Note that lava can destroys many sprites and is dangerous to the player.Īs mentioned in the intro, in the editor you can place liquids in places they normally would not be and they will stay there. Liquids partially inhibit movement by slowing down the player when moving through them. However, actuators can be used to make tiles non-solid too by toggling the tile to an "inactive" state. They differ from sprites in that they are always of size 1x1 (the brush tool can paint multiple tiles at a time though) and are usually "solid", completely inhibiting movement. Tiles are the blocks that make up the world.
Background walls are on their own layer, and interfere with nothing else. For a house to be considered a house (for npcs to move in, to stop mob spawns, and to set a bed) player-placed background walls must be present.
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The Clipboard page will help you out if you want to learn how to use schematics.īackground walls are the walls that are present in the background of a house, dungeon, in the dirt layer above the surface (>0ft), etc. At some point you will also want to check out the World Properties page and learn what can be done there to help shape your world. Now that you have the editor up, you will probably want to check out the The Building Blocks of Terraria, the Menubar, the Toolbar, and Information Bar pages. The zooming will occur at the position of your cursor and wont occur at all if the cursor is not within the bounds of the world display. You can also use Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- (these are the keys above and to the right of "P" on a Qwerty keyboard). To zoom in or out of the map roll you mouse wheel. To pan (move around) the view of your world use the scrollbars located at the bottom and side, or hold down the middle-mouse button and move your mouse around, or use the arrow keys Shortcuts and Keybindings.
You can also start the program from the folder it was installed in, it should be named TEditXna. To load up the editor, if using Windows you can find it under All Programs in the Start Menu, under TEdit.
Warning: Back-up your files before you edit anything!