This Is How I Finally Defeated Terraria Hardcore

I am a 10-year Terraria veteran so I've been playing the game for almost as long as it has existed I've seen update after update improving and changing the game I remember the first time the ayak Cthulhu ever spawned in my world when I discovered the existence of hard mode when the Excalibur was the best weapon you'd get your hands on I've played through so many versions on every available difficulty however I never played hardcore I may have tried once or twice but I could never get even close to fighting King Slime and ever since I started a Terraria YouTube channel I started calling myself a pro a veteran but could I really give myself those titles if I had never defeated Terraria in hardcore I didn't think so I decided I was finally going to do it I was going to win oh no cause three stars at one point I think that's the least though oh no no no things didn't go quite as planned after six tries I had gotten to Skeletron once and every other time I couldn't even get to King's slime and if I couldn't even get that far what was the point of trying I was only on my seventh attempt but Terraria was such a long game was it really worth all the effort even if I managed to get to Hard Mode wouldn't I immediately just die I thought to myself I'd give it one more try but that was it if I failed this time I couldn't call myself a pro anymore and I would hardly be able to consider myself a veteran but could I really win after so many terrible failures I didn't think so but I wanted to give it my best try the only question is how far could I go I loaded up my world and got to work of course I chopped down some trees but a living tree was just next door there was no Finch staffed unfortunately but I did get a spear Boomerang and Wanda sparking along with plenty of getting started supplies a great find to jump start my journey but I hadn't been on the world any longer than a few minutes one of my favorite things to do when getting started is collect some Cactus the swing radius of the cactus Sword and the Thorns set bonus at the cactus armor are invaluable early game but I already had some good weapons so instead of making a sword I made a cactus pickaxe for the first time in my life and getting the legendary buff on it was very helpful with it in hand I made a simple shelter so I'd have a place to return to and hopefully get a few NPCs before nightfall with the shelter built I went left and went down the cave that was there I found some climbing Claws and an early house with a golden chest gave me a magic mirror but the mirror isn't the best in hardcore and I'd rather stick with using recall potions I thought it would be helpful to use when I was in any danger so I could save recall potions for the times that I was I explored and mined some more until I came to a glowing mushroom biome I felt as though there were traps nearby just on pure Instinct so I clicked on a pressure plate I had Acquired and used it to reveal traps along my path including this trap chest which had gravitation potions in it I couldn't get very far without jellyfish trying to kill me in the mushroom biome so I went to the surface I had enough iron now to make a full set of iron armor so I did that and then made a rather high risk High reward decision I use the gravitation potion to search the skies an early horseshoe or Star Fury would be incredible but I was also not prepared to deal with harpies so I went into the skies hoping that none of them would spawn I managed to search most of the Skies without any problems and found a balloon and Horseshoe for my trouble I even used the umbrella to get just a little more distance off the gravitation potions clutching that last Island put me far enough on the right side of the world that decided to press on towards the ocean which led me to this game-changing discovery enchanted sword very nice an enchanted sword this early in the Run changed everything with it in hand I also checked the ocean for water walking boots and found one just before I drowned feeling pretty confident with the enchanted sword I decided to destroy a shadow orb for a musket figuring those two weapons would allow me to defeat the Goblin Army if they invaded perhaps more importantly I discovered a desert temple buried in the desert on the left side of the world inside it I got the Pharaoh vanity set which you might think is bad but with 1.4.4 I could Shimmer both parts of the vanity set and get the Magic Carpet and Sandstorm in a bottle the Pharaoh vanity set was the best find I could have asked for I just had to find the Shimmer so I went farther left and found the jungle now I knew the Shimmer was on the left side of the world normally I wouldn't even try to survive the jungle this early but I was confident with the weapons I had ever since 1.4.4 released I've had a pretty easy time with finding the Shimmer so I felt out the location and started digging down I got distracted by a few things along the way and started to feel I had dug too far so I started heading to the right A bit down a cave believing that the Shimmer should be on the other side but along the way I came the closest to death I had come thus far you may have a hard time seeing it but I had landed only a few blocks away from an explosive trap the same trap that had ended my first hardcore run prematurely it was too close for comfort and I couldn't help but feel I would inevitably fall for one of these traps eventually but I tried to push that out of my mind and found the Shimmer a short distance away which allowed me to get the Magic Carpet and Sandstorm in a bottle while I was there the Goblin Army approached so with enormous breath I returned home for the first major fight of the run but now that I had an insane amount of movement accessories and two strong range weapons I was able to easily defeat them but now that they were defeated I went back underground to find the goblin tinkerer as well as mine for more gold to get gold armor gold proved to be strangely elusive but I did find the tinkerer for the tinker's workshop I was able to equip the yellow Horseshoe in a balloon cloud in a bottle Specter boots and Magic Carpet I felt so confident with my movement capabilities that I decided to kill the king's slime without even building an arena as you'd expect it was a pretty easy fight King Slime down I went to mine more gold but struggled to find any so I decided to use my favorite potion the random teleportation potion where I ended up made me both incredibly happy and Incredibly stressed I was teleported into the lava layer of the Jungle and desert biomes I wasn't sure how well I would do in the underground jungle and going there early had ended hardcore runs before but I had good weapons and decided I wanted to get the anklet a wind as well as enough material to get the blade of grass one of my favorite melee weapons since the 1.4.4 update so I carefully moved around the jungle and though I didn't find the inkla to win I was able to craft the blade of grass and got almost enough gold to get a full set of armor so with a little more searching I found enough gold to get a full set but before I could craft it I felt an evil presence watching me I felt that I was strong enough to take on the eye without building an arena and even if I couldn't craft the final piece of my gold armor in time I still felt good about the fight however I should mention one rule I made for myself before starting this challenge one way that some players will avoid dying is by pausing and quitting the game doing this would automatically despawn the boss and prevent you from dying the rule that I made for myself was that I could not use the strategy unless a boss spawned on their own if I summoned the boss intentionally then I would have to fight it to the end but if a boss spawned like the eye was about to then I could save and quit and spare myself to fight altogether but if I decided to challenge the eye and start a fight then I would be locked in with that in the back of my mind I decided to take on the challenge as I expected the eye was no match for me you may know that I am over Geared for this fight I shouldn't have had any worries at all but when you're playing hardcore you never feel like you have enough gear but the eye was down and I was feeling optimistic about the seed I had been given the next time I loaded the world I decided the first thing I needed to do was kill the King Slime until I got a slimy saddle since I didn't get one after the first victory one King Slime later and I had the slimy saddle not only is it a great Mount but it's a core part of my strategy when fighting the Eater of Worlds and speaking of the Eater of Worlds I went to the corruption to build a quick Arena and take them on my slimy saddle strategy is typically pretty effective but it has one primary flaw if the worm pins me to the ceiling it can be hard to escape without taking massive amounts of damage and although this didn't happen I still fell lower on health than I liked but not low enough to fear death three bosses down and I was just as far as my best hardcore run if we went by Bosses alone I was feeling good and now that I had a nightmare Pickaxe I finally started to mine my elevator so I could get some hellstone after that I mined a meteor that had landed in the jungle though I could use full hellstone armor I thought it'd be better to use the meteor armor for Skeletron so I could keep my distance I also kept the shadow armor for its extra speed and acceleration it was now time to take on Skeletron and get the farthest I had ever been in hardcore Terraria I had never reached this point before and I was feeling incredibly nervous Skeletron felt like the kind of Boss where it was pretty easy so long as you got in a good Rhythm but if you were off your game then he would murder you instantly but this was Hardcore I couldn't have a bad day heart pumping I spoke to the old man and clicked on curse I had never gotten this far before was Skeletron defeated I almost felt lost I'd played the game so many times but now that I was here in hardcore I felt unsure about next steps all I knew to do was to raid the dungeon and after getting everything I wanted I called it a day next time I hopped onto the hardcore world I went straight to making a bridge for the wall of fresh fight I know of the water walking strategy but I thought that a bridge would be much safer I also found an anklet a wind after a quick jungle visit now I had lightning boots I considered getting Terror spark boots but I thought it would take too long I'm lazy and I didn't think they'd make much of a difference feel free to let me know in the comments how wrong I am for this fight I considered using a range or mage build since I thought that melee is too risky but I also didn't have any armor for either of these builds and as I just mentioned I'm too lazy to go searching for the armor so I decided to do something that I thought was Dumb and actually fight the wall with a melee build had been forever since I did a melee build and I was pretty bad at avoiding things called damage when in close quarters but 1.4.4 made the Night's Edge so darned good that I decided to take the risk it was at this moment that disaster nearly struck I accidentally tapped the a key and dashed directly into the wall in a panic I darted out and managed to get some distance between myself and the wall when I bumped another key but this one tried to bring me to the desktop the wall was a very short distance away and the game did not pause this could end everything one wrong tap of the keys and I could lose in such a stupid and frustrating way I frantically clicked on the game window rang would give me control over the character before I died and sure enough it did too nervous of that happening again to get close to the wall so despite having a melee build I kept my distance and used the hell Wing bow and Demon sight and though it took a little while longer the wall of fresh was defeated I was in hard mode I expected to die and die quickly it was like I was starting the world all over but this time I didn't have a good seed to help me progress quickly and hard mode was well hard mode I went to the corruption to destroy demon altars running as fast as I could to avoid the many race that spawn I also discovered one of my deserts was now corrupt now remembering I needed a mithril Anvil to craft the Onyx Blaster I got right to farming Dark shards after that I carefully went through the world mining for the new ores and collecting Souls of Night along the way and after a long mining session I finally got my titanium armor it was also in this point in the run that I crafted two helmets for each set of armor I made one Helm was for melee and the other was for range the idea was that I could use melee and its high defense for everyday use while switching to Ranger for some of the bosses and since I wanted to use the ranger for bosses I needed to go to the Shimmer to change my Warriors emblem to a Rangers emblem along the way I discovered that my jungle had been turned into the hollow which wasn't great but not awful either with the day coming to a close I hadn't defeated any of the hard mode bosses yet but I had acquired almost all the gear I needed to get started next time I jumped on I immediately headed to the sky to gather Souls of Flight maybe I should have done this sooner but I had so many movement options that I didn't need one until I was about to fight a boss so I killed several wyvern expecting I'd have to upgrade my wings a couple of times but I was in Boss preparation mode and the mech boss I always fight first is the Destroyer I always found it to be the easiest so I decided to summon a hollowed mimic to collect my Daedalus bow I had to fight three before I got the bow and almost died two of the three times which was fun but I got the bow it was also at this moment that I realized I only needed a pair of ice skates to get Terror spark boots so I finally went along with a hype and got myself a pair of these wonderful boots at this moment I realized that Holy arrows were a thing this whole time I thought people used gestures Arrows with the Daedalus bow but it turns out people actually use holy arrows yes I've played this game for 10 years but since my hollow biome was entirely in the jungle I couldn't get any unicorns to spawn so I had to create my own artificial biome in the sky so I could farm for unicorn horns while I waited for the hollow to spread I got to building my final Boss Arena I even set up a teleporter that would bring me straight to the nurse so I could heal mid-fight I usually use levers or switches but chat insisted I should use pressure plates I understood the rationale but I present to you my case for using levers and switches I'm phasing through blocks what have I done it was at this time however that something terrible happened I felt vibrations from the deep the Destroyer was on his way but I wasn't ready I hadn't been able to collect any holy arrows yet maybe I could win with my current build I wasn't feeling very confident this was when I had to use the save and exit Escape so I tried to get a few more things done and the moment the Destroyer spawned I exited the world this is possibly the dirtiest I had ever felt during the Run plenty of people used the strategy but I felt as though I had cheated like I had dodged something I should have dealt with in a proper run there was a deep hit in my stomach but I told myself that I had already made rule allowed me to do this I'd hoped I would never have to but unfortunately the game forced my hand I logged back in I went to the artificial Hollow and extended it but now enemies responding so I got to farming unicorns I quickly got the unicorns I wanted and actually got three blessed apples while killing only seven unicorns which was some crazy RNG I now had wings Terror spark Boots the date of the stormbow and holy arrows but there was still one more thing I needed the charm of myths reducing my potion cooldown Time by 15 seconds would be invaluable for the rest of the run and I was determined to get one this may have been the longest farming session I had during the entire run and I am not really a person who likes making mob Farms so I had to make one of these farms for just about the first time in the hopes of getting more mimics to spawn when I finally got the Philosopher's Stone I crafted my charm of myths and was ready for the Destroyer my first Mech the first hard mode boss I will ever fight in hardcore once again I was shaking but I was confident in my Arena and knew there wasn't much anything else I could do to improve my odds so I grabbed my mechanical worm and spawned the Destroyer thank you [Music] [Music] the Destroyer destroyed I could hardly believe it but I couldn't celebrate just yet even though I had the souls of might I still needed to get some shark fins for the Mega Shark another good day done next time I hopped on I realized I should get the imbuing station but first I'd need to defeat Queen B to get the witch doctor so I killed Queen B like she was a total pushover and then killed the Destroyer a second time so I get full hollowed armor before fighting the other two mechs after getting hollowed armor I took down the Twins and Skeletron Prime now it was time to get full chlorophyte max out my health and find a Plantera spawner also the true Knight's Edge was a little disappointing unfortunately I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing but I found the Plantera spawner kind of close to the surface and with no problems at all but with the Plantera spawner located it got to mining after getting all the chlorophyte a solar eclipse happened I was tempted to ignore it but I thought I could get the broken hero sword turns out you can't until after defeating Plantera even so I farm for the scythe and enjoyed the newly buffed glorified armor set bonus which was absolutely awesome I finished farming for life Fruit which were really hard to find the first time it went farming but much easier the second time it went farming and after I got the full health I realized I should probably get the ankh shield before fighting Plantera after all poison would be really obnoxious if I didn't have a lot of the accessories already but considered passing on the shield because I was too lazy to form all the necessary parts but then my chat came in clutch that's right all of this was live streamed make sure to check them out but my chat informed me that the Shimmer could switch ankh accessories to the opposite version for each part so you just need two copies of one accessory for each ANC part and as it turned out I had duplicates of almost every piece I needed so I rushed the Shimmer and it turned out chat was right hours of farming was no longer necessary and I couldn't Express just how happy this made me especially since you needed the pocket mirror from Medusa's now and that would take forever I'm lazy I ain't doing that but now I could fight Plantera one of the last bosses I needed to fight before I could kill the lunatic cultist and get to the end game was a little worried that I felt good so I went into the fight with confidence turns out Plantera was a pushover the jungle temple was right next door so I carefully navigated through it and killed the Golem who got me lower on health than flinterra had somehow but next I went to the hardcore dungeon I was afraid my minions would kill the cultist but as I was trying to despawn them an Alien Probe flew by so I rushed into the dungeon with Reckless abandon because I was not going to try my luck against the alien invasion there wasn't much I wanted from the dungeon but I did think the tactical shotgun would be a good weapon and I wanted the ninja gear I know a lot of people like the shield of Cthulhu for the invincibility frames it can give you but I prefer the ninja gear Force Dodge longer Dash and I wouldn't bounce backwards if I hit something which had killed me plenty of times in the past I knew the dungeon would be dangerous but after spending some time down there comfortable oh comfortable in fact that when I saw this sniper I was hardly phased I knew they did a lot of damage but I had most of my health and good armor there's no way it could kill me besides I figured I could Dodge him so I went out into the open and the sniper took aim I had gambled my entire run on this shot the farthest I had ever gotten in a hardcore run and I felt far too comfortable and confident the sniper fired thank you so much for watching this far if you're enjoying the content please be sure to subscribe we're only at around a thousand subscribers and I'm hoping to grow the channel so I can keep on providing you some great Terraria content you can also join my Discord and from there you may be able to join some future terrari events that I may host now let's get back to the video and see if I survived that sniper I had dodged a bullet well not really I wasn't dead but I had come closer to death than any other time in the entire run new found fear of the dungeon grip my heart and I told myself I would never return but I did end up going back later for now I decided I should get some Beetle Armor after all I had killed the Golem I should have done this before going to the dungeon but farming turned out to be a real pain even with a blood moon and a water candle I couldn't get turtle shells to drop from the piles of tortoises I was slaughtering I must have destroyed the entire ecosystem by the time I finally got three turtle shells during this farming another eclipse happened and I knew that I needed to get the Terra Blade it was incredibly dangerous and once again I was brought pretty low on health but the moment I got my Broken Heroes blade I crafted the Terra Blade and hid underground until the day was over at least after a quick Power Trip it was the end game now bogged onto the world for what I knew would be the last time either I would die just short of the finish line or I would finally overcome hardcore and be able to call myself a pro I extended my Arena after doing a few test fights on another world and then built a mushroom house to get a Hoverboard I fished for a bit to get all the potions I wanted and returned to the dungeon much to my trepidation so I could get a paladin Shield every time I saw a sniper I immediately murdered it and managed to safely retrieve the Paladin Shield earlier in the run I had gotten a frozen turtle shell off the first Turtle I killed I combined it with the Paladin shield for the Frost shield and replaced my ankh shield I was ready it was time a lunatic cultist was going down and the lunar events were all that stood in the way of Moon Lord I'll let the footage speak for itself [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] oh foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] nebula pillar was down all that was left was moonlord and I couldn't wait the last pillar was gone and I had all the potions I needed final boss the final test before I could conquer hardcore and declare myself a pro oh I have the Chinese texture pack for mood Lord what I like it [Music] it was over I had done it quite possibly the biggest challenge I had ever taken on Terraria I had won I had never even defeated Skeletron and hardcore before this nothing could describe just how well everything came together for this moment was it luck skill perhaps a mixture of both is what you need I watched the credits for the first time ever they meant something so different now this was not the credits at the end of a typical run where I tried and tried again until I inevitably won this time I had earned every moment through skill grits and a little bit of luck I had conquered the game without dying even once I honestly didn't expect to have reached this moment after so many terrible failures I decided that this would be my last attempt expecting to die and be done with hardcore pretty quickly but here I was watching the credits roll as the game came to a close to commemorate the moment put away all my gear went up to a sky island and jumped the Run officially over respawning as a ghost I watched as the credits finished breathed the final breath of relief excitement as I exited the world for the last time thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed this video be sure to like subscribe and let me know if you've ever defeated hardcore and what difficulty it was on Hardcore was fun but it's not for everyone and after beating it once I think I'll happily return to the much less stressful softcore at least for now [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 08 2023