Can I Beat Terraria Master Mode Using Only Sentries? 

He looks insane, but this comes from the guy who beat day time empress of light as a summoner pre-moonlord (not that big of a deal tho) , and the guy who beat terraria with only traps.

It kinda sucks that the only 2 great sentries are from after moonlord is killed. Hopfully in 1.4.5 sentries will get their final rework to make the sub-class viable.

The initial OOA grind, there's a fairly well known easy way to get extra sentries. Ethirian Mana is a physical item in your inventory, and it can freely be placed into chests like any other item. Once the event finishes, any Mana in your inventory is removed. If you open a chest, any Mana in it is also removed once you open it. The update is only done once you open the chest. Nothing stops you from starting an event, storing Mana, losing, then starting a new event before opening the chest. I usually use this when trying to kill Betsy just so I can leave the crystal alone and focus the boss, but this works at any progression level

Tips for OOA: you can open doors. Such as trapdoors. This allows you to keep all ground bound enemies underground and useless, or you can use a hoik to disable them as well.

Tell me why you are the only RU-vidr that makes these Terraria challenge videos and I can actually sit through the entire video. I've seen similar videos and dunno why these are different, but definitely keep going and keep more coming!

Explosive traps are crazy underrated. They goated , esecially for moon lord cuz you can get them all on the same block and melt the eyes.

34:15 Revolutionary technique. We should all be taking notes.

Btw the explosive trap is insane when well used against the old one's army and can be enough until betsy , it can even kill the flying ennemies when placed on the crystal , it is easily the 2nd or 3rd best old one's army weapon , other than that i wish terraria made sentries more viable , rather than just something you place down because it deals a tiny bit more dmg and leave it

After seeing the master mode summoner playtrough 7 times i can say that this dude is the best

24:17 ayo bro needs to chill 💀

dude trashes his copper short sword when he could’ve just thrown it to a slime and got squire slime

If you struggle with OOA you could do the distraction method to save up mana and store it in a chest next to the crystal. As long as the chest in NEVER opened outside of the event that mana will be stored and not disappear. Just lose the game several times and BOOM! you save enough to spawn multiple ballisters and wipe them.

Explosive Traps and Flameburst sentries are better than the Ballistae IMO because of their higher DPS. Lightning Auras are good with the specialized armor. You actually can teleport your way out of the Destroyer fight. Put 2 teleporters at the same height far away from each other and put Explosive Traps between them. Destroyer doesn't despawn due to distance, so you can teleport to keep him entirely offscreen and on top of your infinitely piercing Explosive Traps.

good job at keeping me engaged :) you do a great job at pacing and wording your script. well done !

OMG YES!!!! i just started watching your videos again. perfect timing. btw thank you for your time and effort spent doing these types of videos. : )

I discovered this channel yesterday and I'm already happy to see new videos popping up. I know I'm in for a ride!!

If you think about it, NPCs are sort of moving sentries that can be destroyed.

There are a lot of ways to make this run easier. (I'm watching this video as of writing this, will edit as I progress) - OOA: you can use platform hoik to make all ground enemies harmless, allowing you to clear the event more easily. - All nighttime bosses: you can play the dontdigup seed to remove ALL time limits from bossfights (except deerclops and wall of flesh) - Twins: for retinazor second phase, just box yourself in and you're completely safe from all attacks. It doesn't shoot through walls and it never dashes at you. - Destroyer does not despawn when you are far away. You can use the magic conch to teleport to the other ocean and heal up (or use other means of long range teleporting) - Generally for low damafe weapons, going for tankier builds is better. If you can survive indefinitely then it doesn't matter which weapon you use. There's also the ultimate uber cheese method of saving up eternia crystals and then spawning hundreds of sentries at once while the event is active but you wouldn't have an interesting video that way lol

absolutely banger video. super engaging and, unlike some terraria challenge vids i watch, it actually seemed like you had creative power and difficulty when working on this! great work! :)

Keep up the great terraria master series :) Plenty of builds still to do, I love watching em' and quening them all up when i hit the sack after a long day of work!

babe wake up new rather quenched video is up

If you actually do this with only century damage that’s extremely impressive. When other RU-vidrs do these challenges they often bend the rules when they don’t have to but only a minute into the video I can tell you’re serious and I love it, I’ll sub and I know you’ll be big soon keep it up man

Amazing video! I really liked how you focused on the problem solving which is one of the reasons I adore challenge videos.

man I dont watch long format gaming videos a lot but this was so entertaining to watch. Excellent video. Ive seen other challenge videos from terraria from other people and the werent as engaging

this is such a well made video nice job man

This guy deserves more than his subs because i mean he has like 60+ hours on every single world he does and has spent to much time and his life on this game, mad respect.

By far my favorite Terraria RU-vidr. I can rewatch videos and they'll still make my day like the first time I watched them.

Before OOA difficulty got drastically tuned down. Explosive Trap was the only sentry that allow you to die twice without instantly lost the OOA event in Master Mode even during it pre-buff, twice, and can guard Betsy for quite a long duration compared to all other OOA sentry.

"phase one is boring, except for her" had me dead bro 😆

I think sentries-only is one of the most painful weapon type-only runs you can do in this game. Shortswords-only, repeaters-only, and launchers-only are the only ones I'd say are worse.

Wow, did I really watch this for 40 minutes? amazing content man, good job!

Kinda tired of terraria challenges already, but this was genuinely very fun to watch!! Great video!! 😄

You're really good at this game! I've seen a lot of Terraria RU-vidrs and a lot of challenges be done, but I've never seen someone make use of Skeletron Prime's daytime rage before! I will definitely be coming back to this channel in the future.

How about a book only run?

This is both an excellent presentation and a good challenge, awesome :) If you don't mind a bit of cheese: You can set one of your teleporters just outside of the Ocean Biome - because as soon as you get outside of the Ocean Biom while Duke is spawned, he enrages and ignores all of his other stuff, just dashing at you. Then you teleport back into the Ocean Biome with the other teleporter, effectively resetting his AI. He'll never spawn tornadoes this way

I love this video, I can't stop watching it so much that I'm going to do the challenge, your character became the sentinel defender and saved them all, good video

finally someone who doesnt have a playthrough with 50+ quality of life mods

YES NEW RATHER QUENCHED UPLOAD TO WATCH 7 TIMES IN A ROW

İncredible video dude I thought this was impossible (also W editing)

You can place the crystal holder 4 blocks high for the old ones army, making it immune to units in wave 1 and some enemies further in

The amount of comments recommending cheese methods is very strange. Like, why even do the challenge if you're just going to cheese everything?

another quench vid les gooo babyyyyyyyy

had to sub after this herculean efffort. Keep it up!!

You are truly a god. I tried this challenge 5-6 months ago, but i stopped on Wall of Flesh. Now I`m motivated to repeat your feat

Fresh from the oven

Can you please continue making more of these videos because they are so enjoyable. I would love to see more

i love your videos 😼😼 i hope you never quit, you deserve WAY more subs. thank you

Huge respect to you for sticking to your challenge so strictly and not allowing stuff like titanium armour or inferno potions, it makes this so much more satisfying to watch than other terraria creators. Keep bein awesome dude.

I would have loved to see the final in-game time. Obviously wouldn’t include other game practice or brainstorming sessions, but it would be fun to see. Nicely done!

You can watch a youtuber called sorbet cafe who killed moonlord using a copper shortsword, flare gun, and lawn mower. When the leeches spawn you can teleport to the other side of the world, unlike moonlord who instantly teleports to you the leeches despawn allowing you to moon lord to stop healing.

This was incredible, amazing work.

This is incredible. The level of skill and amount of dedication is just amazing. Im so impressed. Well done!

You’ve done an amazing job, bro. Hats off to you 🎉

Bro dedication is truly amazing. If I did this challenge, I'd probably go crazy fighting the deerclops

this is extremely impressive. as someone doing sentry summoner right now (basically this but i have whips, SO much easier) on expert mode, you've gone through much farther lengths through everything, in master mode too! here's something VERY key about the frost hydra sentries though: their invincibility frames SUCK. if you'll notice at 38:04 , not every projectile hits. the projectiles interrupt each other because they dont have local immunity frames (like the ballista staff, for example, does), so using them together like that can hurt dps at extreme levels. hope that explains that! i did love how you named each sentry though. very fun touch

I have never played terraria in my life and don't really like it but still watch like every video of yours youtube recommends me xD

very very very nice i can see how much of a dedication and diligance is put into this you will be an exelent youtuber (already are but much bigger as one you will be)

This guy has way too much dedication. Well done!

If I could like this 100 times, I 100% would. One like is simply inefficient for the sheer dedication and polish that went into this video. Great job!

This was crazy impressive. Absolutely love your content and seeing you crush these challenges! Can’t wait for the next one 😊

Eternia event armor is lowkey fantastic though. The Valhalla Knights set and the flying dragon are fun and just useful.

Man, big effort! KUDOS

Huge respect for staying with the spirit of the run

First guy I’ve seen that doesn’t use quality of life mods, keep it up!

terraria has to have the most dedicated and fuckin insane community. the challenges are unbelieveable. good job

This was 40 Minutes???? Damn that flew by like it was nothing I was so invested!

I CANT stop watching this video its so good!

Explosive Trap is incredible, it’s just not the best boss weapon. Easily my favorite of the bunch

I hope they add more sentry that can homing. Sentry ironically satisfying class, lmao.

was waiting for someone to do this

for OOA you can use a simple hoik at each portal to stall the enemies, and then stack either ballista or flameburst sentries at the crystal to kill flying enemies. use the trap to kill enemies that are stuck in the hoik

A better thing to do instead of trashing the copper short sword is just chucking it at the first slime you see to get a free Npc for lower enemy spawns by your base for the first night

new video les goo!! you are so fking underrated bro!

I never thought this challenge was actually possible and this comes from someone who beat master mode legendary world as summoner huge respect you trully made terraria history

Loving these challenges

Finnaly it's great to hear your voice❤

For the Old Ones Army, you could've put the 10 starting mana into a chest and not to open it when not fighting the army. That way, you get as much mana as you want and place like 100 sentries at the start of the event.

Very entertaining series :)

Good job man. Didn’t think it was possible

I've done this playthrough before. Honestly, even on master mode this was one of the most fun playthroughs I've done ever

Mad lad! Nice job!

I know at least two exploits that would've helped the OOA's event in the beginning tho I've no idea how you'd feel about them. But honestly impressive you got it through like that

the fact that you mined out a pit under the moon lord arena before upgrading your wings is astounding

Great job!! you are the master

this dude's dedication is respectable

14:13 I've been playing master mode and everything seed for quite some time, and FINALLY I saw someone using rails as well to create a hell bridge! xD I find them superior, both resource and speed wise (dude, 1 iron bar for 50 rails!? and you can place them in zigzag too!) As a rail hell bridger, I approve of this xD

Quick tip hoink for the waves Hoinks are a feature/bug that makes it so no one can enter on one side but projectiles can Go through it

This is crazy congrats bro, did you find sentry or traps only harder

If you use the glitched platform to hold off the goblins you could have more active while the old ones army event is at a standstill allowing you to have more sentry summons

For tanking moonlord I'd recommend using the gold cross accessory, the one that doubles your i-frames after taking a hit, it helped me greatly on expert, but I'm not sure if you'll be able to survive master like that

You should have used some flamebursts for destroyer, they would have been able to hit the probes, and if you put ballistas at the bottom the would have dealt the damage, but it was really creative the way that you actually beat destroyer.

just to let you know you can cheese the old one's army with hoiks, by placing a full block and hammering it so that the triangle is facing towards where the portal is, you can block swap a platform with it and the walking enemies will be unable to go past it, so long as you don't go over them causing them to jump towards you, the only issue with the event then is the wyverns, but lightning aura staffs are actually pretty good at dealing with them. not to invalidate your hard work but at least you managed to beat it without the cheese method which is pretty impressive and I certainly didn't think it was possible with only sentries.

His comeback in old ones army made me happy

This game is balanced great video man

You don't like the explosive trap sentries? Try them with the corresponding armor they were made for, they are excellent!

Once again, an awesome video.

They should add more sentries both pre hard and hardmode On OOA you can use a hoik to keep ground enemies in one place, plus put a lightning rod near it and boom, auto farm.

For the old ones army, there's a trick with platforms that prevents the ground enemies from passing through.

I normaly use the Burst sentry, the one that shoots a fireball cuz it deals damage to nearby enemies and i also build a platform above the crystal for more sentries that can focus on the wyverns Along with other stuff, this strategy works up to Tier 3 with Betsy c:

You can use hoiks replaced with platforms to block enemies in old ones army