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Same thing happened to me at first. You can't have your inventory menu open when placing items. If you have it open it thinks you are chucking them rather than placing them. ;)

Put a block of wood underneath the spot where the door is going to go. I don't think you can place them on Dirt. You can't be standing in the area the door is going to be placed either. To use any items you can't have your inventory open, and need to put them in the hotbar.

The "Wall" blocks are for the background wall, not for actual walls that will block things. Stone/Wooden walls will stop monsters from spawning in a closed in area.

Wooden platforms can be jumped through and dropped through. Press down (s) to drop through a platform. Monsters can' jump and drop through platforms, so they don't make good protection. They don't count as walls either for rooms for NPCs, so you can't make one big house and divide it using platforms.

Once 3 NPCs move into your house/village, you will notice a large radius around your house were monsters will not spawn, even outdoors. It is very nice for building, etc.

Edited, Jul 17th 2011 1:40pm by TirithRR

You can place a door on dirt but as others said, it has to be a three block gap otherwise the game refuses to place one there. Grass though can be annoying as it prevents something from being placed there.

Might I suggest taking a peak at this if you get confused on what to do next.

Hehe yeah I started making each room really nice and tailored to each npc then I couldn't be ***** to do so. First floor of my npc condo is really nice, every room above that though is a chair, table and two torches (because one would just be cruel ).

Use an empty glass bottle not a full potion. (Sand makes glass, glass makes bottle)

Edited, Jul 18th 2011 1:01pm by Shojindo

So what's multi-player on this thing like? Is it a persistent world? Does the guy who plays the most just strip mine everything and leave you resource-less? Is it competitive?

This is on sale on Steam for $4.99 this week to celebrate a big content update.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/6025/

That sucks.

In other news, a couple friends and I have made a server dedicated to hardcore characters. I didn't get to play much last night so I'm still fine, but they're both on their fourth characters so far.

You can't kill the guide. Well, you can but he'll magically come back once you leave the screen and return.

You can do something like trap him in lava or get a "Guide Voodoo Doll" from Hell and throw that into lava instead. But he'll still come back.

All the other NPCs wander around as well. But, as you gain more NPCs, there's a wider "no spawn" zone around your house so it becomes a moot point.

The best way to build your home is to simply build it above ground. Npcs will walk through doors, but they won't fall down the wooden planks. This also guards you against invasions and can be used for effective lens farming later.