Can you Beat MASTER MODE Terraria with only Pre-Hardmode Gear?

Today I try and beat Terraria Master Mode, but with only Pre-hardmode gear. For the duration of this challenge all of my weapons, armor, accessories, buffs, and mounts must be obtainable before killing wall of flesh. Let's see if we can do it!
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[@purplehaze2358]

Gungnir has the uncanny ability to always upload the moment I think to myself, "Man, Gungnir hasn't uploaded in a while. Starting to miss him".

[@FirstLast-wk3kc]

He streams quite regularly

[@BritishBuffoon]

Ikr

[@lovelypanda8676]

come to his twitch streams they are fun :3

[@unityed]

@@lovelypanda8676 no :)

[@Aviation_Boy77]

Literally bruh

[@HumanoidDerpling]

Gungnir: "You haven't ever seen a two hour long Moon Lord fight" Me, who has watched somebody kill him with the lawnmower: "Those are rookie numbers!"

[@ulha10]

i dont think you can because of moon lords regen but idk

[@BoulderGod]

@@ulha10 Sorbet café: you underestimate my power

[@NickAndriadze]

I've seen somebody use a teleport invincibility machine to defeat Moon Lord with only a copper Shortsword, and it took like 8 hours.

[@hatyyy]

@@ulha10 moon lord healing is avoidable

[@anaverageprince2350]

Y’all if you wanna see some crazy shit you gotta watch sorbet cafe

[@crov4924]

That's the most peaceful looking moonlord fight I've ever seen, and my favorite part was when you reforging your weapon and moonlord just hanging in the background 😂

[@xianxiannn]

15:20 LOLLLLLLLLLLL

[@ComFurt]

Can't even be mad about the moon lord cheese, the mental fortitude needed to keep fighting him for nearly 2.5 hours is far more impressive than the skill of beating him without it

[@xxGreenRoblox]

And then you watch lawnmower only

[@ComFurt]

@@xxGreenRoblox I haven't watched lawnmower at all, let alone only. Your comment confuses me :^)

[@supergamerfacility8992]

its when someone killed ml with a lawnmover

[@locrianphantom3547]

@@ComFurtA player named Sorbet Cafe beat the game using only the lawnmower’s ram damage.

[@delta3244]

Even if conveyors were banned, one could make a world-spanning HOIK setup for the stars. It's a bit more awkward now than it used to be because stars don't automatically get caught when landing on the HOIK teeth anymore, but this is easily fixed with actuators and a timer (or one can use a more intelligent clock which alternates between a short and a long delay). Conveyers are certainly much nicer to span the world with than sloped blocks, though, so I agree with their use.

[@destructicon844]

Probably doesn't even need to be world length since the stars at the end are mostly de-spawning

[@delta3244]

@@destructicon844 That's only true of stars which spawn near the end of a night. Any others have time to make it to spawn. That concern matters more with conveyor belts, where it takes several minutes for items to get from the edge of even a small world to its center (in fact, it takes almost exactly 7 minutes for that world size). HOIKs are iirc 12 times faster than conveyors for fallen stars (if not 12, then 6. Conveyors move things at slightly more than 9 tiles per second. HOIKs move stars either 120 or 60 tiles per second, I'm fairly sure 120).

[@destructicon844]

@@delta3244 it's obvious when you say it, but I didn't think about the speen of the hoik lol

[@delta3244]

@@destructicon844 For what it's worth, I had to look up the world size to make sure I was saying sensible things. You did have a good point, and it really matters for conveyors!

[@leo.simensen]

Yeah, the conveyors aren't adding anything that he couldn't already do manually or via less efficient pre-hardmode methods - it's a timesaver for the sake of practicality, it's not circumventing the spirit of the challenge.

[@Corundrom]

Space suit Grey Zapinator is also a viable alternative for some of the bosses

[@dangductran2926]

It can actually kill moonlord in 4 hits if all 4 somehow go dream luck. Since gray zapinator only has 40 damage, and moonlord has 270k hp in the video. Each Gray zapinator beam would need to get 10× damage 5 times in a row, about 1 in 300mil odd, for 4 individual shots.

[@battletechpropaganda]

@@dangductran2926 then just shoot more than 4 times lol

[@anti-spiral159]

@@battletechpropaganda Pfff, just dual weild the zapinator and half the numbers needed

[@battletechpropaganda]

@@anti-spiral159 oh true

[@vincenzofranchelli2201]

@@dangductran2926 who said u only get 4 shots ?

[@funky555]

Still had more defense than endgame summoner 💀

[@PrismaNotTerra]

Me when Valhalla Knight Armour: (Yes that stuff is Summoner armour. It has Melee bonuses, but it's still classified as Summoner armour.)

[@Gatorboy5678]

Me trying to beat Moon Lord for the first time… as a summoner:

[@grapefrootRL]

@@Gatorboy5678me and my bro only doing master mode summoner💀

[@miqdadnaqvi407]

It’s not that hard as summoner just keep your distance with bosses and let your minions do the work and your arenas need to be a bit larger

[@NikoKuehne]

i see you dont use warding. i suppose you choose menacing over lucky too huh? lmao

[@beans3669]

Love how instead of dragging the video on an extra 20 minutes, you just skipped pre hard mode and got right into hardmode

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

"You haven't seen a 2 and a half hour moonlord fight" And you haven't seen an 89 hour lawnmower fight good sir

[@kozolith2121]

sorbet cafe moment

[@Thewaterspirit57]

This is pre-hardmode only great, not Hell simulation 💀

[@nicky23anims68]

no one cares + this is is a completely different thing + everyone has seen that

[@Turtlzzzzz]

@@nicky23anims68 and he copied the other guy

[@baconisforever5318]

Now you just have to beat calamity with only pre-moonlord gear!

[@Gh3ttoboy]

Its possible to do but its going to be a long run most calamity fights post moonlord are huge skill check/bullet hell battles

[@shrekiscool4743]

​@@Gh3ttoboy and the slight detail of scal and exo mechs having several million hp

[@ancient3583]

this might be doable but calamity scaling post moonlord is way harsher than hardmode vanilla scaling, so exo mechs and scal are probably next to impossible

[@memelescream4796]

​@@shrekiscool4743the slight detail of skill.

[@shrekiscool4743]

@@memelescream4796 scal and exo-mechs would take like 10 hours and thats a low estimate

[@eientakara]

He descends when humanity's future is at it's bleakest.

[@simpansssixdxdxdxd6510]

Ascends?

[@eientakara]

@@simpansssixdxdxdxd6510 That implies he is in heck XD

[@KillerDoh]

@@simpansssixdxdxdxd6510would be descends as Eientakara is implying he is coming down from the heavens

[@thermophile1695]

Good to see someone admit that Golem is difficult in the provided arena, despite being easy out of it.

[@deaconaligood]

unless you get a fucked golem arena, he is still pretty easy

[@SoRePeSi]

On normal mode he's kind of okay if your equipment is roughly up to date, but he gets very hard from expert onwards. I used to pray for him to drop the picksaw the first time around, then I brought him to my above-ground arena to get the remaining items, because even enraged he's not so hard to kill if you just have some space. The problem really is the very tight space they put him in.

[@NickAndriadze]

That last fight, whilst conceptually underwhelming and kind of ''taking the coward's way out,'' was still a fairly tense and difficult challenge of endurance. Also lucky you that Beach Balls are a pre-hardmode item...

[@locrianphantom3547]

There’s other ways to projectile cap but most respawn over time

[@locrianphantom3547]

*despawn

[@Partiallyinteresting410]

I’m pretty sure you can spawn a minion, then fill the remaining projectile spots with beach balls. This method would give a bit of extra damage during the moon lord fight

[@PrismaNotTerra]

I mean if you care about 1 damage per hit then sure

[@john_titor1]

@@PrismaNotTerra They would do significantly more than that.... For one, Moonlord is not immune to most debuffs. Imps can set moonlord on fire, which ignores defense, hornets can poison, which also ignores defense. Not a ton of damage, but it's free. Abigail's flower scales with summon slots, and is actually viable well into hardmode, despite being a pre-hardmode summon. Combine this with tag damage from a prehardmode whips, sharktooth necklace and it's upgrade, which stack to ignore 10 def, the fact that you can get up to 6 summons prehardmode, as well as the old one's army accessories for more sentries and summon damage... yeah... you can do way better on this fight. Also, if you do use lots of hornets, the hive pack makes them attack even faster, which is also nice, but their low base damage would mean they stop being super useful aside from the poison for anything besides the hands... Though I think with the projectile limit being reached, hornets and imps wouldn't be able to fire their own projectiles, so you might be limited to abigail, or a contact damage summon.

[@carsonperrons8479]

@@john_titor1 , I think Abigail's flower also gets buffed when you enter hardmode fsr

[@doritos4956]

​@@carsonperrons8479 yea it does, if you get firecracker from WoF then it's an amazing starter weapon and works for both queen slime and destroyer.

[@SoRePeSi]

That would be a bit too easy, I think. He's already preventing most of the Moon Lord's attacks, so leaving space for extra help on his side wouldn't be as fair or challenging.

[@acefischer1865]

Cant wait for pre hard mode with only hard mode weapons!

[@GabeTheSilly]

loll

[@wibblo]

although it's always been an awesome game to me, i've never even beaten terraria or played it all too much, but i really love your vids :D my interest for the game has barely extended beyond your content since i started watching your vids and every time u upload i get a little happy reminder of the existence of not only your channel but the game, despite my waning interest in youtube in general. thanks so much for making awesome content (thats not just limited to terraria)!! youre an awesome youtuber and i hope you keep doing cool challenges like this

[@viktorbihar5384]

Either it's just me, or this man is starting to run out of Terraria content, which is honestly impossible, while being possible. This video was probably the most insane of of all of them. 2 HOURS FIGHTING MOONLORD? Dedication at its finest.

[@TheTerraBlade]

And I STILL struggle with hardmode gear

[@eycphatp]

Pro tip :get good

[@seandoroja907]

Pro tip: Get a gud get

[@TheTerraBlade]

Not my fault legendary moonlord is so hard@@eycphatp

[@Superp2gamer]

Fr. I was stuck on every single hardmode boss for a time. Except moon lord actually. I managed to first try it.

[@mushroomfish300]

Golems fists do a lot of damage, and if you don’t take them out before the second phase, they go crazy and do even more damage. For future challenges try to take out the fists first.

[@reversal2341]

15:20 "Yo hold on I need to reforge and restrock some potion a bit" And Moon Lord just in the background being like, "'ight m8"

[@MadArtillery]

This sounds like hell. Wings aren't actually the biggest thing but the lack of mount and damage really makes the challenge.

[@unitjax9507]

I love that when you set restrictions you don't have zero exceptions. Of course you should upgrade the picks so you can summon bosses easier, we want content and this is how you make it happen

[@jeremyduran2283]

The inhale during the skeletrom prime fight was so funny to me. Love your vids Gungnir!

[@Csurico25]

This with pre mech gear would be fun… duke would love the attention

[@ectothermic]

Sometimes people call very cool gameplay "insane" I don't think any other video I've seen in recent memory befits "insane" more than this one. Holy shit dude. I would not have the mentals to even attempt this.

[@Megapples]

You're crushing Master mode bosses and I'm stuck against the mechs in Expert mode summoner. Truly you impress me

[@SoRePeSi]

The Moon Lord just sitting there waiting for him to get a Legendary Fiery Greatsword:

[@avoiceofreason1178]

Pssst, you know what is really fast and pre-hardmode? The lava shark.

[@GabeTheSilly]

ohhh yeah but doesn't that take lava fishing ;-;

[@avoiceofreason1178]

@@GabeTheSilly Yep, and the lava-proof bug net is pre-hardmode.

[@GabeTheSilly]

@@avoiceofreason1178 yea but you see, while regular fishing gets boring, lava fishing is agonizing

[@nothingtoseehere9648]

@@GabeTheSilly Probably wouldn't be the worst idea, you can also catch the infinite lava bucket Just make a huge lava arena and use that for every single boss while riding the lava shark

[@corydarkknight]

Bro you have to be the only one that comes up with almost impossible challenges and you beat them just for our entertainment this is why I'm subscribed

[@Veginite]

If anyone is going to attempt this challenge and are struggling with Fishron, you can use Dunerider boots alongside an arena floor of sand and a few sunflowers alongside Shadowscale armor for solid movement speed.

[@InsanityPh1]

Imagine pre hard mode was like that and after u defeat moon lord just you enter hardmode but it's calamity💀

[@june9914]

Now let’s see the reverse of beating pre hardmode with hardmode items

[@Csurico25]

Hey you can use the shadow crates for life force I think so you can get a infinite supply pre hard mode

[@Kyefronix]

I love how moonlord was chilling in the background while he was prepping to fight him.

[@StrungCrowd1794]

Frog climbing gear instead amphibian boots leaving space for terraspark boots fairs me pretty well

[@jollygator9080]

I once did classic mode ML with a musket but I used chloro bullets and that fight was still awful. GGs gung

[@timedeathe]

Lack of mobility laughs with frog gear and bundle of Bloons

[@Infamoss_Arch]

My friend and I were just talking about random challenges we could do and this is one of the ones we came up with. GodDAMNN

[@ProJohnson]

Someone unironicly useing the OGOSOF plantera arena is very cool

[@mydude1304]

hey Gungnir, loved the video, I also really like you exploring with souls challenges and other stuff, I think you should try branching out and do these challenges on multiple games.

[@EggboyYolkdum]

Ah yes, i love buying stuff while Cthulhu is watching over me

[@RobYu]

Got a lot of laughs from me 😂 awesome work! What a grind for a few of them, especially ML.

[@Quikkrz]

People say he cheesed moon lord but he showed that its impossible to do it with pre hm gear, so its not like its clickbait

[@retematic2351]

"The spear that never misses its mark" You keep honoring your name.

[@cyan_2877]

Star Canon is such a bad ass weapon. I remember when it was arguably the best ranged weapon all the way back in 1.1/1.2 and it has never stopped being incredibly good

[@menacing_name]

6:40 isnt the demon heart *technically* prehardmode because it takes a while after killing the wof for hardmode to officially toggle on (indicated by the spirits text message) in which time you could use the demon heart

[@Maddy-r7k]

Sorbet cafe would be proud “You ain’t never seen a 2 and a half hour moon Lord fight” no but a have seen a 90 hour one

[@sleeby526]

TECHNICALLY you can get the wall of flesh gear before the world properly becomes hard mode, as there is a time after beating wall of flesh before hardmode starts loading

[@kitkatboi_corn]

i love when you say "the brain is goated i love it"

[@theflyingknight7809]

You should beat terraria without using permanent buffs and regular buffs. (Heart crystals, potions etc)

[@FusionXIII]

The Terraspark boots are technically pre-hardmode, because it drops from hellbats at a .67% chance.

[@helpkirbyhasagun_2047]

Terraria challenge idea Beating NotTheBees while only using Bee stuff You can only use Bee Wings You HAVE to have Bee accessories on You can only attack with Bee weapons like the Bee Gun BeeKeeper, Bees Knees, etc Your only summon can be the hornet summon. You can use whatever armor you want And for fun, use Queen Bee Mask, Bee Shirt, and Bee Pants on vanity slot alongside the Baby Hornet Pet

[@jyedaboss7049]

This guy Is a mad lad

[@jelkluz112]

another gungnir banger

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

Crimson armor is my favorite pre hard mode armor... Looks and function in one set.

[@emmareich2637]

This challenge made me realize maybe I’m the problem on why I’m not progressing…not my gear

[@Driplim]

Those early shield dashes on duke are the bane of my existence.

[@Lando_Calzonian_MK8]

8:57 hey look it’s me

[@Stellar824]

???

[@Lando_Calzonian_MK8]

My name appears in the chat in the bottom left

[@johandori7795]

I really want to say something like "You poor bastard" regarding this challenge, but you quite literally did it to yourself. Still, fun video, I hope you're doing well.

[@neotimekeeper6592]

In my opinion, beating Terraria with such a restriction is a good example of peak Terraria gaming!

[@TheSerperior]

So here's a massive technicality that I was half expecting when you brought up mining hardmode ore; on the 3DS version of Terraria, the Drax pickaxe is technically a pre hard mode item, for whatever reason it is available in Obsidian chests and I just think that is really funny.

[@Sussybakaongong]

In short yes. you can beat terraria with literally anything. Someone beat the game with a lawnmower

[@dibble7368]

It was hilarious to hear Gungnir saying things about Golem that make him sound like a tough fight 😂

[@GPPiano]

I just got a sudden flashback looking at you fight the twins and jumping with the horse mount of Chica's Magic Rainbow 😭

[@Cursed-corn]

Pro tip: when doing ranger class kill retinazer first, he's the only one able to easily kill you

[@waddawa]

Hats off. I cant even beat normal mode moon lord with hardmode gear 🫡

[@considerthehumbleworm]

Was hoping this would convert you to the cult of ballon bundle, but I fear it’s only given them a negative connotation in your mind

[@thedomkill9472]

ah yes the classic OSOGOF-Tunnel. We love to see it.

[@UncleHornieAUS]

I myself probably would've used the grey zapinator with the meteor armour for all of this. It'd be a gamble and all, but saves spending most of that time afk for stars

[@not_vinkami]

The absense of summons surely made this video quite a bit longer

[@HuslWusl]

The 2h fight strongly reminded me of a 2h30 something video of a Dark Souls 3 player beating the final boss at level 1 without any gear or weapons and without getting hit. I'm not sure if that was the one without rolling too

[@Eyrz]

"The brain is goated, I love it" -Gungnir

[@ritchiecleland7294]

i could be wrong but i think many summons count as npcs not projectiles and so can be used, i used this strat as a glitch overloaded my projectiles in my playthrough and i cheesed a boss using this

[@GoingBizark]

How is this not in the challenge run playlist

[@JamUsagi]

People STILL sleeping on the Featherfall potion… pair it with a grappling hook and a balloon and it’s by FAR the best mvement option available pre-hardmode, and I’d argue it’s the best movement option in the game when you swap the balloon for wings.

[@Sabagegah]

Starting the video in Hardmode is odd but makes a lot of sense.

[@ijneb1248]

I beat Wall of Flesh with only PRE-HARDMODE GEAR!! (not clickbait)

[@fluffyvixen4219]

I'm surprised you didn't try dunerider boots. I think it's the fastest preharmode movement accessory.

[@Klortian]

this video was really cool, but by technicality, it would also be possible if you no hit the bosses, but in the heat of the moment, not even I can dodge the attacks well enough lol

[@AnxiousCinder]

This is the rare breed he’s a dark souls player and terraria W

[@daleo-_-3775]

i thought it is a flex that I beat Duke in Expert with Pre Hardmode gear- U did it in master, I found it super hard cuz he has so much hp in master. I did beat the prev bosses in Master but Damn dude I thought Im built diff XD got humbled by a vid

[@FelipeMikael-p1n]

The brain of confusion its just so goated

[@AranDomGuy1st]

i ate chocolate while watching this, it made it much better

[@auzziekidplayzgamez3154]

you actually can get the unicorn mount pre hardmode if you spawn unicorns with a statue, the drop rates are reduced by 20x tho

[@julienbronsch5039]

That is wrong All statues of hardmode enemies have the special proportional where the spawned enemies cant drop *anything* if the world is still in prehardmode

[@MisteedPlayz]

A good day is a day when Gungnir uploads

[@miraclewillow1]

I know hindsight 20/20 but you could've used gravity potions for moonlord's heart on the underside of the platforms

[@theobericeford4112]

Heal way more man, impressive play through but every time you die not on health pot call down I cry

[@tarvod4855]

big fan of the OSOGOF tunnel in the plantera fight

[@Kalani-Tf2]

Good, now beat hardcore legendary mode with only pre-hardmode weapons, and have fun

[@NikoKuehne]

well if you can get to moon lord with the wand of sparking, obviously

[@BrAnDoNxD01]

De los mejores jugadores de TERRARIA que he visto , sigue asi buen video

[@gamercore5216]

Could have summoned some summons before the beach balls to speed up the fight, as long as it's a melee summon and not something like hornet or fire imp that attacks with a protectile

[@purplehaze2358]

The bundle of balloons by itself out-performs a good chunk of hardmode wings, so the tangent on how bad mobility is in this challenge confused me a bit.

[@zephus969]

Wings give you much more control than double jump items though, even if the flight time is similar

[@purplehaze2358]

@@zephus969 Yeah, but extra jumps are better for reacting quickly to attacks seeing as they're essentially upwards dashes. They're not worse than flight, they're a sidegrade to it.

[@FavoritoHJS]

infrastructure: why not use actuated hoiks on a timer? that would be truly doable prehardmode and fetch you even more stars, as there's basically no travel time so fewer stars will take too long to arrive and dissappear with the day weapons: for ranged, maybe molten fury with archery potion would be better - slower fire rate, but around 15 more damage. i wonder if being a mage instead would be optimal for this... Flower of Fire is spammable and deals 48 damage base, but has no pierce Flamelash deals 32 damage base, swings much slower, but can hit 2 enemies, which due to homing can be _the same_ enemy. Demon Scythe deals 35 damage base, creating a slowly accelerating scythe that pierces 5 targets. Probably good for Destroyer and Plantera Weather Pain can provide a constant 18 damage (13 + 10 armor penetration), which could be worthwhile if it doesn't inflict global s. having some minions can't hurt. You get 3 minion slots and 2 sentry slots for free (minion: normal, Bewitching, Summoner; sentry: normal, War Table) Sentry choice is either Ballista (30 damage) or Lighting Aura (4 damage, ignores armor) Choice for minion is obvious: Abigail's Flower, which increases in damage every time it's summoned, and gets a strong buff in hardmode, dealing around 25 damage after 3 summons... assuming it can even hit the enemy if it can't, you'll need to use an imp staff and hornets to taste. whips would also be useful, stacking Snapthorh and Spinal Tap would give +13 damage if going full summoner, obsidian armor gives a strong boost to whips, an extra minion slot, and 30% more damage... i wonder if that could provide similar bulk damage to the star cannon, but without all the stars

[@SpeedsterOOOh]

Bundle of balloons and slime mount is op

[@a3gis_prime]

I think the Wall’s drops can be us for this. Dust it takes a little bit before the game says that you’re in hardmod.

[@Abhi-u7d]

Damn ur just build different huge respect fr

[@Goteryup]

The featherfall potion when pared with the bundle of baloons and the slime mount actually allows for better mobility than most wings in my oppinion and its a pre hard mode potion so i dont know why you dident use it

[@masterbaiter8469]

That's the first time I saw someone use gravitation potion like me against the golem

[@Hisu0]

If you're back to Terraria by any chance, could you attempt a HM+MM+FTW run _without dashing and explosives_ please?

[@maxgoose707]

being here for the stream and then the youtube video feels so uncanny