Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

King of Skeletons was not as strong as the dungeon keeper.

The existence of dungeon keeper was just to make players descend into the dungeon in a normal way, and once King of Skeletons was killed, it would just disappear.

King of Skeletons was far from being the ultimate BOSS…

In the final analysis, the game had just started, and everyone’s information was fragmented. The experiences shared online were even more fragmented, and most of them were just snippets.

This led to a lot of useful information not being shared, resulting in a large number of misjudgments.

For example, the most critical piece of information – “How many NPCs are there in total?”

No one knows the answer now.

Even many people stopped after building their own house and the guide’s house, and eagerly went exploring and fighting without even thinking about building a third room.

For many players, this seems quite reasonable–

After all, including themselves, there were only two people with the guide!

“My World” only has the player themselves, while Terraria has an extra guide to check crafting recipes. Two rooms, no matter how you look, should be enough, right?

However, when Little Chun and the others were in development, they felt that there should be one room for the players themselves, otherwise the players would lack a sense of immersion, so the game defaults to the player also occupying a room.

Even if multiple people play together, four players would occupy four rooms.

Under this mechanism, the humanistic care is maxed out, but many players are also deeply distressed.

Not everyone has the patience to listen to every word the guide says.

Many people get firearms, and even though they have met the prerequisites, they don’t have any vacant rooms. As a result, the arms dealer doesn’t appear, and their progress is greatly delayed.

As a result, on the first night, the players’ pioneer progress wasn’t fast.

Considering that the next day is Saturday, not only the intense party that pursued BOSS First Kill and the anchors who caught up with the heat, but also a large number of players played all night, the game time was quite exaggerated.

Well, Camille Victoria is an exception.

After chatting with Mavis, she complained to Xiaomei for a long time, and then went to bed – the kind that didn’t turn off the lights all night.

More than ten hours of gameplay, even in the virtual reality version, is enough for experts to complete the game if it’s during the latter stages.

But for now, no one has even seen the first-stage ultimate BOSS – Wall of Flesh, and there are very few players who even started exploring Hell.

What everyone urgently needs right now is a place for sharing information.

And this place was launched urgently the next morning –

Whirlpool Game Forum has taken “Terraria” from [Cloud Dream Games]-[My World]-[Mods]-[Free Mods]-[Terraria] and created a separate “Terraria” section.

This is equivalent to separating “Terraria” from other mods and giving it the same treatment as an independent new game, which is unique among all mods.

However, the urgently-launched forum is naturally not comprehensive, and the interface is still a bit crude.

Especially for players who have a lot of information, they played all night and just went to bed in the morning. Now there are very few posts with gold content in the forum, mostly sharing and venting.

Until the moderator posted the first pinned post-

[Urgent Guide! Basic Principles for Terraria Pioneer!]

From the title, you can see the urgency and strong desire to share of the moderator, and the guide text fully continues this emotion:

“First of all, we must establish a basic concept –

“Terraria is not the same as any other mod! You can’t treat it as a simple mod! The core gameplay is completely different from “My World”!

We don’t know what the content will be like in the later stages of the game, but some basic principles need to be followed during the pioneering period. Even if I don’t sleep and suddenly die, I must tell you guys first!

First: Build more houses!

Don’t apply the prevailing “My World” mindset. In Terraria, it doesn’t matter how big or luxurious your house is, the key is the number of [rooms]!

Let me repeat: it has nothing to do with the level of luxury!

Only one NPC can live in one room, no matter how luxurious it is!

So, build more houses!

Also, check constantly to make sure there is always at least one vacant room to welcome newly unlocked NPCs.

Second: Money is more important than life!

Save money diligently, for obvious reasons, right?

Right now during exploration, money is hard to save, but easy to lose.

If you accidentally die and want to pick it back up, you have to run a long way, and if you don’t pick it up, it hurts too much, making you feel tangled to death.

So every time you want to go out, you should save money first!

That being poor and penniless is really invincible!

We highly recommend using the Piggy Bank. It’s very useful.

Third: Fishermen win big!

Fishing is super cost-effective, and there are some outrageous things you can get!

There are explosive Bomb Fish, invincible pickaxe Reaver Shark – although I can’t figure out why a shark can be used as a pickaxe, and the same series Rockfish Hammer that can be used as a hammer, Swordfish that can be used as a spear, and so on…

Each one is more outrageous than the last!

By the way, you can fish up various chests, in which you can get the faster-running Sailfish Boots, the double-jump Tsunami Bottle, and various potions… and so much more.

In short, just one sentence: go fishing now!

Fourth: Beware of the Crimson!

For people whose mental strength is not strong enough, if they see the bloody style of Crimson environment, it is strongly recommended not to go in deep!

We suggest quitting the game and just deleting the map.

This is not a joke!

Compared to Corruption, Crimson is really too harmonious!

Whether it is the environment or the monsters in Crimson Land, they have set a new high in both scaring people and disgusting them!

Never try it without mental preparation!

Mainly these four points, the rest like using iron rails effectively, digging more life crystals to increase the blood limit, defeating the Skeleton King first before exploring the dungeon, and tree nymphs are super seductive, so you might want to get close to them… these can be left for later.

Feel free to add more content, and I will summarize it after I wake up from my nap.」

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After posting and pinning the thread, the moderator went straight to sleep.

As a result, with no one to control it, the well-intentioned strategy thread quickly veered into odd territory—

The sudden appearance of the new section was too hasty, and other moderators had not yet been appointed. So when a large number of players rushed to the thread to post seductive pictures of tree nymphs from various angles, no one came to delete them.

Robot auditing has quite a few loopholes to exploit, and since the tree nymphs aren’t explicitly exposed, posting their photos isn’t difficult.

But for the players, not showing everything is just a minor issue because the tree nymphs created by Cloud Dream…

Are truly super seductive!

Attractive faces, voluptuous breasts, plump butts, long straight legs…

And most crucially: all of these are largely exposed to the air!

Big sister tree nymph is not wearing any real clothes on her body, just a few tendrils that barely cover her vital parts.

Instead of “covering the body”, these tendrils serve more to “create a provocative allure”, making this “wealthy and generous” big sister look even more sexy and tempting, full of exotic charm.

Without a doubt, this has won the favor of many players.

-Making her even more popular than the nurse in uniform.

Everyone praised: Well done, Cloud Dream!

This is what “18+” rating is all about!

Taking down such a heavy-taste BOSS and living with big sister tree nymph is totally worth it!

Last night, some players even tried to touch her enticing body or pull off the tendrils she was wearing, but as expected, they got punished—

They were hung from the ceiling by tree nymph-summoned tendrils.

But this could not stop the players’ desire to get intimate with big sister tree nymph.

Some players even stood very close to the tree nymph, circling around her in search of a specific angle to see some “truly adult-level content”.

All these efforts turned into a bizarre collection of “Sexy Photos of Big Sister Tree Nymph”, posted under the pinned thread.

They even exchanged pictures with each other while discussing how to use special items like chairs, beds, and stairs to gain special “viewing angles”.

This led later players who entered the pinned thread for strategy guides, to have their minds filled with “huge house”, “pure money”, “getting hung if licked randomly”…

A lot of them went straight to the game to give it a try.

“Just one lick! Just one!”

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Little Chun, the person in charge of the development team, also ventured into the new forum section and clicked on the pinned thread.

She and Randall had come to Hangzhou to relive their trip before graduation.

Of course, considering her current physical condition, the itinerary would not be as tight as before.

Back then, they hadn’t graduated, had little money, and had to consider cost-effectiveness, walking farther and sleeping less.

Now it’s different—

They arrived in the city by plane last night and checked into a five-star hotel by West Lake, sleeping peacefully for the whole night, and still haven’t gotten out of bed till now.

Little Chun lay in bed playing with her mobile phone, having gone through a bunch of “tree nymph portraits” under the “strategy thread” and watched a newly released fan fiction by a player—

“Days of Living with Big Sister Tree Nymph”.

Amused by the bold, shameless daily scenes in the story, she promptly replied, “Update soon, can’t sleep at night!”

Then she nudged Randall beside her, questioning curiously, “Why do players in Terraria go crazy about tree nymphs?”

“There are also sexy female NPCs in Night City, right? And they can even actively provide services to players. Why bother coming to Terraria, a game with heavy taste, and searching for benefits on tree nymphs?”

“First I need to correct you: that part was all done by Fred, not me. I haven’t even seen it.” Randall stated righteously, completely unaware of what mysterious stores and special services were.

It was all Fred’s doing!

“Really?” Little Chun said with a smile, “Then should I tell Vincent about this?”

Vincent is Cloud Dream’s psychological counselor, whom Fred has always been pursuing.

-No, that’s not accurate.

To be precise: Fred has always “wanted” to pursue her.

But his image among the female colleagues in the company has always been quite strange, with even rumors about his sexual orientation.

This has left Fred at a loss, with no idea how to court her, relying only on “psychological counseling” sessions to increase contact.

At the same time, he is afraid of causing trouble for others, so he doesn’t go there too often, basically fixed at once a week, almost talking through all his life experiences.

And, Vincent quite enjoys it.

Mainly because since she joined Cloud Dream Games, she enjoys the excellent welfare benefits, but she has nothing to do all day, so she’s eager to have some work to do.

The problem is, there’s no employee at Cloud Dream who needs psychological treatment.

– Although Vincent thinks there must be. Who doesn’t have some psychological problems nowadays?

Completely mentally healthy people who always maintain their psychological health are the minority.

But with no one coming to her, she can’t take the initiative and tell someone, “You’re sick, come to my office and let me treat you.”

She’d be seen as the crazy one.

So Fred is Vincent’s only “patient” and the sole source of her workload and KPI – even though her job is not subject to workload and KPI requirements.

Still, Fred’s presence is unique and important.

If one day Fred suddenly didn’t come to see her, she would feel uneasy instead…