Using Bees to Achieve INFINITE Speed in Terraria 

reminds me of the tas for mario 64

Couldn’t you use the Magiluminescence to increase acceleration rate and thus reach higher damage values even faster?

@@Alphadog2064that’s smart

@@Meganbear501 He mentioned in the video that as the empress of light attacks are projectiles, they will still damage you. What you will need to do is fire like 1000 flares into a box so that the projectile cap is reached (or 999 if the lance is a projectile, not sure on that) and then fight her

just tested it, you'll wanna do 999

Possible new Mappy video in progress?

Mappy makes a new video every glitch I believe there's going to be a video

mappys gonna find a way to use this glitch somehow

Pretty much! There's definitely still work to be done to make it usable while traveling at relatistic-speeds, but there's certainly potential. Also, huge fan of your work- Your original accelerator was my inspiration for going down the whole rabbit hole of ludricrous speed, and definitely kindled my interest of technical Terraria. Cheers!

@@DullFoolbasil pfp

The fun part is that Terraria Devs enjoy them too. Hoiks are a great example.

@@TheSandboxMasteryou’d expect a fast mount to be the fastest movement, maybe a minecart, but no its just a bunch of ramps

You also may think that the best weapon would be the weapon that combines a variety of swords including post final boss however it is a simple lance that is easy to get

@@Waterishloki100 the speedometer would like to disagree

​@@blackholeboi3432it doesn't have speed, because its counts as teleportation

Not paralyzed. Suspended in space while simultaneously having near infinite potential energy

He's just standing there. Menacingly.

i always knew the bee flux was the strongest energy in the world...

Petition to call this glitch "NOT THE BEES" with the image of the Guide turning into a pancake

"Bees are OP" The message shows sometimes when I play on mobile, never played any other version though.

Incredibly high speed and parallel universes? Where do I know that from...

I see.

The true most powerful weapon: Bees

​@@LittleRaven13Yeah bro they're so strong WoF is allergic to them.

As Terraria said "NOT THE BEES!"

Ohhhh, I *BEE* what you did there heh heh

that's just modded minecraft in a nutshell.

@@jeanremi8384 except you can't just... add in an item that uncaps speed and boots that uncap player fall speed?

@@cewla3348 yeah but i meant in the sense that the exact correct items, perfectly aligned, can make you a demigod.

The wiki says those item ids are copper hammer and axe Edit: Found what you meant to say, 3705 and 3706, but thx for the comment anyways as I wouldn't of thought to look if not for it. Edit 3: Forget edit 2 they responded and what they said makes since, also just realized that edit 2 could come off as rude. But to be clear the spreadsheet is very useful and I'm glad it exists Edit 2: Just noticed that the transmutation philosophers stone spreadsheet shows it as Fake_newchest1 and Fake_newchest2, but doesn't show the internal name for any other item with no official name. Like why not just put BoringBow at item id 3853? Or even put Boring Bow, as that's what the name would obviously be if it had a "actual" name, but instead boring bow gets the bland uninformative n/a (no official name), while Fake_newchest1 and 2 get descriptive names. Why is it inconstant??? The spreadsheet doesn't even say which treasure bag is which aaaaaaaa

Actually, these are the _other_ unobtainable chests! There's four total- Two unobtainable trapped chests, and two unimplemented regular chests. But, you raise a really good point- The unobtainable trapped chests actually allow for the same glitch, and can be obtained fairly easily with Transmutation. So, that'd be another way of setting this up, and a much more convenient way of moving this setup around the world!

I modified the update some names manually during my testing, since due to the way the spreadsheet was created (I think via the Wiki's source) there was no info for those items, so they were left as "N/A". But, I can go about filling in the rest of them- particularly since I plan to do a video on which unobtainable items can, and can't be obtained in Terraria.

​@@EthyrielYhow do you find out about these unobtainable items?

@@EthyrielY Ooooooh that's why the "Fake_" prefix was there, I assumed that there were only trapped chests due to the pattern but that makes more sense.

i mean, honey blocks are literally slime block 2, so...

This is sometimes true in real life

​@@FavoritoHJS I trusted you and tried to bounce on a honey block and died. You monster.

We can see from this example alone which dev team cares about fun.

@@HumanoidDerpling "hi i do minor things" "FUCK YOU wait you conquered our queen? NEW QUEEN!"

Summons behave weirdly with this glitch (in that they get snapped when you mouse over it), but sentries work fine! And I'm sure there's other things I haven't tried that still work. Relevantly, minecarts also still deal damage while in this state, but your speed is capped at the infinite bee speed.

⁠@@EthyrielY“speed is capped at the infinite bee speed“ So it’s not capped at all?

You absolutely can! The best way to do this is with a one-time circuit using a dart trap, a teal pressure plate, and sand. Past about 750,000mph, you traverse the entire height of a large world in one gametick (1/60th of a second). And it's possible to accelerate past that... I honestly don't know what (if anything) might happen in such scenarios.

@@EthyrielY would it be possible to set up teleporters like with the water + floatie trick to send you to the top of the world, mostly to stall to use the jousting lance?

@@EthyrielY Not sure how that would work, but having a switch you activate with smart cursor might be good

@@EthyrielYyoo new hellavator method! No more digging!

​@@EthyrielYso theoretically with the use of a portal gun you can gain high horizontal momentum

It's such a weird edgecase that it's probably a "That'll _never_ happen, right?" sort of thing, as you described. Well, never say never...

@@EthyrielY I love when we get to the point in any game where these things arent even surprising its just "oh neat guess we have infinite speed now"

the way you explained it, omg like you literally described my whole mind right here xd

So... literally Big Rigs backwards movement?

The lesson to learn here is that you should never assume 'well there's no way this can happen, there's no need to check for it'. If I know anything about programming, especially for a game as large as Terraria, you should assume that given enough time, it'll end up in an edge-case where it _will_ happen.

Yeah, that seems to happen unfortunately. A crash also happens on PC if you pause while hovering over the chest (though the two don't seem related.) Unsurprisingly, the game was not coded to handle this. I just underestimated how "not coded to handle this" it would be on console!

how do you transmute in ps4 it never works for me

​@@gogogaga3784throw certain items into shimmer. most big ones only work post-moonlord

@@AaronGaming1066 he (presumably) meant the glitch transmutation since that's what's mentioned in the video

Does the lance count as a projectile? If so it would have to be 999 flares

That reminds me, I made a dart machine gun for a similar purpose, and also allows allows for time travel...

@@EthyrielY im sorry what?

@@EthyrielYexcuse me what did you do. And also does time travel mean like rolling back the map to the latest saved version of it or something else?

@@destroyer4929 Imagine the Enchanted Sundial / Moondial but on some very weird steroids. It's not even Transmutation-related, it's its own jank.

Like the dupe glitch where u save something in a chest take it out and die and exit everything without saving to dupe?

Using Bees to Achieve INFINITE Speed in Terraria

I believe the fastest man made object was a sewer hatch which had some serious explosives detonated in the tunnels beneath it The thing went so fast it was only visible for 1-2 frames Edit: It was a manhole hatch, close enough

@@federicoislab That went ~130,000 mph, the space craft went ~332,000 mph

I guess you could say then that the manhole cover is the fastest launched object while the probe has the greatest speed achieved (since it gained its speed from the sun's pull) Doesn't make it any less impressive tho

i wonder what happens if you break the blocks under the bee mount, if you do fall at that absurd speed, you could be placed into a portal loop then use the lance

mario 64 and mario world are this complicated too

... 🤔

​@@EthyrielYhow about doing this at the edge of the world so your mouse stays put? 🤯

It is! This is the new, one-instance method which I have been meaning to make a dedicated guide about for awhile. It's faster, more consistent, and basically better in every single way lol edit: You could also use this same setup to obtain any item the other Transmutation setups could. In this instance we're just using it to set-up the chest glitch.

if you augment this with an array of teleporters, you can reach a speed of 1 map height per frame. this was the method used by mappy to kill dungeon guardian in 1 tick, and even double back scale the dmg numbers in terraria (your hitting so hard it dealt 15k dmg more than the full 64bit integer cap x2)

Thank you kindly! I've still got many more broken bugs to share, so stay tuned for those!

I think that the top speed is limited by how long you can keep your cursor over the chest, but something else in the game might break first. I reached about 5,400,000 mph by leaving it overnight, which is a bit under 1% the speed of light.

Nuh uh

Indeed! That's Transmutation for you. I'm hoping to make more videos on it since my previous explanations are a bit out of date at this point, with the new tech that's been discovered.

Thanks a ton! I'm very proud of this thumbnail- It's definitely one of my best yet! I've had issues topping it hahah

yeah but this one doesn't make you blind and also doesn't cap out as far as we know.

Just an average Wednesday when you throw Transmutation into the equation.

maybe one day

closest thing we have right now would be with the fireworks i think, since the projectile they spawn can be changed to other fireworks, and probably other things too also if the projectiles gave you the buff for the summon, then that buff would disappear as well as the summons i'd assume

There is actually a glitch which allows for spawning projectiles (About 4/5ths of all of them in the game are spawnable), though as far as I know weapons aren't projectiles in that list. As for interactions with summons, all summons vanish the moment you mouse over the chest, though sentries still work as intended. It's weird what does and doesn't work while in the glitched state.

Most summons just disappear, but there are turret types that work.

i have known for quite a while (i think since master mode) playing around with things like etherian turret stacking it is not hard to hit the projectile cap of 1000 i think it was pets, light pets, summons are all projectile ranged/magic weapons all counted as projectiles for the sprite in hand but melee weapons did not iirc having projectile cap filled or near filled does fun things to the pillar events (especially vortex) lots of things break when you hit either the npc spawn cap of 200 or projectile cap of 1000 also hitting the buff/debuff cap is somewhat annoying if that happens less fun that the projectile and npc caps

it's honestly impressive how much un-tapped jank there is in such an old and popular game

I love Terraria for its nuanced progression- it's why I have so many hours in the game. I also just so happen to have a knack for breaking games. Stuff like this is the consequence of that lol

"Want to see me run around that mountain and back?" "Want to see me do it again?"

"So you have a box, 'kay. If you take a cat statue, create a parallel universe, saw-off the bottom part of the statue, and place that above the box- you get a glitchy box. Now, if you touch the glitchy box, you'll begin accelerating. But you won't move away from the box, even though you're gaining speed. You'll accelerate at 5.3G's, sitting still, all while unable to move an inch otherwise. Except to stop touching the box. But, by the time you realize what's going on, you're probably already going several times the speed of sound, so I hope you like your new life. Hitting the ground that quickly probably wouldn't end well."

Interesting! That fits in with alot of what I've observed with two/three player de-syncs, while researching Transmutation. The concept of "parallel universes" has wound up being a fairly useful construct for explaining de-sync tech (And, frankly, for my own understanding of some of the more esoteric glitches.) Even if what's going on in actuality it has more to do with what actions clients send to the server, are sent to other clients, or are some mixture of the two. It'll be more apparent for the next glitch that I plan to show but one of the glitch techniques, MCGO (Multiplayer Campfire Glitch Offsetting) causes data from the server to become exclusively on the side of one client- which, could be framed in the contruct of "moving to that client's parallel universe". Again, it's not actually what's happening- Red did not add Terraria 2, the multiverse update- but I think it's a worthwhile analogy to carry through to future videos. Thanks again for the informative comment! I'm hoping to do a proper deep-dive into the technical aspects of server/client desync at some point in the future, once I get through the upload backlog a bit more.

the answer is *YES*

As far as I know, all of Transmutation relies on some sort of server-client desync to start with- sortov like the foundation for all of this. Though, I could see about getting a map export for Console verisons, to allow for playing with the glitches even if the setups can't be done alone / with only one device.

I don’t know about the second question, but I believe you cannot use items while in the glitched state you get when hovering over the chest so you have to use the lance beforehand. and since you need to be in that glitched state for the speed increase to apply, there’s no way to start using the lance while the speed boost in effect. Hopefully that helps a bit.

Might need to try that- So, mount near a portal, and to kindov sling yourself with a small instance of acceleration?

I almost want to try modding the game to achieve that sooner... Or, better yet, just a way to accelerate _even faster_. Since, if I find a way to get a jerk (An actual term, describing an acceleration of my an acceleration)... well, then speed would grow exponentially. Far-fetched, but you honestly never know.

Mappy's video was an inspiration for this whole search for infinite speed, actually! (And for my glitch pursuits as a whole.) I wanted to see if there was an easier / more compact way to achieve high DPS via lances, and this was the result!

Code analysis

That setup wasn't the first one made, but what I think most likely happened is some thought along the lines of 'if bast statue turning on and off is just shifting the block ids, then could you use a cut off bast statue and activate/deactivate it to change the block ids of where the rest of the bast statue would normally be?'. So they used t-edit or something to cheat it in, and saw that it worked. Then they found out a way to get it without cheating by making a desynced block setup(already known), and using it on bast statue in a way that gets a floating bast statue, and then using the pong glitch(the sandstone and sand block thing, previously set up with with two desert fossil and one sandstone) on the bottom left of it to get rid of everything but the head. Then they figured out that doors opening and closing could increment block ids without placing and breaking every time needed. And the torch was to see weather it was on or off without having to save and quit to make it visible. And the shape and where the switch is placed is like that for being easy and convenient.

For the first part, I have no idea how I discovered the Sandstone / sand glitch (aka the "Prong Glitch"). I had extra time during a multiplayer run and... somehow stumbled upon that glitch. (Actually, I have a slight theory, but it's still a miracle I found that shape.) For the second part, there was logic behind it. The Bast Statue is one of about 2-dozen objects in the game suceptible to the first glitch (Prong Glitch), but with some spritesheet analysis I noticed that its sprites are situated such that the "Off" state of the Bast Statue is stored to the right of the "On" state, toggled via wire. Therefore, by using the Prong Glitch to remove the bottom part of the Bast Statue, we could trick the game into moving non-Bast objects to the left and right on their own spritesheets. It was a Eureka moment I am still very proud of to this day.

The slime mount has a similar effect to the portal gun, it makes you accelerate faster and caps at a higher speed, but it's not infinite.

Potion effects seem to have no effect on it, and the slime caps out at 102mph. I do still wonder if there's a way to accelerate _even faster_.

No, they didn't. They required the help of a human because they don't have apposable thumbs & consequently can't hold a lance.

You lose all speed when unequipping the bee

You begin to accelerate downwards, as if the water wasn't there. This was the initial line of inquiry that got me wondering what this glitch could be used for. Since, rather than needing large accelerators, you can gain massive speed while standing still.

There is, though for most people this one is much easier, just with the downside of needing some more materials up-front.

It was actually found that setups of that sort work! ...up to 184,600 MPH. (Might be 186,400, it's in that range). You're going so fast by that point that you launch yourself into the bottom of the world in one gametick, before you have a chance to deal damage. So, need to work around that technical restriction at some point to get damage at higher lance speeds.

Aargh, I'm annoyed at myself that I missed that, given that I do alot with kinematics and therefore work with metric units regularly lol Thanks for pointing it out^^!

@@EthyrielY I didn't get my engineering degree for nothing!

It's still hilarious to me that the _bee mount_, out of every single mount in the game, is the one that allows this glitch to work.