It hurt to see you trash the Ancient Shadow Scalemail as it can be shimmerd into its non ancient version.

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

That would have been good to know. I guess I'll find another one next time if we can't get any Hardmode armour.

@dazcarrr

7 ай бұрын

wouldn't that be not allowed since it'd be an over 50% banned recipe

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I was kinda debating whether shimmer should be allowed, but shimmer is cool and allows for interesting strategic plays like this, so I'll probably allow it.

@kenaz_5

7 ай бұрын

And that is not really a recipe in my eyes

@pengxu9244

7 ай бұрын

shimmer transmutation counts as crafting according to the wiki

To be fair, you could have just gotten flurry boots or dune walkers if you wanted to make spectre boots

so last challenge was every item, now this run is half of items. naturally we should expect a quarter of all items challenge in the near future

@hisupwassup

7 ай бұрын

alternatively, *no items*

@lolcat1382

7 ай бұрын

Could be 1/3. 1/1, 1/2, 1/3

7:20 American health care

@aterrariaPlayer492

7 ай бұрын

Made me laugh, take my like

@liamd3484

3 ай бұрын

Wand of Sparking's Canadian co-host couldn't relate 😮

In the future, you could use stacks of 100 gold coins as platinum. In a chest, I'm pretty sure you can stack coins up to 100, its only in your inventory that they auto-craft. That way you could buy the clentaminator or something.

@beeftips1628

7 ай бұрын

As far as I’m aware they will also auto craft if quick stack is used regardless of storage container so he has to be careful of that as well

@micahhurley4146

7 ай бұрын

@@beeftips1628correct

@shibainu2528

7 ай бұрын

I think they autocraft if they reach 100 from picking coins up off the ground, however, you should be able to manually craft them back to the other currencies. But, that may break the rules since you have an invalid item PERIOD, and you can't craft using one.

@_Tekz

7 ай бұрын

@@shibainu2528too be fair, the musket was allowed to be used to get the arms dealer

@notZabami

7 ай бұрын

100 percent of the crafting recipe is banned items so....@@shibainu2528

Happy to see Mana Regeneration Potion getting some use, it's so much nicer than spending an accessory slot on a Mana Flower and constantly burning through potions.

Was any of the gladiator armor banned? Just 2 pieces can bring you close to the 10 defense benchmark if it wasn't banned. Not to mention the drop rates from hoplites are a little more forgiving at 5% per drop. I'm glad you got the armor and tools you needed to progress in this challenge though, can't wait to see part 2!

@zerta0075

7 ай бұрын

helmet and breastplate were allowed

You should see the exact number of items banned and not banned, it would be interesting to see the split of items banned and items not banned, as well as a percentage. (Mostly just want to see how luck or unlucky you are)

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

You can actually see it in the beginning very briefly, it was 2749 NO and 2706 YES. So a bit unlucky (surprise surprise).

@liamd3484

3 ай бұрын

​@@WandofSparkingthis is not the Thanos way of being "perfectly balanced, as all things should be..."

@TheInfectous

Ай бұрын

@@liamd3484 "perfectly balanced" "murders half of the members of an ecosystem instantly destabilizing it" thanos probably couldn't count very high either so he probably wouldn't have an issue with it

@liamd3484

Ай бұрын

@TheInfectous that's irrelevant, the numbers are not the same, and so it is unbalanced

I am glad that you finally realized mana regeneration potions are the only thing you need for mana regen. It always pains me so much when people use or rely on mana potions, as the mana sickness debuff is actually crippling and nobody seems to realize that it's entirely unnecessary.

@Galaksyz

7 ай бұрын

yep, same ive always felt that the mana flower was a bit unnecessary to take up an entire accessory slot at least until you ACTUALLY need it (last prism is sad without mana flower) the downtime isnt too bad with just a mana regen potion, and weapons like razorblade typhoon hardly even care about the downtime

@mouthwide0pen

7 ай бұрын

And not only that, Wall of Flesh is one of the worst fights for it. If any fight actually gives you the opportunity to stand stilll, you can get all your mana back basically instantly with Regen active.

@AzureRT456

6 ай бұрын

Honestly it's only useful outside of boss fights

@CamAlert2

5 ай бұрын

Mana sickness isn't that big of a deal. It's not "crippling" as long as you don't guzzle down potion after potion like a madman. Assuming you drink 1 potion every 5 seconds (worst-case scenario), your DPS averages out to 7/8 of your "real damage." There are only a few instances in Terraria where mana can be used up too quickly, such as with the Last Prism, but that's kind of its quirk. Besides, losing out on 1/8 of your damage just to be able to spam mage-style seems worth it in the end.

@PrimordialGoated

4 ай бұрын

Yup, i literally beat MM Hardcore mage with no mana potion used, mana regen is op

Oh dang, this looks to be an interesting run! Consider me excited for the next parts. It feels like the E run all over again, does it not?

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

It is similar for sure, but this one I can expand it to include all types of items instead of just weapons, armour, etc. and we might still be able to pull it off.

@yeeterdeleter0117

7 ай бұрын

​@@WandofSparkingAUTOTRASH MOD!

@amazingfireboy1848

7 ай бұрын

​@@yeeterdeleter0117 Dude, banned items can be in his inventory as long as it isn't used physically. Otherwise almost all craftable items would be banned just because one common ingredient is banned.

@scoopskicat

7 ай бұрын

@@WandofSparking Nice to hear! I hope all goes well this run!

@reptarien

7 ай бұрын

@@yeeterdeleter0117 I feel like you didn't even watch to halfway through the video. Even banned items can be useful by his rules, so auto trashing banned items would be detrimental. And stupid.

If you can, I think a real-time mod to fetch the item ID and crosscheck it against your spreadsheet to display a little red X icon in the item window if something is banned could be really helpful not just to viewers but also to yourself so you don't have to keep switching out to ctrl+F a spreadsheet. Or just change the banned item's text to a strong red color, idk.

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

Yeah that would be great, if someone wanted to make that, that would be awesome. Idk how easy it would be to check the spreadsheet, but it would probably be better anyway to just set the mod to ban a random half of the items when using a world. Then you could make different seeds and play it again with different items.

@Bombedrumbum

7 ай бұрын

@@WandofSparking looking up information in a dataset is easy; taking action based off that information is the tricky part and where the mod comes in. In psuedocode, it would look like this: 1. When Item is in inventory, check item ID 2. Look up item ID in Ban List and return adjacent cell 3. If lookup returns BANNED, then display Red X 4. If lookup returns ALLOWED, then end. Repeat for all It'd be easier if you aren't using Google Sheets lol but I'm sure a workaround could be created

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

I think it would be more useful long-term if it wasn't based on this specific spreadsheet anyway, and just banned a random half of the items for any specific world seed, if that's possible.

@bluesillybeard

7 ай бұрын

@@Bombedrumbum It's possible to download the google sheet into a file that a mod can then open and read. I believe it even supports exporting as CSV, which is an extremely easy to parse format. But, it would definitely make sense to just randomize the allowed/disallowed items based on the world seed.

@Bombedrumbum

7 ай бұрын

@@WandofSparking I agree with you both that syncing it to the world would be best going forward. Only problem is that your current playthrough already has a set list for what's disallowed

This would be really interesting for multiplayer/co-op. If you both had a different set of banned items, you could work together by giving each other things you cant use but the other can

@bobbysauce64

7 ай бұрын

Imagine a playthrough where the other player can only use the other half of the items that were banned for the first player

@aterrariaPlayer492

7 ай бұрын

@@bobbysauce64 That would be so cool

If it's something you'd be interested in, I think I could make a script to generate a texture pack based on the banned items list that would overlay a red x over the item if it is banned. Let me know!

Wand of sparking is slowly becoming one of my favorite channels. I love your terraria content but I especially love your stardew stuff!

For the next challenge of 33% items: If you can't use a necessary item, you can randomize which other item to delete from list so you can manipulate this (on the beginning of the challenge)

High quality content as usual, and a very original challenge idea as well. I'm a big fan of how you make and adapt the rules of your challenges, and this one is no different. Thanks!

Busting my ass at how pathetic "I can use this bat that swallowed a coin for light though" is LMAO

This is truly a Terraria, but he can only use half of the items

Bone Torches were allowed and you could have bought those from that skeleton merchant you found. the torches in his stock actually swap from regular to bone depending on if you talk to him in the first half or second half of the in-game minute, which is one second. so basically if you click on him like 3 times you'd see bone torches

honestly major props to you for adding a list of all the songs you used to the description, you have no idea how many times i've heard absolutely bangin music in a youtube video but never been able to find it

@JetSetDman

7 ай бұрын

hey- hey, hey you, yeah you, the one who's about to write a reply telling me to use shazam. yeah, that's right, i'm talking to you. in most cases shazam isn't an option because either the song is from a video game or the person in the video is talking over it.

Another tough challenge I definitely do not have the patience for. Great stuff as always!

The hardest part of this run must've been that you had to alt tab all the time. Not having a mod which does this checking for you is insane

16:07 fun fact: touching a naturally spawned ladybug will increase your luck and even more if its golden, but reduces your luck if you kill it

@Ahhdeen

7 ай бұрын

Literally was thinkin the same thing. Gave himself bad luck for no reason.

I think basic crafting stations should be included regardless, otherwise it’s kind of hell to do a run like this. And only half of the items will be craftable if that, so I think it’s more than fair

Really creative idea and nice video. Your skyblock was great too, subbed.

funny how i can watch it now, great first episode, i can finally watch one of your challenges without it being finished, and if i recall pumpkin armor isnt in the list of not allowed, and i know about reaven shark being banned but what about the other fish tools so you know....(did anyone else realise the moon looks like the one from majoras mask)

@ultraminhon1592

7 ай бұрын

was about to say the same thing

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

One piece of pumpkin armour is banned, and we can't fish without a bug net, unless I found a can of worms.

Wand of sparking back at it again with banger content! Thank you for all you do, your videos always brighten my day, is what I would say if it weren’t 1:40 am right now. Oh well.

I love your interesting challenge runs and music choice. Keep it up!

It would be interesting to see somebody else do a twin run with opposite banned items.

This was really fun to watch! If you need more playthrough ideas after you're done with this, I did a 1hp challenge recently and had a blast

18:04 wow thats a good way to search for chests i never considered

oh wow cool concept... I liked your solutions for the ruleset as well. Hope to see part 2!

Back already! Another congratulations from the amount of work you put on the last video.

please continue this, it's a very interesting concept for a playthrough, especially for you having to come up with substitutions for even the most basic of items

really creative playthrough as always, love it!

Ah, clockwork assault rifle my beloved. Hardmode is hard, but your steadfast rhythm carries me through whenever I'm lucky enough to hear it.

i was gonna say the ancient cobalt drops from man eaters too, which are slightly more forgiving to fight

This is a super cool challenge! I have an idea for the golem alter and power cell dilemma if it comes up: since YOU are prohibited from using those items, have someone else in multi-player spawn it but you have to solo the boss with its multi-player hp :) that way you can't get softlocked or have to restart

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@scoopskicat

7 ай бұрын

true

@locomokuu2471

7 ай бұрын

No no, he has a point

this is such a cool idea! great video as always, keep creating

this is a pretty interesting idea! reminds me of the ''no E'' run, lets see how it goes !

I'm excited to see what shenanigans you use to get hardmode ores since fishing is limited and the molten pickaxe is uncraftable. I'm excited for a part 2!

this is such a cool challenge run! id love to see what you're able to do in hard mode

Yeah great video, would definetly watch this series

Honestly props to Wand man, I would've quit this challenge as soon as I saw the Scalemail drop 😂! Love your videos man, keep it up. The challenges are always so interesting

The fact you use the DKC series' music is very respectable

really cool concept, just something I noticed was, by your logic, you could craft torches into ice torches, and therefore your lighting problems could have been solved much easier

The flare gun being actually good is strange, but nice.

I have nothing to comment really except: I would love to see part 2. This is quite an interesting challenge. It made my heart wept for you every time you got something and found out you couldn't use it. If heart crystals were banned, I would say ignore that just for the sake of your sanity.

I find the glow tulip pretty much every play through, I’m surprised it’s so rare! It’s one of my favourites aesthetically despite not really knowing what game it’s a crossover from

This is a really intriguing idea of a playthrough, though it feels like a massive hassle to manually go and trash every item that isn't allowed.

this was an awesome way to wake up! it's like saturday morning cartoons without the cereals ads

i hzave an ideo for a video : you can try a playthrough were you equip the accesoire paint gun which instantly paints everything and do a challange were everything you place is with echo paint.

Nice majoras mask moon you got there! Would have been perfect for that majoras mask run you had a while ago (unless I didn't notice it)

It's crazy that you happened to stumble upon the nurse but didn't have the petty change to pay for a heal. That's the game's own way of rolling NO 😂

This challenge looks interesting due to being forced to use different things you’d never consider, but it looks so inconvenient and absolutely demented to play, can’t wait for part 2

I like the crafting compromise, I feel like it’s a reasonable solution in line with this challenge theme. Good luck, WoS.

you're really good at thinking up new and interesting ways to torture yourself playing this game. normally i wouldn't like that, but...

From my understanding of the game. You could use the fiberglass rod and the worms from them buckets to fish for hardmode ores and make an anvil right? With the hellforge still allowed, you could get the bars and with enough luck, you could get all the ores. But that is if you can even get all of the bait required which could be tricky. There is a world in which the golden bug net could be obtained, but that requires bait and doing fishing quests which sucks. Another option is to use the extractinator for bait. Old shoes and tin cans will be extractinated into apprentice bait. There are so many options and this little though process may only work If the items weren't banned. I am very curious how the rest of the series is going to go though. Can't wait for part 2!

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

The problem is, hardmode anvils are crafted at pre-hardmode anvils, so even if I got any bars, we couldn't use them.

@lukeblanchard8435

7 ай бұрын

Hmmmm... Yeah, that is a valid point haha

rhe commitment to every challenge you do horrifies me (as someone who gives up right away for everything). 10/10

A mod that deletes half the items at random (they don't drop, can't be crafted) would be so cool. You could even adjust recipes to just not use the item (so like, if gel was banned all torches would need is wood).

It would undoubtedly take a while, but it would be cool to somehow use a texture pack to show which items can't be used. Like an X on their inventory sprites, or something. I haven't finished the video yet, so don't be too hard if he did that.

Great video! I also really enjoyed the last Stardew video, though it was very long

I look forwards to seeing more!

I just want to say that you are one of my favorite content creators

i enjoyed the stardew video, and this seems like an interesting challenge, especially becuase you can just reroll it again for a difference challenge. alternatively, you could do things like 'cannot use anything mined or fished, only looted from chests/pots or enemy drops' or the other way around, only mined/crafting items

Those are getting more and more ridiculous...

hardmode will be possible, since ancient hallowed armor exists, assuming demon altars arent banned. There's a high likelyhood you can at least get one of the headpieces since there are 4, and probably at least 1 other piece. Hardmode has a lot of weapon options so I don't think it should be that difficult, especially when you realize how many different types of wings there are. If all else fails, you can always try for a set of dev wings! Edit: Ancient Hallowed is actually a really strong option, you can shimmer it into regular hallowed armor, bypassing the requirement of a hardmode anvil Edit2: I checked the spreadsheet and actually only the ancient hallowed hood and helmet are banned, you can totally just use the ancient hallowed melee set for a dodge and a ton of defense. Also, premech, you can fight queen slime (bag isn't banned) to get the crystal assassin hood (14 defense 5 crit strike) ,and gelatinous pillion

Can’t wait to enjoy some peak Terraria content

Do Terraria, but you can only attack if you're standing inside a suitable housing If you leave housing area, your summons and auto attacks have to be turned off, so you're gonna have to be building a lot.

I would love to see a video where you count just how many items you even need to beat Terraria

Your videos are always so realaxing to watch

imagine if every episode the list of items changes, this way every episode is unique in its challenges

hey buddy, long time fan of your channel and have basically watched everything youve ever put out, but yk what i hate? how much i enjoy your videos! but NEED to be watching diligently to know what you said, sometimes ill put on some of your older videos to sleep or study to and then i realise i dont actually have a clue whats going on and all i hear is zelda music and other stuff like that haha, or even if i look away to talk to someone else i need to skip back or something, so, heres my suggestion. get a text-speech bot to add voice audio to your video, try it out, if you think its good enough then upload one video your own classic way and then alongside it upload the text-speech version. This way, some people who dislike your normal style could be attracted and youd be able to get extra views for the same content all while pleasing guys out there like me, and surely im not alone.

minutes ~9-11 is just a series of being slapped in the face

You could fish to get the ores for a hardmode anvil.

Awesome video idea, great execution too.

No Planterra, Golem, or Dukefishron items that’s probably going to be the hardest part of this challenge.

Would love to see a part 2!

Wow, getting the Rifle and the Ranger emblem in one bag was pretty lucky. Guess you earned it!

Definitely would like to see a hardmode runthrough of this

That gold ladybug at 15:59 was teasing you

I found your method of blocking off items interesting- presuming you didn’t go back and correct it, odds are, you didn’t ban exactly half of items*. Approximating the binomial distribution by a normal distribution (which is presumably a good approximation, with n = 5455), and with a standard deviation of ≈ 36.93 items, you have about a 68.3% chance of having access to between 49.32% and 50.68% of items (within one standard deviation), and about a 99.999943% chance or having access to between about 46.62% and 53.38% of items (within 5 standard deviations). In the classic “1 in n” format, this puts your odds of having access to a percentage outside that range as roughly a 1 in 1,744,278 chance. I tried calculating the odds of having access to zero (or for that matter, every) item, but Desmos gave up and said (1/2)^5455 equaled zero, which, I suppose, close enough *Edit: (well, as close as you can get to half, with an odd number of items) **Edit 2: I went and found a proper binomial distribution tool that wolfram alpha has, and the results were virtually identical; the results of being within 5 standard deviations was 1 - 5.402*10^-7 instead of 1-5.733*10^-7, making the odds of being outside that range about 1 in 1,851,166. I tried to do the 1 standard deviation calculation with wolfram alpha as well but it gave me a very, very long and ugly (if exact) fraction that might well break KZread’s comment section if I tried to type it out, and I don’t want to switch to another device to copy and paste it to convert it to decimals; suffice it to say, it should be close to 68.3%. Wolfram alpha gave the odds of getting access to exactly 0 items as 7.61*10^-1643, aka basically zero.

NEW WAND OF SPARKING VIDEO WOOOOOO

Love it when I wake up and see WOS uploaded :)

The sheer amount of extra items that end up banned is rather fitting, given that thanos absolutely, 100% killed far more than just half the population. After all, if you kill a pilot mid-flight, or a surgeon mid-operation, you're going to kill extra people as well.

7:15 As an American, I relate to this.

Interested in seeing where this goes

Not being able to use platinum coins, is like being the person with a coin jar, Except their all gold coins.

You could defeat the eater of worlds to get the tavernkeep🔮. He sells 2 types of armor (but i think after prehard mode for The First batch, and after defeating 2 mechanical bosses) for mele, ranger and mage with The bonus of summomer damage! You would atleast get a Full set of mixed armor if your lucky! Also you can use string accesory to get warding on it since cobwebs are fairly common or shimmer strings to get cobwebs to make more string.

Mana Regen Potions are amazing! I usually don't even bother with regular mana potions and just use mana regen potions instead.

If any of hardmode anvils not banned, you can find some cans of worms and try fish necessary bars to craft it

I just noticed the majoras mask moon i love it lmao

I do wonder if you could make something that would automatically make a ressource pack to show which item you can & cannot use. Or/And a mod.

you can craft ice torches using torches and blocks of ice.

Hope there's a part 2!

17:32 Satan was talkin smack

Do remember that you can find an anvil underground, so as long as the upgrades and ore required to make one aren't banned, you should be able to craft the hardmode anvil to use (as long as that isn't banned either)

@WandofSparking

7 ай бұрын

I did find one in the first cabin I found, but decided not to use it. I thought about it though, would be kinda interesting to build a base around it.

I would be interested in part two!

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