I didn't want to start a thread just to talk about one specific thing, have a couple people respond, then have it kind of peter out. I'm actually kind of surprised that more game-specific forums don't have a general-purpose discussion thread. Well, now this game shall have one, at least. =)

The specific incident that I didn't want to start its own thread for is this (feel free to skip to the last big paragraph if you don't care =) ): I was wandering around in the sea at one end of my world, as I've been doing a bit lately (trying to harvest coral and, of course, empty out all those lovely treasure chests on the sea bed). As I was dumping some stuff into my piggy bank on the beach to make some room in my inventory for all the stuff in those underwater chests, I get a notification that "King Slime has awoken!" Obviously, I dropped what I was doing and prepared to defend myself.
After a running battle over a good portion of the surface (and ranging into parts of three different biomes), I finally defeated him. However, before I could even pick up all the loot (and retrieve my arrows), I got the message, "King Slime has awoken!" And, sure enough, I see another huge slime at the right edge of the screen, trying to bumble its way up a somewhat steep hill.
Now, in the aftermath of battling the first King Slime, I was dangerously low on health, and I think I still had potion sickness (i.e., the cooldown for potion use hadn't run out yet); also, I had shot about two-thirds of the arrows I'd had, and even with having recovered a decent number, I still wasn't sure I'd have enough to kill the second one from a safe distance. Lucky for me it was momentarily stuck against that hill, as that gave me enough time to run back to the beach where I'd been -- far enough away for it to de-spawn.

Has anyone else had this happen? Did I trigger some spawning condition twice without realizing it? (And no, I didn't use any summoning item. Either time.)

And now it's your turn! Any interesting/amusing/unusual/terrifying/[whatever] moments you've had in this game, and want to compare notes on? Any accomplishments you'd like to boast about? Any neat tips and tricks you've figured out, or answers to questions no one has asked yet? None of the above? As long as it's NOT a specific problem you need solved or important question you need answered, or a really helpful piece of information that you don't want people to have to wade through this thread to find, this is the place to talk about it. (I'm not saying that these things mustn't ever be talked about here; I only mean that if it's at all important, it should get its own topic, so more people will see it.)

P.S.: Feel free to set this thread as your spawn point. =)

Once I built a trap specifically for the Traveling Salesman so that I could snag his hat.

Not really interesting but shows you the kind of shit I do when I get bored, :P

I can't remember having that happen to me, but the natural spawn of King Slime is a random chance, during daytime, once you're a certain distance from the center, are in grasslands/forest biome, and no other event is happening.

Yeah, but, according to the info on the Gamepedia wiki: So that's a pretty odd occurrence, especially for my first time encountering that boss! Hah, I've not yet gotten bored enough to try killing my NPCs. (I'm assuming that's what you meant.) But, then, I've only been playing for a little more than a week. Give me some time for the madness to set in....
=D

Guy creeps me out a little so I approve. I once spent a few in-game days standing around with a battle potion and water candle trying to get that giant blob to spawn and couldn't so I'd say you got lucky. Twice in a row seems a little harsh though.

Hm NPCs. Ever since I found out that the Guide can actually show me crafting recipes I quite like the guy. Meanwhile, I tend to brutally murder the Party Girl whenever she decides to appear. Lava pits, zombies... sometimes I make her live on a cloud and open the door for the harpies.
She always shows up when I've just built a house for a different NPC or myself. >:|

XD That is too good.

There's an item you can use to automatically summon King Slime, you know. :P Also, he only randomly spawns when you're near one end of the world or the other. (The wiki I looked at said that if you ever run into any random goblin scouts, you're in the right place for King Slime to "awaken".)

I've also realized that a lot of the Guide's advice is actually tailored to your current abilities, health & mana levels, and what you've manage to accomplish. He won't tell you what specific equipment you need to move on to the "next" challenge, but when you finally measure up, he'll finally start doling out new info again. (Though he still keeps telling me how I can get a Demolitionist to move in, when I've had one for quite some time now. :| )

I can't say I've really used most of the NPCs yet. The Guide and the Merchant (regular and Traveling flavors) are very useful, and it's nice that the Dryad keeps tabs on the spread of the Crimson infestation -- plus I can buy purification powder from her so I don't have to get mobbed by faceless men and blood crawlers when traveling on the surface. The Nurse can be helpful -- assuming you can get to her before you're either dead, or healed via natural regeneration and/or potions. The Demolitonist will be useful if I ever decide to start mining with explosives. But the others I have so far -- Dye Trader, Painter (the first 2 NPCs that showed up, not counting the Guide :/ ), Hair Stylist, Angler and Party Girl -- are various shades of useless/pointless right now. (To be fair, I haven't talked much to the Angler since I found him. He tried to give me some "quest", but I haven't yet been in the mood to get killed by a giant fish, so when he moved in to my place, I built him his own shitty little shack a little bit away from the main building -- that fish smell gets into everything! =) )
EDIT: And I also noticed that creepy line by the Traveling Salesmen. :D At least he didn't invite you into his van for some candy.

I know! Just thought I'd try spawning him the "natural" way first. I was standing in a forest close to the beach and there were slimes everywhere but no king. I even had the crown summony thing, I'm just stubborn like that.

I've done the Angler quests up until the magical carrot reward once and then I couldn't be bothered. I get sidetracked way too easily to actually concentrate on finding fishing grounds in a specific area.
The painter becomes useful once you decide to build a lot of stuff and want even more variety. Never did employ the nurse's services, actually, mainly because, as you mentioned, I'd have to be fast for her to be useful and once I'm in mortal danger in Terraria I might as well jump into a lava pit. :D Of course, you can set your spawn point in her house and just Magic Mirror/Recall Pot right next to her.
When it comes to explosives I stick to Bombs & Sticky Bombs for when I'm too lazy to dig and those are everywhere so I don't have to buy them.
I actually bought some fireworks from the Party Girl once which I set off on New Year's Eve because that was the one and only time I could convince a friend of mine to try out the multi-player. :<

Hardmode NPCs now, that's a different story!

(Also, Traveling Merchant: NPCs are dumb. I had defensive lava pits on either side of my house and every time the merchant showed up he walked right into one. I was drowning in hats.)

I can relate. I rarely buy things from the merchants that I know I can get by killing monsters. Similar reasoning: it's the principle of the thing. :) Supposedly the mythical version 1.3 is supposed to improve NPC A.I. so that they better avoid monsters and just generally aren't as stupid; maybe that'll extend to NPCs no longer immolating themselves or walking over trap triggers.

Speaking of 1.3, there's a lot of info that's apparently been mentioned by Re-Logic staff over time regarding what kind of features will/might be added in 1.3 when it finally drops this year ("by June", according to the page I linked). (That is also probably one of the most thoroughly-sourced wiki pages I've ever seen outside of Wikipedia.)

So I can throw cats at people.

Mythical is right, I heard it was supposed to come out in February and then it didn't, now I don't know. (Probably missing some semi-official statement regarding the release.) Maybe that'd give me some incentive to play again, I'm a bit lost as to what to do atm. Digging endless tunnels can only entertain me so long.

Hi. I'm new to Terraria and I'm really enjoying the game. Still discovering new stuff (like holy crap I can shoot out 3 vines from the Ivy Whip and spiderman myself around if I want to?). Trying to figure stuff out on my own without looking up too much online...but sometimes it's hard with so little direction in the game. The Guide is only so helpful....

No good/funny stories related to the game yet, unless you count my discovery of a bee hive and thinking "oh hey, it's dark in there, I'll just shoot my ruby staff in there to get a quick peek" and then oops, it destroys the larva and the Queen Bee comes out and scares the crap out of me...and then, of course, kills me. :)

There actually is a spider whip (forgot the name) that allows you a lot more that 3. :D

Could it be...perhaps...eight? : ]

I'm still pretty green myself, having only bought the game two weeks ago, during Insomnia. The sale didn't really cost me much sleep, but Terraria sure has! I also have craploads to learn/see/do, but I came into it a bit more aware, having watched the entirety of the first "season" of the Terraria LP by TotalBiscuit and Jesse Cox, and most of the second. I actually had to make myself stop watching it after I decided I wanted to get the game, so as not to spoil any more discoveries for myself than I already had. I can't really complain -- I probably never would've bought the game had I not watched that; still, I also try to avoid checking wikis/forums/YouTube videos if there's a chance I could figure something out on my own. Discovery and exploration are at least half the fun of this game!

The source for that tentative release deadline was this post (post #9) from the Official Re-Logic GDC Blog. So it's their goal, but I'm guessing they probably said roughly the same thing about all of their previous release date goals, so...we'll see. :)
Not that it matters much for us newbs, as we've still got months -- if not years -- of content to wade through in 1.2.4, but I can understand if many of you veterans are getting a little bored with building structures, organizing and rearranging all your stuff, and trying to collect every meaningless piece of swag in the game, just for something to do. =)

Once you've reached Hardmode (ie. defeated the Wall of Flesh), there's almost nothing in their "playthrough" of the game you haven't seen. Yes, they do muck around HM for a bit before giving up, but they never got anywhere near anything that could be considered much of a spoiler. The main reason to watch that series is their interaction, not the gameplay.

No kidding! :D I had never played the game when last I watched any episodes, and I could still tell pretty early on that neither of them was very competent at it. If it was just a straight-up "instructional" let's play, I doubt I would have continued watching it; their "let's just muck around and occasionally try to kill each other for laffs" attitude was what made it so entertaining -- though it was starting to drag a bit in the latter part of the "New World Generation" series (or whatever the second series was called).