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[SaiKar]

You get souls of light by defeating enemies in hallow / underground hallow, and souls of night by defeating enemies in the corruption / underground corruption.

You may need less adamantite bars, but it takes more ore to make a bar, and it's also far more of a bitch to get the adamantite. Since all ore gets more plentiful the deeper you get, my personal recommendation is to skirt the upper layers of the underworld where everything is nicely illuminated - you should see pockets of deep red on the deepest part of the normal underground right before everything changes to the ash of hell.

[Prpl_Mage]

Your point is a valid one,

Reforging items is really expensive. On the upside, the worse the item is - the cheaper it is to reforge. So a sword with loads of red stats is cheaper to reforge than one with several green.

Also I'm simply going to assume that when people mention hard mode, they mean whatever happens after you beat the wall of flesh. 'cuz it got me a bit confused at first when you guys mentioned it and I couldn't remember choosing hard.

[Archem]

That's hard mode. That's the official name for the post-Wall of Flesh game world.

[Prpl_Mage]

So apparently you can fuse the M,C,A armors into an even ebtter armor, but I need even more types of souls for that.

Also, I can fuse all my drills with all types of chainsaws together with souls to make a hamdrax. Hammer drill and axe in one. Cool.

And lastly, used my slime crown to summon the king slime, a message appeared that he had arrived, and the boss music started. But nothing happened. Eventually the music went away just like that. Is it like the eater of worlds that I should only summon the guy when surrounded by a certain type of block? I was standing in snow, right outside my settlement, same place were I fought the Eye.
Or is it just bugged in "hard mode"?

[Cerebus]

I think, although I could be wrong, that you need to be on grass, and possibly during either day or night only. Very vague, I know.

Also, although Hamdrax looks neat, it can be ab it bothersome when it destroys the wrong block since it'll be able to destroy anything. However, it does save a spot and still is pretty useful. Still annoyingly noisy, though.

[fruckert]

I'd start with the hardmode worm first.
He's a little easier.

Also, adamantine is boss.

[Archem]

And lastly, used my slime crown to summon the king slime, a message appeared that he had arrived, and the boss music started. But nothing happened. Eventually the music went away just like that. Is it like the eater of worlds that I should only summon the guy when surrounded by a certain type of block? I was standing in snow, right outside my settlement, same place were I fought the Eye.
Or is it just bugged in "hard mode"?

I think you need to be near water? I know that the King Slime has a chance of spawning naturally in place of a standard slime, but I can't honestly remember which (if any) conditions need to be met to spawn one with an item.

[fruckert]

I think you need to be near water? I know that the King Slime has a chance of spawning naturally in place of a standard slime, but I can't honestly remember which (if any) conditions need to be met to spawn one with an item.

Edges of the map!
You can't fight the slime king in the middle, as I recall.

[Prpl_Mage]

Edges of the map!
You can't fight the slime king in the middle, as I recall.

In that case I failed, 'cuz the first spawn point is always in the very centre of the map right?

Might hold on it for a while though. Would be cool with ninja stuff but because of the materials needed for it I guess it's a "normal mode" boss.

Also, my wizard got killed during a blood moon 'cuz it kept spawning wraiths that just phase through the area and hit the NPCs for like 60-70. Also downed the tinkerer and clothier. Both of them respawned though, the wizard has not. Is that guy non-respawnable? His house is still intact and stuff.

Finally managed to kill enough of those pesky wyverns to make my wings. Started noticing these air-worms while traveling over hills. Swooping down just like any worm. Only huge and dealing more damage. hated when I killed them in the air 'cuz the souls items don't fall. Had to kinda build something to stand on. Anyway. Wings are kinda cool. Unsure how useful they are though.

Also, can't seem to get my hands on any soul of night. Been killing mummies in a "dark desert" according to the game, since they dropped tons of dark shards. Also, spent some time in the area that used to be the huge corruption place. I find those large devourers, but they drop souls of light. Probably because I also fight pixies and those laser balloons. And well, the obvious fact that nearly all of that ebonite turned into pearlstone. Also found 3 more demon altars to break. Yay!

Got so much cobalt that it's ridiculous. Made the armor set twice, the drill and the chainsaw, two swords and I still have 2 full stacks of cobalt bars and some more.

[Archem]

Nah, he'll be back. Sometimes an NPC will take longer than usual to respawn.

[fruckert]

I don't know the specifics, but it appeared that NPCs only respawn during the day, at specific times.
Don't quote me on this.

[SaiKar]

Got so much cobalt that it's ridiculous. Made the armor set twice, the drill and the chainsaw, two swords and I still have 2 full stacks of cobalt bars and some more.

I eventually started making cobalt blocks and then converted entire parts of my fortress into cobalt.

http://i.imgur.com/uhaF0c8.jpg

[Cerebus]

Wings are kinda cool. Unsure how useful they are though.

I found them extremely useful against Hard Mode bosses.

Other than that, they're still pretty neat for travelling, plus the "no fall damage" is pretty good. Oh, and they show up, which is pretty cool.

[fruckert]

I never saw you edit the post because I only pay attention to the RSS feed aaah!

Wings are one of the most useful accessories in the game!
They take away fall damage and give a crazy height boost that stacks with other jumping buffs.
So, combine them with a cloud in a balloon and spectre boots, and you're about as mobile as you can get.
If you equip all of the above, as well, you won't get the animations for the cloud or the boots. It's just one long smooth wing flapping thing.

[Prpl_Mage]

Okay so the wings are really useful. Also finally managed to find an underground that the game counted as "corrupted" where sometimes, enemies drop souls of night.

Also, clingers. They were the reason I made the assumption that it actually counted. They were new and everything.

Got tons of corrupted flames now, yay me.

But now I gotta kill more of those wyverns to get souls of flight to make those wings as well.

Almost enough souls of night to summon the destroyer though.

Oh yeah, the twins fucked me up. Hard. 24k hp each and ragemodeing....