Terraria Speedrun - Night's Edge Hardcore - (1) Getting started

This is my first successful, recorded hardcore-only speedrun. The goal being to acquire as fast as possible Terraria's most powerful sword: The Night's Edge (http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Night%27s_Edge). Doing this requires traveling all across a Terraria world to find each of the four ingredients to craft one:

* A Light's Bane sword (Corruption/Bosses).
* A Muramasa (Dungeon).
* A Fiery Greatsword (The Underworld AKA Hell).
* A Blade of Grass (The Underground Jungle).

I did this run without memorizing the map or using 3rd party tools or cheats (including exiting to evade death). My final time is 03:27:46 (which I've greatly condensed in the videos). I may try a later run with a memorized map, though.

Enjoy!

* Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLoCYlvw8k
* Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2j_tFn5s0
* Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyFa1rsMFeQ
* Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg7cL2-ZS_I
* Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJimd4D83oo
* Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_jqKZLNxk

P.S. Feel free to try your own hand at this run if you like (and please post your results)!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Terraria
• Night's Edge
• Hardcore
• Speedrun

[Valdevon]

once you got your gold broadsword you should have gone to the corruption and gotten 30 rotten chunks, 60 powder and gotten shadowscale armor and lights bane

[Tuxlar]

@Valdevon Or by that logic, just that early spear.

[peedera0]

@Tuxlar i see most do this in a speedrun, but why? I mean regarding the hook.. isnt it better to just buy it from the guy?

[Tuxlar]

@peedera0 It would be if killing the goblin army to get the 'guy' was timely... or at least if the grapple wasn't able to save you a ton of time prior.

[KhymChanur]

I'm curious about two things:

1) IIRC, you didn't upgrade your pick-axe from copper until you could make a nightmare one. Wouldn't upgraded pickaxes have helped you do it faster?

2) You made some stone block bridges where you later destroyed the part behind you. If you were going to do that, wouldn't have sped things up if you'd gone to the trouble of mining some more dirt blocks?

[Tuxlar]

@KhymChanur 1) Upgrading a pickaxe takes too much ore to be time efficient.

2) Yes, there's a ton of little improvements I could have made. Moreso to the overall strategy than specific tactics like that, though, which I admittedly wasn't as concerned with at the time.

[Tuxlar]

@flibitybibitygibit Game glitch. You can also squeeze under 2 block horizontal gaps this way, too.

[flibitybibitygibit]

13:00 wait, how did you go past that dirt block with the grapple???

[gta4digger]

@Tuxlar What editing program do you use?

[NOWUserName]

Oh yea. Add some music in speed runs or at least leave the game music on

[NOWUserName]

@Tuxlar I LOVE THAT GLITCH

[peedera0]

@Valdevon you could actually do it with 100 health, one potion and shurikens

[GameCheatsV2]

@Tuxlar or by that logic use that starter picaxe

[ThePrimith]

Mad props to you. Any hardcore runs I've ever done never reached fighting the corruption. You, sir, are a pro.