How to get Nightmare Pickaxe

[Flashbang Mike]

Ok, I MUST be missing something here!

So I need demonite bars, no problem I summoned the eye multiple times. But now I need SHADOW SCALE.
The wiki says this is a drop from the EATER OF WORLDS.
To summon that dude I need WORM FOOD.
To get worm food I need VILE POWDER, ROTTON CHUNKS and a DEMON ALTER.
The VILE can apparently be purchased, and CHUNKS should drop, although I killed over 100 EATERS and don't recall it doing so.

But... the ALTER needs to be found in courruption??? But the whole point is I can't navigate around there because everything is walled off and I don't have the NIGTHMARE PICKAXE!!!!!

Is this a case of "there is a hole in my bucket dear liza...." because its begining to wear me down after about 10 hours of trying to find these materials.

Am I missing a much easier way to do this or what?

HELP ME!

(thanks)

[Darkind]

To craft the picaxe you need demonite and shadow scales, you can break the orbs and stuff with the bombs

[X13warzone]

引用自 Awlume：

引用自 Brain：

skeletron is the second easyest boss of all

idk about second easiest. i find golem, king slime, eater, brain, destroyer, and cultist all easier than skeletron since with him you actually have to dodge. but yeah he is still pretty easy

I would say for king slime you do still have to dodge; he can do quite alot of damage to early players or even when you think you are ready.

[Flashbang Mike]

Lads! I did it!!! I defeated EATER OF WORLDS and got the pickaxe!! He almost got my tail once but I was too agile and dodged him. I know you are all proud of me!

Now, in the unlikely event there are other noobs on this forum here is how I did it:

1. I accidentally triggered the BEE-MONSTER and died like 5x to it but it dropped me a BEE-gun. Sweet.
2. I bought that purification powder and cleared a big area and put up platforms to jump on.
3. I smashed his orbs until he got super pi**ed with me and attacked.
4. I spammed the BEES. I guess those throwing star things would have worked too, or a big sword.
5. He got rekt, and I crafted the PICKAXE from his ghastly remains. Epic!

I did try the bomb suggestion but they bounced and never really landed where I wanted, and always left one annoying piece of ebenstone so gave up on that.

I love you all, peace.

EDIT:
I forgot, I also drank the potion that reduces incoming damage by 8, I forget what it is called. I had about 380 hearts by this time so he would have had to hit me a lot to win. Lets face it, he was doomed from the start, guy should have stayed down.

[aqmlyn]

引用自 X13warzone：

引用自 Awlume：

idk about second easiest. i find golem, king slime, eater, brain, destroyer, and cultist all easier than skeletron since with him you actually have to dodge. but yeah he is still pretty easy

I would say for king slime you do still have to dodge; he can do quite alot of damage to early players or even when you think you are ready.

you don't even have to move for king slime. just sit on a piece of rope like 35 blocks off the ground and he'll never jump high enough to hit you or teleport to you

[Big]

Do you know how to get hellstone?

If not, I’d highly recommend making a obsidian skin potion, mining potion and getting a high speed modifier for the pickaxe, namely light, legendary, nimble or any prefix with +x% speed

300-350 hellstone and 100 obsidian makes about 100 hellstone bars, which is enough for the armor, the pickaxe (which is required for hard mode), and anything really.

[IblisFlare]

EDIT:
I forgot, I also drank the potion that reduces incoming damage by 8, I forget what it is called. [/quote]
That would be the ironskin potion, which increases your defense by 8. Defense is not a 1-1 ration on amount you have to damage reduced, however. On normal mode, 2 defense poionts = one point of damage reduced[Attack -(defense*.5) is the formula the game uses. On Expert mode it changes to Attack-(defense*.75)]

[Flashbang Mike]

引用自 Bigesj：

Do you know how to get hellstone?

If not, I’d highly recommend making a obsidian skin potion, mining potion and getting a high speed modifier for the pickaxe, namely light, legendary, nimble or any prefix with +x% speed

300-350 hellstone and 100 obsidian makes about 100 hellstone bars, which is enough for the armor, the pickaxe (which is required for hard mode), and anything really.

I just mined down to hell and its super scary bro. But thanks for the advice, I'll go back and hussle those wimpy flying demon things for some of their hellstone. Obsidian is from water hitting lava right? Can I mine that with the new Nightmare Pickaxe? I'll go try.

引用自 NightGamer196：

EDIT:
That would be the ironskin potion, which increases your defense by 8. Defense is not a 1-1 ration on amount you have to damage reduced, however. On normal mode, 2 defense poionts = one point of damage reduced[Attack -(defense*.5) is the formula the game uses. On Expert mode it changes to Attack-(defense*.75)]

Cheers for the clarification. I think it was worth drinking it, though maybe I could have saved for a more dangerous fight.

[IblisFlare]

引用自 Atomic Katta：

Cheers for the clarification. I think it was worth drinking it, though maybe I could have saved for a more dangerous fight.

I'd say every bit helps. And Ironskin potions are easy enough to get.

[PhantomDgen]

引用自 Awlume：

引用自 Brain：

skeletron is the second easyest boss of all

idk about second easiest. i find golem, king slime, eater, brain, destroyer, and cultist all easier than skeletron since with him you actually have to dodge. but yeah he is still pretty easy

Golem? you have to have much better dodging to survive that pile of rocks than on skeletron. also, then what is the easiest boss of all?

like skeletron got 2 hands boi and a head, golem shoots lazerz, punch you with 2 arms, and tries to squash you like a bug, also flying head to dodge from

[Big]

yeah, you need 1 obsidan and 3 hellstone per 1 hellstone bar, you need about 80 of them so id grab 300 hellstone and 100 obsidian (easy to mine hellstone with 1 obsidian skin potion

[aqmlyn]

引用自 {S.S.E.} EriHero：

引用自 Awlume：

idk about second easiest. i find golem, king slime, eater, brain, destroyer, and cultist all easier than skeletron since with him you actually have to dodge. but yeah he is still pretty easy

Golem? you have to have much better dodging to survive that pile of rocks than on skeletron. also, then what is the easiest boss of all?

like skeletron got 2 hands boi and a head, golem shoots lazerz, punch you with 2 arms, and tries to squash you like a bug, also flying head to dodge from

king slime is easiest of all. just climb a rope with literally any ranged weapon in the entire game and you win.

also i forgot skelly doesnt shoot the homing skulls on normal, i had a much harder time with those than anything golem threw at me