As a quick disclaimer, this guide was made many years ago for an older version of the game so some, if not most, information is outdated, however the general principles still apply. I also apologize if there is any grammatical errors or incoherent sentences. I do have plans to update the guide to the current 1.4 version and fix any of those issues, though it may be a little while before I am able to. If you have any questions about the game, guide or anything else please feel free to add me on Steam or leave a comment under this guide.

Before you go in hardmode here is some things you should do.

#1 You need to block the corruption/crimson by digging a 5 block hole on both ends so it cant spread, it has to be 5 blocks or it can still spread!

#2 Go to each biome and chop some of the vines and grass till you get biome seeds, get at least 5 of each biome the more the better.

#3 Get all the pre-hardmode npcs serch it on the wiki if you dont know what all of them are.

#4 Get the best armor and weapons you can. You should get Nights edge and armor for your class if you dont care about classes or dont know what they are get Molton armor.

#5 Make sure you have a good base and lots of ore, its hard to get ore when in hardmode because of the monsters that spawn so its good to have a backup pile incase.

Now its time to get into hardmode. :D

So now its time to get into hardmode. To get into hardmode you must kill the Wall of Flesh. To spawn him you must thow a guide vodo doll into lava in hell. (you get the dolls by killing demons)

Build a path so you can run along it without having to jump over lava pits and blocks.

Make the path longer then it needs to be just incase.

Wait for him to come and kill the Hungy with your sword then use a ranged weapon to kill the wall.

The two eyes and mouth all have the same health bar so it doesnt matter what one you shot.

The eyes attack is to shoot lasers and the mouth spawns Leachs. (they act like giant worms)

Now that you have killed it we move on!

You should have the corruption/crimson blocked by now
but, A new biome spawns in your world called the hollow.

This biome has magic, rainbows, unicorns and lots of pretty things but its dangerous so be carful.

This biome can spread just like the corruption/crimson so make two more five block holes around it so it cant spread anymore.

Theres alot of new mobs and blocks and you might get overwhelmed with all these new things dont worry about anything exept two things Soul of light and Soul of night for now.

These souls will be the main crafting material for most hardmode items.

So if we look back when we killed the Wall of Flesh a box spawned.

This is all the loot he dropped. Theres a 100% chance he dropped a pwnhammer you can break demon/crimson alters with this. When you break them new ore will spawn Cobalt/Palladium
Mythril/Orichalcum and Adamantite/Titanium. You will get three of these for example you might get cobalt orichalcum and titanium but you cant get cobalt and palladium only one or the other.

You will need a molton pickaxe or reaver shark to mine Cobalt/Palladium and a Cobalt/Palladium pickaxe to mine Mythril/Orichalcum and a Mythril/Orichalcum to mine a Adamantite/Titanium.

Now its time to fight some bosses. :D

Your going to need some wings to fight bosses. to get wings you kill Wyverns. They spawn up in the sky just like harpys. Once killed they will drop souls of flight use 20 of these and a special item to craft a pair of wings (for example the special item to get harpy wings is a giant harpy feather to get that you kill harpys and for the flame wings you kill red devils etc)

So hopfuly by now you have full Adamantite/Titanium to fight these bosses cause there pretty hard.

boss 1 The twins

boss 2 The desroyer

boss 3 Skeletron Prime

It doesnt matter what order you fight them but I recommend the order i have them in.

Heres how to craft them

The Twins (Mechanical Eye) 5 Iron/Lead, 6 Souls of Light and 3 Lens.

The Desroyer (Mechanical Worm) 5 Iron/Lead, 6 Souls of Night and 6 Rotten Chunk/Vertebrae.

Skeletron Prime (Mechanical Skull) 5 Iron/Lead, 3 Souls of Night 3 Souls of Light and 30 Bones.

For Skeletron Prime and The Desroyer I recommend a room like this.


For the twins make a platform in the sky you can run across just like the Wall of Flesh.


If you couldnt tell already each boss drops a diffrent soul, if you use one of each soul and 18 hollow bars you can make a drax/pickaxe axe. Also you can use the hollow bars to make hollow armor/tools.

Now we can go mining again with you drax/pickaxe axe.

Pirate Invasion
Comes randomly in hardmode or you can use a pirate map. (Drops from ocean mobs.)

Martian Madness
After Golem is killed probes will fly around your world going near one without killing it starts it.

Solar Eclipse
It has a 5% chance per day after one Mechanical boss is killed.

Frost Legion
use a "Snow Globe" to start the event.

Pumpkin Moon
After Plantera is killed use a "Pumpkin Moon Medallion" to start the event.

(30 pumpkins, 5 ectoplasm and 10 Hallowed bars to craft it.)

Frost Moon
After Plantera is killed use a "Naughty Present" to start the event.

(20 silk 5 ectoplasm 5 souls of fright to craft it)

Lunar Events
See "End Game" tab for more info

If you have been to the jungle you might have seen some green ore. This ore can only be mined with a drax/pickaxe axe or better. while in the jungle mining Chlorophyte keep a eye out for two other things Life fruits and Turtles if you find a life fruit mine it and you can get up to 500 health instead of 400. Also kill the tutrles till you get 3 turtle shells. Once you get all this go craft some turtle armor with 3 turtle shells and 54 Chlorophyte bars. (324 ore) This armor is really good for the next boss fight.

So now you have the gear to fight Plantera. When all 3 mechanical bosses have been killed a bulb much like the queen bee will spawn in the under ground jungle. Break it and platera will spawn. after killing it you will get a key. This key can open the jungle temple. Once inside when you get to the end you can spawn Golem another boss Killing him has a chance to drop good weapons and he will also drop beetle shells. You might have to kill him a few times to get enough to craft beetle armor you will need 18 beetle shells and a full set of turtle armor to craft beetle armor the 2nd best armor in the game. (defence wise) It has 73 defence and the only armor thats better then it is Solar Flare armor but that is a set of end game armor.

Before we head to the end game battle theres a side boss you can fight Duke Fishron. Not much i can say to spawn him go fishing in a ocean biome with a truffle worm and he will spawn. He drops some good gear for the end game boss fight so lets head there now!

So now its time to end everything you may have seen a few guys over at the dungeon.

Kill them and the lunatic cultas will spawn. Once you kill him a Lunar event will start.

4 towers will spawn around your world and you must kill 100 of the mobs around it to lower the shield. Once the sheild is down kill it and it will drop some materials to make endgame armor so make sure to pick them up. When all 4 towers are destroyed the Moon Lord will spawn he is the final boss. good luck!

He has 3 eyes you need to kill one on each hand and one on his head when all of them are destroyed his core (heart) will open up. Then finaly once you kill that he will die and you have won the game! Congratulations! he will drop endgame weapons and luminite. With this you can craft end game armor for your class type. now that is kind of hard to explain so ill link a wiki page for you
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Luminite_Bar Here you can see the endgame armors and its recipe.

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Thank you for reading I hope I helped you with hardmode a little bit. :D

Heres a link to a Guide of terraria Pre-Hardmode it shows you all the armors, blocks etc.
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=425008624
Heres a link to a guide just like the Pre-Harmode one but its for hardmode.
Not out yet.
Thanks again and cya.