How I FINALLY Beat Terraria Mediumcore...the HARDEST Difficulty

[@tembieg5434]

Another aspect of Mediumcore that is difficult and nerve wracking is the fact that items disappear after exiting a world so I HAVE TO go recover my items before I can save and exit. I might be at the end of my play session and let my guard down enough that I die and end up potentially having to spend an extra 10-20 minutes on recovery runs cutting into the sleep I'm going to get that night.

[@tabalt7119]

This mistake was what made me end my first, and only, mediumcore run

[@Firesgone]

Dying repeatedly due to the remoteness and local hazards on recovery runs can make that 20 minutes hours easily. I like the idea of mediumcore a lot, but the despawning items when you take a break really makes it an additional challenge, especially compared to Minecraft where dropped items persist indefinitely if you are simply too far away while having a despawn timer instead. The sheer variation and difference of gear in Terraria makes losing your optimized set far more costly as enemies are not level with the unequipped player.

[@certafan]

I've always thought the nude walk of shame was a fate worse than death in any video game with the option. It is exactly as you said, you only die once but in mediumcore a single death can turn into a death chain and hours of strife. Not only that but the shame of dying is magnified to extreme heights when you lose all your good stuff and essentially have to start over while your hyper developed world mocks you with its splendor.

[@QuackersMcCrackers]

You, sir/madam, are a poet and a scholar.

[@certafan]

@@QuackersMcCrackers Thank you for your kind words :)

[@QuackersMcCrackers]

@@certafan Quack 🙇

[@kareemkhan9178]

and the little duck said, quack quack quack quack, but only 1 little duck game back 😥@@QuackersMcCrackers 😥

[@basedcheese1]

i can't believe someone wax poetic about an infuriating terraria feature

[@PowdergameFan18]

My first character was a mediumcore. It was around Plantera that I became fed up with having 3 backup gears in a chest and spending literal hours retrieving gear after dying to the hardmode jungle. Ive never looked back.

[@bruh9505]

Why start with mediumcore?

[@Josh-jw3go]

It's an easy mistake to make b3cause of the name. If you are unfamiliar with terraira it makes it sound not so bad because it is only "medium" Difficulty

[@manachromeYT]

​@@Josh-jw3gothere should be a warning for the difficulty

[@twitchy.mp3]

@@manachromeYT description should just strongly recommend you try casual if you have no characters made yet

[@manachromeYT]

@@twitchy.mp3 I have only really played medium core and hardcore with obserd challenges

[@Cardboard_Master]

23:30 "wall of fresh" imagine the wall of flesh with a cool hat

[@mloucks13]

wall of febreeze is wall of fresh

[@NeftisIsHere]

Remembering this time i thought "If i leave and rejoin the world the mobs will despawn and i can get my items" and just as i clicked save and exit I realized that items despawn when you leave, sooo i lost like 3 loadouts in the post plantera dungeon. Fun times

[@tyesonhutchison]

That happened to me to when i was younger ;-; thankfully due to me being young it was just pre skeletron

[@thelordoftheboring2504]

Happen to me once

[@hisen3.146]

The golden rule of mediumcore is to have your enemies close and your spawn point closer.

[@thomaskennerson1600]

Me when my spawn point isn't close:😱😱😱😱😱

[@N0L1F3Y]

You also need an escape route

[@certafan]

That cut off scream from a jumpscare death is by far one of the funniest cut off screams i have ever heard. Thank you for your contributions 🙏

[@Throarbin]

I try 😂

[@johnwright2217]

I played Mediumcore on the No Traps seed. I died to a FISHRON STATUE, and it took over 15 deaths to recover my gear, especially since the statue-spawned Fishron picked up my gold...

[@Throarbin]

oh yeah...that was something I was always afraid of happening

[@Utetheisa-Coloptera-Ulgari]

FISHRON STATUE??? I havent played terraria in awhile please inform me of what that is

[@johnwright2217]

@@Utetheisa-Coloptera-Ulgari There are 3 types of statues that can spawn underground. First, there's ones like Boot and Sword statues, that are just statues and don't do anything. Then, there's ones like Butterfly and Snail statues, that spawn whatever critter they appear as when wired to a trigger. Finally, enemy statues, that function like critter statues, but spawn enemies. The hardmode ice caverns can spawn a rare enemy when infected with Corruption/Crimson/Hallow called Fishrons (not Duke), and they are very difficult when encountered in progression, let alone at the Pre-Boss stage...

[@colorlessnoob2712]

@@johnwright2217 so... pigrons.

[@AlmondNut]

15 deaths is GENEROUS compared to my first playthrough on that seed 💀🤝

[@graye_2843]

Flamethrower is indeed an amazingly underrated weapon. It melts through the hardmode dungeon despite strong options being available because it simply stunlocks opponents even like bone lee

[@Throarbin]

Yeah, only problem you might run into is running out of gel, so you gotta kind of be thinking of that from the start, lol

[@graye_2843]

@@Throarbin yeah but by then you've probably killed hundreds of slimes. Although i was a bit shocked to see you using the flamethrower so late in the game, going for the elfmelter is definitely a great upgrade

[@Throarbin]

@@graye_2843 elf melter would be great but I wasn't looking to really use a flamethrower as a primary weapon and the pumpkin or frost moon sounded like pain

[@b0ne_r3aper78]

@@Throarbin flamethrowers are affected by ammo conservation buff like the ammo box and ammo conservation potion, so you can limit the need for gel, and some armor also give the same buff.

[@graye_2843]

@@Throarbin yeah it is indeed a pain. but somehow I usually end up with it and enough pink gel for ultra dps

[@TrackyW]

if you didn't know the shimmer's depth is dependant on the block used for jungle shrines, so exploring the jungle to find what type of block the shrines are is actually a bit useful!

[@Throarbin]

I think that was mentioned in a terra steel video or something. The whole thing sounded so convoluted that I'm still convinced it's a joke, lol

[@panther-nk2hn]

@@Throarbin Considering the nature of the Internet, that being a joke wouldn't surprise me in the least. I think I've found the shimmer legit like once. Every other time I just cheat with Terra Map viewer bc I'm lazy.

[@arashiyari]

I know this is late, but you can also know the horizontal position of the shimmer using your guide's name on world creation and a couple other things. It would be at 6552' East in this world.

[@Throarbin]

@@arashiyari Yeah, I know about that. I still think it's all a convoluted joke started by Terrasteal 🤣. I refuse to use the convoluted method for no reason other than sheer hubris

[@arashiyari]

Ahhh that's fine, I have 2500 hours in this and there's a few quirks I've picked up because I'm stubborn too, I almost outright refuse to use potions at times because I hardly end up needing them.

[@Fuljix]

Imagine what it would be like playing mediumcore on the Zenith seed Edit: I realized right after leaving this comment that waffletime was doing this at the time somehow I totally forgot

[@Throarbin]

I think another KZbinr either did or is doing that. Maybe is Gungir or Sipho but I forget

[@yassirmedchems3197]

Waffle time

[@vivishii_]

also, haboo did a hardcore zenith run :)

[@yesyesnono158]

Well who else would do that rather than waffletime? If you don't know, waffletime is a calm, polite, and a stoic man. He never rages even after certain annoying deaths. He stays calm poised as he fights bosses. Definitely

[@theman599]

​@@yesyesnono158hes also very family friendly

[@MasterSonicKnight]

i think i have a good hint for starting in a mediumcore run, whenever u travel to dangerous place (like jungle, crimson/corruption), try to always make tunnels and segment the areas into "rooms", so if the enemies start to get out of hand u can always go back to the previous section/tunnel, and even if something spawns in the tunnels u can quickly cut them off by placing some blocks. not many people take advantage of the sandbox potential of terraria outside of making arenas/specific setups, simply making tunnels for quickly and safely travelling around is extremely useful at the beginning of runs, and also in general when going mediumcore apparently. fair warning tho, it can't stop enemies like ghosts or worms from getting to u, but at least u can deal with them without also having to fight all the 17 other enemies comming for u. oh, and do bring yoyos with u when using those tunnels, u can wall urself in, break a single block on the wall and then safely kill enemies without issues. some projectiles can also work but u don't have nearly as much precision/sideways range as u'd have with yoyos

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

Yeah tunnels are a godsend. You don't even need backup gear to recover your inventory, just dig to your death location and if you have to cross open areas, use dirt to inch your way towards it without exposing yourself

[@almostbedtime8720]

i remember taking full advantage of the sandbox mechanic when i went into the arsenal labs in calamity

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

The kids really do yearn for the mines, thankyou Terraria

[@A_Player5568]

WE MAKING IT OUT OF HARDCORE MODE WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥

[@Throarbin]

lol

[@bloxyyt]

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABT 🔥🔥

[@SnakesDontSmile]

@@bloxyyt its the "we makin it outa da hood" meme

[@bloxyyt]

@@SnakesDontSmile no i know what he's tryna do it just doesn't work in this context

[@cryinit]

npc

[@nbrugger2]

This is the first video i've watched by you, and I have to say, I was very, VERY impressed. This video managed to capture my attention for all 48 minutes, something not many content creators can do. You are extremely underrated and deserve to have way more subscribers than you do. Congratulations on one more sub.

[@Throarbin]

Hey thanks! I really appreciate that :)

[@994playz]

My first from him as well :)

[@pulvuros6775]

If anyone wants to do a mediumcore run: I HIGHLY recomend the Neat Mediumcore mod, it makes it so when you pick up your stuff, it all goes back to exactly where it was in your inventory. This includes auto-equipping Armor and accessories, and makes mediumcore MUCH more fun because you don’t have to resort your inventory every time you die

[@dwarian5252]

I believe the reason you did not have enough scales to craft a full set of gear on the EoW is because the grass blade's projectiles can go through walls and apply poison, which means many of the segments in the EoW fight died and dropped their scales in unreachable places.

[@Throarbin]

I did actually check to see if that was the case but didn't find hardly any scales in the walls

[@drq_seed]

they also don't have a 100 % to drop the stuff and drop demonite instead (iam unsure if that's the case I know it's a case with brain of cuthulu)

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

I wouldn't dare do mediumcore. For all the reasons you mentioned, sure, but also losing something like the Terra Blade, Terra Boots or the Ankh Shield would've been soul crushing. Upon death I'd be trapped in an endless cycle of recovering my stuff and praying I don't hit the item limit, since that or exiting the world would permanently delete the items. And yeah, Duke's final phase pattern is weirdly hard to detect for something as simple as 1-2-3-repeat.

[@Throarbin]

yeah, that's why you gotta have a really good backup set but if you lose that then you could really get stuck easily

[@CyberMello2009]

For hardcore mode, you dont even have to worrry about that since you lose everything and have to start over

[@b3ndy420]

The amount of times i died in my mediumcore world was insane. I lost the zenith after crafting it, twice. Once it was because i got cocky and trashed my copper pickaxe and blocked myself in fighting a corruptor.

[@whoknowswhocares3804]

@@CyberMello2009 Which makes it harder. x_x I don't understand the title at all.

[@mega_gamer93]

@@whoknowswhocares3804 hardcore is one death and that's it. You are done. On mediumcore death is not as big of a deal, which fools you into a false sense of security and ends up more difficult and frustrating than knowing that one death is the end. 10:48 is an example of this

[@minigoal4672]

I tried a playthrough on Expert mode, but I have a not so good headphone cable, and if you didn't know, Terraria can crash if the noise output source changes. Long story short, I died with stuff I'd spent hours grinding for, and got it back, only to accidently bumped my headphone cable, game crashed, sent be back to the time when I was preparing to go get my stuff back... meaning stuff was deleted. My turtle armour (spent hours hunting for turtle shells), terrablade (I JUST MADE) and my grinded equipment was gone. I quit the run there and just started a mastermode playthrough. XD

[@nenetheokboomer6472]

I realized that watching someone doing it and actually playing it myself gives two completely different feel.

[@wyatta7442]

I remember how just a month or so ago when I started watching your content you had around 10k subs. Glad to see your comstantly improving and getting the recognition you deserve!

[@nathankellogg2640]

I used to play Mediumcore all of the time... That's because some horribly, evil developer thought the default difficulty on Xbox 360 should bave been mediumcore. I remember playing one time with my older brother who only dropped coins. He always claimed it was *A special item*

[@DeathDoesThings]

noooo

[@DonYagamoth]

I've beaten Master FTW Hardcore, and I refuse to play Mediumcore. Starting over fresh, trying to be more efficient and faster the next time, and having the satisfaction of completing the challenge deathless is much more appealing... So... I agree, Mediumcore is the most brutal of challenges, if not gameplay-wise, it is mentally. And for that I applaud you beating it that way °-°;

[@nitronome]

If you've beaten hardcore deathless then just do the same on mediumcore I dont understand how anyone can say mediumcore is worse One you lose maybe at worst an hour trying to retrieve stuff Other is potentially losing tens of hours and having to start over

[@Brandonr757sGaming]

Just wanted to comment and say this video was so entertaining, way more than I'd expected when I found it. Hoping to see more here, this is great.

[@Lunarcreeper]

pro tip, in a mediumcore playthrough, make sure to stock up on cloud or poo blocks and place them at the bottom of your hellavators so you don't take fall damage. you can also use pink gel blocks, but clouds and poo are easier to obtain.

[@Its_Only_Chill]

Wait cloud blocks do that?!

[@Snowytheguy]

​@@Its_Only_Chillthe tool tip literally says "negates fall damage"

[@Its_Only_Chill]

@@Snowytheguy it didn't used to

[@Aelinbunn]

I gotta meet my friends tomorrow and I cannot believe you got me to watch not ten, not twenty, but ***forty eight*** minutes of absolute banger content. Please pray for me, I'm gonna be on 6 hours of sleep. Thank you for the video!!

[@thatONEdude427]

That's the beauty of terraria, after feeling so much pain, you feel relief or greatness when you finally got it done.

[@Player-fy6en]

Did a mediumcore Master Mode as my 1 ever succesfull run, The Pillars were hell when i died there, the enemys were so strong for sm reason and i thought so many times to quit but i pushed through and beat the Moon Lord. It took me almost 100 hours of pain.

[@Throarbin]

Wow, 100 hours? That sucks.

[@derekstryder2281]

Something to keep in mind when doing a Mediumcore run is maintaining beds across the world when you can. Also, putting distance between you and the enemy mobs (like with walls, ceilings and floors.) Also, Yo-yos and other weapons that can hit through one block gaps are your best friend in a mediumcore run.

[@derekstryder2281]

Oh yeah, Return Potions are also basically essential for gear retrieval. And also the Magnet.

[@Ashlevon]

Your Master Mode boss fights and getting stuck on the mech bosses felt like me fighting them back in v1.1. I swear, they were somehow way harder than they are now.

[@TheMistermastermario]

The mechs were actually nerfed from the transfer from 1.1 to 1.2, so they actually were harder before. Not to mention that many awesome weapons for the time are considered weak now, and the weapons that we use to kill the mech bosses nowadays would be godlike for 1.1 standards.

[@_Ecliptic]

I feel like at one point we lost the "mediumcore challenge", and it developed into a "throwing myself at the brickwall of mastermode" type video. Anyway, watched it all, you very much deserve this sub, watching a fast(ish) terraria run hs given me more motivation to continue my own terraria world.

[@Upsters]

Backed beans

[@Throarbin]

oh, not the first comment. So close though

[@Throarbin]

@@River-dude threats will get you nowhere 🤣

[@baked_bean_juice]

River-dude you summon me

[@mythmakroxymore1670]

I sctually LOVE mediumcore. It lets you remember to slow down and develop your bases, because then it gets easier to recollect your gear, especially with a fleshed out pylon system. Just make sure to have lava gear before even thinking about going to the Underworld.

[@Pvesti]

Man your narrative style is full to the brim with emotions, the genuine laugh when you saved yourself just before jumping to your death got me laughing hard. Gotta sub, keep it up with this kinda humor!

[@christiangeisner2928]

I love how the entire video the map is an aquarium. I have no clue why, but it made me laugh once I saw it :)

[@G-Forces]

I got the crimson key on like the sixth hardmode crimson enemy I killed in a recent playthrough.

[@Throarbin]

bruh, that's awesome!

[@ThisIsABadIdeaSrsly]

I played Mediumcore with friends once, years ago. Even in multiplayer and with wormhole potions it was a miserable experience. My old char is still saved in Steam cloud, always there to remind me how painful it all was.

[@Fudgenutcicles]

What a stellar work of art this video is, it almost makes me want to do some medium core runs ❤ lol

[@Throarbin]

oh no, don't do it XD

[@sonnitude]

It’s funny. I always wrote medium core off because “Why would I select this if I wanted to lose everything when hardcore is right there?” Forgetting that the run back for your precious gear can be the hardest part, especially since terraria does protect most higher rarity items from burning in lava, so if you die in lava… you better have an obsidian skin potion.

[@MilesJoiner-hh2qr]

Hardcore is harder but medium core can be more frustrating.

[@exantiuse497]

No, it can't. You always have the option to quit a mediumcore character if you want. You don't have the option to continue after dying on hardcore. It can only be more frustrating if you want it to be

[@dadakoala2048]

Coming back to this video and hearing you say " i've killed empress only one time outsider of journey" made me lough more than i had to

[@PixeldigitaI]

Mediumcore is just the mode people play on to mentally strain themselves

[@Throarbin]

yeah, pretty much

[@bear.strngth]

Pretty much all my normal runs are on mediumcore. The reason is that I play pretty cautionless if I play on softcore, leading to a whole bunch of deaths. When I play mediumcore I make sure to prep properly, always have recall potions ready, etc. That way I can keep most of my runs nearly deathless. That being said I did manage to softlock myself a few times.

[@sir_moo]

Terrasteel has a video about how to find the shimmer. As for the OBS thing, try recording in mkv then remuxing (file>remux) it to mp4. Good video btw.

[@Throarbin]

I tried the remux thing put it "remuxed" a recording once when I was only a half hour in and it stopped recording, requiring me to start it again and that'd be a pretty big problem. I also did the mkv thing but I edit on a Mac, not my pc and Mac can't read mkv so I'd have to spend an hour or two converting every recording which takes too long. I found a solution which isn't a big deal, just a minor inconvenience. Also I saw Terrasteel's video and part of me still think's it was a joke, it sounds way too convoluted 🤣

[@FrostBird347]

@@Throarbin I can't guarantee that it will work with whatever video editing software you use, but you could try using something like ffmpeg to convert the video from mkv to mp4 without re-encoding it (it also wouldn't change the quality in any way), which should take only a minute instead. For example, using ffmpeg you could use "ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map 0 -c copy output.mp4" in terminal, replacing the input.mkv and output.mp4 with your video files (note that you would also need to have ffmpeg installed, another helpful tip is that dragging a file into terminal will paste the file's full path where the cursor is). Obviously this is more technical, but it is something you can take note of and try if you find yourself loosing footage often enough

[@Throarbin]

@@FrostBird347 Appreciate it, though I'm not nearly tech savvy enough to confidently use terminal. My current work around is just closing OBS after every recording and then opening it again. Don't run into the problem this way, it's just a minor inconvenience

[@The_JLav]

Mediumcore is the most discouraging of the modes. In classic, you get to jump right back into what you were doing. In hardcore, you get to jump into a new world, so you get the excitement of seeing how the world generates and what types of loot show up. In mediumcore, you aren't jumping back into anything, you're going on a long walk for which you are probably unprepared. It's the difference between a Celeste level where you retry instantly after dying and a Dark Souls boss that requires a five-minute run through dangerous territory every time you fail.

[@Cat36613]

I did it on master mode with only 4 deaths. It was pretty easy. No hate, it's just that I think everybody swears this gamemode is harder than hardcore which it clearly isn't.

[@JoshuaRennig]

i've always loved how cactus armor looks like this 🌚

[@alper1909]

it feels weird to get mentioned by a youtuber/streamer

[@Throarbin]

I bet, lol

[@Ang3lUki]

I NEED more mediumcore, those retrieval stories are HILARIOUS, that's some top tier content

[@MrCatHeroYt]

In the past I just use master mode just to get the extra items but I’m now using it to get rid of the guardian guardian in the future so I can use the map at least before I do it

[@LZRMonkey249]

for some reason yes master mode does give less shadow scales for the worm but generally it gives more in the bag instead of from the parts themselves

[@tdl1315]

Maybe its just me but THE FIRST thing i do when i start a new world after cutting down a tree and making a crafting bench is wood armor

[@seizuresalad1558]

The first ever run I did in terraria was mediumcore normal. I did this since I like picking medium difficulties as my first playthroughs in any games i play. A highlight of my playthrough was getting the goblin invasion event in hardmode and dying, then getting spawncamped by the goblins for the next hour while trying to retrieve my gear which was around 50-80 blocks away, scattered across the general spawn area, as my attempts to escape the loop of death via goblin summoner grew in number. I regret playing on mediumcore.

[@digibeastgaming2814]

When mastermode first released i was like, "expert mode wasnt that vad lets try mediumcore mastermode" and boy that was quite the experience

[@Wystyrya]

The shrimpy truffle in the rain is so good for EoL (even in daytime). Just flying away from the boss in one direction until that one attack where you have to turn around repeatedly makes the terraprisma very easy to obtain. W video

[@madDragon08]

Amazes me how many people played with an easy character. All I ever did was Medium core. Did I die often? yeah. Did I successfully retrieve my items back with my backup gear or borderline naked rescue missions? yeah. Helps build survival skills.

[@brawlstarsaspirant]

Medium core for the win

[@Mantibladee]

the real reason mediomcore is harder than hardcore is the following : When you die in hardcore, you die. Permanently. But in mediumcore, you have the opportunity to gather your items back, before they despawn. The reason its harder is because you dont just start fresh, and rush to your items leading into a death chain, despawning your items, raging, and eventually just completely restarting.

[@drewpeacock9087]

you could choose to just restart still all mediumcore gives is extra options if you want them, it's objectively easier than hardcore.

[@Psycho0Noob]

in the final phase of duke, you should dodge towards him not away from him, you don't even need to think just dash into him and it works 100% yes i took this from gungir i am not smart enough to figure this out myself

[@Jikkuryuu]

It's never really anyone's first thought, but Terraria has always had item-based progression. That was one of its novel features back when it released. That's something the devs have talked about. Being able to skip ahead by diving into dangerous places for advanced gear is something every player approves of. And Mediumcore makes you drop everything. Aside from HP/MP that's equivalent to "resetting to level 1" in an rpg. And Terraria does have rpg-like difficulty progression, where no amount of skill can bridge the gap. While this is all basic stuff that everyone _knows,_ it's not how people look at dropping all your stuff on death. They think of the inconvenience it presents in Minecraft or other games, rather than "I literally can't get to the place I died without the tools I dropped there."

[@brennanbowden6955]

fell into a spike hole in the dungeon and spent the next 1.5 hours attempting to get my stuff back. it despawned by the time I got it 🙃

[@3dscameras]

18:52 for future reference, you don't need to wait until night for npc's to move into brand new housing, you just need to move far enough away and you can see them appear on the minimap

[@3dscameras]

20:35 on the terraria wiki there's a page that goes into detail about how precisely to find the shimmer in any given world, it might take a bit but it will surely take less than the 40 minutes spent the shimmer also always spawns towards one end of the world, so an easier strategy is to dig down near the oceans

[@RotoruaBOP]

As a long time old school runescape player mediumcore makes the game feel alot more rewarding since in osrs you also drop items upon death (not everything but basically mostly everything) And before updates what made things worse are, you'd barely have enough time to make it back not just to collect your loot but being an MMO you're also racing back so other players wouldn't loot your sh*t In retrospect you learn to be careful, use your knowledge on the game and basically take what is needed instead of freely running around without risk hence why medium core is the best character difficulty in Terraria and should be played more often otherwise it's like playing a game you can't lose at.

[@glassramen]

People who only played minecraft would think it's similar to that, it is not. I tried mediumcore once, died in hell and started a new world on normal mode lmao. Can't wait to see if you do too.

[@blaze.3731]

Am I the only person who noticed at 7:35 the map is a fish tank video?

[@Tranch7161]

I found your channel through one year, one world, and I’m so glad I did. Love your vids man! Can’t wait for July wyow to come out🔥🔥🔥

[@Throarbin]

Thanks! And yeah, I love making the One Year One World videos and I'm so glad people like watching them!

[@SupremeDirt]

i haven't played this game since the original hard mode update way back and this is making me want to revisit it.

[@Throarbin]

Definitely worth it! But don't do mediumcore first 🤣

[@SupremeDirt]

@@Throarbin definitely not, i remember when it came out and that was a quite frustrating day trying to mess with it x)

[@pIllowVent84]

Love your personality and terraria love to see your content

[@chair448]

Me and my friends did a coop run on mediumcore. Needless to say half our playtime was spent falling down the hellevator or running through the hardmore jungle to grab our stuff. Truly a grueling experience. Luckily my hoarder instincts to save and display any armor or weapons ive found came in clutch

[@Blossom_the_ULTRAKILL_addict]

“all kinds of basic materials to work with” the gnome in your inventory:

[@StormOfSin]

i wish players dropped a treasure bag on death, that way you just had to pickup your bag and open it when ready. it couldn't be that hard to implement and it would be really nice

[@Throarbin]

that would be really nice

[@blueshadow914]

Dieing in medium core is like poseing funny before a nyje hits

[@FaeSleepy]

"The Wall of Fresh" WoF got that style. That class

[@DaRealMcNugget]

Throarbin: "Mediumcore is the hardest difficulty!!!!1111!!" Hardcore Co-op: "Nah, i`d win."

[@yeremifeliz1137]

Betsy's wings are underrated for the empress fight. The horizontal flight lets you dodge most of the attacks even in the second phase.

[@harryraze4048]

the crabulon theme goes hard

[@MemeMan42069]

6:15 the funniest part of this is it wasn't the piranha that killed him but it was a slime that he never saw.

[@jek__]

I usually build my base high enough above the ground so ground enemies cant spawn but too low for harpies to spawn. Make it a solid rectangle and put lava on top, with a hoik elevator immediately above spawn so you can just push up and you'll be in your base in moments, with no ability for enemies to spawn anywhere. Prevents spawn camp soft locking

[@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her]

Me & my bro have only ever played Mediumcore; we like challenges, & we want death to be dreadful enough to want to avoid it as much as possible. Body runs were always just plain part of the game for us, & we assumed that only newbies used the easy mode to start off & learn, before graduating to the "normal" way to play. When we eventually started watching others play on KZbin, we were kinda shocked to see all the big names only doing Babycore (LOL), so we stopped watching anyone play Terraria for years. I mean, what's a "survival game" if death is just an involuntary Magic Mirror or Recall Potion use? 😅 But eventually, I made my peace with the fact that video entertainers don't exactly have the free time to repeatedly reorganize their inventory after hundreds of body runs, & started giving them views. At least keeping your inventory has allowed lots of you folks to challenge yourselves in other crazy ways, which have been amazing to watch. Big props for tackling such a gut-wrenching, patience-twisting challenge, especially when you're so used to not dealing with its punishing consequences. It truly is a grueling, frustrating slog sometimes (& really makes lava a force to be feared; I'm surprised you didn't remark more about many of your items melting forever), & makes one have to play differently & truly value what you have. I don't blame you for not wanting to do it again, LOL, it really is brutal. But thanks for giving it a go, & congrats on overcoming the challenge! (Even if it _is_ just what this gal calls an average play session [haha], it's kept me from really mastering the bosses, instead just barely struggling & surviving, then putting them behind me. This video got me thinking I should actually step back a bit to the easier character mode for while, to practice them more, before returning to "survival near-horror" mode & increasing my chances of successive successes there, so I can finally beat Master Mode too.)

[@bam4417_]

when i first started playing terraria i started off with mediumcore because i thought that only losing money on classic was too easy. probably spent about half of my game time in mediumcore, before i died, lost everything (without managing to get it back), and i ended up starting over in a classic world. still am yet to beat mediumcore

[@potatoeboi]

What you lose each mode for dying Journey: nothin Classic: money Mediumcore: your sanity. Hardcore: your will to play for a month.

[@lordranchsauce3012]

That pure and unadulterated shock at 14:39 was too real. I felt that

[@colourfulbees]

im literally playing calamity as mediumcore and any death followed by a crash is the most humbling thing, I managed to get back a lot of things bc i had farmed for plat coins the night before but geez almost had to restart game progression in post mechs

[@featherlight2652]

I’ve always wondered why I was okay with dropping my items in Minecraft but in Terraria I never let that happen. In Minecraft, you can always make a plan. There’s always something you can do unless your items were burned up. In Terraria, if you drop everything, and can’t make a pickaxe, it’s over. It’s just over. You *need* multiple load outs in medium core because the world is not only difficult to traverse on its own but it gets harder the more you progress. Something about dropping all your items in Terraria is just so much more heartbreaking than Minecraft.

[@Throarbin]

Well in Terraria you do spawn back in with a pickaxe and what have you so you can get going again. But yeah, it is especially painful losing your stuff in Terraria. Maybe it's just because it's a lot harder to survive and the point of the game is progress while in Minecraft losing your stuff isn't nearly a game ending problem

[@DulfyBee]

Take a shot every time he says "Wall of Fresh"

[@NathanKent01]

super late to this since the videos 2 weeks old but the third phase of duke fishron is extremely easy as long as you have a cthulu shield. combined with the knowledge alper gave you, if you dash into fishron when he dashes at you, you avoid all damage since the shield bash gives you just enough invincibility frames to avoid getting hit at all. Thats why i tend to do duke fishron pre mech bosses as summoner since that knowledge makes the third phase a cake walk.

[@maurwinguevarra6190]

9:37 My first character was on mediumcore and this happened to me Right now this is my 9th attempt to finish terraria 3 hardmode 6 pre hardmode Most of my attempts are mobs either spawn killing me or they won't despawn due to coins (mobs can take your coins and not despawn due to that) (also if you're playing in mediumcore i recommend you placing your coins in vault/piggy bank)

[@Blueybeak]

played this with my friends like 3 years ago on expert + large world thinking it was normal difficulty for semi-experienced players. 3/4ths of the run was just various people angrily trying to cross half of the map and descend into hell with nothing but random scraps from chests. no matter where you were, you would always run into someone with trashy armor and no accessories desperately trying to push forward while fending off enemies with their copper pickaxe. one of my worst gaming experiences for sure

[@purplehaze2358]

I'm pretty sure amphibian boots would be significantly better - both in general and for mediumcore specifically - than anything on the terraspark boots crafting tree.

[@b0ne_r3aper78]

to anyone who for some reason want's to do mediumcore, please remember that the strongest orce against most enemies is blocks, you don't need that good of a weapon or gear to get your stuff back if you dig your way to it, and you can always build around you to get throught open spaces and make manmade tunnes through caves if need be. Medium core is like playing Hardcore, but you don't die permanently, it's just as painful to die,k but to add insult to injury you also need to walk to your stuff.

[@Throarbin]

yup, pretty much

[@manachromeYT]

I mostly play medium core

[@SBerrioww]

@@manachromeYT 💀

[@nasendo1]

Thats so interesting that almost everyone seems to find the destroyer and twins easier to fight first. I’ve always found skeleton prime far easier.

[@lazybunny3400]

Me too, For some reason I have way more trouble with destroyer

[@kellamyoshikage286]

The only case where mediumcore can ever be harder than hardcore is when you're being chain spawnkilled in an invasion with no time limit like martians or hardmode goblins. Even then, it really is just not hard to make a sky box with chests of gear backups so you can just pick up your dropped loot in a few minutes and get back to business. And yeah, you did get the goblins to spawn right as you died halfway across the world. On the bright side, there, you can just put some platforms and solid blocks a little bit up and clear things out with the enchanted boomerang. If you had dug pits beside your doors, your NPCs wouldn't have died either. Even if we assume you lost your gear in, say, pre-Skeletron dungeon at a height where you couldn't possibly get it back, even with potions of return, you've still done hours of exploration and building and progression that you physically cannot lose. In terms of babyproofing, hardcore worlds also need that more, because if you make a mistake in mediumcore you can still undo that mistake. Lost all your rope? Get merchant and buy more. Put money in your piggy bank, information accessories and potions in your void bag. I'd also like to point out that every single death in this video took far less time to recover from than you spent in the playthrough up to that point. If you average a death once every 2 hours in mediumcore, you get a few extra hours of playtime by the end of your run. If you average a death once every 2 hours in hardcore, it would take a par of 800+ hours just to survive a single 40 hour run. For gameplay tips, consider torches? Being able to actually see things is surprisingly useful for not dying to them. Beyond torches, flaming arrows, glowsticks, enchanted boomerang, and especially flare gun are great for this. So many earlygame deaths just from you not considering that there could be enemies in the darkness... Also, don't melee jellyfish, when they go into their invincible shock attack on expert and above, they shock you through your melee weapons. That's why you died to that jellyfish, and they actually deal boosted damage through this method.

[@rmpgdemon1871]

The way I like to play medium core difficulty is, build statues to place my old armor and always have a chest full of back-up essentials. Make multiples and sort your gear into chests. An example would be "I have 3 chests. 1 contains potions, another contains weapons and the last contains ingredients for potions". Also, I never really use rope either. I use platforms instead. Quick and easy, or slow and steady. All that being said, I suck anyways and can't handle the game past the wall of flesh lol.

[@RamesGamesLC]

This video is the epitome of humans failing to adapt to something because they perceive the difficulty or consequence to be lesser than another challenge simply because on a list, calling it "medium" means it doesn't need approached with as much caution. As you've experienced, mediumcore is FAR more punishing than hardcore for the exact reason you explained. You have to endure the challenge, respawning with nothing knowing everything you had is out there potentially unable to be retrieved is more punishing than hardcore, where, in a same but different manner you actually just start over. Having to crawl through the events beaten and battered and slog back to lost items using far less caution than deserved is what makes it challenging.

[@charlessawyer96]

15:00 I’ve done that in every…video game…ever. The pain of having the luck to conceive of and pull off such a stunt, but not the skill to stick the landing and not wobble the controls even a millimetre too far,,,

[@ela-811]

Really wanna double check some of my old gameplay saves, cause I could've sworn my first playthroughs into HardMode were on Mediumcore.

[@sunblade704]

I'm always surprised that not more people start with Skeleton Prime, it's the easiest fight for me by a long shot :x

[@coffee0093]

truth

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

Well you know what they say. In hardcore you prepare to stay alive. In mediumcore you prepare for death. Although imo the biggest part that makes it harder isn't the softlock that prevents you from progressing. It's the softlock that keeps you from surviving long enough to pause and hit menu. Unless you play on the pause in the inventory setting like a baby, you could get absolutely bodied and be forced to use alt f4. I am trying modded Terraria and just beat the mech bosses in calamity and starsabove in one, and I remember the goblin army screwed me that hard WITH MY GEAR, and if I wasn't on classic I would be doomed.

[@ranmasaotome1094]

My first ever playthrough was mediumcore + master mode. Took me about 150 hours to beat, unforgettable experience :)

[@Dr.Silly-xl6tz]

6:43 “It’ll be fine!”, he said. “We have more fire power,” he said.

[@sapphire--9375]

make a minecart tracks spanning from the left side of the world to the right. Even on casual core, even on hard core, especially on medium. At worst its a very good time save for a dirt cheap amount of resources, at best its a game saver. well i guess you could just use pylons aswell, but its still usful to have tracks in the spaces between pylons

[@babymanjones]

you kinda sound like jerry seinfeld and that enhanced the entertainment value for me lol. Great video