Terraria – Efficient Hellevator design

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Now that Terraria 1.2 has been released, I am definitely thinking about starting the game up again with a brand new map and a brand new character.

I recall from last time that creating a Hellevator was an essential task for delving efficiently into Hell.

Now that 1.2 has rolled around, what is the most efficient manner for building this Hellevator?

Qualities I am Looking For:

Speed: It has to get me there quickly.
Survivability: Without dying to fall damage or monsters.
Ease to build: And not take too much effort to create, bar unforeseen circumstances.
Utility of Tools: Without wasting too many resources.
Immediacy: And as soon as possible, meaning with the lowest-tier tools with which it can be done (ignoring the impracticality of not being able to mine out Hell).

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Take a pickaxe and start digging a shaft 2 tiles wide. If you find a cavern, wall it off on both sides if you want to avoid being damaged by enemies on your way down. If you don't have wings/rocket boots/a jetpack, build a wide wooden platform a dozen or so levels below hell's ceiling. If you don't have a lucky horseshoe, shoot your grappling hook towards the platform, and you will not take fall damage. You can also break your fall by grappling to the walls. Look at the minimap to be ready for the end of the trip. You can also use a 3 tile high pool of water or some rope to break your fall.

As for the way back up, 2 words: Magic Mirror.

You can also try making a rope hellevator by placing rope in a vertical line down from your house and into Hell, if you want a solution that takes advantage of 1.2 features, but the time it will take to build is quite long and it provides no benefits except for making sure you won't take fall damage on the way down (it's also helpful if you don't have a magic mirror, but by the time you start exploring Hell, you really should have one).

Dealing with obstacles:

Pre-hardmode you should not come upon any types of rock that can't be broken with a good metal pick. However, you will likely have to deal with several pockets of magma. Water turns magma into obsidian, and you will likely have a lot of water in your hellevator as a result of breaching underground lakes. Let the water turn magma into obsidian and dig through it as long as you have the water to turn the magma underneath into more obsidian. If you don't have a lot of water, it can be helpful to use some of the materials you picked up to build a few walls on the sides of your hellevator so falling water doesn't escape the shaft. If you run out of water, move up, find an underground lake and mine a tunnel from it into your hellevator. Alternatively, you could just chug an Obsidian Skin Potion, a single bottle should give you enough time to bust through, though the Fireblossoms required to craft one may be hard to come by without reaching Hell first.

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Personally i'm using a grid of tunnels. The vertical tunnels are using every 5 block a wooden platform to jump up or down.

  |L|  M  |L|
 _| |_____| |__
 _ L _____ L __
  | |   M | |
  |L|     |L|
  | |     | |

L = Wooden Platform (you can jump through up or down)
M = Minerals

Terraria – How to create an efficient tree farm

From the Terraria wiki page on Trees:

Growing conditions

Planting an acorn in grass will create a Sapling that will eventually grow into a tree of a random size and shape. Saplings can only grow under the following conditions:

A planted acorn can only be planted on a dirt block covered with grass, corrupt grass, crimson grass, hallow grass, a mud block covered with jungle grass, or on snow.

The acorn requires one space of open ground to either side.

There must be at least two open tiles between saplings or only one will grow into a tree. This matches the previous rule, i.e. each acorn needs both adjacent tiles free, which means the closest two trees can be is with two tiles between them.

The acorn requires at least 32 feet (i.e. 16 tiles) of vertical clearance to grow into a tree.

An acorn will not grow indoors - all background walls or overhanging ledges must be removed, and if you have a ceiling it must be at least 32 feet above the block where the acorn was planted as measured by a Depth Meter (e.g, if you are planting an acorn at 300 feet above, there may only be blocks at 332 feet or higher directly above it in order for it to grow into a tree).

Acorns will not grow in the presence of torches, wood platforms or sunflowers within its 2-block radius.

Saplings must be off-screen in order to become trees. They will not grow when currently in view, unlike most other plants which can spawn while you watch.

Saplings can be destroyed with a Pickaxe.

So, you can't grow a tree at the edge of a step or cliff, or next to a step or cliff, or at the edge of a patch of grass, even though you can plant acorns there. While trees can, very rarely, grow a distance of three tiles apart (two empty columns between them), they grow much faster at a distance of four tiles apart (with three empty spaces between them). For these reasons, it is recommended to plant acorns every four tiles on a long flat row of surface grass. Tiles more than 14 units above the planted grass do not have any effect on tree growth, so an optimal tree farm can have multiple 15-tile high levels."

You seem to have your acorns spaced correctly, there are no walls, and I assume you have enough head room. Although it's not explicitly mentioned in the wiki, your torches may be keeping the trees from growing. Try removing them. At least some of the acorns should grow to full trees in a matter of minutes.

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