Talk:Starter Guide/@comment-68.67.209.179-20130415142134

1. Get Wood, stone, dirt. 2. Make basic wood house. 3. Find nearest natural cave and mine the heck out of it. 4. Make copper armor and iron tools. 5. Expand housing to 6 buildings/apartments using wood and crafted stone bricks/walls. 6. Continue caving until you get some silver and gold ore, bombs and cash out of pots. 7. Make silver armor and gold tools. 8. Once 4 NPCs move in, buy a ton of Shuriken and Healing potions and kill the Eye of Cthulu. 9. Craft a Demon Axe. 10. Farm Skeletons underground until you get a Hook. 11. Make a Grappling Hook. 12. Buy some Cleansing Powder from the Dryad, then find some Corruption. 13. Smash Shadow Orbs at the bottom of the Chasms. Use the Powder on the Ebonstone blocking your way to the Orbs so you can mine it out of your way. 14. Defeat the Eater of Worlds, and wait for a Meteroite to fall. 15. Craft a Demonite Pickaxe. 16. Find the Meteor and use Dynamite to quickly snarf up the Ore and get the Meteor Heads to go away. 17. Repeat steps 13, 14, and 16 until you have a full set of Demonite tools/weapons and Meteorite Armor. 18. Find the Dungeon and kill Skeletron, with your gear and enough potions it shouldn't be too bad 19. Explore the entire Dungeon for books, candles, lamps, spikes, and all the rare Treasure Chest loot. 20. Make some Meteor Shot and go find the Floating Islands. Loot the heck out of them. 21. Take all the uber gear you've aquired and dig a long vertical shaft down to hell. Bring about a million healing potions. On the way down, combine water and lava wherever possible to get as much Obsidian as is feasible. 22. Use your Demon Pickaxe and Hamaxe to dig up at least 250 Hellstone. Steal at least 1 Hellforge with your Hamaxe while you're here. 23. Craft the Molten Armor set and tools. 24. Find the Underground Jungle and hunt for Cobalt Gear and the Golden Shrines for the last of the game's phat lewt. 25. Sandbox time! Make Gold and Silver palaces, expand your home into a fortress, flood Hell with the Oceans at the ends of the world, build a tower up to the edges of the sky, or make a floating castle by terraforming a floating island!

NOTE: This progression path will prep you for WoF and Hard Mode to follow