Well, you start a new character (as usual).



Then start a world and enter it.




Well that is a really simple step.

You chop trees down to build a house... and a bit of killing slimes.








You mine some ores...








You find some random chests and find iron/lead bars and made an anvil and then you made a furnace with the stone blocks leftover you had.

Now make a reinforced fishing pole... yep. You are going to need it after I tell you this.


After you make the fishing pole, farm some coins (up to 50 silver coins, you know it) and build an extra room to obtain the merchant for you to buy the bug net. When you have bought the bug net... Go fetch some bait to be able to use the fishing pole.




The only problem is that you need to reach the end of either side of the map, where you mostly have to go through the crimson/corruption. If you want to become stronger, you can find an enchanted sword or arkhalis in the sword shrine (usually found in those 1 block holes that lead to this boulder with either a wood sword or a sprite of the enchanted sword) by chance or make better equipment with bars.

This part is difficult is because you need a bait power which is 25% which are worms (Legit is 25%). You can get worms during a rain event or break rocks (not stone). I DID not use worms to get the 'thing', I, for some reason, used a master bait to get IT and I got them from the iron crates so it was quite easy to get... Wait why did i say it was difficult... ANYways, back on track.

Once you reached the end of the map, just start fishing. It will take you quite a bit and if you have other fishing accessories (I barely even know all of them), use it immediately to improve your chances of get the 'Reaver Shark'.









Once you have caught the Reaver Shark, you can skip the pre-hardmode and start mining stuff you didn't use to do straight away, like going to 'Hell'. Now what are you waitng for? Get some obsidian and other crap to complete pre-hardmode. This is a good way to speed-run pre-hardmode.



At the end, it was worth it.

This was well worth it to type this up because i accidently lost the stuff to this TWICE.
I am really sorry if the guide was bad because this is my first.
If you spot random mistakes, mispelt words or grammar mistakes, you can point it out or just ignore it and read it as if it was already fixed.

I think this wraps up this guide. I hope you can end your terraria journey well with this important information.

~stebby snipp

*Re-wrote the word 'pre-hardcore' to 'pre-hardmode'.

*Added the letter 'f' after 'merchant' in this mistake: 'build an extra room to obtain the merchant or you to buy the bug net' to 'build an extra room to obtain the merchant for you to buy the bug net'.

*Added the word 'to' before the word 'do' in this mistake: 'stuff you didn't use __ do straight away' to 'stuff you didn't use to do straight away'. ("__" is the explanation of the missing word)

*Replaced the word 'ores' with 'bars' in this mistake: 'by chance or make better equipment with ores' to 'by chance or make better equipment with bars'

I will read the comments but i won't reply because its hard to control this much comments so. Thanks. My contributer 'Krunchiee' might comment at some time.