How to beat Terraria without picking up any items

How to beat Terraria without picking up any items
a theory video (second)

Chapters:
0:00 A bit of reminiscing; a recap
0:24 Introduction
1:02 Route - Early Pre-Hardmode
3:17 Route - Post-Skeletron
5:03 Route - Early Hardmode
6:18 The Pwnhammer Problem
7:32 Overview - Mech Bosses
8:15 Overview - Plantera & Golem
10:17 Overview - Pillars & The Moon Lord
11:17 Outro

Music:
Terraria - Town Day
Terraria - Underground
Vanilla Calamity Mod Music - "Chambers of the Tyrant" - Theme of The Dungeon
Stardew Valley - Volcano Dungeon (Molten Jelly)
Terraria - Space (Night)
Terraria - Temple
Terraria - Lunar Boss

Credit:
Terraria - Skeletron Prime Adamantite solo kill, epic hardmode boss by Yrimir
Terracord Emotes by v2sauce (corn)

How to beat Terraria without picking up any items

[Terraw]

Note that this route may be imperfect. If you have any suggestions for us - just like with the no-keyboard run - those are welcome!

I know there are a lot of unanswered questions about this theory, too. I’ve tried to answer some - see for yourself in the comments!

(e.g. How do you get coins? Early game, we sell spare chest loot, and in HM when we have to buy stuff, we just have to be very careful with our limited supply.)
(We were betting on Tax Collector but apparently he doesn’t work despite other quest NPCs working???)
There should be enough money to buy everything necessary, though we might need to skip some stuff like Tiki armor...

[azuquirtle]

Simply roll 500 billion damage on the zapinator and blink moonlord out of existence

[Adventurer]

I don't know how I got Terra to agree to run this

[thefaz]

There is one another weapon for Plantera you didn't consider: The Mushroom Spear! It's a post-mech weapon sold by the Truffle. It's a whopping 70 gold, but if you can afford it it's a non-waiting way to beat Plantera.

Also! The Dryad sells mushroom grass seeds if she's on an underground mushroom biome so you can get a truffle with no problem this way - no need to get the seeds via cutting grass, you can buy it directly

[justerfrog]

This makes you really consider some weird stuff.

At least three times in this video I thought "well you can get armor from the tavernkeep... Wait... The defender medals drop as items."

[shooey-mcmoss]

Hey, Orange Zapinator works with Meteor armor, deals 100 damage per shot when it's not drunk, and sometimes it can multiply the damage. Or get stuck in the enemy. Either way, works like a charm

[janputz]

Terraria player I swear to god. One day it's going to be beating Terraria without out launching the game.

[ChiefLogan_]

Very interesting video! But absolutely no one in their right mind would take on this challenge (I'm 20 hours into streaming it on my channel)

[loggoman]

it's crazy that the second 1.4.5 drops with the hopper this challenge will crumble

[Lulink]

You have access to a jousting lance and the inner tube so maybe you can do the water launch cheese or use rockets from the party girl?

[demongameryeet]

Jousting lance + 3 minecart tracks with bumpers on the ends could help tear through some bossfights like destroyer or plantera

[bne_raper]

the biggest flaw in this route is Money, as you are limited with how much you can get in a world, as you can Only get it from Chests, be it directly or from selling the loot. Still Leaf Wings are not needed or viable for this reason as well as the Clentaminator, as getting Tiki armor and Steampunk Wings are higher priority. This is if you only use 1 World for this run instead of multiple worlds to get more loot and thus more money, even then it takes litteral hours in the best case scenario (a Small CelebrationMK10 seed Underworld Raids for Shadow chests) to get a few platinum, and for everything listed you'd need closer to 10 platinum, and that 6 Platinum to be comfortabel, with ammo, Armor, Weapons and Wings.

But let's say money isn't a problem be it some odd dupe or world hopping then there are a few things you can get that can significantly help with the run, as in Explosive Bullets form the Arms Dealer and Demolitionist, or the Mushroom Spear form the Truffle after 1 mech, which can help if you do not do destroyer 1st, and or for Twins and Prime to save on ammo, while they charge at you.

also doing this run with World hopping allowes you to get some very good gear, as in from the DontDigUp seed, you can get the Ice Bow, the Keybrand and the Bubble Gun, though for the sake of not ruining the balance of the run too much, these can be limited to when you could actually get them in game, as in Early HM, Post-Plantera and Post-Golem (as Duke is not possible to do)


This video comes at an odd time for me specifically, as i'm following and helping out ChiefLogan currently Do this specific run on Stream, and jsut mind buggling to see some one not related talk about the same run. around the same time.

[reginaldmeta]

Huh. This video is how I learned that Skeletron *also* has to be beaten alongside Golem for the Cultists to spawn.

[crimsonDestroyer]

There's one interesting thing you didn't mention: Fishing. Fishing up items bypasses the Encumbering Stone, which would grant a whole new slew of items. However, the issue is that fishing requires bait. As far as I can tell, every way to obtain bait requires either picking up dropped items (critters caught with the bug net) or fishing itself (jellyfish). It's worth noting that fishing does NOT grant access to crate loot, as grab bags are still affected by the Encumbering Stone - you can only obtain items directly from fishing. Still, this seems like an option worth looking into.

[billymkj]

and here I was thinking you could beat the game with only the three copper tools and an iron will

[BloodWolf]

Great video, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[bradyryden]

I love how Terraria runs have become the spiritual successor to Dark Souls challenges ❤️ I love it!

[gudadada]

This seems ridiculously torturous. I love it!

[kirakat]

Next video: how to beat terraria without inputs

[MoonyMuffin]

Everyone's asking about money, but I think a more interesting question is - how are you going to get the chests to place everywhere you don't want the meteor to fall? You can't pick them up from around the world, there's no way you get enough iron from chest loot to craft them, and to my knowledge, no npc sells chests. Would you have to use safes from the merchant? that would be insanely expensive, and thus require a massive amount of waiting for the tax collector.