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[Taco Dan]

So I have a gold pick, what are the next levels of pick and what do I need?

I am surprised my demonite wasn't enough to get one.

Nightmare pick, then meteorite and molten.

I'd say go directly for meteorite if you have an obsidian skull.

Screw that, those Meteor Heads are friggan annoying. The most I ever used meteorite for was a phaseblade and that was it.

[Haspen]

So I have a gold pick, what are the next levels of pick and what do I need?

I am surprised my demonite wasn't enough to get one.

Nightmare pick, then meteorite and molten.

I'd say go directly for meteorite if you have an obsidian skull.

With obsidian skull, just go farm obsidian and get a load of hellstone.

Molten pickaxe, that's all.

[Darvi]

A better pickaxe makes farming Hellstone a lot easier though.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I like this game so far. Trips to Hell are still proving fatal (too many darn imps), but I'm doing fairly good otherwise.

Here's my little town in the Portentous Realm:

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Try to spot my Eye of Cthulhu Fighting Arena. And there's a mushroom farm too, though it's in early stages at this point.

The tower is made up like this:

I filled up that pool with buckets. During a Blood Moon. Kinda felt like being a typical dwarf peasant.

[Cheese]

So I have a gold pick, what are the next levels of pick and what do I need?

I am surprised my demonite wasn't enough to get one.

Also off to lose

You need shadow scales as well as 12 demonite to make the pick.

[Haspen]

EoC arena is either that pink thing to left or flatland far to west with yellow dots which are propably lights. I have such thing as well Small flatland with torches.

[Neonivek]

I am thinking of just destroying skeletron's hands next time. (actually just one)

It should help a bit.

[Sergius]

The only way of dealing with imps is either stunlocking them with a decent weapon(Only to have more spawn) or just ignoring them and have your swinging pick deal with it. Recommended to have equipment that speed up your swing speed.

 The real problem is Skeleworms. Imps you can sorta ignore and they occasionally damage you if you are constantly swinging(Unless they warp into you), but the worms just deal a larger punch and take longer to deal with and kill.

Not sure how useful or practical this is, but imps can't appear in spots one block wide next to another solid block, such as this:

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As shown, they can, however appear right in the top block of a pyramid.

If you somehow manage to mine only in those shapes, they won't show up, or at least stay kinda far away if there's another spot on the view they can use. This will probably mean more serpents tho

[Sean Mirrsen]

EoC arena is either that pink thing to left or flatland far to west with yellow dots which are propably lights. I have such thing as well Small flatland with torches.

Hehe, correct. Except it's the far field to the left, with torches and a little stretch of pet corruption. The giant tower thing and the dual platforms up top were intended as an arena for EoC fighting, but were eventually deemed impractical - platforms allow pelting the Eye as it passes below, but you don't recover ammunition until the end of the fight, and any significant error will send you falling towards the ground very far below. I might try to fight the bastard there again though, now that I have a Cloud and Rocket Boots. That's what it was made for, after all. I even made a small house up there, with a bed to respawn. As a side effect of it being a proper house, my merchant moved into there. :-/

[Cheese]

EoW kileld me and then followed me home. I kicked ass. The game seems so much more fun when you start breaking shadow orbs.

[Neonivek]

Ohh yeah... does Ebonstone pass corruption?

[Thendash]

It doesn't spread it from what I've heard, but it does spawn nightmare creatures.

[Haspen]

YESSSSS!

Just as I was going back home with molten pick, a skeleton dropped a hook, at last!

Three days of hardship and at last I have grappling hook, yay!

[Sean Mirrsen]

By the way, has anyone else noticed that the Shiney Red Ballon (I refuse to call it anything but that) seems to grant some kind of immunity to fall damage? Quite a few times I've jumped from the top of my tower to the ground, and remained safe upon landing. Note, this does not work when falling - only when you actually jump, to maximum height, does this effect seem to work. It's rather haphazard, so I guess it's a bug. Can anyone confirm this behavior?

(Note to self: Stuff like this makes for excellent practical jokes on April 1st. Remember for later.)

[Max White]

Three days of hardship and at last I have grappling hook, yay!

You have my respect and admiration.
Playing for more then a few hours without the hookshot? I don't know how you managed, but it is something I couldn't do.


Hell, I made a new account to play on with a friend recently, and having to go without rocket boots, molten armour and a small countries arsenal of weapons was devastating.