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"Hallowed Be Thy Name, for the Spirits of Light themselves have blessed you."
Welcome! Welcome all to this Challenge Run of mine!
First, we have to estabilish Da Rules:
But first we have to generate the World:
(I actually had to go back and recreate the options because I forgot to screenshot it the first time. Oops.)
Here is the World in TEdit for all who are interested:
(my computer freezing everytime I Hallowed a part of the world made this significantly more annoying than it needed to.)
Without further ado, let's dive right in! We are going to play as Azalea, and from now on I'm going to describe what is happening as if Azalea is the one doing all the stuff I'm doing.
(If you're wondering why she looks like a smurf, it's because she's a Hallowed Dryad.)
Ahem Expecting to be immediately swarmed by enemies, Azalea dug herself a hole and left Joe Mama to fend for himself. However to her surprise, it took a while for any enemy to show up, and even when someone showed up (fairly sure it was a Pixie) it hit Joe Mama once and then just decided to just not commit murder.
Azalea decided that a 3 by 2 hole was pretty small, so she decided to dig herself a bigger hole, a slow and grueling process due to only having a Copper Pickaxe in hand. While mining, Azalea discovered something that was going to be a huge pain to deal with: she can't mine Pearlstone. Putting it on the to-solve list, the Hallowed Dryad decided to chop some trees and get herself aCrafting Table Workbench, only to discover that you can't make a Pickaxe out of Pearlwood. Great. After some more digging down and some frankly disappointing enemies, Azalea decided to rescue Joe Mama. Normally, this would be easy: just dig two blocks under his feet and he'll fall. Easy, right? Well, if not for the fact he would not stay STILL and decided that the murderous denizens of the Hallow looked cute. After some frankly ridiculous times he stood still for a second before moving again, Azalea finally managed to catch him and rescue him.
Not much happened here, Azalea just made the hole bigger. And Joe Mama fell down. Oh, and I switched to Retro Lighting temporarily to see more, since Slimes don't spawn in the Hallow.
With nothing better to do, Azalea decided to expand her hole to get somewhere, and hopefully obtain some new shinies. On the way there, it started to get dark AND THOSE GODDAMN PIXIES ARE DRIVING ME NUTS! How do you know when a Pixie is near? You hear them and their annoying sparkle. The fact that they got stuck didn't help. Azalea manged to free them and her sanity.
Azalea was apparently too tall to go back. Nothing a few Pickaxe swings couldn't fix. This is also around the time where I started to realize our lack of lighting options would turn into a problem.
Wow, very helpful. It's not like WE'VE ALREADY DONE THAT, or the fact that the Surface is a dangerous place. I should have just let you die.
Joe, there are no slimes. Have you gone mad?
Oh look, a Wraith. It gave Azalea a heart attack when she first saw it. Soon she realized she could just stab in the same direction and the knockback would keep the Wraith from hurting her. Side note, thank god for PC autofire, my fingers would have died without it. Very disappointing. Oh and the hole was covered in darkness and Azalea couldn't see anything. Had this been on the Constant seed I would have died right there.
HOLY CRAP A GASTROPOD! For those who don't know, the Gastropod is the only Slime that can spawn in the Hallow (barring the Rainbow Slime, but it can only spawn during the Rain, which happens randomly) and we need the Gel that Slimes drop to make Torches to actually see. Unfortunately, Azalea is only dealing 1 damage with her measly Copper Shortsword. Thankfully, the Gastropod went nowhere while Azalea was busy killing the Wraith. After vanguishing the evil Wraith, the Hallowed Dryad attempted to kill the Gastropod, who also got stuck, so she had to fix the path for the FLYING Gastropod. Unfortunately she quickly realized that her Shortsword wouldn't cut it, especially after she got hit by a laser. So she made a Pearlwood Sword, who had the Ruthless modifier. This was one of the best modifiers that she could get, as it gave increased damage and reduced Knockback, which was very helpful in a situation in which you couldn't chase after the enemy. She also made some armor from the remaining wood. And so Azalea went on the attack again. The Pearlwood Sword didn't reach the Gastropod. So she changed the opening. This time the sword actually hit the Gastropod, and if she kept swinging the Gastropod would never be able to shoot a laser to her. And so after just a few swings the Gastropod fell, and with it she obtained some Gel. Finally, she could make some torches and see! And so she did, and with it she realized she had accidentally boxed Joe Mama in.
Nothing much happened after that, a few more Gastropods showed up as well as a Hoopin' Jack. Oh and Azalea killed a Unicorn. Turns out Unicorns may not be as tough as they seemed at first.
After a dreadful night spent mostly in the dark dealing with a Wraith and Gastropod, a bright new day shined on Hallowed Be Thy Name, and to celebrate Azalea decided to make proper housing for herself (and for Joe, but mostly so he stopped complaining about not having a home. Kids these days). This marks the end of the start of the Hallowed Be Thy Name Challenge Run! (I really gotta change the name of the world.)
So, what's the game plan?
The plan is to get the Demolitionist so we can get rid of Pearlstone. To do that we're going to have to fulfill three conditions:
"Are you aware that according to the lore the Dryad NPC is the only Dryad remaining?" Yes, and I have an explanation why there is another one going about in the world.
"What do you think is going to be the hardest part of the run?" The Pre-Hardmore progression part, since once you get Early Hardmode tier gear it's as if you were playing a somewhat normal playthrough
"You are never going to complete this challenge, are you?" I, uhhh SMOKE BOMB runs away
Whoever made that Crimson World challenge with Crim, I think, for the basic idea of this kind of challenge run. I can't find the post anymore sorry.
Scratch that, the guy/gal I was referring to is @Sora_92, who played as Flann here. Thanks for commenting!
This post on Reddit for the idea of a Hallowed Dryad as well as for Hallowing (is that even a word?) the world.
Welcome! Welcome all to this Challenge Run of mine!
First, we have to estabilish Da Rules:
- We are going to start with a fresh new Classic character.
- We are going to play in a Medium sized world witht the seed "Hallowed"
- We can only use the Purification Powder out of every Purifying item in the game.
But first we have to generate the World:
(I actually had to go back and recreate the options because I forgot to screenshot it the first time. Oops.)
Here is the World in TEdit for all who are interested:
(my computer freezing everytime I Hallowed a part of the world made this significantly more annoying than it needed to.)
Without further ado, let's dive right in! We are going to play as Azalea, and from now on I'm going to describe what is happening as if Azalea is the one doing all the stuff I'm doing.
(If you're wondering why she looks like a smurf, it's because she's a Hallowed Dryad.)
Ahem Expecting to be immediately swarmed by enemies, Azalea dug herself a hole and left Joe Mama to fend for himself. However to her surprise, it took a while for any enemy to show up, and even when someone showed up (fairly sure it was a Pixie) it hit Joe Mama once and then just decided to just not commit murder.
Azalea decided that a 3 by 2 hole was pretty small, so she decided to dig herself a bigger hole, a slow and grueling process due to only having a Copper Pickaxe in hand. While mining, Azalea discovered something that was going to be a huge pain to deal with: she can't mine Pearlstone. Putting it on the to-solve list, the Hallowed Dryad decided to chop some trees and get herself a
Not much happened here, Azalea just made the hole bigger. And Joe Mama fell down. Oh, and I switched to Retro Lighting temporarily to see more, since Slimes don't spawn in the Hallow.
With nothing better to do, Azalea decided to expand her hole to get somewhere, and hopefully obtain some new shinies. On the way there, it started to get dark AND THOSE GODDAMN PIXIES ARE DRIVING ME NUTS! How do you know when a Pixie is near? You hear them and their annoying sparkle. The fact that they got stuck didn't help. Azalea manged to free them and her sanity.
Azalea was apparently too tall to go back. Nothing a few Pickaxe swings couldn't fix. This is also around the time where I started to realize our lack of lighting options would turn into a problem.
Wow, very helpful. It's not like WE'VE ALREADY DONE THAT, or the fact that the Surface is a dangerous place. I should have just let you die.
Joe, there are no slimes. Have you gone mad?
Oh look, a Wraith. It gave Azalea a heart attack when she first saw it. Soon she realized she could just stab in the same direction and the knockback would keep the Wraith from hurting her. Side note, thank god for PC autofire, my fingers would have died without it. Very disappointing. Oh and the hole was covered in darkness and Azalea couldn't see anything. Had this been on the Constant seed I would have died right there.
HOLY CRAP A GASTROPOD! For those who don't know, the Gastropod is the only Slime that can spawn in the Hallow (barring the Rainbow Slime, but it can only spawn during the Rain, which happens randomly) and we need the Gel that Slimes drop to make Torches to actually see. Unfortunately, Azalea is only dealing 1 damage with her measly Copper Shortsword. Thankfully, the Gastropod went nowhere while Azalea was busy killing the Wraith. After vanguishing the evil Wraith, the Hallowed Dryad attempted to kill the Gastropod, who also got stuck, so she had to fix the path for the FLYING Gastropod. Unfortunately she quickly realized that her Shortsword wouldn't cut it, especially after she got hit by a laser. So she made a Pearlwood Sword, who had the Ruthless modifier. This was one of the best modifiers that she could get, as it gave increased damage and reduced Knockback, which was very helpful in a situation in which you couldn't chase after the enemy. She also made some armor from the remaining wood. And so Azalea went on the attack again. The Pearlwood Sword didn't reach the Gastropod. So she changed the opening. This time the sword actually hit the Gastropod, and if she kept swinging the Gastropod would never be able to shoot a laser to her. And so after just a few swings the Gastropod fell, and with it she obtained some Gel. Finally, she could make some torches and see! And so she did, and with it she realized she had accidentally boxed Joe Mama in.
Nothing much happened after that, a few more Gastropods showed up as well as a Hoopin' Jack. Oh and Azalea killed a Unicorn. Turns out Unicorns may not be as tough as they seemed at first.
After a dreadful night spent mostly in the dark dealing with a Wraith and Gastropod, a bright new day shined on Hallowed Be Thy Name, and to celebrate Azalea decided to make proper housing for herself (and for Joe, but mostly so he stopped complaining about not having a home. Kids these days). This marks the end of the start of the Hallowed Be Thy Name Challenge Run! (I really gotta change the name of the world.)
So, what's the game plan?
The plan is to get the Demolitionist so we can get rid of Pearlstone. To do that we're going to have to fulfill three conditions:
- There is an Empty House. Not a problem, we can always make more houses
- The Merchant is present. This one's a bit trickier, but nothing a bit of grinding can't handle.
- The player has an explosive in their inventory. This is the tricky part, as we have to go out of our way to get one, since the easiest source to access them (Slimes) are gone in this world. This leaves us with Pots and Chests as our only option. Which means we'll have to brave the Surface. Hopefully this won't end up a disaster.
"Are you aware that according to the lore the Dryad NPC is the only Dryad remaining?" Yes, and I have an explanation why there is another one going about in the world.
"What do you think is going to be the hardest part of the run?" The Pre-Hardmore progression part, since once you get Early Hardmode tier gear it's as if you were playing a somewhat normal playthrough
"You are never going to complete this challenge, are you?" I, uhhh SMOKE BOMB runs away
Scratch that, the guy/gal I was referring to is @Sora_92, who played as Flann here. Thanks for commenting!
This post on Reddit for the idea of a Hallowed Dryad as well as for Hallowing (is that even a word?) the world.
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