Practical Rapid Fire Dart Trap Battery Guide - Goblins in 40s! Farms, Grinds...
1,718[1.3 UPDATE NOTES] Updated designs in this animated guide: https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/tutorial-wip-cooldown-juggling-rapid-fire-dart-trap-engines-animated-guide.75871/
Dart (and super dart) trap cooldown times have been increased from 3s to 3.33s (200 ticks). This breaks the firing pattern of all the designs shown in the video, with no darts firing half the time. The designs using faster mob types may be fixed by using a 1s timer instead and lengthening the plate run 10% (increasing the number of traps too). Alternatively, you will need to find the best plate in the run to wire back to the statue instead of the timer, to automatically re-trigger a new mob just *after* 3.33s. (Or use the new designs in linked guide, above.)
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+ ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
With just one mob spawning statue (crab, fish, rabbit, skeleton or piranha), 6 to15 dart traps and minimal wiring, you can take out ANYTHING! Full construction tutorial and guides to usage contexts. More information and diagrams in forum guide: http://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/tutorial-video-simple-rapid-fire-dart-trap-batteries-practical-wire-guide.1646/
Please ask any detailed questions there. :o)
+ VIDEO INDEX:
0:00 Title
0:09 Build tutorial with skeleton engine.
2:18 'Ghost Wall' glitch.
4:08 Piranha engine ('optimal').
4:43 Finding other suitable spawn statues (mob speeds).
5:05 List of statues, trap numbers and type (optimal/frugal/stingy)/
5:14 Bunny engine.
5:26 Goldfish engine & Goblins in 40s.
5:45 Arena/farm set-up
6:21 Piranha engine (version 2 - 'frugal').
6:45 Crab Engine ('stingy').
7:06 Hard mode grind examples.
7:39 Farming example (Antlions).
7:54 Boss arena (Eye of Cthulhu, skeleton engine).
8:05 Further Applications... Autofarms by DicemanX
+ REFERENCES:
(1) Dart speed and Optimal Trap Separation calculated in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIBPJmJzPSA&list=UUyLQbVwYleCYzgl49dNAeOw
(2) Mob speed demonstration video (to calculate track lengths / trap number)
http://youtu.be/kUt03Dn_FyA?list=UUyLQbVwYleCYzgl49dNAeOw
(3) Official Wiki - Monster Spawning
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/NPC_spawning#Choosing_a_spot_to_spawn_the_monster Distance limits slightly wrong by my reckoning.
(4) Boss autofarm videos by DicemanX (AKA Joe Price):
(4a) "Pre-hardmode Autofarm (5 bosses killed in under a minute)"
http://youtu.be/YTCsjVTE1l8?list=UUllYBm-_FbqWuI92o6zPXfw
(4b) "Pre-hardmode AFK farm with Hoiks takes down 5 pre-hardmode bosses!"
http://youtu.be/PvVPxrTKltA?list=UUllYBm-_FbqWuI92o6zPXfw
(4c) "Super fast and compact Dungeon Guardian autofarm (kill time ~6min)"
http://youtu.be/gM8gHNX9EgA?list=UUllYBm-_FbqWuI92o6zPXfw
(5 Not in Video) Yrimir does a similar trick: killing goblins in 40s, off-screen, using waterbolt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rByh_d8h4cY It can't actually be done any quicker than this, since the limiting factor is the spawn rate = '20' = ~3 goblins/s, with 120 kills to beat the invasion, that's 120/3 = 40s.
(6) See wiki for spawn ranges (for lava pit blocking): http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Spawn_rate#Choosing_a_spot_to_spawn_the_monster
+ CREDITS:
All footage shot on location in Terraria 1.2.4.1 for PC.
Game IP belongs to Re-Logic.
Music from Terraria Soundtrack Volumes 1 & 2
by Scott Lloyd Shelly (Resonance array).
http://re-logic.bandcamp.com/album/terraria-soundtrack
http://re-logic.bandcamp.com/album/terraria-soundtrack-volume-2
Video captured with Fraps, edited in trakAxPC.
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