Terraria players looking to get about the indie game's map quickly and safely will usually turn to a set of wings or one of the numerous flying Terraria mounts. Normally the options to for Terraria flight pre-hardmode are extremely limited, but one player stumbled into a fun way to traverse the world without the need for any specific equipment.
Almost every instance of Terraria wings and flight-capable mounts are restricted to the survival game's 'hardmode' state. This requires you to progress far enough and then defeat one of the key Terraria bosses to change the world state into its second, tougher form. While players can use rocket boots from the goblin tinkerer for a brief burst of airtime pre-hardmode, one particularly resourceful person found a more novel alternative.
Reddit user CautiousIce5411 shared a clip (credited to a friend) in which the player character is busily building out a platform network (commonly used to make boss encounters easier) when they are approached by a balloon slime. As the slime bumps into the player, the slight knockback sends them on a perfect trajectory to bounce repeatedly off the slime's... back (do slimes have backs?), causing it to juggle them gently through the air.
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