#mediumcore

SecretMcAgent had a good run. Here's where she killed Queen Bee. That was one of the last things she was able to do before being irretrievably lost...

There was a pool of lava, and an attempt to use the bottomless water bucket to cover it over with obsidian, but things started attacking and I flailed around trying to change to my sword, but then died miserably.

Backup gear seemed good, and with the second anklet of the wind which turned up in one of SecretMcAgent's aborted attempts to retrieve her gear, a second set of lightning boots was made.

A mis-click while playing made my game window re-locate and made the mouse cursor offset, and so I did the stupidest thing EVAR -- I saved and exited the world.

ALL HER STUFF IS GONE NOW. At least all of it which was dropped loose in the world.

I quote from the wiki, "Items that are in the "dropped" state will disappear ("despawn") upon exiting the world. At that point, it is impossible to reacquire them."

Thus, I'm pretty much done with mediumcore, LOL!

Bob had said I should go back and "finish" the game in classic / classic and he's probably right. Cleo and Shelly both are stuck at the lunatic cultists.

I'm trying to cut back on my drinking, so I tend to not play as Wino much these days. Last I left her, she'd killed Plantera!

Emerald just needs to kill The Destroyer to have all three mech bosses down. She's been working on world purification a bunch, mostly because it's very satisfying to use biome sight potion and the clentaminator.

There's also DeathCat in DeathCat'sExpertHell, but expert mode has its own challenges. One thing I did with DeathCat much earlier in the day was to go fishing at the oases having consumed a lesser luck potion. She's been fishing even though she hasn't yet made it to either sea coast to find the angler, in the hopes of fishing up some good stuff.

Spent a bunch of time as SecretMcAgent today and one of the first things that needed doing was killing the Eater of Worlds again, because she was ONE shadow scale short of being able to craft the void bag and void vault. Plus she needed a ton more jungle spores and bones, but Eater of Worlds was required.

And now that I'm reviewing and looking at the screenshot, did I not take my buff potions? No wonder it went the way it did! She had to take a healing potion mid-battle, but at least this time, the battle was in a more open area.

A bit later, noodling around and splitting some of my attention off to a text chat with Bob and his tales of starting an Expert world with a new character and I said, "meh, slime is falling from the sky"

As SecretMcAgent and her snow flinx minions killed slime after slime, I was eyeing my base and thinking, "huh, there's no solidifier anywhere, so I guess SecretMcAgent hasn't actually fought King Slime yet?"

I was the two snow flinx minions that actually dealt the killing blows. I'll take the win.

For creating the void bag / void vault, I needed more bones, so it was off to the dungeon, where I fell into a spiky pit (something which happens fairly regularly) and was not able to magic mirror away before dying.

I'd taken a screenshot early in the session to show the contents of the RESPAWN chest, but this one is so much better since SecretMcAgent is completely unequipped beyond the three initial copper tools.

The RESPAWN chest is set up to let me quickly re-load my hotbar and reequip armor and some critical accessories.

SecretMcAgent then crafted the void vault / void bag combo so that when she went back to the spiky pit in the dungeon where she died before, she'd be sure that ALL of her stuff got picked up before magic mirroring home to sort it all out, repack the RESPAWN chest and get any extra loot put away.

After reading Bob's comments on Expert mode, I thought I'd give it a look. I love the early game phase, and I try to be pretty cautious, so I made a brand new character, DeathCat, who is a classic character so no dropping all the goods upon death, and an Expert mode world named DeathCat'sExpertWorld.

Here's DeathCat getting hunkered in to survive the first night:

She'd find herself digging horizontally just two or three blocks under the ground, notching up to only one block thick to pick up fallen stars and any gels dropped from the Guide killing slimes. I think she got at least 20 stars by morning.

The world is grim, though, with a crimson biome just west of spawn, past three living trees, one of which had a finch staff in it, so that was nice.

To the east, there are two oasis biomes relatively close to each other in one vast desert. That's where DeathCat died the one time. She was able to venture through the deserts only to find another crimson biome on the other side.

She's got some worms and made a reinforced fishing rod, plus the merchant moved in, so she also has a bug net. Next time for DeathCat is to attempt to fish in the oases for a magic conch and whatever else she can catch.

SecretMcAgent's next moves are to find the Stylist (she showed up on the lifeform analyzer, but then despawned before I could find her, and the next time SecretMcAgent went back there, she found the Tavernkeep!) and to take on Queen Bee to get the Witchdoctor.

Emerald still needs to kill the Destroyer.

I played as SecretMcAgent today, my mediumcore character, and today she not only killed the Eater of Worlds, but also managed to defeat a goblin army.

The battle for Eater of Worlds was carefully planned and totally failed in execution, but worked out just fine anyway. There were three shadow orbs. First to break the lower one, then the one back to the left, then the one in the gap. At that point, I thought I'd be able to jump up into the main horizontal area, but noooOOOOOooooo.... the EoW pushed SecretMcAgent down into a corner and pinned her there.

She just swung that Falcon Blade non-stop, as it has autoswing, the first of SecretMcAgent's melee weapons to work that way. With all the buff potions she'd taken, the damage done barely registered on her hit points. The entire battle sounded so much worse than it actually was.

SecretMcAgent also had built a specific spawn point room, with the RESPAWN chest of goods right there, and the room hopefully up out of the way of any invading mobs, but so far, she has managed no to die in the past few sessions.

When I went to play SecretMcAgent again, I was briefly confused as to why she only had 180 mana points. It's because she has an Arcane Tsunami in a Bottle, so in-game, appeared to have 200 mana points.

That was after the battle with the Eye of Cthulhu... Collecting life crystals until she had enough to voom up from 140 hit points all the way to 400 in one sitting was a fine plan. There were even a few left over for making heart lanterns.

Of course the first night she was thinking of trying it, a blood moon spawned, but the next night, she ate as many life crystals as allowed, took some buff potions, had some sashimi (fishing has been *so* important!), and then summoned the Eye.

She barely broke a sweat, lol.

Not long after, the Dryad moved in. Her name is Nissa, which is fun for me because I know a person irl who goes by a very similar name.

Another session the next day had me prepping for and ultimately defeating Skeletron and rescuing the Mechanic from the dungeon.

Because of fishing, SecretMcAgent has a second lucky horseshoe in her BackupGear chest at home. Managing loadouts in mediumcore is very different from a regular character. The BackupGear chest has a full set of armor, torches, glowsticks, platforms, healing potions, a magic mirror, a better-than-copper shortsword sword, a better-than-copper pickaxe pickaxe and a better-than-copper axe axe. Plus a magic weapon. And I may craft a second Flinx Staff, depending on how SecretMcAgent's next death goes.

I try to remember every time she returns from fishing before going out to do anything crazy to unload her fishing loading 'armor' and accessories into the chest at the Angler's house. As of the most recent quest, SecretMcAgent has the full Angler armor, the hat, the vest and the pants. Now if only she had the high-test fishing line, as there was definitely one Sky Crate which had the line break on it, eek!

My mediumcore character, SecretMcAgent, has been stowing extra resurrection copper implements in a dresser (uses less iron than a chest, and at the time, she didn't have many collected chests, nor much 'iron' (lead is the tier two element in this world).

At first I was puzzled by why there were no axes, but I assume it's because she's had her original copper axe on her each time she died. SecretMcAgent has since upgraded her axe and stowed a copper axe, especially since she's got a staff of regeneration around somewhere and as soon as she gets enough jungle spores and vines, she'll make an axe of regeneration.

Bob's mediumcore character died in the most bullshit way, and it was a death I'd learned about as a classic character long ago. If one finds a boulder trap and one digs away at the top of it, and one is standing on top of the boulder when it moves, BAM, you're dead.

He's been too frustrated to try to get his stuff back, or has tried and failed to get his stuff back and has decided to play a classic character in an expert world instead.

In the meantime, as of this writing, SecretMcAgent has been slain 13 times. The map below and subsequent re-discovery of stuff comes from her 11th death, I believe. That red X is pretty darned far from spawn, and at this time, SecretMcAgent did not have a magic conch, let alone an ocean pylon.

I was so thrilled when I got back to my stuff, I had to take a screenshot. It was a spiked jungle slime which killed her at the time.

Since then, SecretMcAgent has built a couple mine cart tracks in the sky, enough to skim over each of the two corruption biomes on either side of her spawn point.

Other than the lucky horseshoe (for which the umbrella provides a barely passable substitute), SecretMcAgent has duplicates of most of her important gear, including two very similar ice boomerangs. With the added ability to transport through the magic conch, pylons and crazy sky mine cart tracks. future deaths will hopefully not be that bad.

The most recent death was being buried alive by a sand trap in the underground desert. Her life form analyzer had been alerting that the golfer was around somewhere and on one of the trips back to retrieve her stuff, she was able to finally talk to him. Not long after that, she was able to move him out to a new house on top of the angler's house, which made him happy enough to sell the ocean pylon.

My goal with SecretMcAgent is to kill a boss. Currently she is collecting life crystals. She's taken two, so she's at 140 hit points, enough for the nurse to appear, but not enough to let a boss spawn. She needs to collect a total of 13 more to be able to jump to 400 hit points quickly, after which she'll summon the Eye and kill it, or at least that's the plan.

There have been far too many goblin scouts for comfort. I should go look up the goblin invasion requirements right now!