Terraria

Terraria

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12 Apr, 2021 @ 9:55pm
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Hook Power

Description
Ever wanted to have more info about your Hooks without having to decipher the wiki's page on hooks? Hook Power seeks to help with this problem by changing the names of Hooks to be more descriptive, and adding a percentage that represents the hook's stats to make cross-comparing easier.

The names of multi-hooks now reflect how many hooks a given multi-hook has, for example, Ivy Whip is now 'Ivy Tri-Whip'. Lunar Hook is now 'Lunar Quad-Hook', Fish Hook is now 'Fish Bi-Hook', etc.
There are some exceptions to this however, Namely the Dual Hook and Skeletron Hand. Dual Hook's name already implies how many hooks it has, so I just added a hyphen for consistency. And Skeletron Hand just didn't sound right to me as 'Skeletron Bi-Hand', so instead I renamed it to 'Skeletron's Hands' instead, as the Skeletron boss has two hands.

Also noteworthy are the Anti-Gravity Hook, and the Static Hook. For some reason, they don't have tooltips that communicate that they work differently to regular hooks? So I renamed them to 'Anti-Gravity Trirepulse-Hook', and 'Static Bichrono-Hook' to better communicate that these hooks work differently. I'm not 100% happy with this solution, but without the lack of custom tooltips for them, I think it will do. (might update this pack later if I come up with a different solution, idk)

Next to the hook's name is now a hook power percentage. This number reflects a given hook's distance and speed that it can reach.
For those who are curious, The formula I used to come up with the hook power % is 4(hook reach+hook velocity-13.5)
(Numbers gotten from https://terraria.gamepedia.com/wiki/Hooks, because I wasn't able to do the tests myself this time)

Now, I'm sure a common question will be "Why don't you just put the data in the tooltip instead of in the name?".
The answer is because due to the way that translation packs work, You can only edit the tooltips of items that already have custom tooltips. And for some reason the majority of hooks don't have them. So no custom tooltips for hooks, sadly.

The other version of this pack that simplifies the names of the hooks
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2460482378

Also check out my other quality of life tooltip packs!
Wing Power: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2442301720
Wing Power [More Advanced Tooltips]: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2447824845
10 Comments
ColorBlast9000 7 Jun, 2023 @ 2:38pm 
Not works.
Aethis 20 Feb, 2022 @ 8:30am 
anti grav fav hook, can be used to cheese wyverns, do parkour, swing, laugh in planteras face (one platform and circled it, funniest thing if u can pull it off)
Terraman 21 Jul, 2021 @ 2:40am 
put range in description
Stardust 10 Jun, 2021 @ 6:56pm 
Quality content right here!
Pipster 25 Apr, 2021 @ 4:26pm 
Very helpful
KoiPond777 21 Apr, 2021 @ 7:04pm 
Yo, I saw the Wing Power pack, and I thought that was the only one!
Just as useful!
10/10
Celator 17 Apr, 2021 @ 6:46pm 
Thank you so much! Tbh I was wanting to include stats for grappling hooks in my pack too, but ran into the same problem you did where you can't add tooltips to items that don't already have them. Your solution - editing names instead of tooltips - is an interesting one that I never thought of before, and I might borrow it if I can think of a way to use it without breaking too much from Terraria's style. Likely for something other than grappling hooks, though.
lord_css  [author] 17 Apr, 2021 @ 4:58pm 
@CellarDwellar Oops! I totally forgot to turn off texture packs before taking the screenshots! Thanks for pointing it out! The screenshots are fixed now.
Your Better Tooltips pack is really good! You elegantly conveyed information I didn't even think was missing before. It was also really interesting to see another take on communicating wing data.

I think your idea for a version of this pack with less cluttered hook names is a good idea, and that's actually a very easy change to make, so I went ahead and did it
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2460482378
Celator 17 Apr, 2021 @ 7:08am 
Just thought you should know that it looks like you're using my tooltip pack in your screenshots, lol. I don't mind but some people might be confused why the tooltip is different.

As for the resource pack itself, it's a very cool and clever idea. However, can we get a version that leaves the hooks' names as is and only adds the hook power? So just "Static Hook (160% hook power)" and so on.
碳酸严 16 Apr, 2021 @ 10:55pm 
YOU ACTUALLY DID THIS!!!:steamhappy::steamhappy::steamhappy: