Villager vs Guide Blog

Minecraft vs Terraria

“An Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Intro

Since both of their creations, Minecraft and Terraria have been compared. Two of the biggest icons in sandbox survival gaming to ever grace PC and console screens. Many have wondered which one of their main adventurous silent protagonists would win if they ever met and fought one another. A debate as old as the games themselves. Since it's been so much we’ve decided to look at this comparison under a… slightly different lens. Instead of Minecraft’s Steve and Terraria’s Terrarian duking it out with their tools and weapons we have decided to take a deeper dive into this iconic rivalry by looking into both’s game’s friendly NPC’s.

Villager, The tycoon trading Squidward doppelganger from Minecraft. Robbing you of your hardly earned emeralds since 2011!

“HmmmRMM”

Guide, The mysterious yet helpful mentor from Terraria. The first of the Terrarians' never ending list of NPC friends!

“They say there is a person who will tell you how to survive in this land… oh wait, that's me”

Ok, since this fight is a little abnormal to say the very least. It's important to cover a couple ground rules before we get into this. This fight will be a one on one fight, both will be taken at the absolute peak of their potential abilities. Villager will have access to all different types of jobs and max level trades through the use of job blocks and Guide will use a comp of both the main game and the graphic novel. These both should be theoretically possible anyways, seeing as the Villager can change their profession on a whim giving them access to more of their possible arsenal and the “Order of the Guide” proves that all the Guides are connected and could theoretically have access and perform similar feats as one another. We will not be using Dungeons or Legends for the Villager.

I’m Lucky the Pending (changing this from the future), the host that did the last one. Also I had to change my colour, aw man.

And I’m Mr. Tree, the better host that slapped his name on the last one 😎(I actually worked on this one I swear)

Disclaimer: This is mainly for fun, so things may be wrong, but you know it's about the journey not the destination. (also probably spelling mistakes but like) also Spoilers.

Background

History of Minecraft's first Human NPC!

A long time ago, the overworld would become under attack by beings from the Nether, the Piglins filled with greed looked to take over the overworld and their inhabitants. The villagers were no match for such a threat, as they were mostly a peaceful civilization that lived in harmony with the world around them. But a legend would rise from the ashes of the burning world and stop the invasion with the help of the god-like beings dubbed “The Host” and the mythical creatures called “The Allays”. Though they stopped the invasion, they hardly brought peace to this world. The war taught the overworld mobs how to fight and they now had a thirst for it, the villagers were not safe from this effect either with many disbanding and forming a group called the “The Illagers” that would raid and destroy villages across the world. The villagers needed to be protected, and though they had the equipment they lacked the skills to fight, so they created large Iron Golems to ward off and protect their homes.

It’s been hundreds of years since the original invasion of the overworld, but the Villagers still remain as one of the only human NPC’s within the world of Minecraft. They still try to live peaceful lives within their towns. With all the new “Ancient Builders” they learned the art of trade and used this to expand their wealth and towns to greater heights. They formed a system of jobs to keep the towns running such as farming, clerics, shepherds, and more. But the world was no longer as kind and harmonic as it once was, Iron Golems patrols villages twenty four seven just to protect them from many of the possible threats that concern their safety. And when you load into your world and find a quaint little village, they welcome you with open arms (Metaphorically, usually their arms are closed) and your given the choice to live in peace with them like the builders of ancient times or to cause chaos and destruction to their town like the fallout caused by those same builders.

A Small Guide for Terraria’s Guide!

In the beginning, the gods would create countless amounts of planets, each planet being its own living being filled with its own life and creatures. The gods would ensure that each world would have a balance of every living creature, regardless of how it would be obtained. This would lead to the creation of the Crimson, Corruption, and the Hallow. Eons later, In the blind spot of the universe lies a planet with endless potential. This world being the world of the main protagonist, you, however a being of immeasurable power with no origin to speak of, Cthulhu, would arrive. Cthulhu wanted to cause destruction and rain over all life there, but an ancient race of Dryads soon started to fight against Cthulhu. The Dryads would greatly damage Cthulhu and make him flee to the dark side of the moon, but not without their own losses. All but one would lose their lives in this battle. That sole survivor would go into hiding for many years.

This leads to the current day where a society called “the Order of the Guide” had been formed. They would be responsible for passing down information for generations. A Guide may go by many names Andrew, Levi, Jake, but they all help you with one thing, helping you get accustomed to the world. However, the Guide is far more strange then he seems. The guide is somehow connected to the world itself and no one really knows of the origin of the Guide. You see the Guide is actually a being known as the Wall of Flesh. The Wall of Flesh is the Guardian of the world set in place to protect it. Once the guide is either killed in the underworld or the Guide Voodoo doll thrown in lava in the underworld, it will summon the Wall of flesh. Not only that but not to mention that the guide is the brother to the ninja, great-grandson to the Nymph, and the son of the moon lord !?!?!?!?? This is so wild. But at the end of the day the Guide is just doing his best to help you, the player, and give some helpful advice for your journey to defeat the Moon Lord. All ways there to help, unless you sacrifice him in order to get one step closer to fighting the moon lord.

Weapons and Equipment

Villager

Emeralds

There's nothing these big nosed townsfolk like more than this green colored jewel found deep within the caves of the overworld. Emeralds are mainly used for trading with the player character in return for items and stuff. Most of the Villagers transactions include emeralds, whether it be on the receiving or giving end for some kind of item in return.

Job Blocks

In the Villagers economy, there's many different jobs and careers that they can take on. They can easily transfer and begin new jobs by the use of these job blocks which will allow them to take a job of their (Usually the players) choice instantaneously. This gives them access to new skills and equipment depending on the job and any villager can take on any job at any point regardless of their current position. Here's a list of each block and what job they assign the villagers with.

Blast Furnace (Armorer)
Smoker (Butcher)
Cartography Table (Cartographer)
Brewing Stand (Cleric)
Composter (Farmer)
Barrel (Fisherman)
Fletching Table (Fletcher)
Cauldron (Leather Worker)
Lectern (Librarian)
Stonecutter (Mason)
Loom (Shepard)
Smithing Table (Toolsmith)
Grindstone (Weaponsmith)

Assortment of Blocks

Through their trades, the Villagers have a large assortment of different blocks at their disposal. These can obviously be placed down for usually decoration or defence, but some blocks in the game do have more specific uses. We’ll be listing them here.

Bell: Give it a ring, and it will tell all Villagers around to move to their houses and take cover
Glowstone: A bright block usually found in the Nether that’s very fragile but gives off a light
Campfire: Just as it sounds, allows the user to cook food on top of it
Bookshelf: Reading is for nerds
Lantern: A light source that can be placed on floors and ceilings
Glass: A fragile block that's transparent so you see across it (Like…glass…y’know)
Chiseled Stone Brick: A durable and cool looking block made from stone
Polished Andesite/Granite/Diorite: Durable but ugly blocks
Dripstone Block: Drippy
Terracotta: A purely decorative block that comes in many cool patterns. They all have glazed variants as well
Quartz Pillar: Pillar made out of Quartz, quite durable
Block of Quartz: Block made out of Quartz, quite durable
Wool: A block of sheep wool that can come in many different colors
Carpet: A block of carpet that can come in many different colors
Bed: Villagers sleep in these during night time, it also allows them to regenerate health
Paintings and Item Frames: Decorational “blocks”

Armor

You might be wondering “VILLAGERS HAVE ARMOR”, in which the answer is yes they do. Of Course this is through their trades but surprisingly you can actually get the Villagers to wear armor in the base game (Though it's invisible on them but the effects of enchantments on it and stuff still work).

Leather Armor
Chainmail Armor
Iron Armor
Enchanted Diamond Armor (Enchantment depends)

Swords

The minecraft villagers might not be known for their impeccable skills when it comes to using swords, but they are known for their incredible craftsmanship. They have both an Enchanted Iron and Enchanted Diamond sword (Enchantment depends) which they could theoretically use in a fight.

Axe’s

The Villagers have a couple axe’s which they could theoretically use to fight off foes. Though its most common purpose is its innate ability to chop down trees. They have a basic stone variation, but two superior versions made of iron and diamond which are both enchanted.

Pickaxes

No, there is no such thing as an “Emerald Pickaxe”, but they do have a stone pickaxe which is commonly used to mine through stone and ore. Like the other equipment they also have an enchanted Iron and Diamond one.

Shovels

The Villager can use these shovels to dig graves for all of his enemies. Like usual there's a stone one and then two Enchanted ones which are made of Iron and Diamond. You get the drill.

Hoe’s

As normal, there's a stone version they can use and a Diamond one (Not enchanted this time). It’s used for farming and stuff idk man i’m researching the Minecraft Villagers give me a break.

Shield

Another thing they can sell to you through trades, the Minecraft Villagers can own a shield which is commonly used to deflect melee and ranged attacks.

Bow

When paired with an arrow, a bow can be a dangerous tool to shoot mobs that are far away at a range for solid damage. Though it’s debatable how well they would actually be using it if they tried.

Crossbow

Basically just like the bow but it does act a tad differently as you can only shoot it once it’s fully pulled back but it packs more of a punch and range on average.

Arrow’s and Tipped Arrows

The ammunition for the bow and crossbow, normal arrows pack some solid damage but the tipped arrows have a special property to them that could be more or less useful depending on the arrow which I will list here.

Fire Resistance (Normal and Extended)
Harming (One and Two)
Healing (One and Two)
Invisibility (Normal and Extended)
Leaping (Normal One, Normal Two, Extended One)
Night Vision (Normal and Extended)
Poison (Normal One, Normal Two, Extended One)
Regeneration (Normal One, Normal Two, Extended One)
Slow Falling (Normal and Extended)
Slowness (Normal One, Normal Two, Extended One)
Strength (Normal One, Normal Two, Extended One)
Swiftness (Normal One, Normal Two, Extended One)
Turtle Master (Normal One, Normal Two, Extended One)
Water Breathing (Normal and Extended)
Weakness (Normal and Extended)

Food

Eating food helps the Villagers regenerate, luckily their farmers can produce a lot of different types of food which will be listed here.

Cooked Chicken
Cooked Porkchop
Cooked Cod
Cooked Salmon
Rabbit Stew
Bread
Pumpkin Pie
Apple
Cookie
Cake
Golden Carrot
Glistening Melon Slice

Enderpearl

The Enderpearl is a very helpful tool that causes the user who throws it to teleport to the location of where it lands. Yes Villagers can trade this, and yes the idea of a Villager teleporting like Slenderman is pretty funny.

Suspicious Stew

A mysterious source of food which can inflict the user with a negative or positive side effect which I will list here.

Night Vision
Jump Boost
Weakness
Poison
Blindness
Saturation

Miscellaneous Trading Items

There's many more items they could use from their trades but not all of them are completely that useful in a fight. So I'm gonna list the less useful ones in this section.

Enchanted Fishing Rod: A Fishing Rod which fishes for…fish. The enchantment makes it better than your average wooden rod
Bucket of Cod: Places down a large block of water which has a small little Cod friend inside
Leather Horse Armor: Armor for a horse that's made out of Leather
Saddle: A Saddle for a horse or pig
Enchanted Books: Can be used to enchant things but it needs a enchanting table
Clock: Obviously it tells the time
Compass: Helps the user navigate
Name Tag: Allows user to name things
Brick: Brick
Lapis Lazuli: A component very useful in enchanting
Bottle ‘o Enchanting: Gives users more levels which helps them enchant things
Redstone: Used in redstone contraptions and such
Banner and Banner patterns: Purely decorative things
Maps: Just how it sounds, helps navigation and such

Iron Golem

To protect themselves from the dangers of the overworld nights, the Villagers created a living metal beast known as “The Iron Golem”. It’s incredibly strong, even more so than the player, and is one of the strongest non boss creatures in the entire game. Their arms have very long range and they launch their foes into the air which causes them to take fall damage too. They can take a ton of punishment and can be healed through iron as well though they don’t naturally regenerate. They also really like rose’s.

As the Witch…

Potions

Upon turning into a witch, the Villagers gain access to many different types of drinkable and splashing potions which can be used on themselves or others to induce certain effects. They will be listed down below.

Splash Potion of Weakness
Splash Potion of Slowness
Splash Potion of Harming
Splash Potion of Poison
Potion of Water Breathing
Potion of Fire Resistance
Potion of Healing
Potion of Swiftness

As the Zombie Villager…

Randomly Generated Weapons and Armor

There's no set thing a Zombie Villager can have, but they can randomly have equipment or armor that just spawns on them. They can also pick up any equipment on the floor so they should be able to put on anything that they were using before like their Iron or Diamond Equipment.

Guide

Bow

The guide always comes equipped with a wooden bow to defend himself. Depending on the arrow, his bow can do a good amount of damage to mobs and its range helps him protect his and the other npc’s shelter. The wooden Bow does 4 damage and has 4% critical hit.

Arrows

The ammunition for the Guides bow, in which he has two different types of arrows that he can use. He also seems to have an infinite supply of these arrows so he’ll never run out.

Wooden arrows

Damage 5

Flaming arrows

Damage 7
Gives “On fire” debuff

Green Cap

If a guide has the name Andrew and is murdered. He will drop the Green cap. The Green cap gives 2 defense. It looks like Luigi's hat btw.

Table and chairs

Each Npc has a Table and Chair of some kind in their room. They can sit in the chairs and use the tables… awesome.

Light sources

Each room has a light source of some kind. Usually it is a touch of some kind, however it can be other things such as candles, lamps, campfires, chandeliers, and many other types. However, these hardly add anything other than a light source for the guide to see.

Swords

In the graphic novel the guide has accsense to swords. He is decently skilled with the swords, being able to keep up with Vale, the graphic novels equivalent to the Terrarian. Levi, his name in the novels, has shown to fight things like slimes and zombies, and other greater foes like the Eye of Cthulhu.

Money

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Guide’s books

The Guide has multiple books that hold knowledge of the world of Terraria. Holding information about the blood moon, corruption, crimson, As well as a book that presumably only Guides can read.

Shine Potions

The Guide has shown to have Shine Potions. As the name implies, it makes the one who drinks it begin to glow. This makes it easier to see in the dark and explore caves. In game the Shine potion lasts for 10 minutes.

Rope

Guide has ropes. He can use this to climb and get to places normally out of reach. As well as to get out of places.

Copper Pickaxe

The guide has access to Pickaxes. In game it has a Pickaxe power of 35% and a damage of 4. Which means it can mine things weaker than Meteor.

Bug Net

The Bug net is an item that allows its user to collect critters. This allows him to capture things such as bunnies, birds, worms, frogs, goldfish, penguins, buggies, and many other types of critters.

Wood Armour

The Guide has been shown to wear wood armour. Each piece of wood armour gives about 1 defence, besides the boots. When wearing the full set, it gives a bonus of 1 defence.

Backpack

The guide has a backpack which can be used to store the rest of his equipment.

As the Wall of Flesh…

WoF attack stuff things

The hungry

Mouths attached by a long vein that try to eat the player by stretching and biting, the more damage done to the main body the more resilient and stronger The Hungry gets. At some point, when enough damage is done, they will detach and fly around at its foe.

Leeches

Wall of Flesh shoots out these “Leech’s'' that track down the foes and try to eat them alive. They can be killed but can also be spawned nearly infinitely.

Tendrils

Foes marked with the “Tongue” debuff will be snatched by the tendrils and attempted to drag into the mouth of the Hungry at 56mph.

Skills and Abilities

Villager

Trading

Villagers society is built on trading, and it seems as if they have been doing it for centuries from what we know of the official Minecraft Lore. Villagers are most known for this skill and they use it to mutually benefit themselves and the person they are trading with.

Communication

Villagers are always keeping eachother up to date on the latest breaking news. A lesser known feature within Minecraft is the Villager “Gossip” feature. This feature makes it so the Villagers will talk and discuss amongst themselves which will alter their trades depending on how the player has treated them.

Construction

Though we rarely see them actually doing much of anything, they have displayed the ability to construct whole villages and towns full of farming plots, houses, and churches out of a variety of different blocks.

Farming

One of the jobs a Villager can obtain is that of a Farmer which causes their whole job to be about… well farming! And they're pretty good at it, so good that players commonly steal all of the Villagers' crops while dashing through the town.

Blacksmithing

Villagers may be a peaceful collective but that has hardly stopped them from crafting some of the overworlds most dangerous weapons. Weaponsmith and Toolsmith have a record of creating Swords and Axes out of Iron and Diamonds to sell to eager customers on a daily.

Fishing

There's a fisherman job, fisherman fish, not terribly complicated.

Magic Knowledge

Villagers, after their decades of living in the overworld, have successfully been able to learn and cultivate magic in certain ways. The Librarian has access to many Enchanting Books, Villagers can trade bottles of pure experience points, and many of their tools come infused with enchantments that they trade to the player. Also they are able to bring blocks of metal to life with a pumpkin somehow.

Animal Herding (And a degree of Animal Companionship)

Villagers have cultivated many different types of livestock in their towns like cows and sheep which help feed and provide resources for them. They have also shown some degree of companionship with these animals, in the animated shorts there's Villagers with Pandas and Foxes, along with dancing along with other animals. Plus, cats usually patrol the villages keeping away Creepers.

Extreme Temperature Resistance

Villagers have been able to start civilizations in both the wretched deserts and unexplored tundras with seemingly little difficulty as they are able to cultivate all the same amenities as their less extreme counterparts and are unaffected by the temperature differences, even upon relocation.

Regeneration

After ten seconds of taking damage, a Villager will begin to regenerate their health back to full. Also in Minecraft, when a hunger bar is full you begin to slowly regenerate health so they could accomplish this with their food items.

Transformation

Any given Villager can transform into a hostile enemy during two specific events. If struck by lightning, a Villager will transform into a Witch and will gain the benefits of the Witch. If their health drops to zero upon getting attacked by a zombie, there's a chance they will turn into a Zombie Villager.