How to build long horizontal blocks in Terraria on XBox?

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Some constructions in Terraria, for example SkyBridge, require the construction of long horizontal blocks.

I only played the game on XBox and presume that building such blocks on a PC might be easier using mouse to position your pointer, but on XBox this is almost undoable: once I have some blocks aligned horizontally and my hero is standing on them, it requires a delicate balance between hero going further towards the brink and cursor in the opposite direction so that the blinking building block (marking the position where a new block is going to be put) is at the right place.

Even after some practice it takes me about a minute to build only 5 blocks (!). Taking into account the size of the Terraria world, this makes the task of Skybridge construction on console almost impossible.

Is it so by design or am I missing something here?






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How do you turn on the smart cursor in Terraria Xbox?

PC version of Terraria now supports 'auto' mode. If you hit 'ctrl', you can tab to this mode, which will auto select blocks to remove. So, for example, if you wish to dig a tunnel, you only need to hold the mouse button and the 'wasd' key down - no need to swipe back and forth with your mouse!

How do you auto select blocks in Terraria?

By default, Auto Select is activated by pressing Shift on PC, R3 on PS3/PS4, or pressing down the right thumbstick on Xbox 360/Xbox 1.

How do you change Auto Select in Terraria?

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