Guide:Hardcore master mode for the worthy

Hardcore x Master Mode x For the worthy is a hard yet fun challenge to attempt.

The Start
the player starts off with nothing but a Copper Shortsword, a Copper Axe, and a Copper Pickaxe. the first thing you should start by doing is getting enough wood to build your first basic house. Stay well away from any slimes as they can and will kill you very quickly. once you have completed your first basic house upgrade your sword to a wooden sword craft and equip wooden armour however do not trash your copper shortsword if you have a Tin world as you need it to craft the Zenith, for the rest of the day chop trees and replant acorns. when nightime hits in your house dig a 2 tile wide hole going down and start mining make platforms 5 tiles vertically away from each other so you can easily go up and down, as hard as it is stay away from mines and keep your tunnels well lit up and keep mining until day. for more npcs, it does not need to be fancy it just needs to be a wooden box with a chair, work bench, torch, and door. afterwards work on making a hellevator but do not go down into cavern/underworld near levels as all enemies can kill the player in one hit. look for Iron or Lead as then you can make better armor, take all Life crystals if found but only use one as using more can allow Blood Moon, Eye of Cthulhu, etc to spawn. once you have 120 health the nurse npc can spawn, as i have said before the house does not matter but put the nurse in the best Biome, and near the best npcs so you do not have to use a lot of money the reason is because the player will be using the nurse a lot, and the player will not have that money to use for nurse.

Exploration
the first thing you should be doing is going underground looking for Underground Cabins and the cabins can sometimes contain Magic Mirrors or Hermes Boots, the magic mirror will be definitely useful for getting out of situations. once you find a magic mirror then you should get out of the cave via magic mirror. once done with the caves for a little bit go out to explore your world, just whatever the player does do not go into crimson/corruption or jungle as those biomes will kill the player really fast. once you have scoped out your world a bit you should go mining some more, as you can find platinum or gold. you should mainly get gold or platinum using spelunker potions or spelunker glowsticks if you found the skeleton merchant only try to find gold or platinum for armor only. you should be focusing on the armor not the tools or weapons. you should worry about getting as much defense as possible.

King Slime [[File:King Slime.gif]]
This one is gonna be very tough and very hard but worth the time because king slime is a lot bigger than normal it would be best to keep your a reasonable distance, not too much, and not too little. The arena recommendation is three straight lines of platforms stretching 200-400 blocks wide. The weapon recommendation is to use the platinum bow or gold bow with Frostburn Arrows for ranger, enchanted boomerang or other ranged melee weapons that are not spears for melee, gem staves if you are mage, and for Summoner, I recommend that you use either the Finch Staff, Slime Staff, or Flinx Staff for the minions, and the leather whip for, well, the whip of course. Armor recommendation is platinum or gold Armor. Accessory recommendations are: Hermes boots, Anglet, and any damage boosting accessories that you can find. Once you have gotten the weapons, use the [[slime crown and start running. Always keep an eye on him, and try to get in as many hits as you can! Just never stop running. Once you have killed King Slime, make sure to get rid of the slimes and go pick up your Treasure Bag. Now with your new royal gel, you can now safely go to the underground jungle, whereas the spiked slimes will not kill you.

goblin army
after the king slime you should have 300-400 max health and some pretty decent gear. the first step is going to the edge of the world and hunting goblin scouts until you have at least 10 tattered cloth, after heading back to base or using a magic mirror/ recall potion craft a goblin battle standard with the 10 tattered cloth and 5 of any wood at a loom (do not use the battle standard yet). next is to make a pit 5 tiles deep and 27 tiles long (put it near world spawn/ near your base) then put 3 buckets of lava into the bottom, next tunnel a 3 tile high area under the lava leaving only a 1 tile thick line between your head and the lava. next blocking up all entrances to you base and npc houses is the best idea then your ready to use the battle standard witch summons the army, after the army has been summoned stand in the tunnel under the lava and block up the entrance if built correctly the goblins should just fall in the lava and die and you should be able to pick up drops such as coins from under the lava, you can run back and forth to doge magic blasts shot from the goblin sorcerers. after 120 goblins have been killed exit the tunnel and finish off the remaining enemies and put blocks across the pit as to safely walk over it (it is best to wire this up to a lever with actuators for later use to toggle the pit on and off) do net get rid of this trap setup as it is surprisingly effective for for other events like blood moon, pirate invasion, frost legion, and solar eclipse. after defeating the goblin army search the underground and cavern area for the goblin tinkerer, when found and spoken to buy the rocket boots and tinkerer's workshop then head home. make sure to have an empty or new npc house for the goblin tinkerer to move into. once home place the tinkerer's workshop and use it to craft spectre boots out of the newly bought rocket boots and Hermes boots (providing you have found and located them), then if able to craft the lightning boots out of the anklet of the wind, aglet and spectre boots you should do it as they provide a massive speed boost and even better when equipped with wings.

Eye of Cthulhu [[File:Eye of Cthulhu phases.gif]]
So, once you have killed King Slime you have hopefully obtained the mount and the hook, the Royal Gel is a 100% from the treasure bag; so now there's no need worry about the slimes anymore. Now, use all the life crystals you have obtained, then get a lot of platforms and make 5-6 straight lines short enough for you to jump from each platform yet tall enough to dodge the attacks. Make sure it is around 200-400 platforms in length. You should be using the same weapons as before. Once you get the Eye of Cthulhu into its third form, watch out for the dash attacks as it can kill you extremely fast if you lack an average amount of health and defence. Just keep running and dodging the attacks. Also be sure to keep attacking no matter what! Once you have defeated it, it will drop Demonite Ore, Crimtane Ore, and the Shield of Cthulhu. With the newly obtained Shield of Cthulhu, you can now dodge attacks from enemies, and deal damage if you dodge towards them!

Material gathering and or Farm creating
At a few points in your playthrough you will encounter A item you want or you require money. And well there is mainly only one way to get it, farming. so this is where the lava trap you used for the goblin army comes in useful, once a blood moon happens for if you are above ground you just sit there and wait. now it depends on what item you want. If the item is dropped by enemies from the granite cave or marble cave enemies then set up the same type of farm there. same thing applies to any enemy in any biome. just set up a farm and then go afk. Now for another type of farm. Once you have gotten some gems it would be advised to go underground clear out an area around 400 tiles in length and around 13 tiles tall. fill the entire floor with stone then plant some gem corns (crafted with 1 of any gem and an acorn) space each gem sapling 3 tiles apart just like normal trees and then wait for them to grow (it is advised to afk at the lava pit farms while they grow). once the gem corns have grown full length go underground and harvest them, once you have harvested them add new gem corns (what you should do is focus on diamond and ruby gem corns as they sell for the highest price thus bringing in more money) and then go to the desert and get sand. make glass with the glass and gems and then make stained glass and sell it.

upgrades
so now now you have a steady stream of money coming in you should get your tools an upgrade. so start off by turning all of that demonite/crimtane ore that you got from the eye of Cthulhu into bars and craft 2 things the axe and fishing rod out of there respected materials. as for weapons craft either lights bane/blood butcherer (swords) or malaise/artery (yoyos) or maybe even both if you want to, another option is to head into the jungle and collect jungle spores and stingers to craft a thorn chakram and amazon as for ranger stick with the bows crafted from demonite/crimtane bars and well get onto mage soon, but with summoner you cant change much quite yet. next is to use all of that cash to reforge your weapon to legendary (melee), unreal (ranger) and mythical (mage), then reforge all accessories until you have warding on each one for a huge boost of defence now you have more defence make sure you have full platinum armour. now for the mage upgrades you want to go into the corruption/crimson then go into the chasms/heart and find and break 2 shadow orbs/crimson hearts (DO NOT BREAK 3 YET AS IT WILL SUMMON THE EATER OF WORLDS/ BRAIN OF CTHULHU) now that you have crafted the pickaxe you can mine the stone that was previously unbreakable and was blocking your access to the orbs/hearts, after breaking 2 a meteorite will land so search for it and mine as much as possible do not however stand on it as it will kill you and watch out for meteor heads. after collecting a good amount head home and craft full meteor Armor and a space gun (while its a gun it is a magic weapon and dose magic damaged) the set bonus for the armour means the gun takes no mana to use then get the mythical modifier on it. after doing all that you will be a pretty strong mage.