Terraria - A Beginners Guide to Speedrunning Master Moon Lordsbubby2022-08-26 | This is a guide to speedrunning Master Moon Lord (Random Seed, NMA, v1.4.3.1) Rules/Leaderboard: speedrun.com/terraria#Moon_Lord
Chapters: Intro - 0:00:00 Basic info - 0:00:18 NPC housing - 0:01:23 NPC move-in criteria - 0:03:47 What to look for - 4:42 Where to go underground - 0:05:39 Overworld tips - 0:07:15 Common AI manipulation - 0:09:10 Underground tips - 0:10:39 Bed-tricking - 0:13:20 What to purchase/craft - 0:13:59 Hellevator - 0:16:30 Bed-warp - 0:17:43 Floating island exploration - 0:18:23 Crimson - 0:20:07 Water candle - 0:20:43 NPC teleporting - 0:21:12 Lens - 0:21:43 Vertebra - 0:22:43 Basic NPC spawning - 0:23:20 Set-up Destroyer instakill - 0:24:34 Underworld - 0:25:08 Wall of Flesh - 0:26:16 Hellstone - 0:27:43 Souls (dynamite) - 0:28:38 Souls (lava) - 0:30:29 Hardmode Ores - 0:31:00 Ichor arrows - 0:33:18 Fishron? - 0:33:33 Truffle worm - 0:34:20 Additional housing - 0:34:38 The Destroyer (classic) - 0:35:10 The Destroyer (Minicloak) - 0:37:17 The Destroyer (insta-kill) - 0:37:57 What should I do with my Hallowed Bars? - 0:39:03 Skeletron - 0:39:27 Dungeon - 0:40:34 Duke Fishron - 0:42:11 The Twins - 0:46:16 Skeletron Prime - 0:49:25 Skeletron Prime (Fishron mount) - 0:51:03 The Twins (Fishron mount) - 0:51:36 Feathers - 0:52:48 Holy arrow - 0:53:27 Finishing pylons - 0:54:27 Plantera - 0:55:08 Plantera's weapons - 0:57:18 Jungle temple - 0:58:13 Golem - 0:59:15 Lunatic Cultist - 1:01:34 Vortex Pillar - 1:03:56 Stardust Pillar - 1:05:07 Solar Pillar - 1:06:25 Nebula Pillar - 1:07:53 Moon Lord - 1:08:51 Additional resources - 1:15:53
Thanks to @tek and @mhykhol for letting me use their gameplay. Additional resources: NPC spawning wiki page: terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/NPC_spawning
twitch.tv/sbubbyyTerraria - Classic Moon Lord Speedrun in 50 Minutes (Random Seed, NMA) [WR]sbubby2024-08-19 | Seizure warning 36:00
NMA = No Major Abuses
Very much improvable (slow early-game, no Featherfall for travelling to shimmer, slow pillars), but I'm satisfied with this run nonetheless. This was mechs WR by 1 second (unfathomably huge) and every split after that was decent.
Souls/Anvil was slow, everything else was good. Pillars were exceptionally fast - probably the fastest ever done in a run (?); I don't think it's feasible to get better pillars without return potion/magic conch.
Pace up until mechs was pretty much exactly what I was aiming for (13:30 Skeletron, 16:25 WoF, 33:30 Mechs is my goal). The Golem split in this run was my fastest ever in a run. Plantera was the main timeloss; 4:32, as opposed to my goal of ~2:55. Pillars was ~40s slower than I would've liked (bad positions for first pillar + I somehow forgot to craft summoner helmet for the 3rd time).
This run is probably the grindiest one I've done (~25 WR pace mech kills if I had to guess), mostly due to the nature of the category. There's a lot of luck involved at every split in the run (except cultist), and it felt like a matter of retrying until everything aligned. It's kind of a miracle that this run ended up being fast; the early game was slow, souls/anvil ended up being fast despite not getting a usable weapon from WoF, I had to look for eye summon at shimmer, I had to guess where Jungle Temple was and dug to the other side, and had to use Solar Eclipse to move Nurse in for the Golem fight during daytime. Good rates at souls and a lucky bulb spawn were the saving graces of this run.
Overall there's a decent chunk of time to be saved still, so I'll play Classic ML for a while longer to try for sub-50. If I get bored of the category before then I might try out some seeded runs or return to Master ML, I'm not sure yet.
A lot of the game's UI components, such as the buffs in the top left, the drowning indicator, the HP and Mana bars, break when using a character with an HP value that isn't a multiple of 20. I've used -20HP characters in the past, but it turns out to be a non-trivial advantage. The fishron mount speeds up when the character is at less than or equal to half of their max HP, meaning any max HP value less than or equal to 0 will have a permanently boosted fishron mount. In the end, I've just accepted that the broken UI is part of the challenge.
This run is seeded, meaning the world is not randomly generated. Seed: 1.3.2.0845231719.
1HP hardcore has been completed on a random seed before by 404 island owner (albeit with major abuses - hoiking and mob cap exploitation), you can watch the playthrough here: space.bilibili.com/2075535/channel/collectiondetail?sid=407937. There are probably more completions that I don't know about.
If you want to see a random seed NMA completion, tek has been aiming for one (with a lot less cheese than I used here too - check him out here: twitch.tv/tek_69). I'll probably also put in a few attempts later (twitch.tv/sbubbyy ).
Cheater destroyed (not really because they ran on 1.3 which is harder but we can pretend). Also faster than the classic mode WR was when I started running (1:28:36), pretty cool.
Notable mistakes/timelosses): - Forgot to burn the rope during 2nd destroyer - Burning the rope before buying pylon (arms dealer and mechanic moved in which made it so I couldn't buy forest pylon) - Relogging before mechs (despawned imp summons) - Putting builder potion in the piggy instead of inventory - Forgetting to craft food before mechs - Building houses for arms dealer and nurse in desert biome - Forgetting to bring anvil to jungle (unpunished because I didn't get a good weapon from Plantera) - Forgetting to craft summoner helmet for solar pillar - Dealing too much damage to left hand during moon lord
Surprisingly all of the splits were pretty decent even with these mistakes. I lucked out in a lot of areas such as: - Goat skull - Fast NPC spawn in dungeon - Finding a second bed in dungeon (didn't need to craft one) - Unreal repeater - Great Plantera's bulb - Dev wings (don't need to farm wyverns for beetle wings) - Perfect pillars terrain
37:30 Destroyer is ~90 seconds slower than my best ever, and 49 min anvil to finish is slightly faster than I was averaging in practice. I think I can still save a couple of minutes, twitch.tv/sbubbyy if you'd like to watch attempts.
There's a cut at ~1:54:09 because I had to do something else and continue the voiceover afterwards.
I most likely won't be submitting this run to the leaderboards because I don't like being compared to other players. I'm 99% certain the run is verifiable, I don't really need someone to label it as verified.
I most likely won't be submitting this run to the leaderboards because I don't like being compared to other players. I'm 99% certain the run is verifiable, I don't really need someone to label it as verified.
Chapters: 0:00:00 - Start 0:00:31 - NPC Housing 0:02:50 - Day 1 looting 0:11:30 - Purchases/crafting 0:12:46 - Gathering sand 0:13:47 - Moving demolitionist underground 0:21:29 - Crimson and water candle 0:24:29 - Sky islands 0:27:45 - Hellevator continues 0:30:38 - Moving guide to underworld 0:31:35 - WoF bridge 0:35:21 - Waterleaf 0:36:57 - Lens 0:39:27 - Vertebra 0:40:42 - Destroyer setup 0:42:47 - Wall of Flesh 0:43:23 - Hellstone 0:48:00 - Souls 0:58:48 - Hardmode ores 1:03:49 - Sleeping for night 4 1:08:52 - Destroyer(s) 1:13:17 - Skeletron/Dungeon 1:19:49 - Sleeping for night 5 1:24:55 - The Twins 1:28:03 - Skeletron Prime 1:30:08 - Sleeping for Plantera bulb 1:45:11 - Looking for bulb 1:55:48 - Plantera 1:58:27 - Jungle Temple 2:01:40 - Golem 2:06:50 - Lunatic Cultist 2:10:18 - Stardust/Vortex Pillars 2:16:08 - Solar Pillar 2:20:38 - Nebula Pillar 2:24:46 - Moon Lord 2:29:37 - Seed/WorkshopTerraria - Master Hardcore For The Worthy All Bosses speedrun in 6:15:06 (Random Seed, NMA)sbubby2022-08-15 | I'm hesitant to call this a speedrun, because no emphasis was placed on speed. It was more of a chill playthrough, it felt nice to not worry about the time and actually fight the optional bosses. The route was mostly unplanned and there's mistakes everywhere, but I don't have any intent to optimize this because I don't like the seed.
The timer reset somehow so I exited livesplit, sorry.
This run was done on version 1.4.3.1, which was before the stained glass and frog food nerfs.
If you're wondering how I died, I pressed right-click with the Stardust Dragon instead of left, so the true eyes were out of sync.
Kinda slow run so it's not that upsetting. Terrible day 1 looting, forgot to bring a bed down hellevator, Wall of Flesh fight was horrible, accidentally removed spawn point on destro night and Plantera prep, couldn't find temple, sloppy cultist fight. This category can easily go much faster.
Chapters: 0:00:00 - Character & World gen 0:00:32 - NPC housing 0:04:02 - Heading underground 0:08:21 - Exploring jungle 0:11:36 - Bedwarp to buy items 0:15:33 - Jungle exploration continues 0:28:45 - Sand 0:31:33 - Looking for the balloon and wings 0:33:45 - Crimstone & water candle 0:38:35 - Hellevator 0:48:08 - WoF bridge 0:55:01 - Lens and vertebra 1:01:45 - Wall of Flesh 1:03:00 - Hellstone 1:08:26 - Souls of night & light 1:22:22 - Hardmode ores 1:30:43 - Destroyers 1:33:43 - Skeletron 1:35:37 - Dungeon 1:39:20 - Houses for Dryad & Clothier 1:40:05 - Waiting for night 1:43:05 - The Twins 1:46:37 - Skeletron Prime 1:49:21 - Waiting for Plantera 1:58:53 - Plantera arena 2:06:37 - Plantera 2:09:08 - Looking for temple 2:15:20 - Golem 2:17:27 - Souls of Flight 2:22:09 - Lunatic Cultist 2:27:30 - Vortex Pillar 2:30:48 - Stardust Pillar 2:37:30 - Solar Pillar 2:40:31 - Moon Lord prep 2:42:22 - Nebula Pillar 2:45:45 - Moon Lord 2:50:09 - Thanks for watching!A critical hit!sbubby2020-12-18 | ...Primarina used Singsbubby2020-09-11 | ...