User blog comment:Latias1290/(Poll) How fast have you ever made progress?/@comment-24006028-20140226100408

Having played about 1600 hours I have done about 5 new playthroughs, a couple due to crashing computers and corrupt backups but alltogether I think it is a fun way to spend my time. The thing that held me back from having really fast playthroughs is probably that some items may take a couple of new worlds to actually spawn. My second or third playthrough must have been the fastest, since back then there wasn't that much added to the game. The last playthrough I did was with 1.2 and that is also my current character. That took quite a while, especially since just before I got to the hardmode dungeon it was patched to require me to defeat Planterra. Also I tried and as far as I know succeeded in aquiring all the new items from pre-hardmode(bundle of balloons took me a long time).