Q&A for How to Prepare for Hardmode in Terraria

Because they find it easier. Everyone has different opinions about how difficult certain portions of the game are.

You need to have a guide living in the world to use the Voodoo Doll.

The mouth has more defense than the eyes (I believe about 5-20 more), so you should mostly aim for the eyes.

A good way is to farm the queen bee and get 200 or so beenades. Once obtained, repeatedly throw them at the wall of flesh but keep your distance.

The Terra Blade is far ahead of the Wall of Flesh. You need to get into hardmode before you think about the Terra Blade at all.

There's some great advice in wikiHow to Beat the Wall of Flesh in Terraria .

If you have a dryad who arrives when you defeat a few pre-hardmode bosses, she will sell you hallowed seeds for 20 silver coins. To plant them, put them in the dirt. Hallow can spread by grass and flower walls.

Yes, because you can buy gear and weapons from NPCs and it will be an advantage when fighting the wall of flesh.

You need a shadow key to open a chest in hell, but it just works if the chest is purple.

If you logged out after killing him, they would despawn. If he died in lava, they would be stuck under the lava, or it could just be bad luck.

Yes, you can know where they are and then avoid them.

Just search for one in hell, and if you can't find one just open a new world and continue the search.

Ask other people for help, or search the internet. Be sure to use reliable sources, though.

No. The Wall of Flesh must be killed by the player to activate Hardmode.

All wings require a hardmode-exclusive item named 'soul of flight'. So it is impossible to craft wings pre-hardmode.

You can't, but you can use dynamite to blast it back a few tiles. You could also make hellevators, as said above.

You cannot write on signs on mobile, only console and PC. In these versions, you just click the sign and select Edit.

The nightmare pickax (Corruption) or the Crimson counterpart will do the job!

Yes, but you might need to stockpile hundreds of them.

Use weapons with high fire rates and damage, like fast guns. The Night's Edge is also quite useful for fending off The Hungry.

Yes, if you go the the place where you killed it before it despawns (after about 5 minutes).

There is a Pigron mount that can fly and is similar to a pig, but there is no pig pet. There is a flying piggy bank.

It depends on the modifier, but without any modifiers, it's 95 melee damage. You can obtain modifiers by going to the goblin tinkerer and clicking Reforge, but there is a chance you could get a bad modifier that's broken or slow.

Yes. It’s actually one of the only two pre-hardmode pickaxes capable of doing so. If you are on mobile or 3DS, however, the Drax may be a better choice. It can be found in shadow chests.

I think you should stick with the molten armor. It’s quite difficult to make, as you need 45 hellstone bars, or 135 hellstone and 45 obsidian, but trust me, it’s worth it!

You must have Molten Armor. If you die, the WoF despawns, and since you have no living guide anymore, you can't fight it again. Don't skip steps, get Molten Armor and all the weapons that the article calls for. It's well worth the investment.

You likely built them wrong. You need to dig them on the edge of normal terrain, not on the edge of corruption, if you know what I mean.

Broken hero swords are dropped from mothrons during a solar eclipse. Mothrons are rare to find, but they drop broken hero swords frequently. You need three of them: an excaliber and a night's edge to create the terrablade.

Depending on what class you're playing, different spots could be useful. If you're just trying to get good bars quickly, you can just fish up wooden crates in the forest.

In hardmode, the corruption spreads much faster. Being able to stop it from corrupting the rest of your world is important. As it moves 1 block at a time, making a giant hole will stop it from crossing into other biomes.