Originally posted by VforVeranda:

Hi lads. Thanks for some good tips. I will personally stay away from the cheeses and exploits as they defeat the point for me.
I'll try the "finding silver" thing just as it sofar seems the craziest bit of trivia, BUT.. will still do the bosses in order as not doing that is not what I'm after.
Thanks Nascarman for that layout. That was the kind of thing I was looking for.

While at it, I have seen on some vid that a dude backstabs a troll with 1 shot with a copper knife (I believe). What's the lowest level knife you can do that with?

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Originally posted by Brock:

I rarely die and when I do it is usually due to rushing around, not being cautious enough when first entering a new biome, etc. (or, 'I can make that swim across!', nope ;)

Yeah, that is me right there too. I call that an Overyolo. I normally just yolo, but yes, sometimes the overyolo gets me too.

Frankly that is the most key point ... stopping yourself from yoloing and being careful.