How do you get hardmode in Terraria?
Summoning and Defeating the Wall of Flesh
To summon the Wall of Flesh, you need to throw a Guide Voodoo Doll into lava in the Underworld while the Guide is alive. The doll is dropped by Voodoo Demons in the Underworld. Once summoned, you must defeat the Wall of Flesh in a horizontal fight.
After defeating it, a message will appear: 'The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.' This marks the start of hardmode. The world will change: new biomes like Hallow and Underground Corruption/Crimson appear, and new ores generate.
- Get Guide Voodoo Doll from Voodoo Demons
- Throw it into lava in Underworld
- Defeat Wall of Flesh
What Changes in Hardmode
Hardmode significantly increases difficulty. New enemies spawn, including powerful ones like Pixies, Unicorns, and Wraiths. New ores are generated: Cobalt, Mythril, and Adamantite (or Palladium, Orichalcum, and Titanium in alternate worlds).
You can also get new crafting stations like the Mythril Anvil and Adamantite Forge. The Corruption/Crimson and Hallow spread rapidly, so you may need to contain them. New bosses like the Mechanical Bosses become available.
- New ores: Cobalt, Mythril, Adamantite (or Palladium, Orichalcum, Titanium)
- New enemies and bosses
- Biome spread accelerates
- New crafting stations
Common mistakes
- You don't need to defeat Skeletron or any other boss to enter hardmode; only the Wall of Flesh.
- Hardmode is not activated by breaking a demon altar; that's for ore generation.
- The Guide must be alive when you throw the doll, or it won't work.
