User blog comment:Theironclad/Reflecting on Losing a Character/@comment-5327869-20131002034859/@comment-5327869-20131005003850

If you play in a pre 1.2 world, you wont get the new 1.2 content. So, you must mean you made a new 1.2 world then went hardmode and then went into the jungle.

I agree, my wording was off.

If you start a new character, you will experience much more than if you continued your 1.1 character. Hence, if you continue your old character your 1.2 experience will be worse than mine.