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[Darvi]

I think all wings, except for those easy ones like angel and demon, have better flight. Pixie and leaf wings are probably in the worse category but make up for it with light and easy obtainability respectively.

Actually the Ghost wings are perhaps the easiest wings to make. I mean have you seen how often ectoplasm drops compared to moth wings and giant feathers? It's not even funny.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think all wings, except for those easy ones like angel and demon, have better flight. Pixie and leaf wings are probably in the worse category but make up for it with light and easy obtainability respectively.

Actually the Ghost wings are perhaps the easiest wings to make. I mean have you seen how often ectoplasm drops compared to moth wings and giant feathers? It's not even funny.

I got a giant feather (typoed as "Giant Harpey Feather", which invokes an image of a giant feathered harp) from basically just passing through a pre-hardmode sky island. I was just dismantling the sunplate for later construction and fighting off harpies. So maybe not always as rare.

[Darvi]

Maybe you got lucky, or I'm just unlucky. I've been camping the islands for hours just to get the kicks out of two-shotting Falcor.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Probably just lucky.

I've still to experience hardmode, by the way, but I'm taking some preparatory steps against the things I've heard. Like that aforementioned floating ship in an iceberg, to escape corruption. There's not a whole lot of ice just yet, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Just finished the NPC apartments. Some apartments are better than others. And yes, the guide gets to live in the igloo.

[umiman]

I recommend getting Night's Edge and your best ranged weapon above everything else.

After that, as long as you have a full set of molten everything, you're basically as prepared as you can get. No amount of base building can save you from the current hardmode. There are a hell of a lot of things that just ignore doors and walls. Every blood moon, expect to lose a few NPCs unless you run to someplace where there aren't any.

Not to mention, I think you'll be in for a nasty surprise on your ship. Something extremely annoying lives in the sky in hardmode.

[Darvi]

Bah, Harpies aren't that annoying once you're inside your walls.

[Niveras]

All you people with amazing imagination and the ability to not only design such - if not complex, then consistent-in-theme - homes but apply a helpful dose of creativity to realize them can get out.

/bitter

[umiman]

Bah, Harpies aren't that annoying once you're inside your walls.

Not harpies mate.

[Darvi]

There's nothing else annoying* up there though.

*YMMV

[umiman]

I'm not going to spoil it haha.

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I finished my teleportation grid! I no longer have to run anywhere on my large map! Joyous times! It took me 6 hours to complete the grid holy crap.

When I started building it, I only had molten gear and night's edge. Now after I've finished, I have full hallow equipment. I went from constantly dying every 5 minutes to the hallow and corruption to completely ignoring everything.

[umiman]

You have to get adamantite / titanium armour ASAP. So, first, break as many altars as possible (you're gonna die a lot doing this). After that, start scouring the underground with spelunking potions or a keen eye and mine out all the hardmode ores you can find. Avoid the hallow parts of the underground as you will get slaughtered.

Once you manage to get the adamantite / titanium armour, you'll find things are a lot more manageable.

I really don't recommend going anywhere near the jungle without it. I also don't recommend trying to fight any of the hardmode bosses without it either. It's a complete waste of time.

[Darvi]

It is suggested to kill a couple hardmode bosses after you got titanium/adamantium gear. That gives you meterials for a Pickaxe Axe(sic) or a Drax, which you need for the next gear tier.

Alternatively, go into the dungeon to farm the materials for a diffferent pickaxe, but you're probably not gonna survive that.

[Frumple]

Though if you do go into the dungeon... I might recommend going deep rather than staying up top. Ragged casters are quite possible the nastiest thing in there (frankly, in the whole bloody game. Paladins have an incredibly easy trick to them if you can manage to set it up right.) right now, and they stop spawning part way in. You get diabolists instead, who are their own brand of nasty, but it's a lot easier to avoid their attacks and get out of them if you do get hit. Plus no uberdarkness debuff. Plus they (very occasionally) drop inferno forks which are totes one of the best magic weapons in the game

[Sean Mirrsen]

I recommend getting Night's Edge and your best ranged weapon above everything else.

After that, as long as you have a full set of molten everything, you're basically as prepared as you can get. No amount of base building can save you from the current hardmode. There are a hell of a lot of things that just ignore doors and walls. Every blood moon, expect to lose a few NPCs unless you run to someplace where there aren't any.

Not to mention, I think you'll be in for a nasty surprise on your ship. Something extremely annoying lives in the sky in hardmode.

As long at it chases me instead of going for NPCs specifically, I have a handy launch platform that will take me to a nearby sky island where I can fight it. And I'm already avoiding the ship on blood moons, hehe. I have just about every mobility item so far short of the anklet of the wind and wings - no matter how fast it flies I should be able to dodge. Its high health is a problem, but.. eh. So long as I avoid getting hit...

[forsaken1111]

Alright. In my singleplayer run for 1.2 I'm at the point where I can reliably kill EoW. Woo

Demonite armor, waterbolt, phaseblade, vilethorn. Think I can take skeletron? (220 hp, 220 mana)