User blog comment:Kayla Kerr/i always get totaled!/@comment-14160011-20130803083800/@comment-14160011-20130803084013

Also make sure you have molten pickaxe before you enable hardmode. Also you should quarantine the curruptions in your world. So either make hellevators at the edges of each corruption, or just dig a nice tunnel around it (takes a bit more time, but doesn't allow it to spread)