User talk:Jesthel/Getting started PS3

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Welcome to Terraria!

Terraria is a game of many wonders and plenty of surprises. There are places to explore, pieces of powerful equipment to collect, and enemies of all types to slay. However, everyone has to start from somewhere, and there has never been shame is looking for guidance when starting something new.

This guide is intended to make a person with absolutely no knowledge of Terraria into a bona fide Terraria explorer!

As a special note, there are now three versions of Terraria: The PC version, the Xbox Live Arcade platform and the PlayStation Network platform. Each version has its own quirks, and as such there are guides for all three versions.

This is the PS3 version of the guide.

For the Xbox version, click here.

For the PC version, click here.

Starting for the First Time

Terraria, like most games, has a menu with various options to configure and play the game.

At the main screen, the player is presented with a few options:

  • Play Game – This option takes the player into the game itself.
  • Tutorial – This is Terraria's Tutorial, and is an excellent alternative or compliment to this guide.*
  • Leaderboards – This option shows the various statistics that are recorded by the PlayStation Network.
  • Help & Options – This is where you make the changes to the settings.

* For the purpose of this guide, it is assumed that the player has not done the Tutorial.


To begin, select Play Game

Character Creation

The character screen will only have one option for a new player: Create Character. Select it.

Here, you are presented with 10 different tabs, each giving the player different levels of customization.

Tab One: Gender

You can switch the character between Male and Female. This option is also purely cosmetic, with the main differences being slightly different looks and a different sound made when the character gets hurt.

Tab Two-Nine: Looks

The next subsequent tabs are devoted to changing the looks of eight different parts of the character. These settings are only for aesthetics, and do not serve a purpose in the game proper.

  • Hair Types – What kind of hair a character will have. There are 36 options that player can choose from. These options are not restricted by gender.
  • Colors – The remaining tabs here are devoted to changing the color of various parts of the character's sprite. Each option has 100 colors to choose from. Options: Hair, Eye, Skin, Shirt, Undershirt, Pants, and Shoes.

Difficulty

The final choice when creating a character is Difficulty. By default, Normal is chosen.

The Difficulty setting determines what happens when a character dies. It does not affect any other aspects of gameplay, including how hard Terraria's enemies will be.

  • Normal Mode is the default mode presented to the player, and it's the easiest difficulty. When a character dies, they will drop half of their currently carried coins onto the ground, and the character will be sent back to their spawn point. Their items will all remain intact, and any coins dropped this way can be found and picked up again afterwards.
  • Difficult Mode is the second mode presented to the player, and it adds a more difficult death experience. When the character dies, all items, coins, and ammo will drop, and the character will be sent back to the spawn point. Once revived, in order to get the dropped items back, the player must go back to the location of death and pick up all equipment and currency. Under certain circumstances, items dropped this way can wind up permanently destroyed.
  • Hardcore Mode is the final mode presented to the player, and has the harshest penalty for death. When the character dies, the character will be left as a ghost, and the character will be deleted upon logging out. All items will be dropped to the ground, which allows other players in a multiplayer game to pick them up.


For the purpose of this guide, it is recommended for the player to keep the selection of Normal, and this guide assumes it has been selected.

Character Name

The player must hit File:Playstation-Button-Start.png, and the PlayStation keyboard will pop on the screen.

From here, the player is now prompted to enter a name for the character. There are a few restrictions for naming:

  • The name can only be 20 characters long.
  • Spaces can be used, and count towards the character limit.
  • Non-English characters cannot be used.

After typing in a name, the player must hit File:Playstation-Button-Start.png again.

After creating the character, the player will be taken to the World Menu.

World Creation

The world screen is split into two sections: “Your Worlds”, and “Join Game”. Anyone who is a friend on the PlayStation network can easily join a game the player has set up, and vis versa. This guide will assume the player is by themselves.

The player will now be in the online map section. By selecting “Play Online”, the map will be seen by the player's friends, and they may join them. “Invite Only” prevents friends from automatically joining the player's game.

The player is now presented with three World Size options: Small, Medium, or Large.

  • Small Worlds are relatively compact. The oceans are much closer to the starting point, and the entire world is not as deep. The Corruption (a difficult area type with deadly hazards) is only in one or two places.
  • Medium Worlds are, well, medium-sized. Traveling to the edges will take a new player roughly one in-game day (15 minutes in the real world). The Corruption is in two or three places.
  • Large Worlds are massive. To reach the deepest sections of the map will take quite a while, and the oceans are easily several days apart. The Corruption is in three to four places.

Choosing a Small World is recommended for a first Terraria experience. This will make it easier to find and experience the various different area types that Terraria has to offer. Medium and Large Worlds have the benefit of providing more area to explore, but as a beginner it is much easier having to travel less to see the various game aspects. Don't worry, as Small worlds are still quite massive, and fully exploring a Small world can take many real world days!

Upon clicking a size option the player is asked to name the world. After naming the world, hit File:Playstation-Button-Start.png

The world will now be available play in. Click it to enter.

Now it's time to finally enter Terraria!

Beginning Gameplay

A sample Terraria world

Upon entering the World for the first time, the character will be placed at the center of the world. This location is known as the Spawn Point (or simply, the "Spawn"), and will be where the character is placed each time this World is entered.

  • Note: The Spawn Point can be changed later using a Bed.

There are also a couple of things the player can see immediately: A row of blue icons with items inside the first three slots, and five hearts with a Life total of 100. These will be explained in more detail later.

Movement and Tool use

A quick glance at the function of each PlayStation button.


Movement
File:Playstation-Lstick.png Moves the Character
File:Playstation-Button-X.png Makes the Character Jump
File:Playstation-Rstick.png Allows the Player to Aim
File:Playstation-Button-R3.png Switch the Cursor Mode
Item Managment
File:Playstation-Button-R1.png Use Tools, Weapons, and Place Blocks
File:Playstation-Button-C.png Opens Doors and Use Furniture
File:Playstation-Button-S.png Drops Currently Held Item
Game Menus
File:Playstation-Button-T.png Opens the Inventory Screen
File:Playstation-Button-Start.png Pauses the Game and Opens the Menu
File:Playstation-Button-Select.png Opens the Player List & World Map

In Short:

For a more detailed list of controls for the PlayStation controller, see Game Controls

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