Terraria Basics

Warning:
This guide is no longer actual and is not going to be updated in forseeable future. I wrote this guide few years ago when i played Terraria all the time... other than lack of some content, i made quite a few grammar mistakes and just rereading this now makes me laugh at those typos :D Anyway, if you can look over those typos, guide still provides quite useful information about everything with lack of some mechanics that were added in latest updates, especially the progression part and 'Tips & Tricks'. To get more actual information about game i recommend to look for another guide. Thanks for understanding and enjoy Terraria !

Version 1.2.4.1 :)
Are you new player to Terraria? You have no idea what to do? In this guide you will learn basics, how to prepare for first night, how to survive first night, what to do next, what to do in late game. Also a lot of info about biomes ores and other details. This guide can help you with whole playthrough. Its my first guide, and im not really good in english, so i hope you will like this guide :)

What is Terraria

Terraria is adventure, rpg, action game. In this game you can show your creativity, fight deadly enemies, bosses, discover biomes, or other objects ingame like floating islands, dungeon, but mostlly you are looking for treasures underground and geting material for better weapons and stuff.

Creating character and world

When running terraria for first time, first you should make your character. You can customize any part of it - Name, skin color, hair type and color, clothes color... And then "difficulty level" with 3 options:

Softcore - Death means you drop half of your money and then respawn
Mediumcore - Death means you drop all your items and money and then respawn
Hardcore - Death means game over - no respawn, character gets deleted

For first game i recommend to use softcore. (I use softcore most of time)
After finishing customization of your character, its time to make world. Think up nice name of world and create world. After short time world is ready, so select your character and world and the game begins.

Inventory Menu

With esc key you can access your inventory ,fast crafting, equipment and other options.
Upper 10 slots is quick select slots, under those its inventory with 50 slots, and four extra slots for money. Inventory cannot be extended!
Lower Left corner is crafting. Unless you do not stand near crafting table, you can craft only easy craftable materials like torches or crafting table (if you have material). After crafting and placing crafting table you can access more crafting options.
Upper right corner - you can see your health and mana. You can extend those by breaking heart crystal or collecting stars at night.
On right side is minimap. Use tab to minimap options: Hide minimap, Show minimap or Show map on whole screen. You can switch between also in inventory menu, if you dont ilke TAB button
Under minimap is your equipment: Helmet, shirt, pants gives you armor or other improvements (but you have to put it in "equip" slot, social slot is just your character visible clothes with no effect).
Dye Slot - Another slot is where can you change color of your visible clothes. To do so, you need to get material dyes are made from and buy dye vat from dye trader.
Accessories slots are 5. Accessories gives you special abilities. Most of those you can find in chests in your world or you can craft some. Near last accessories slot is your total armor.
Above equipments there are some other options: Shields with 5 colors - for multiplayer. Friends you play with can select any party color and "join party", then you can see where your friends in same party are located. Swords mean PvP - Player Versus Player Two crossed swords means allowed, so other players can hurt you. House option is housing options.Each house have to be suitable, here you can make sure, if your house is suitable and then in this menu you can set home for NPCs,


Thats inventory menu, time to play :)

First Day

First day is about preparing for night. Lets make few steps for this day:
1. Scanning Envinorment
2. Getting Material
3. Crafting
4. Building house

1. Scanning Envinorment
First time playing, you should see grass, some trees, sun, guide guy. Guide Guy is free NPC. He teels you how to survive, when talking to him, or another option, select crafting - show him any material and he tells you what you can craft with this material and what do you need to craft that - very useful.
You start with pickaxe, axe and shortsword. Use pickaxe for any ground blocks and objects, axe for trees, shortsword for enemies. First enemies you should see soon are slimes. Careful for enemies, they are damaging you and they can knockback you down from hill that results in loosing lot of health or dying and loosing money.


2. Getting Material
After scanning envinorment, get your axe and start with getting wood from trees. Be patient, you have weak copper axe and it takes some time to cut tree... so just keep your mouse pressed on tree until it changes to wood, and collect it. While getting wood, kill some slimes to get gel. With gel you can make torchers - main light source. With pickaxe find and get stone. Try to avoid going deep inside caves because you dont have light source and no material to get out from that cave. Look for ropes, those can help you.

3. Crafting
With some wood, you can go to inventory menu and make crafting table. Put it on ground and stand near it to access better crafting options. Now you should be able to make table, chair or wooden walls. Also you can make better wooden sword. Wooden tools are enough to build some house but better material means faster and better tools.

4. Building house
Use wood to make square. It should be big enough, at least 8 blocks wide and 4 blocks tall. One room should be enough to make valid house. After building square, craft doors and make 3 blocks tall place in that square so you can put doors. (Use pickaxe to get placed wood or doors back to inventory) After placing doors, on crafting table make wooden walls, get inside the square and place walls - fill whole square. Make torches and put those on side walls to get light source. Then make table and chair, place in house and you have your first house. Valid house must be filled with walls, should have light source, have door and at least one table and one chair inside. You can check it in housing menu and set house for your guide guy.

Use hammer to break background walls or change blocks to halfblock or other variants.

First Night

Night is pretty hard in beggining of game, so you should stay inside at night until you get better weapons. Enemies of night are zombies and flying eyes. Zombies will probably come near your house and will "knock" at doors. They wont open doors, dont worry. You can try to kill single zombie if appears but stay near your house. Killing zombies can give you money and sometimes rare equipment. For eyes you can craft bow and wooden arrows.If you are not yet interested in kiling night monsters, you can talk with guide or making underground cave under your house. Be careful to not let your guide guy fall :P
End of night means zombies and eyes leaving house area and disapearing. Also your NPCs starts moving near their houses.

World Content: Biomes

This section is about world, about ores, biomes and other content of your world.
In your world, you can find lot of biomes.

Biomes:

Forest Biome - Here you start game, where your houses should be placed. Safest biome.
Corruption Biome - Harder advenced biome, with purple grass and lot of deep holes and stone that cannot be mined with bad pickaxes (called ebonstone) and lot of other content. Also danger enemies, much harder than zombies, so keep distance if you dont have good weapons. You can have corruption OR crimson generated in your world, never both.
Crimson Biome - Harder advanced biome, alternative version of corruption. Its background and blocks are mostly red and have harder enemies than zombies... Visit it only if you have good weapons and armor. You can have corruption OR crimson generated in your world, never both.
Desert - Lot of sand, not much enemies, but sand is important to make glass
Snow Biome - Its snow there ("oh really?"). Use snow to get snowballs or snow/ice blocks. Snow underground have some unique treasures.
Jungle - Advanced hard biome with hard enemies, lot of water, more trees, underground lot of treasures. I do not reccomend going underground without at least gold equipment.
Meteor Biome - Biome that appears after meteor fall in world. Random surface place in world gets meteor ore and changes to meteor biome until you remove most of meteor ore on that place
Ocean - Located in right and left side of world where your world ends. Looks like desert except you find here very deep water.
Floating Island Biome - Biome with tough flying enemies, located on very high level.
Space (almost) - Highest biome you can get in, with lower gravity and flying creatures.
Underground - Undeground starts when walls in backgroud are not just brown wall, but brown wall with stones. Then youll find other enemies and more other content. Undergroud is biggest biome in world, where youll spend most of time by discovering and mining ores.
Glowing mushroom biome - Can be randomly found underground.
Underworld - Or hell, is located under underground. Means tough enemies, and lava everywhere. Get best weapons you can for this biome!
Dungeon - Very hard biome, you can access after killing one of bosses - skeletron. But like everybody did once, you can try to access it without killing him ;) This biome means chests with best weapons in easymode and lot of traps. Be fast, but careful.
Jungle Underground (Hardmode) - Original jungle after defeating wall of flesh with new, extremely deadly new enemies and new great things to get. One of the hardest biomes in terraria
Jungle Dungeon - Hardmode dungeon unlockable after defeating jungle boss. Prepare your best weapons before you enter.
Bee Hive - Thats rare biome, i did not found that yet...
The Hallow - Biome appears after killing key boss - wall of flesh. Hallow will fight corruption and its up to you if you want to keep your world hallowed or corrupted, because both will start to spread after getting to hardmode.

There are also other biomes: Hallowed/Corrupted/Crimsoned Desert, Hallowed/Corrupted/Crimsoned Underground

World Content: Ores and other blocks

Ores:
Copper/Tin - Easiest to find, mostly underground but its easily foundable also on surface.
Iron/Lead - Easy to find underground
Silver/Tungsten - Harder to find in underground, rarely on surface
Gold/Platinum - More rare in underground, very rarely on surface, look for those in deeper underground
Demonite - Very rare underground in just few pieces, less rare in corruption, can obtained by killing bosses eye of cthulu or eater of worlds. To mine it, you need at least gold pickaxe
Meteorite - Can be found after meteor fall. Careful, its hot ore!
Hellstone - Found in underworld. Also very hot, and when mining, lava comes from it, so be extremely careful. Can be mined with at least nightmare pickaxe or better.
Cobalt/Palladium - Can be found underground after breaking at least one demon altar.
Mythril/Orichalcum - Can be found underground after breaking at least two demon altars.
Adamantite/Titanium - Can be found underground after breaking at least three demon altars. Rare, best place to look for it is near underworld.
Hallowed ore - Dropped by hardmode bosses
Chlorophyte - Found in hardmode jungle, you need 200% pickaxe power to mine it
Shroomite - Made from Chlorophyte and glowing mushrooms using autohammer.

Ores need to be crafted into bars first, to make tools!

Other Important blocks:
Blocks like dirt and mud... find out what to do with those - guide will help you :)
Obsidian - Can be created when lava and water touches. Crafting requires better pickaxe. Obsidian can be used to make equipments or hellstone bars.
Ectoplasm - Dropped by monsters in dungeon after defeating plantera. Used to make most powerfull weapon.
Soul of ??? - There are 6 types of souls, S.o.Night are dropped in crimson/corruption underground, S.o.Light in hallowed underground, S.o.Flight is drop from wyvern, and other souls are dropped from hardmode bosses: Twins, Destroyer and Skeletron Prime

World Content: NPCs

NPCs are Non-Player Characters. For your world they are its visitors. They live in house you make. One you start with is guide. Getting NPC to your world gives you some advantages. Each NPC have some conditions to move in. When NPC dies, it respawn in few days with new name. NPC will only move in, if you have valid non-occupied house. NPCs:

Guide - That guy you start game with. He give you hints and tells you what you can craft
Merchant - He sell some random stuff, you can also sell your stuff to him. To spawn him you need 50 silver coins
Travelling Merchant - This NPC wont move in, just visit your town randomly for few minutes selling random goods.
Angler - Get this NPC by finding him somewhere on surface and talking to him. He will give you quests that have something to do with fishing.
Dye trader - Sells dye and dye vat. To get him move in, you need to get any material dye is made from.
Nurse - Heals for money. To spawn you need to find and activate at least one heart crystal
Painter - He sells paint tools and paint colors to make your houses look better
Arms Dealer - Sells weapons and ammo. To spawn him you need to find gun.
Demolitionist - Sells explosives like grenades, bombs. To spawn him you need to find something explosive
Dryad - Sell random stuff and can tell you % of hallow and corruption in your world. To spawn her, you need to beat at least one boss.
Clothier - Sell clothes, for social slot. To spawn him, you need to kill skeletron boss.
Goblin Tinkerer - Can be found undergroud after defeating goblin army. Sell usefull accessories and stuff, and can upgrade your weapons. (very expensive)
Party Girl - Well looks like you need to have like 8 NPC to get her appear. She sells random party stuff.
Mechanic - Sells electronical tools and wires. Can be found in dungeon.
Stylist - Can change your hair style or sell hair-related items. Can be found in spider cave.
Wizard - Sells magic weapons and stuff. Found underground after beating wall of flesh.
Steampunker - Sells some "gadgets" like teleporter. Get him by killing hardmode boss.
Pirate - Sells pirate stuff. Defeat pirate army to get him
Witch Doctor - Defeat Queen bee to get him. Make him house in jungle biome to make him sell more stuff.
Truffle - You need to make mushroom house in mushroom biome on surface to get him to move in
Cyborg - Appears after defeating plantera. Sells some futuristic stuff.

Special NPCs:
Santa Claus - Find out what he sell :P Can be spawned only during christmas event after defeating frost legion. He will die after christmas event.
Old Man - Is actually Clothier, but he stand near dungeon... As Old Man he cannot move in!

World Content: Crafting Stations

There are a lot of crafting places to craft something in terraria. This section tells you how to get them and what are they for.

Crafting Bench - Basic crafting station for early-late crafting things. Craftable anytime from wood.
Furnace - Station to craft bars from not-hardmode ores, except hellstone. To craft it, use torches and stone. Hellstone furnace have to be taken from underworld (hell), its used to craft hellstone. Addamantite/Titanium furnace is used for making last-game bars in hardmode, its made of addamantite/titanium ore.
Anvil - Early-late crafting station for crafting weapons and armor. Available to craft near crafting bench for few iron/lead bars. In hardmode you need to craft mythil orichalcum anvil to craft more advanced weapons and armor. Craft with mythil or orichalcum bars near crafting bench
Alchemy Station - Crafting station for potions. Simply put empty bottle on table or crafting bench to make it alchemy station.
SawMill - Used for crafting advanced wood furniture. Craft it near crafting bench with wood and few chains.
Cooking pot - Used to make meals that have possitive effect to your stats. To craft it use iron bars and wood near anvil. Same function have Cauldron which can be purchased by witch doctor during halloween.
Loom - Station to craft silk and silk-related items. Requires only wood to craft it near sawmill.
Keg - Turns mugs into ale. Craft from wood near sawmill.
Demon Alter - Used to craft item that summon bosses and to craft Nights Edge weapon. Demon Alter cannot be crafted.
Dye Vat - Used to craft dyes. Cannot be crafted, have to be purchased by Dye Trader.
Tinkerer's Workshop - Used to combine accessories to one item. Have to be purchased by goblin tinkerer.
Imbuing Station - Used to craft flanks. Purchase by Witch Doctor
Autohammer - Use it to make shroomite bars from chlorophyte bars and glowing mushrooms. Cannot be crafted, have to be purchased from truffle after defeating plantera.
Extractinator - Used to change slush or silk to random ores. Cannot be crafted, can be rarely found in chests.
Meat Grinder - Used to craft flesh blocks from crimstone. Its rare drop from hardmode crimson creatures
Specific material station - These stations are used to craft furniture and other stuff from specific material. These are: Bone Welder - Bones, Flesh Cloning Vat - Flesh blocks, Glass Klin - Glass, Honey Dispenzer - Honey blocks, Ice machine - Ice blocks Lihzahrd Furnace - Lihzahrd bricks, Living Loom - Wood, Sky Mill - Sunplate Blocks, Steampunk Boiler - Cogs. These stations can be found in chests in biome, where those blocks appear, and/or can be purchased by NPCs, some NPCs have to live in specific biome to sell some station.
Heavy Work Bench - Use Stone Slab, Sandstone Slab, Copper Plating, and Tin Plating.Use wood and iron/lead blocks to craft it.

World Content: Bosses

Also some bosses are in this game to beat. Beating them will mostly give you powerfull things. Fight against them can be long with bad weapons and death in single player means he defeated you and you have to fight him again. Every boss have conditions to spawn.

Eye of Cthulu - Remember those flying night eyes? Well this is their mother - big eye. First but not easiest boss, you will probably fight. Best way to defeat him is to buy shurikens and kill him with that. Have to be defeated until end of night, or he will fly away. He will spawn at random night when at least on player reach 200 health total. (not sure) Or can be spawned with Suspicious looking eye but only at night! Defeating him will give you demonite.
Eater of Worlds - Long deadly "snake". When you "kill" part of its body, he becomes two shorter eaters... Can be spawned by destroying three shadow orbs or with worm food, but only in corruption.
Brain of Cthulu - Can be spawned by destroying three pulsating hearts, but only in crimson. Its harder boss than Eater of worlds. Kill its creepers first, to be able to damage him.
Skeletron - Skeleton appears after asking old man near dungeon, only at night. His head and hands are his weapons, so good way to defeat him is to destroy his hands first, then less dangerous head. Get better weapons for this one. Defeating him will give you access to dungeon.
King Slime - Very Rare boss, thats very hard to spawn. Its slime but extremely big, but its easiest boss in game. He spawns if you are very far from your spawn point on surface (near ocean). Chance of any slime becoming king slime is less than 1%
Queen Bee - You can find him in bee hive biome. Killing him gives you some rare stuff.
Wall Of Flesh Boss can be spawned in underworld by throwing guide doll to lava. This big wall will move to one direction shooting lasers. If you leave underworld during fight, youll die. So you kill it or you die. Defeating him will give you hardmode weapons and your world turns into hardmode.
The Twins - This time its two eyes, except they are electronical danger monsters. Killing them will require heavy armor and powerfull range weapons. Killing him will give you material to make best weapons in game
Destroyer - Another snake, but this time much longer, and "uncutable" also can even easily get to space biome. Killing him will give you material to make best weapons in game.
Skeletron Prime - Extreme version of skeletron, now with 4 hands.Killing him will give you material to make best weapons in game.
Plantera - Jungle hardmode boss... To summon him, you need to find and destroy plant bulb, that will summon him, IF you already killed at least one hardmode boss. Almost hardest boss in the game.
Golem - Jungle Dungeon boss.
Duke Fishron - This is the hardest boss in the game... Its a some kind of fish-bird-bat thing...
Event Bosses - Those are bosses that spawn during different events. Each have unique great drops

World Content: Special Events

During game there is chance of getting special event, that can make your game more interesting and give you rare weapons.

Meteor Event - Meteor fall can happen at any night rarely, but theres higher chance of falling meteor at nigh after destroying shadow orb. Meteor can fall anywhere on world, so you have to find it first. When meteor fall, short message appears on screen.
Eye of Cthulu Event - After getting 200 health total, theres chance every night of eye of cthulu attack. If it happens, short scary message appears on screen. Then you have maybe 1-2 minutes to get ready for attack.
Blood Moon - Have chance of happening after getting your character better (dont really know when this event unlocks, maybe after defeating eye of cthulu). Random night short message appears "blood moon is rising..." this message means you have to barricade yourself at home or fight horde. Sky turns red and much much more zombies will now spawn with also some new enemies. During blood moon, zombies can open doors. Its great time for them to kill you and your NPCs.
Goblin Army - When event is coming, soon after night, early morning message will appera few times "goblin army is apporaching from east/west". You have few minutes to prepare for horde of goblins attacking you. You cant barricade and hide, because there will be also wizard goblins that can attack through walls. Because they can easily kill your NPCs and destroy your houses, its better to fight them somewhere else that near your houses. Also its great event to get lot of money and rare items.
Frost Legion - Only at christmas event. Its like goblin army, except snowmans are attacking. ;)
Only in Hardmode...
Hardmode - Your world is Easymode until you defeat wall of flesh, then your world turns into hardmode - much harder version of terraria, that is assigned for multiplayer but whatever, i play it in singleplayer too :D
Pirate Army - Similar to goblin army. To sumoon them find and use pirate map. Hardmode event.
Solar Eclipse - Almost "scary" event, that may happen during day. Similar to blood moon. Hardmode event.
Pumpkin Moon - End-game hardmode event that will test your skills big time... nearly impossible to beat solo, but with possible rare items. This event uses wave system. To summon this event, you need to make pumpkin medalion using 30 pumpkins, 5 ectoplasm and 10 hallowed bars.
Frost Moon - End-game hardmode event that will, again, test your skills big time... nearly impossible to beat solo, but with possible rare items. This event uses wave system. To summon this event, use naughty prsenet made of 20 silk, 5 ectoplasm and 5 souls of fright.

Wave system events - These events will spawn 15 waves of enemies. Each wave there are more and harder enemiest, in later waves there will be multiple bosses to fight (3 in each event)

Hardmode

This section is about hardmode, how to surive and when to fight bosses.

To unlock Hardmode, you have to defeat Wall of Flesh. Defeating him means youre skilled enough to start real survival. Before you fight wall of flesh (when you actually want to defeat him), you should have:

- At least 10 houses for NPCs - village / hotel / ??? (16-18 optional)
- 300+ health (15+ hearts)
- Ranged / magic weapons and enough ammo (400+ bullets or 150+ mana)
- Armor for your characters class (as gun guy with minishark - Necro armor, ... ) or molten armor (or combination)
- Molten pickaxe (to mine new ores)
- 20+ defence, you can have less, but be careful
- Potions - Defence potion, attackers also takes damage potion, arrow damage (if you use bow), and anything that can help you. Dont forget to make bowl of soup and water-walking potion (works for lava)
- Speedpath in hell - most important. You need to protect yourself from falling to lava. If you feel skilled enough, you can use gravity potion
- Dont forget to have guide alive before wasting his doll.
- If you have magic mirror, Place it in 0 slot and lock hotbar. You dont want to accidentaly teleport back to your base ;)


HARDMODE:

Step 1 - Accessing new ores
Well first thing to do is to go to corruption/crimson and destroy as many altars, as you can find (except one) so you get as many hardmode ores in your map as you can. Underground Corruption/Crimson is very hard for early hardmode, so try to do it as fast as possible. Try to avoid jungle, corruption/crimson, hallow underground for now. You can go to hell again and fight WoF again to get more hardmode drops from him.

Step 2 - Getting new ores
Then go to your underground you used the most in your world - look for ores. Enemies are now tough, be patient and kill them slow and carefully. You can now mine only one new ore with your molten pickaxe. First get cobalt/palladium pickaxe or drill, so you can mine other ores. Then try to get better armor from new ores.

Step 3 - Underground Hallow - Corruption/Crimson
These biomes now start spreading and will probably soon spread through your village. Dont allow your village to be corrupted - Try to hallow it. Find hallow biome and go check its underground - get crystals and other material you ll find there. Kill enemies underground, so they can drop souls, that are important for better weapons. Dont enter underground jungle (unless ur skilled enough :P)

Step 4 - Hardmode bosses
Before fighting hardmode bosses, you should have at least 50 or 60 but try to get as much defence as you can. Before fight you can try to go to underground jungle to get new ore or to try to get more max health. You should have good ranged / magic weapon and also good melee weapon. Easiest hardmode boss is destroyer. I wont write how to kill him, im sure there are lot of guides on how to fight hardmode bosses :)

Step 5 - Underground Jungle
To fight jungle boss... get best weapons you get in hardmode. If you can defeat him, you should get a key to jungle underground. Theres another boss to fight and probably some best possible weapons.

Step 6 - Dungeon
Nearly hardest part of game... hardmode dungeon. Enemies there have lot of health and big defence and... deadly weapons. From my experience... its like hardmode extreme - very hard even with best armor and weapons. But you can find there best possible weapons equipment or material to craft best possible magic armor.

Step 7 - Fish Boss
You have to use bug net to catch something in glowing mushroom biome and fish with it in ocean. That will spawn end-game boss that will test your skills

Step 8 - Events
There are still few events that you can summon. These events also have end-game bosses. More information in special events section.

Step 9 - The End
Well you can consider this as game end. But you can still do lot of other things:
--> Get even more - The idea of having best possible armor and weapon... or unlocking all secret chests in dungeon... Challenging but can give you more hours spent in your world.
--> Challenges - Think about trying to do something "crazy" like fighting more bosses at once.
--> Build awesomeness - If you saved stone or any material you can make bricks from, you should now have enough to build something great. Castle, new village, anything.
--> New World - You can make new world and play with your character. You can do speedrun or you can make new character and try to focus on another class, like wizard.
--> Go Online - There are lot of servers you can join in, where you can show/trade your stuff and help others
--> No Softcore - Make new character and instead of softcore try mediumcore or if you feel skilled enough, play hardcore.

Tips and Hints

This is fast guide what to do, if you dont know how to get progress:

1. First day, First Night
2. Get more houses for more NPCs. Yea hint: Make chest just for money, put your money to that chest, so when you die, you wont loose much money and you can buy great stuff from NPCs.
3. Mine! Go underground and look for ores. Only with ores you can get better and unlock more options of playing, and also look for chest and heart crystals.
4. Try other biomes - Get dynamite and go to corruption destroy some shadow orbs, and you get gun. Only if you know, what is in there, you can prepare for that :)
5. Fight Eye of Cthulu and Eater of Worlds. Ask guide what to do with things you found and keep building houses, you can use your creativity and build anything, if you dont want to fight now.
6. Get meteor, get better armor, get some nice ranged and melee weapons, then try jungle underground, where you can find materials to make even better weapons.
7. Fight Skeletron and discover Dungeon.
8. Go to underworld, try to mine hellstone, get hellstone weapons, armor if you want, then try to fight wall of flesh.
9. After getting to hardmode, look for other ores, get some nice weapons and fight hardmode bosses, help hallow spreading or stop spreading corruption. You can do anything now :P



Hints:
- Grapling hook is useful and easy to get... you just need to get hook by killing skeletons or piranhas underground and few iron chains.
- Do you need money? Sell material bars, those can give you lot of money.
- Hard to fight bosses? Make potions. Ironskin potion give you 8 defense is very useful. Against skeletron and hardmode bosses use gravity potions, or make bowl of soup, thats very useful
- Look for magic mirror, it will teleport you to your spawn point from anywhere.
- Dont go away from your houses with 10 gold coins. Put coins to chest so you wont loose much when dying :)
- If you find chest and collect stuff from it, take also chest. Make special storage house with all chests and choose one chest for ores, other for weapons... So you can later easily find what you need
- Found dead end in cave and nowhere to go but home? Throw bomb. Explosion will light up whats under it for a short time, possibly revealing another cave or ores

Thanks for reading

This is my first guide, and my english is not really good so i hope you had no problem reading this. If so, tell me what is wrong, typos, wrong info, please. If you have any other questions, you can ask me. Thanks for 5000+ visitors and more than 140+ ratings of my guide. :)

[Azzy Dreemurr]

Hotel? Jarago

[Thewychip5]

Thanks for the help great guide :)

[Pineapple Pentagon]

Awesome :)
man

[VEE ☆]

I haven't started playing yet, but I feel so much more prepared for when I do. Thank you. (:

[cheesebUrger]

Actually, I think the forest biome is a crimson biome during a blood moon, since Today I had my first blood moon, and during it, the water in the forest biome was red.

[Conn]

thx im new to it and have learned a lot from this gide

[DragonMan315]

how to you get into start or options?

[Ripraptor]

The blood moon happens when you get 1 crystal heart. You'll most likely already have the blood happen before you fight EoC

[Sir Ilie Dumitrescu]

Very usefull

[Replicant_Owl]

Thank you !