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[rabidgam3r]

... is the guide alive when you throw the doll into hell lava?

Yes, yes. It's just a bug, really. Sometimes it doesn't work. My real concern as of now is getting those damn dolls. I have half a mind to edit them in..

[Sean Mirrsen]

Go to a small pre-hardmode world, drill down to Hell, get as many dolls as you need.

[lemon10]

If you are honestly experiencing bugs that stop your dolls from working, I don't see any problems with cheating them in.

[Sharp]

I think I had a problem once where I died to WoF and then when guide respawned and I threw it in lava nothing happened so I waited for guide to respawn again then saved and exited and then threw it again and WoF spawned.

That was a while ago though, before 1.2 but it might fix any issues you are having.

[pisskop]

is it worth playing hardcore mode, as I have been?  Im most worried about the rarer materials and the life crystals.  But would, say medium core suit me as well?

I suppose I worry about the bosses/hard mode being too hard.  Ive killed up to Skeletron.

[Lightning4]

I finally gave up hunting through all the chests on the world and checked with MoreTerra and discovered there were actually 0 in the world I was in. So yeah. Had to go to another world entirely to get one (and cheat to find out where one was). Apparently there's usually 1-3 per world at most, and this world just happened to have none, so that explains why turning the world upside down was getting me nowhere.

(But yes, I knew they were in chests.)

It sometimes seems chest spawning can be kinda wonky.

I've explored probably 75% of my icy underground and only ever found one ice chest. And it was in a wooden chest room to boot. No random chests laying anywhere else.

I caved and ran MoreTerra... thankfully, I do have some, but really nowhere near as many as you would expect from such a massive biome.

[Darkmere]

is it worth playing hardcore mode, as I have been?  Im most worried about the rarer materials and the life crystals.  But would, say medium core suit me as well?

I wouldn't think so. Seems like in this game all hardcore deaths would get you is more grinding for the same materials you already collected, or pointless trips back to your tombstone AND more grinding.

[Leonon]

For hardcore or mediumcore I suggest running a server on your machine and connecting to it in game. That way if you leave the world your items will still be there. This is a little cheaty for hardcore but for mediumcore it lets you close the program, go do something else, and come back later to retrieve your items.

[Soadreqm]

is it worth playing hardcore mode, as I have been?  Im most worried about the rarer materials and the life crystals.  But would, say medium core suit me as well?

I suppose I worry about the bosses/hard mode being too hard.  Ive killed up to Skeletron.

It's TOTALLY worth it. It's a completely different game if a wayward boulder trap can't take all your hard work away in one fell drop. Like playing Nethack in wizard mode or something.

That said, hard mode really might be too hard. Everything up to the Wall of Flesh is certainly doable without dying, if you're sufficiently careful, and there are enough life crystals around that the world is unlikely to actually run out. Once you kill the WoF, though, things get kind of really dangerous. You might want to switch to Mediumcore at that point, at least until you've acquainted yourself with the hard mode enemies and determined how well you can kill them.

[umiman]

Hardcore hardmode is crazy hard. You can die to almost anything and you can't improve your situation unless you somehow manage to mine out enough of the hardmode ores to make the hardmore armour and drills without dying.

[JoshuaFH]

Hardcore hardmode is crazy hard. You can die to almost anything and you can't improve your situation unless you somehow manage to mine out enough of the hardmode ores to make the hardmore armour and drills without dying.

And of course immediately start preparing for any of the hardmode mecha bosses if they decide to randomly pop up and go "Bang! You're dead!"

[Sharp]

Hardcore hardmode is crazy hard. You can die to almost anything and you can't improve your situation unless you somehow manage to mine out enough of the hardmode ores to make the hardmore armour and drills without dying.

And of course immediately start preparing for any of the hardmode mecha bosses if they decide to randomly pop up and go "Bang! You're dead!"

I think the solution for that is the cowardly but effective 'Exit and Save Game' or runaway till day comes back.

[Sirus]

Run away through the hard mode night? You'd be lucky to last five minutes unless you had some sort of mob-proof sky bridge.

[Sharp]

You can also go down a hellevator and then magic mirror back to the top.

[Kagus]

Also, running away doesn't work against Skeletron Prime...  He doesn't run away when dawn comes, he just goes into instakill mode.