To those wondering what's at the bottom of a planet...

The screen stops scrolling down when you get to the point i was at.

 

I like the idea of the flesh blocks for the core. As you drill/pick through the flesh, the planet should occasionally shake in pain. When you get to the core, there should be some sort of boss.

 

Bout a half an hour down at the bottom...i put my initials and year in the lava...sooo bored!

 

With blood for water and fat blocks along with it? Some cell like enemies to simulate an immune system.

 

It would be really cool if, in tentacle planets, tentacles split out of the ground through giant shafts, and you could actually battle them (they'd have a crap ton of health, and would try to smash you or pick you up and throw you). The lava core would spawn higher up (although, the shafts the tentacles make would go through the lava, sealed off on either side with dirt), and if you got past the lava you'd find the core, with an enormous tentacle octopus/squid behemoth alien monster boss.

 

Possibly the tentacle comet? Hmm, that would be an interesting way to implement that boss.

 

Nah, maybe the comet is how the infection got to the planet in the first place. But this thing should be enormous, like, a superpowered one of these would be the Human's endgame boss.

 

I'm pretty sure that the tentacle comet (or maybe multiple) were the monsters that destroyed Earth. Also, a wall of flesh-like tentacle boss would be horrifying.

 

A wall of flesh-like tentacle boss would be... Terraria?

 

Well, in the WIP intro cinematic, it says 'Something rose in the darkness' and then it shows giant tentacles smashing out of the ground from the core of the planet and destroying everything. Here's my take on it:

1. Tentacle Comet smashed into Earth, nobody notices anything strange.
2. Over the course of a few years, the tentacle monster burrows into the core of the planet, and then grows AROUND the core.
3. Several more years pass, the monster becomes enormous, and smashes its tentacles out of the crust, each one hyper intelligent, absolutely eradicating all civilization, and corrupting the environment.
4. See Chapter 7 of your USCM Field Handbook 'How to survive a Tentacle Planet'

 

The Wall of Flesh was the final normal-mode boss of Terraria, and beating unlocked hard mode. It was a wall that took up the entire screen and killed you if you left the underground area it was in. It scrolled from one edge of the screen to the other, making it sort of a timed fight. In my opinion, it was fun.

 

Yeah, was a lot of fun. That is what I thought u were referring to initially.

Still, even if there was no "core boss" of a planet, I still like the idea of the ground shaking all around while you drill thru the flesh blocks.

 

"The cave is collapsing!"
"This is no cave"
"What?!"

 

That's the first thing I thought of concerning the flesh blocks. But, adding a giant worm-like behemoth to the game... I'll settle for bug fixes for the time being.

 

Not the suggestion forum but I think something else should be at the centre of the planet because the core of a planet is solid or at least semi-solid

 

and for kilometers upon kilometers above that, it is liquid.

the magma we reach drilling straight down? that's not the core, that's the mantel.

 

I went mining all the way to the bottom last night. I hit a cold biome near the bottom and eventually hit the lava lake. Eventually, the screen stopped scrolling and I knew i had hit bottom. I tried mining the last two blocks and the game insta-killed me when I did that. I need to go back this weekend and see if the tiles I tried mining are still there or if I managed to remove them before the game insta-killed me

 

Weird, you only found a little stone room with a water cooler? =P

I found a Mystic Circle and also a small village with a sun...

 

Nice. Also, that requires a huge amount of dirt and other resources to fill stuff up.

 

I usually get by with about 200, if you mine it as you go. Make very, very sure to place a "hard" exterior for floors and walls, anything that takes more than 3 "hits" to break. That way, there's less accidental leakage, because that's just bad news.

Also, try to NOT remove lava with dirt blocks in places that you don't plan on building. The background changes when you do that, I think it removes the "veins" and stuff, and changes it to a generic, flat background. It's pretty boring. You can see it just above my Mystic Circle in the first link, it's different from the rest of the lava background (solid orange, vs orange with a darker background).