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Terraria potions: how to make a crafting station

How do you make a crafting station in Terraria and start brewing potions? Although you can find these consumable items in the world hidden in pots, chests, or from enemy drops, it's always useful to keep some handy. To craft your own potions, you'll need to make a crafting station.

Potions in Terraria come in the form of healing or mana recovery, or they can grant special buffs such as decreasing enemy spawn rate or slowing falling speed, especially useful for taking on bosses. There are a few different types of potions - food and drink, recovery, and buffs - which can usually be crafted, found in the world, or bought from an NPC. Flasks are also a type of potion that provide battle effects, such as imbuing your weapon with fire or other elemental damage - these can only be created at an imbuing station.

When you start out in Terraria, having a couple of basic recovery potions is the best way to venture out further into the world, so first you'll want to make a crafting station in Terraria. Here's how.

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The best Terraria armor and accessories for hardmode

Looking for the best Terraria armor and loadout for each class? If you've just cleared out your first wave of Terraria bosses, you're in luck! You now get to do it all over again and defeat their mechanical counterparts in Terraria's hardmode. By now you're climbing through the ranks of resources, shedding your old gear for new shiny armor and accessories, but to take on the hardmode bosses, you'll need to take your loadout to the next level.

So what's the difference with hardmode? This is the point in the game where you can start to define your class, choosing either a summoning, ranged, magic, or melee build based on your prefered playstyle. Your class is defined by the equipment you choose, making your Terraria loadout one of the most important parts of progressing and building up a character capable of taking out the likes of Skeletron Prime, The Destroyer, and The Twins. You'll need to defeat all of these three mechanical bosses before taking on the deadly Plantera, but luckily you'll have the item drops from these bosses to upgrade your gear once again.

But, if you've just entered hardmode and are about to take on the three mechanical bosses and the optional Queen Slime, here are the best Terraria armor, accessories, and weapons for each four classes.

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Terraria house designs: cool ideas for housing your Terraria NPCs

Looking for some cool Terraria house designs? Building a house is one of the first things you'll do in Terraria, and one of the most important steps towards survival. As Terraria operates on a day and night cycle, building a shelter for your first night in Terraria will keep you safe from any wandering foes. As you branch out from your starter shelter, trying your hand at more elaborate Terraria house designs can be a challenging part of one of the best crafting games on PC.

Building more Terraria houses is also very necessary, as they attract NPCs that provide useful skills such as selling items. NPCs will want their own area so as you build more houses, you'll soon have a bustling town full of working villagers. Building homes for all the NPCs to raise Terraria NPC happiness and attracting new ones will require a lot of resources, time, and effort - especially if you want to build individual houses for each NPC. We recommend building an all-in-one housing development to host your new townsfolk, these structures work like a block of flats, so each NPC has an apartment. This will save you a huge amount of time finding and accessing each vendor.

Of course, we want our town to look pretty and although our NPCs will be satisfied with a small space, these Terraria housing designs can give your town an edge that our little NPCs will be proud to call home.

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Terraria happiness: how to unlock a pylon in Terraria

Looking for how to increase your Terraria NPC happiness and unlock a pylon? After the latest update - Journey's End - your little NPCs won't be satisfied with just adequate Terraria housing, no, now they'll need neighbours they actually /enjoy/ living with instead of hoping for the best.

Your Terraria happiness level for NPCs can now be influenced not only by satisfying their neighbourly needs, but housing them in their desired biome, too. Meeting the demands of your new pernickety residents comes with its perks, such as the ability to purchase pylons to scoot around the world quickly.

The Terraria Journey's End update adds a catalogue of information called the Bestiary to help you figure out how to raise the happiness of your NPCs, providing an index of all NPC likes and dislikes. Our guide will help you unlock its full potential to increase Terraria happiness and make pylons available.

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The best Terraria mods

Looking for the best Terraria mods? Whether you're new to Terraria and want to tweak the experience slightly, or you've got years of experience and need a new challenge, these Terraria mods range from complete overhauls to minor improvements on existing content.

The Terraria Journey's End update adds a bunch more content for us to grapple with, but if you've burnt through the new bosses, or your Terraria NPC happiness is already off the charts, then these Terraria mods are just the ticket. Whether you're chasing beefier boss battles, new biomes to explore, or fresh items to tinker with, then we've got the best Terraria mods for the job.

Before you get started downloading mods in Terraria, be sure to install tModLoader, a handy mod manager for all your Terraria mods. Supported by Terraria developer Re-Logic, tModLoader is easy to download as a free DLC on Steam. Most Terraria mods will work with tModLoader, but it's always worth checking the individual mod download process. Now you're good to go and download the best mods in Terraria, here are our top picks.

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