Good, up-to-date, pre-Hardmode checklist/guide?

[NorionV]

As the topic says, I'd like to find a fairly up-to-date 'document' that just briefly outlines all the important things to do before entering Hardmode.

I've tried Googling this topic, but it's difficult to know which lists/guides are out of date, and which are current-ish without prior knowledge.

Thank you!

[jedimd]

https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Pre-Hardmode

[NorionV]

Originally posted by jedimd:

https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Pre-Hardmode

This game's wiki was always amazing. I'm just surprised Google didn't pull that up for me.

Thank you!

[jedimd]

np want to play?

[NorionV]

Originally posted by jedimd:

https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Pre-Hardmode

You know, I looked it over, this doesn't seem to be what I was looking for.

For example, I know one thing you (used?) to have to do was dig out a tunnel surrounding your NPC town to prevent the two new biomes from overtaking your area.

But that doesn't appear to be on anything linked to from that page.

[jedimd]

https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Pre-Hardmode
https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Weapons
https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Guide:Class_setups

[murderless]

expert:
1. explore and maximize def

2a. break 1-2 corrupted spheres
3a. wait meteorite
4a. get bombs and break meteorite
5a. craft meteor armor and meteor gun

2b. find rubies, plat/gold, craft crown
3b. get 20+ gel and craft slime king spawner
4b. get 50-100 grenades, make platform at ~30 height and kill slimeking safely(rope also works)
5b. get hook, mount and nijia armor if you don't have meteor yet

6. explore jungle, find hearts, fastrunning shoes and other accessories and weapons (shotgun is good)
7. build platform and kill eye using flat platform and running shoes
8. learn to use shield from eye (bash! extra def!)
9. [optional] build queen arena, summon queen several times and kill it to get beenades and other usefull beeweapons
10. [optional] build skeletron arena, kill skeletron
10a. [desirable] find cobalt shield

11. get to the hell
12. craft 1-2 antilava potions
13. mine hellstone for pickaxe, armor and summoning item
14. build arena for wall of flesh (using slimeexpert thingy helps a lot!)
15. kill wof

16. [optional] have 1 plat, kill queen and set witchdoctor to jungle home to get cute wings fast and easily after getting to hardmode

[Child in Africa]

Sounds like you are looking for a "complete list of beginner tips" rather than "important things to do". Such a list cannot exist because it would be endless. And digging a hole to prevent biomes from taking over is not that important to do.
I find saying "don't fix what's not broken" well suited for terraria. Don't worry too much. Game is not hard and it's never too late to try again when you fail.

[willy willington]

all you really need is at least 300 max life and some coins to buy a shotgun or something and you're fine.

[NorionV]

Originally posted by Child in Africa:

Sounds like you are looking for a "complete list of beginner tips" rather than "important things to do". Such a list cannot exist because it would be endless. And digging a hole to prevent biomes from taking over is not that important to do.
I find saying "don't fix what's not broken" well suited for terraria. Don't worry too much. Game is not hard and it's never too late to try again when you fail.

Hmm, no, I'm not looking for beginner tips. I just wanted a brief overview of some things that should be done before entering Hardmode.

Like one thing I always liked to do before entering HM was make sure I have Frostspark Boots, Lava Waders, Obsidian Shield, Lucky Horseshoe, and a good hook. Makes it a lot easier to move around and fight freely in just about any kind of terrain. Also, having an alchemy garden can be helpful, and digging a trench to prevent evil from getting to your NPCs IS kind of important, or they'll all move away. (From what I remember.)

For interest, this pretty much does everything I needed, though... just in more words than I needed:

https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Guide:Walkthrough

Not much changed, anyways, so it ended up being unnecessary anyways. I figured I hadn't played in like a really long time, so maybe a lot changed, but nah.

[Child in Africa]

Originally posted by Raddok:

Hmm, no, I'm not looking for beginner tips. I just wanted a brief overview of some things that should be done before entering Hardmode.

Which is entirely subjective. If you can beat wof, you are ready for hardmode.
I've done 2 playthroughs eversince moonlord and never needed to dig a hole. Corruption is far from spawn and all you need for clentaminator is a mechanical boss.

[Delthea]

Things I do in my HC runs

-Slime king > Slime hook
-Meteor > Space set
-EoC
-Garden
-EoW/BoC
-Hellstone with lava/miner potions
-Start jungle biome strip
-Heart searching with spelunker potions
-Fight queenbee on jungle biome strip
-Skeletron
-Shield/shadowkey
-Hellwing bow
-*If goblin hasn't spawned by this point, force an invasion, find tinker, reforge accessories
-WoF

[NorionV]

Originally posted by Child in Africa:

Originally posted by Raddok:

Hmm, no, I'm not looking for beginner tips. I just wanted a brief overview of some things that should be done before entering Hardmode.

Which is entirely subjective. If you can beat wof, you are ready for hardmode.
I've done 2 playthroughs eversince moonlord and never needed to dig a hole. Corruption is far from spawn and all you need for clentaminator is a mechanical boss.

Well, subjectively, a lot of people feel the need / like to do these things. I am one of them.

I'm not really sure what you're arguing here, lol. You obviously never intended to provide the assistance I was politely asking for, so maybe go debate in the appropriate threads?

[Ikagura]

Personally I always rush to beat the Eater of Worlds as soon as possible, set up an arena with platforms and wood blocks, the best thing about this boss is that it loots each time you break a part, it's also the only pre-hardmode boss to drop shadow scale (which are usefull to make more demonite stuff).

Getting the meteor armor as early as possible is good as well (get bombs or simply make the demonite pickaxe to mine the meteorite, be carefull of the meteor heads), I absolutely love the infinite laser gun ammo thanks to the armor set bonus (it's easy to beat the skeletron with this)

[NorionV]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Personally I always rush to beat the Eater of Worlds as soon as possible, set up an arena with platforms and wood blocks, the best thing about this boss is that it loots each time you break a part, it's also the only pre-hardmode boss to drop shadow scale (which are usefull to make more demonite stuff).

Getting the meteor armor as early as possible is good as well (get bombs or simply make the demonite pickaxe to mine the meteorite, be carefull of the meteor heads), I absolutely love the infinite laser gun ammo thanks to the armor set bonus (it's easy to beat the skeletron with this)

Meteor takes me all the way to WoF, because Space Gun is love, Space Gun is life.

I'll often skip the bosses, and just dirt-cheese my way to some orbs, bomb them to drop meteors, and then make the set.

>Everything else here<

Right before killing WoF, I'll finally move up to Molten armor, and varying weapons depending on my mood at the time. But I tend toward stuff like Waterbolt, Bee weapons, and Sun Fury. I'll also grab Night's Edge most games.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Raddok:

Meteor takes me all the way to WoF, because Space Gun is love, Space Gun is life.

I'll often skip the bosses, and just dirt-cheese my way to some orbs, bomb them to drop meteors, and then make the set.

>Everything else here<

Right before killing WoF, I'll finally move up to Molten armor, and varying weapons depending on my mood at the time. But I tend toward stuff like Waterbolt, Bee weapons, and Sun Fury. I'll also grab Night's Edge most games.

Speedrunning the first part of the game isn't that hard when you know what to do