Board Thread:Game Help/@comment-30637377-20161129221122

I've been starting to play, and I hate things that threaten to eat game maps, so when I found some Corruption, I determined to dig around it. Well, I got down one side and I think I'm now starting to mine beneath it, but I keep getting killed.

A green slime with spikes is there, and some wasps. I keep dying because I didn't know the antidote. Well, I looked up protection and the Ankh, but it required the Tinkerers workbengh, which can only be purchased from an NPC that is only spawned after the defeat of teh Goblin hoard or something... and then I sighed and realised I'd hit a brick wall... or rather, a solid wall because I can't even mine the corrupted stone (using a tungsten pick)

So... I really want to neutralise the corruption, but can't survive the poison. Not sure whether it's coming from the green horny slime, or the wasps. Any advice please?

Part of me really doesn't want to spend oodles of time playing if some unseen force can just kill the map even though I'm on an easy, small map for my first game. 