Not sure if you’re ready to take the plunge into Hardmode? Check out the tips and ideas presented in this video, and you will be! In this episode of my Terraria version 1.4 – Beginner’s Guide Series, I explain several activities you may want to complete in pre-Hardmode to make you fully prepared to handle the new challenges Hardmode brings to the table. Included are how to prepare for the Hardmode Crimson/Corruption – Hallow “V”, as well as how to protect key areas from future biome spread and contamination, and much, much more!!
CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Overview of Hardmode Changes
03:00 Protect Your Pylons from Biome Spread
07:17 Quarantine Evil Biome Areas
08:31 Find a Spider Cavern
09:56 Prepare Extra NPC Housing & Hardmode NPC Arrangement
10:40 Make Some Hellevators
12:21 Mark the Dungeon’s Biome Chests
13:10 Farm the Nazar
13:49 Pre-Hardmode Combo Crafts
14:36 Stockpile Potion Ingredients
15:03 Make a Life Fruit & Plantera Arena
16:38 Make a Cavern Level Fighting Arena
18:50 Outro
Regarding the NPC arrangement shown at 10:30 – there are lots of alternative ways to arrange your NPCs to, for example, get the best average happiness across all your NPCs. I, however, prefer to get a few key NPCs to their max happiness, and honestly don’t worry about the happiness of other NPCs that I generally don’t buy from anyways. This arrangement gets max happiness for the Goblin Tinkerer (easily the most expensive NPC in the game) for the best discount on his reforging service. The Angler also gets max happiness in order to boost chances of getting good rewards from him.
Most of the other NPCs are also generally pretty happy, though not all will be happy enough to sell the pylons at the listed locations. And if you are planning a big purchase from a specific NPC, you can always re-arrange them to make the purchase, then set them back.
The other benefit of this arrangement is that by having at least 3 NPCs at each location, it will create a village that suppresses mob spawning in the area, and also makes it easier to re-locate NPCs and still be able to use the pylon. Add in a few pets, and you’ll be all set!
For the combo-crafted items listed at 14:09, check out the wiki to learn how to get the ingredient items. Here’s some links:
Cell Phone: https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Guide:Crafting_a_Cell_Phone
Terraspark Boots: https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Terraspark_Boots
Architect Gizmo Pack: https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Architect_Gizmo_Pack
Lavaproof Tackle Bag: https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Lavaproof_Tackle_Bag
New to the series? Check out the other topics covered in my Beginner’s Guide Playlist!
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Game footage is from Terraria, a totally awesome game by indie developer Re-Logic. Interested in trying it out? Go here https://terraria.org/ or here https://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/Terraria/
Music is also from Terraria and was composed by Scott Lloyd Shelley / Resonance Array.
Nothing in this video is sponsored by Re-Logic, and the commentary and information in this video do not represent the opinions or positions of any other entity whatsoever. And yes, I mistakenly called the Lavaproof Tackle Bag a Hotline Tackle Bag. Same different LOL
39 Comments
Made my life way easier
Thanks
I've gone into hard mode without preparation and my east beach is completely corrupted and I don't know what my next tasks should be! 😭
I've beat the game with friends on console, but now I'm playing solo on PC.
Needed some reminders and this vid helped!
I’m about to go into hard mode but I’ve learn the hard way from previous worlds that preparing is VERY important thanks for the amazing video it helps a lot
does demonite ora spread?
Can two to three sunflowers stop evil biome if there is no other convertable blocks?
Edit: now on 1.4.4 should i only quarantine the evil biome? Because altars don't spawn evil biome now
Bruh i should restart all of my progress bc my world has been invaded by crimson and 😭
15:40
Used this last year for when I started Terraria ever since I wanted it when I was younger, and still very useful for a second play through this year! Thanks a lot
I am about to start playing again and this is exactly what i need, tanks mate 👌🏼very good video
me watching at post golem***
10:30 I highly disagree with a lot of your NPC and Biome set up. But hey if it works it works.
i have played 1000+ hours of terraria and have beaten moon lord in master mode tens of times but this still taught me something, thank you
you have interchanged the word horizontal and vertical havent you around 4:29
The mechanic actually belongs with the snow pylon and the stylist goes with the ocean pylon
Me and my friend are currently working on a project to move the two oceans into he'll 😂😂😂
on my mobile playthrough i found that hardmode biomes come up at different places in the same world that i copied several times. that should go for pc trr as well
I have around 10k hours at the game and play since 2014 but still watched this video
I just started Terraria few days ago, I wanted to ask, how did you make your Molten Pick Light? Mine shows Heavy
does this apply to calamity mod?
I was able to get the Mushroom pylon with the Goblin tinkerer, Mechanic, and Demolitionist npc’s somehow.
Dug a helevator (using dynamite) and placed non corruptible blocks on the edges (gray brick) also removed the walls. I basically boxed out the corruption pre hardmode (making sure I wasnt missing any blocks). And I also dug several hellevators (2 on each side at the end of jungle, dessert, snow and corruption. But at the start of hardmode my jungle was corrupted and it spread through my dessert for some reason. Any help? T.T I spread the hallow instead so that it cancels out until I get steampunker
Should I get the shell phone or just get the cell phone
i need help
currently preparing for wof im concernerd about the isolation of the V that wof spawns, what should i do? i need to isolate in a V format too or should i just dig up to hell? pls i need sum help
Wooden fence windows? Looks weird. Lead bar fence is superior
2:45 ur right but also im going to stop watching and play now because ur right
i don't like being speak like a was a retarded children, hard pass + dislike
Dawg I was so sure I was gonna easily deal with biome spread until I learnt about the god forsaken V that spawns like cmon man its so annoying especially on large worlds might as well just use the grid based method and just dig 4 block wide tunnels every nook and cranny of my world
Been playing Terraria since I was like 8 and i didnt know about a lot of this. Thanks big dawg
WELP
I should have watched this first!
LOL
I have most of these already done, but the dang Villages and containment areas were completely forgotten about.
Bro ngl I barely defeated moonlord and was opening shadow chests and the wall of flesh appear and it was rlly ez but I need to prepare more base wise
I CANT get my demolishinest to spawn idk why help
The reason I’m so scared to enter is because in my first non-journey play through my the corruption completely went straight through the jungle area where my jungle base was and it was RIGHT next to my main base too
Ok, I need help. My ocean pylon Village is on the right side on the map, and my shimmer is on the left. Now my dungeon overlaps with my beach (on the right) so I can’t make a hellevator on the right or a fighting arena ):
how th he can clearly see ores undergound?
4:14
Should I introduce the crimson on my corruption world, I’m melee and I feel like I’m missing out
Thanks for the amazing videos man, I like to know everything before playing a game and your video guides are just perfect.
I went into hard mode for thr 2nr time then crimson just appeared next to my base what did i do wrong i made a tunnel around the corruption isolating it and lining it with un coruptable blocks
Ok… so I built everything except a plantara arena and life fruit farm… but… I don’t know where to build it, any recommendations