Originally posted by vinyblaster:

The crypts glitch is really the thing that ruins it. I wish there was a way to get iron without neither the key nor this exploit. And yeah, you do get iron drops sometimes but it's a bit too rare to really be viable.

I agree with Viny. I feel that is too much of an exploit myself. I have not made it out of the swamps on any of my perma death runs. Most of my deaths could have been avoided. My current run is in Black forest about to do bronze. I have started over a lot (I mean a lot) and always with a new seed.