lukesk11135 I use a mix of slab walls, grey brick walls, and amber/ruby gemspark walls. I really like the gemspark walls instead of using light sources.
Great video Joe!
***** Thanks! It's interesting how the Pumpkin Moon arena evolved since Tuxlar's excellent initial conception over a year ago, which reached the final wave at around 2am. Reaching a final wave time of 10:30pm was almost inconceivable back then, but after a lot of other smaller discoveries here we are :).
***** Yep, although that was non-AFK. It did set a record though for both platinum collected per night and the final wave time. It will be interesting to see what the new record will be fully AFK. I can get it around 9am currently, but I'm still working on it. The key is using the Stardust Dragon, but that creates an issue as far as survivability is convcerned (since the slime is out of the question). There are some interesting solutions though. Video coming soon!
at first i was like "wow, so many pumpkings spawn on the last wave" and then it became clear "oh... the final wave never ends"
WAIT IT NEVER ENDS?!?!?!?!?!?!?
+Jean Burbach Wait, you didn't know that?
+Kappa: Advice and More not until now
+Jean Burbach Yeah, we were all like that at one point :-P
Dysmal XBL / Supa Hot Boy Actually I wasn't. I was reading up on the wiki one day and saw that it was the last wave and ends when the night ends. I've actually never gotten to the last wave btw
Sir, you are a genius. This is beyond amazing.
Purest of all terrarians. You are an amazing builder, my man.
I downloaded your map, and was stunned by the amount of work you put into it. I've yet to explore the entire map. I tried out the pumpkin farm, following your guide, and it worked perfectly. Very impressive and incredibly helpful. Thank you.
+Duke5150 Thanks for the kind comments! The map is up to version 12 now, and includes even more features including a fully automated Lunar Autoarm. I still plan to keep adding more and more features over time! :)
Joe has blown my mind again.
I set up this farm on my x box 360 and was able to reach the final wave! Works great! Thank you!🎮
I downloaded your world and was wandering around in it. You, sir, are like a mad scientist. Well done.
karanadon137 Thanks a lot, glad you're enjoying the world! There are still many more additions to come, so stay tuned ;)
Materials required for this build (Walls and Wires are an approximation):
Stone Slab x 1195 (1 stack + 196)
Stone Slab Wall x 724
Gray Brick Wall x 28
Ruby Gemspark Wall x 207
Amber Gemspark Wall x 12
Lead Fence x 9
Obsidian Clock
Obsidian Chest
Campfire
Heart Lantern
Spear Trap x 156
Super Dart Trap
Slime Statue
Bird Statue
1 Second Timer x 6
Switch x 6
Teleporter x 3
Actuator x 52
Any mob-only pressure plate, such as Yellow x 13
Wire x 2226 (2 stacks + 228) This is slightly more than needed.
+Nero0 Thanks for the summary - should be useful for those that want to build this farm! I also have a brand new farm that I'll be showcasing in a day or so (75+ platinum per night!), and it is much more powerful and easier to build, but on PC only (it uses 1.3 items).
Sweet, can't wait! :D
your a legend
how are you sure?
this is what i'm talking about, simple yet elegant. that wiring is impressive! great job! i subscribed. :)
This is such a cool idea! I love your stuff, and managed to replicate your Teleporter Hub!
the map download was awesome all the farms that u got are very good
well done!! Keep it up!!
Very nice farm! Only one remark. If you keep buffing with the wrath and the crit potions throughout the night, your ravens and the spear traps will kill the mobs faster and you'll get even more money. I got 50-55 plat and even got 59 once. :)
Missed your bids :P I have become addicted to your content kwep it up !
Good job joe, you spent time on this cool farm. And you worked hard, and I worked hard too. I worked so hard to make my finger hit that subscribe button, and when I look at your farm it motivated me to do so
Thanks, welcome aboard! I should return to making videos fairly soon :).
if only he had a dps meter...
Colby Zabele Over 9000
*You could even make more money by crafting Spooky Armor out of the valueless Spooky Wood!*
The helmet sells for the most money per wood piece (50 copper each, one helmet = 100 silver, split on 200 wood pieces - 100/200 = 0.5 silver).
Seriously Joe, you are an absolutely fantastic player.
Yo Joe, could you do an step-by-step guide on how to make this? Thanks anyway
Just download the world
I actually had enough raven staff,Bat staff spooky armor,etc. To make my dream team with my 10 friends
We call our team the "Spooky Halloweenie" Yeah... dont judge us.
Btw with our brand new sets we can do clan fights with other teams...
Raven staff would be useless in pvp xD bat scepter on the other hand...
The actual version is much better than my versions: it actually works.
Dunno if you saw it Joe, but I upload the highest damage video, it got 600 likes and 45K views in under a week. (the most ever for me in a week) so I would personally like to thank you so much for your help and use of the video :)
MrTheEpicNinja I'll be sure to check it out! Been so ridiculously busy in the past couple of weeks that I haven't had much of a chance to watch too many other Terraria vids :).
Joe Price
thats fine joe, even if you dont end up watching it, still thankyou :)
MrTheEpicNinja Great video! I wonder if you'd be able to set a new record with the snowman cannon by controlling the destroyer spawn location (blocking everything around you for miles and only keeping one small area free) and then teleport to that location the moment the destroyer is summoned and blast it while it's still curled up. Could end up with the fastest kill too - 1 frame :).
Joe Price
ill have to try that! thanks joe! However it can't be one frame, the destroyer has 82 segments, that would mean each segment needs a crit of 1000+ to get in 1 frame
Holy Crap this is amazing
Bro-ass warning with the audio alert! Thanks :D
I'm currently in the process of wiring this up in my world, and I have a minor question: do the sloped blocks by the teleporters serve a functional purpose, or are they just like that?
Lucky Lucky Horseshoe it tends to block spawning for some odd reason.
Joe surely the drops will begin to despawn as you reach the limit? Won't you need some nearby chests?
You have some serious skills in this game bro, i really cant believe all the stuff im watching in your videos.. just one question, do you play softcore normal? i kinda allways play hardcore in all games, but this game doesnt have that feeling of playing hardcore unless you go for a race or something, i was planning on a softcore with the new mode (at least new for me, i played terraria like 1 year ago) expert.
Where does the blue wire that attaches to the bird that just going up connect to
can you make a video on how to build this? also does this work for ios?
Wow, this is awesome...
the fun that i am seeing is the numbers popping up
I have a silly question, I've been looking online for a while now, and I haven't found anything solid to answer my question; do traps get benefits from crit hit chance still in v. 1.3.2? I found a forum post saying how someone lost their pumpkin moon farm when 1.3 hit, and a comment to it saying that in the 1.3 changelog, there was mention to how traps were fixed to not recieve boosts from crit gear that a player wears. I searched through the changelog, and I did find the hotfix that states that traps were fixed, but it said that they didn't receive bonuses from ranged crit hit chance. Just to make sure I understand the changelog right, and i wanted to ask if traps still receive bonuses from crit chance or not. I think they do, and it has to be melee based bonuses only, but not 100% sure on it, thank you for your time.
there is other way to activate te trap with other thing or is totally necesary the bird?
Mourning woods go up to the box and it me, any help?
you can put your map to download? please
Does slime statue thing work on 1.3?
John Kasprzak no
John Kasprzak you can still farm gel and get the slime staff from the slime statue.
+roel metsch he's talking about the slime getting damage priority, making him pretty much invulnerable.
+John Kasprzak not in expert
+John Kasprzak It does work I use it all the time
@Joe Price Hi. thanks for this cool video. But does it still work? I build it today myself but unfortunately the slime does far to much damage (about 33). Playing on expert mode. Did relogic nerfed this statue abusing?
That's because you're playing in expert mode. Alternatively you can use spikes
+ash hw Pump up your defense a little more. Along with a slime banner, you can reduce the slime damage to 1 while wearing summoner armor.
im always spawning the ravens in the box above, but somehow they manage to kill the slime, is this a 1.3 thing or what?
Just a wiring question in general, but whenever i overlap different colored wire, ie :blue and green ,the pulses get mixed and messes up the times, do i have to put the wires further apart or what.
Also, does every spear do damage, the damage tickes are not appearing very fast in my batteries
Overlapping wire, so long as the wires are different colors, should have no impact on the pulses, so I'm not sure why you're getting that in your game. Are you on PC or a different platform? Regarding spears - they do piercing damage, and piercing damage cannot hit more often than 1 hit per 1/6th of a second.
thx and i am on mobile
Just Ultimate.
GG
After watching this, im curious as to your played time on terraria, i believe steam shows that somewhere.
Marijn R I'm at around 1600 hours now, although that has been spread over the past 4 years :). Lots of AFK farming while testing to inflate the hours!
In a previous farm you removed the spawn area with a 5-sec timer, to get rid of the hearts; but not anymore. Why?
Just imagine if that 1 slime mysteriously died... Also imagine if your invincibility frames stopped working when it died... Just looking at the number of pumpkings is scary.
That was simple and affective one
Hey joe, I'm having some problems replicating your build. I keep dying on the second set of mourning woods(rnd 4?)in the slime room. I have cleared all mobs prior and have everything the same as you except for the type of blocks used. Have you had this problem before? It's like I can't get the game to establish the slime as the primary attacker. I tried a different build before this one and only got to round 11 before the end of the night. I didnt have raven staff then. Im on the xbox360, does that have something to do with it?
***** When you teleport into the arena, do you wait a little to make sure the bird dies before activating the slime statue? Sometimes activating the slime statue too early is the culprit. With 1.3 this farm will be updated anyways - I'll be working on updating all farms and hoik-based contraptions in the coming weeks.
Joe Price dang I didn't think of that. Gonna try tomorrow. Thanks for the quick reply. I've probably used 20 medallions trying to figure out where I went wrong lol
Still waiting for Joe to try out the logic in LittleBigPlanet 3. It would be sweet to see what he can do. I'd even be willing to introduce the logic system to him if he would have the time to get LBP3 for PS4
I havent tried this yet, but maybe a water candle could improve the efficiency of this farm? As in spawn rates of the enemies.
Higher spawn rate = sooner final wave + more moneys :3
IcantstopGAMING788 Unfortunately all events and invasions have a fixed spawn rate, so battle potions or water candles have no effect. It would be great if they did though!
Hey how do your spear traps work? Are they those lizhard dungeon traps? How are they so fast compared to mine?
FixateYourself Check out the guide linked in the description box - it shows the schematic of this autofarm including how the spear traps are wired. The spear traps are all actuated and hooked up to separate 1-second timers that are activated in staggered fashion (the bird passes over pressure plates to activate the timers in sequence).
Im having an issue with the bats. They dont seem to fly down the tunnel. They just fly about in the statue area.
WeatheredSphere 愛 I use a bird statue, not a bat statue. I think a different approach is needed for the bat statue, although I don't recall what it was specifically. You might have to play around with the statue to see what needs to be done for the bat to go down the tunnel. It's possible that you'd need to be below the statue, not above it, which means yo'd need to teleport below the statue first and then teleport into the slime box. ZeroGravitas's thread on activations might help: forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/fastest-engines-measured-with-hoiktronic-binary-skeleton-counter-video.6464/ He's got bat statue set-ups near the bottom of the guide.
Thank you so much XD finished the farm and then I relised the traps dont work. lol
I have the same problem, I built the farm and then realized bat batteries don't work.
Am I the only one that thinks that Minecraft isn't the only game that you could make neat gizmos using wiring systems? Also, NICE!
bich pleas
This video is a demonstration of what you just said.
I got to make the trap myself but my problem is that the Poltergeists seem to avoid my trap and go under me while taking so little damage and making it impossible for the other mobs to spawn if i dont kill the Poltergeists without hitting my slime.
+ImParalyzed You can add one more battery directly under you to hit the Poltergeists if they are evading some of the spears.
Oh wait... Im also an iOS user. I think there aren't any batteries on the current version since terraria on iOS' version is 1.2
ImParalyzed No I mean a spear trap battery which you construct out of spear traps, like you see in the video. Battery = column of actuated spear traps.
+Joe Price oh nvm, its stopping the Poltergeists now. thanks
For some reason the slime invulnerability machine doesn't always work, sometimes it defends me through the whole night, some times I die instantly to a mourning wood, sometimes it defends me all up until the final wave, but I don't kill it. How do I fix this?
Myko Link Are you playing on a server or offline solo? If you're solo, the only way the slime can lose priority is if another mob spawned ahead of it - it's possible, although unlikely, that a mob spawns on the surface and right before it gets killed you summon your slime.
I didn't install a workaround since I have yet to die to any moon mobs after running dozens of tests, but if its happening to you then there is a solution: you can put actuators on the surface and have lava underneath. Before you summon the slime you can actuate the surface to expose the lava, thereby blocking all spawns. After the slime is summoned you can deactuate the ground again. You'd also have to shift down the collection tunnel underneath the spawn surface.
Should be pretty fast to make these changes.
Joe Price Thanks so much, this was extremely frustrating.
The Ice Queens always kill me when fighting the Frost Moon
Would it be better to use bats instead of birds because they are faster and will hit the pressure plates sooner?
Sheri Sipsis The speed with which to hit the pressure plates isn't important. They key is to keep the spear tips spaced out at regular intervals so that they make contact with the mobs every 10th of a second, since the limit of piercing damage is 6 hits per second.
Why not hold a sniper rifle in place of the obsidian swordfish? Surely that has a much higher crit chance? Or is that it is melee only that affects the crit chance?
No it's because you need the weapon to hit through the wall and guns cannot fire through walls
TeslaPixel Ignore the other guy's reply, you only hold the weapon so that the spear traps have a higher critical strike chance. You should NOT attack with it under any circumstances while farming because this will kill the slimes and then, the enemies will kill you. (Damage priority...) According to the Terraria wiki, "The Sniper Rifle has a base 19% critical strike chance as opposed to the usual 4%." and "The Obsidian Swordfish has an extremely high base 24% critical strike chance as opposed to the usual 4%."
Means, the Obsidian Swordfish does have a higher critical strike chance. Also, as far as I know, all weapons affect the critical strike chance if you hold them in your hand.
TeslaPixel The sniper rifle approach does allow the player to reach 100% crit strike chance, but only with shroomite gear. Since I have to keep tiki armor on, the Obsidian Swordfish is superior as Stefnotch mentioned.
Oh okay, makes sense. Thanks.
Joe Price Did you try to do this with 100% crit chance instead of +1 raven? Maybe it would have better results.
Does a goldfish battery work just as well for a replacement of the bird battery?
Myko Link Any mob statue would work, but you'd have to factor into consideration movement speed of the mob when spacing the pressure plates.
Joe Price Thanks for replying so quickly, I'll get to work on building the fish engine
Hey Joe, I was able to farm 47 platinum in one night (wave 15 ~10:10) and it was semi-AFK in expert mode. Is this worth noting/sharing as it requires potions and end-game gear... Great video.
Gyraffe In 1.3 it's now possible to reach about 120 platinum per night while going semi-AFK :). It's due to the sheer power of Last Prism. Fully AFK however still needs testing to see how high the platinum rate can go.
+Joe Price wow cool, I didn't know that... Thanks.
Also good vid u just earned a subscriber
Hi, currently I have built this farm (mobile) and somehow the Slime Invulnerabilty method doesn’t work. Mourning Wood and Pumpkings instantly overrides the slime, is it patched already? And is there any other invulnerability method? I don’t want to waste my time and effort of building this farm for 5 hours. Thanks for the reply.
Make a square with two dummies facing eachother 8 squares high and jump in the middle of them using a slimy saddle.
Hey, sorry to bother you but I found that the triggering mechanism didn't work. The bats didn't fit threw the 1 block hole to start the spear traps, so I modified it a little... Now it's 2 blocks wide and it starts good but I think mobs are spawning in there and it messes it all up. Anyway do you have and suggesting on how to make a more effective triggering system?
Btw I have mobile
+Garrett Hauser There are no bat statues in this farm. I use a bird statue to turn on all the traps. Bats and birds have very different behaviors.
+Joe Price thanks
new pumpkin moon world record final wave is now 8:06 (testermappy)
can someone explain to me how he is not getting hit by the bosses? for me they hit me regardless if im in the box or not.
Slime statue, slime keeps hurting him giving him invincibility, and it has higher hit priority than most bosses
Is there any possibility this still works in version 1.3.3?
Uhh at one point at the start it almost sounded like autofarting
Anyone else wince when he sold all that stuff he got?
Same lol i only sell useless stuff like spears and beginning game stuff but i keep stuff with good modifiers to remind me. The first iron pick i made was legendary out the gate. ;D
Kael Exeter meh i am also a hoarder however i didn't feel bothered since he probably has at least 1 of each of the items already... i myself keep only 1 of each aswell
+Noah Roller Because i upgrade my pick asap and enjoy watching the progression
podrias dejar el link de descarga esque varios tienen flojera de hacer todo el mecanismo plz deja el link
How are you selling the things do quickly? What buttons do I press?
Myko Link Hold down the right mouse button and you can sell items quickly (because the moment an item gets sold, another takes it's place since the items are right above the player and get automatically picked up).
Joe Price am i doing something wrong?
pressing the right mouse button while having a merchant's shop-interface opened won't do a thing, unless i right click on an equipable item - then it gets equipped. but no items get auomatically placed into the merchant's inventory ._.
***** Sorry, my bad. When selling to the merchant hold down shift and the LMB to automatically sell the item (and as you sell the item another item will take its spot if your inventory is full and you have lots of loot around you). I confused that with holding the RMB when buying in bulk from merchants.
I might be both late and possibly just plain ignorant for asking this, but why didn't you turn the place into a Jungle biome? I recall that Battle Potions, Calming Potions and Water Candles have no effect on the event, but is that simply because a Moon being in place simply automatically turns the spawn rate to its cap?
+Magikarp Biomes also have no impact on Moon/Invasion spawn rates, since spawn rates for them is locked. Still, adding the jungle biome (and crimson/corruption/snow biomes) can be good to allow for biome key drops, because of the very high kill rate in the farm.
Sadly, this thing isn't what it used to be (due to no spear crits) but it's not terrible.
Magikarp It's actually a bit stronger now due to the strength of the late-game minions even though spear damage took a hit. Still, I'm about to release a significantly better AFK moon grinder (which doubles as a boss grinder), capable of generating up to 80 platinum per night for Pumpkin Moon. The grinder is already fully built and tested, so all I need to do now is shoot the video :).
Also, do you know which minions deal piercing damage? While Ravens and Pygmies don't, it looks like Pirates do, despite their attack patterns being similar (melee attacks).
Also, I had an idea for farming X mob in expert mode, that being Lucky Coined Slime on a particular enemy (such as a chaos elemental) to lure in hundreds of additional enemies (in this case massed Chaos Elementals) (I might try this, I need a Rod of Discord for my 20 maximum life challenge)
So how did you get the enemies to spawn that fast? I've built my own version of this, essentially identical, and the enemies don't spawn nearly that fast. Are there some jungle blocks hidden in the build somewhere?
pielover267 The Moon spawn rates are fixed at 1/20th spawn chance every game tick. Biomes have no impact. Are you on PC or console? If you're on PC and if the farm is identical, you should see the same spawn rates.
teleportation thing doesn't work
How come you are not being knocked back from the attacking slime when you do not have the shield equipped?
Bart Gibson I use a hook to anchor myself.
Wow you're awesome
How do you set up the teleporter that brings a random merchant?
***** Yeah I forgot to show the merchant house. It's a basic house that tapers down to a floor 3 tiles wide, with a teleporter at the bottom of the floor. This traps the merchant above the teleporter, and that house teleporter is hooked up to the arena teleporter you see me using to summon the merchant in the video.
Ah thanks
Hey could you tour your house it is really awesome and I wanted to see it all thx and your a really good builder
Huner Prather Thanks! I was planning on doing a tour of the world at some point due to requests in the past - I might do that after the next cannonball arena video!
Insane
I'm speechless. Amazing. I'm assuming there's no analog to this beast on either console or mobile? (He asked, hopefully... )
inkjetlabel Thanks for the kind words! This is almost entirely applicable to both mobile and console minus the potions (summoner, wrath, rage) and the obsidian swordfish. However the swordfish can be substituted with a sniper rifle without losing much crit chance, and the potions won't impact the performance too greatly!
im in expert mode and i have a blue slime banner down but the slime still does 3 - 9 damage
what is that red stuff
I can't believe your Terraria isn't lagging
Did he say "auto farting" at the beginning?
Does this afk farm work for any other events??
I need raven staff so I guess this is no use until I get it 😫
+Joe Price Anyways this vid was really cool
Is it just me or is the wire looking like a 3D thing
What are that red blocks between spear traps?
Russell Ferguson I think it's ruby gemspark wall.
+ash hw shiny
Does this farm work on the Xbox One version of Terraria?
This is insane, good job again, I'll be replicating this! How much money does it generate from the frost moon?
Tryangetbetter Frost Moon unfortunately is a terrible money maker :(. It's because it's almost impossible to reach the final wave solo, and hitting the final wave very early is the key to money farming. I'd only do Frost Moon for the weapon drops, and for money farm the Pumpkin Moon heavily instead.
Although I never discuss it in the video (I will in a later Frost Moon video) this farm is capable of reaching wave 17 for Frost Moon, which is amazing for an AFK farm but not good enough for good money farming. I can possibly reach wave 18 by adding more spear trap batteries to kill roving Ice Queens sooner, but that's still a waork in progress :).
Joe Price Ah, well as long as I can still use it to get weapons drops (I somehow managed to delete my blizzard staff! D: ) Then all is well!
Thanks for replying and I look forward to seeing your next one! Keep up the good work!
Tryangetbetter The Horseman's Blade arena is actually a pretty good farming approach to Frost moon for anyone willing to build a separate arena - video on that coming soon, since there's been some progress in improving such farms :). Still, this Omega Moon Farm farm is good enough, but it might take a few runs to get all the weapons.
Joe Price Just made this on a world and tried it multiplayer with a friend, and my God was it effective, my computer is a bit old but it's never had a drop in frame rate like that!
I would let you know how much money it makes with two people for the sake of it but my friend tabbed out and clicked back in killing the slime. That left us 3 agonizing minutes of being repeatedly killed by an army of mourning woods (clearly getting their own back) and no merchant to sell our goods to :P.
Thanks again, going to try it with 4 people later, hopefully no mistakes will happen, will let you know how much gold it makes total!
Tryangetbetter Cool, glad it also worked very well in multiplayer! Do more players result in a greater number of spawns? I'm quite curious how much money you can amass with many players over the course of one night - keep us updated!
i did the new record for pumpkin moon which was final wave at 9 something pm
I just built it and got 23 platinum per night, i believe that it is impossible for the spears to crit as of 1.3, so i think that is my problem. Still, thanks for the guide, i am richer than ever in terraria.
best farm ever!!!!YOLOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sick farm gg
this portal doesent work .-. i put A7 but doesnt does ANYTHIING
Old Bonnie - The Dismounted Nightmare BR It works perfectly fine. You must have done something wrong. Many others have already downloaded this map and never had any trouble reaching the destination.
what are the walls he is using in his house/base?
lukesk11135 I use a mix of slab walls, grey brick walls, and amber/ruby gemspark walls. I really like the gemspark walls instead of using light sources.
Can you do Frost moon with this farm as well?
Pandaclaes Yes, but only to around wave 15-16. The Ice Queens rove around too much.
I see, thanks =) And awesome video and setup!
He said designing like "Dezoining" much funny
Does it still working in 1.3.0.5?
Op as heck
Super nice farm
Can i use optic staff instead of raven staff?
TannerEarth03 - GTA Boss
You can use any "pet" items as long as it can't go through walls. Hope this helped
Rekkugga TheAwoken I see. I have the raven staff now but still useful to know :P thanks
did anyone else notice it sounded like he said auto farting instead of auto farming in the beginning? 🤔