Talk:Dungeon/@comment-99.174.195.10-20120919150435/@comment-4674838-20120919165613

I think all you really need is better armor. Full set of Shadow Armor or (if you've been to the underworld already) Molten Armor should give you more defense. In my play style, I usually do the following before even killing Skeletron:
 * 1) Set up a greenhouse near my main base to grow plants for potions
 * 2) Make a bucket
 * 3) Dig hellevator, when get to the underworld, grab some lava in the bucket + make a Fireblossom plants bloom and grab their seeds.
 * 4) Go back home, add fireblossom to my greenhouse
 * 5) Wait, after all ingredients ready, make a dozen Obsidian Skin Potions
 * 6) Go back to underworld, use potions for lava immunity and mine 1000 or 2000 hellstone under lava (safest) by using Obsidian Skin Potions
 * 7) Make Molten Armor + weapons
 * 8) Now both Dungeon and Underworld are a cakewalk.