How to Upgrade your Wooden Box! | Build Tips | Terraria 1.4

I don’t know Khaios, it’s hard to improve on something that’s already perfect 🤷‍♀️

"Why else would you be here?" I don't even play terraria anymore, I just enjoy your videos dude

A wooden box in Terraria is like a stealth archer build in Skyrim. No matter how hard you try to avoid doing it, you always end up doing it anyway

“Adjust your wooden boxes” Im sorry, Khaios. Its too late. Its already a wooden box hotel.

This even helps someone who acctually knows how to build

Maybe the real wooden box house was the friends we made along the way

25:15 is a good spot for a summary But in conclusion: • Foundation / false foundation • 2 thick wall and roof (at least) • Bigger rooms (6/7 high and longer) • A bit more realistic (support beams) • Make rooms not blocky • VARIETY in blocks, walls and rooms • Choose a theme and test out some blocks (trial and error is the way to go) • Use accents and contrasts

This tutorial in a nutshell: Step 1 build a box house Step 2 destroy it and build a house

Khaios: how to upgrade your wooden box My brain: Stone house take it or leave it

Personal comment for leaving notes to myself, but feel free to take a look: 1:42 - Adjust room size for a rectangular look. Consider having the roof lower than max build height more often in my case. 2:19 - False foundation for greater detail under house. 5:20 - Increase wall and roof thickness for bigger houses. Can add more detail this way. 6:50 - Vanity rooms that serve no purpose other than to improve the build. 7:14 - Vary roof heights for floors and rooms. 10:12 - Vary block surfaces beyond just floor/wall and ceiling. Have a different block for different walls that serve as passages that lead to the next room versus walls that see the outside of the building, or ceilings versus the roof or second story floor. Vary walls per room rather than the whole building being two or three types of walls. 14:20 - Large bamboo and brown paint makes great wood alternative for walls and tiles. Used as supports here, but later used as a ceiling tile at 27:41. 19:13 - Adjust roof thickness based on the type of roof you desire. Thatched roof example included. 21:00 - Use walls to create the illusion of accessible rooms. Not mentioned in video, but can use invisible teleporter trick here to make the pseudo room accessible. 21:53 - Use fence for 1 tile walls that don't bleed out from where the structure should end. 26:58 - Use thrice hammered platforms to add to roof detail, or leave it as normal along a ceiling for a nice rim detail pictured at 41:40. 28:30 - Modern supports example. Also a reminder to give actuators a try. 30:20 - White paint and titanstone looks like concrete. 30:40 - Allow indoors to be more boxy for modern designs by not having corner accents. 31:10 - Consider alternative methods for defined rooms outside of placing a clear doorway. 34:08 - White painted snow wall for plaster. 34:49 - Beams and pillars to accent walls. Also features, asymmetrical symmetry for modern builds. More clearly said, you want things to align well with each other but not be entirely symmetrical. 37:20 - Accent walls aligned with gaps between pillars/beams work well together. 38:03 - Consider breaking walls for detail. Cracks can serve to be more than what's supposed to be broken and instead look like window framing or gaps where things can slide in and out. 39:32 - Builders hate him! This advanced trick invalidates broken wall gaps by using the invisible "echo" block. Click the timestamp to learn more! 40:00 - Sometimes accent wall tops and bottoms instead of floor and sides like I normally do. 40:20 - Use platforms and furniture to hide the broken wall gaps that leave ugly overhang.

Easy summary of Khaios pro tips on building houses 1. Create a larger space 2:18 2. Creating a foundation 3:23 -adds blocks underground as it adds texture and details rather than placing your house on top of the soil. -false foundation. Creating a gap between your floor and the ground 3. Basic Exterior tips 4:59 -add a block at the both sides of the floor -add thickness on to your house atleast on the sides and ceiling. -don't make your floor longer than your ceiling 4. Orientation 6:19 -Plan your house -make sure only 2-3 NPC are the only people living there for their happiness will be affected. -it is okay if your floor don't have the same height. Word of Khaios: 7:47 If you are not happy to what it looks, change it until you are happy with it. 5. Make it semi-realistic 7:55 -there should be a balance between too much and too little realism -add more foundation like pillars and beam to hold floating or attached structures -add foundation inside your house too! Like in the corner of the ceiling, which you put classy 3 blocks hammered into an art making your house more realistic and having more details! 6. Add some variety of blocks! 9:39 -add different blocks to each of the part of your house like roof, floor, wall, etc rathee than having one plain boring block. -add more contrast becausw it's important for more diverse texture. -paints count as a different variety of block. It is great as well, and it also widen the possiblity of more creative structures and stuff. It also adds or blend in the theme of the room where the unpainted blocks and related blocks can't do. Another word of Khaois: 12:18 The sky is the limit, your imagination is the only limitation to a big extent 7. Rooms can be different depend on what you want 13:32 the primary material in it's room can be different -blending other wall as a wall support is great too, acts like a foundation and realism. -adding more details to the specific room makes it standout to other one, it's great for telling which room is the main one -windows, and fence is highly recommended, adding like a glass or wooden fences variety fitting to the theme of the house makes it more realistic. -your roof varied depending on your style and the theme of the house. 16:25 Khaios style on roofs 16:55 medieval theme -add stone related block accent -add slit (hammered miscellaneous added stone) as it adds details -medieval roof can be made by adding slabs and other varieties that don't blend together. Forming them into a medieval castle. -have a medieval theme for sides depends on your choice. -having a thin roof is great preceeded that the upper object on top of it will sustain the thickness. Khaios puts a brown leaf as an added roof details -adding layers to the outside pillars as shows in no. 5 (pillars, beam and supports). Adding walls behind looks like there's a room unable to be access which makes it weird but feels 3d. -filling the remaining unwall gaps on the door by fence makes it complete. Walls can be added too but some may prefer beams instead or fence for they allign to the structure more. 22:29 and that's it. i gave up.

I can't explain how much more engaging this video is compared to all others where they just talk about the advice rather than applying it. Really well done!

Khaios: why would you be watching the video unless you want to build better terraria houses. Me: I don't know supporting you

"im running out of time" proceeds to build another house

"your only limit is your creativity" my creativity: 3 shoe boxes. take it or leave it

This video also made me realize how paint isn’t just colors and custom biomes, it also allows you to change colors to certain textures and I love how it works like that 🎨 🖌

"variety, don't use just wood" paints wood gray there we go

"How to upgrade your wooden box" Me, look at a row of chest and crafting stations lying around in open air: Sweat nervously

I know you said this wasn't intended to be a beginner's guide but this helped me more with the basics than any other beginner's build video I've seen yet! And now I can make my builds look nice too.

Step one: Deal with wooden/dirt/stone shoe box houses at the beginning until you get at least your respective evil's gear, and maybe the mining set for efficiencies sake. Step 2: Go on a resource gathering rampage, and compile every block you can. Step 3: Lay the blocks that interest you most in a 3x3 cube suspended in the air next to each other to compare, mix and match them to find ones that blend well. Step 4: look at your shoebox, no matter how high, or wide you've stacked it to put the NPCs in, and make it work. Take the external walls, and branch them out in all kinds of wacky shapes, and tie them all together with a decent roof, then, once the shape is acceptably unique, put the blocks you've chosen into the build by replacing the wooden walls, outer blocks, etcetera. Step 5: Understand that you're not making the Mona Lisa. Perfection is for nerds. Don't fall into the pit of "it's not good enough" because it'll make you stop building altogether. Step 6: Hit that grind, gamers. Do this process over and over in Journey mode so you have infinite resources to work with. Every step is a step forward towards your improvement. Step 7: You look very nice today, did you do something different with your look? It looks good on you. Have a good one, and go for broke!