Those of you who play Terraria quite a lot on the XBox360 will have noticed that it has now been updated to have practically all of the PC versions items etc and come with it's fair share of annoying bugs and glitches. The most notorious of these being that the Piggybank and Safe no longer keep your items and convert them into the item's ID worth of pickaxes...
While I don't normally go ahead with cheating in my games until I have completed it legitimately at least once, this situation has become and exception, because almost everything related to the update requires you to beat the jungle biome boss, Plantera, which cannot be achieved.
The spawning rate for all of the world's decorative grasses and plants is stupidly high at the moment, which swamps it with tons of space eating foliage and does not allow the special bulb plant required to summon Plantera to spawn.
This stops you legitimately accessing the jungles lihzhard temple as Plantera drops the key needed to open its door, which is currently breakable by virtually any mining tool.
You are also stopped from opening any of the special biome specific chests legitimately, which is a shame as things like the Vampire knives are a popular item for the more grueling end game fights.
Nearly all of the items added in the update can be obtained through what was dubbed the "Piggybank Glitch", which can be as rewarding as it is dangerous (possible save corruption, 20 minute slow debuffs etc (dying cures the debuffs)), you can probably find in a couple hundred videos on about it on YouTube.
Now for the second part of this post's title:
THOSE SNEAKY DEVELOPERS!!!!
Before the update, the Achievement for acquiring all of the games pets only involved 6 summoning items. Now though, thanks to the update, it requires you to have 23 summoning items...!
This is the only other thing I used the Piggybank Glitch for (I wanted the MineCraft Creeper outfit from the halloween part of the update), and took a few hours to do.
Pet Items required now are:
Petri Dish
Vial of Blood
Cabbage
Brain
Beeswax
Wolf Fang -----^ They were the original 6 you had to find.
Fish
Seaweed
Strange Glowing Mushroom
Parrot Cracker
Eater's Bone
Seedling
Nectar
Tiki Totem
Eye Spring
Spider Egg
Toy Sled
Magical Pumpkin Seed
Unlucky Yarn
Lizard Egg
Amber Mosquito
Cursed Sapling
Bone Key
The Cursed Sapling can only be gotten during a Pumpking Moon, something that requires you to Piggybank Glitch some Ectoplasm because that is only dropped by the Dungeon's skeletons after you beat Plantera (which you obviously can't do right now). The best method is to turn auto save off, save near night time, use the amulet in a well spaced area / arena to start the P.Moon off, if you don't get it, exit without saving and try again. I got it on my second attempt.
Though I am unsure if the Bone Key it is required for the achievement to unlock or not, it's always fun to have and show it off. It is gotten by beating the Dungeon Guardian that will attack you before you defeat Skeletron at the begining of a new world. It will one-hit-kill you and only takes 1 damage from anything you throw at it, so expect lots of running about to get this. This is one boss I wouldn't mind tackling so that I can say I got it legitimately.
Even though I have completed the achievements now, I still play Terraria every now and then. I'm currently trying to build a castle in a corruption, hallow, crimson (shudder) free world and it's going well! The Clentaminator is the life saver for biome spreading and suppressing, it made getting 50% Corrupt and Hallowed worlds so easy. I miss one of my older worlds though, it had gotten to 35% hallowed by just letting is spread and using Holy Waters XD I derped heavily though on that when I thought about what I was doing, which was adding blocks to the world instead of taking them away D:
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