As you can see I'm quite qualified to help you on your journey

As you spawn in it is important to open your starter bag and immediately use the mana crystal. Mage isn't my favorite class but I would strongly recommend it for this journey.

While it's day time start making some type of base, you can upgrade later but there won't be a later if you don't survive the night.
Once your house is complete head underground either by cave or digging straight down. Just uhh be weary of











Your objective is to find 3 items, cloud in a bottle, any type of return mirror, and life crystals.
Early Pre-hardmode is a scary place so we want avoid common deaths such as falling getting jumped and getting one-shot. (side note once you use 4 like crystals just stock pile the other 11 this is so bosses and events don't invite themselves)

Now let me tell you NPCs are a mans best friend DO NOT try and neglect them; make sure that they are happy because if you aren't cheating by duping money gets tight real fast. so erect some towns in easy to get to places like the forest, dessert, and (if you are lucky) the tundra.
Putting NPCs in their wrong locations makes prices go up so ill give a brief rundown of who goes where. Also with the Goblin Tinkerer reforge all equipment to warding remember we are trying to stay alive not kill bosses quickly.

Guide-Forest
Merchant-Forest
Nurse-Hallow (don't need to worry about her yet)
Demolitionist-Underground (bombs are cheap and hardly used up to you)
ZooMommy-Forest in your house

Also if you have chosen to play with alchemist npc on buffs will come easy to you once the eye is down but for everyone else get your farm started make a bottle and get crafting.

Once your farms are placed and NPCs are happy lets go get some gear. Head to the dessert, your mission here is to grab as much dessert fossil you can find and also get a extractinator. Return home with your riches and extract that fossil, you're looking for amber and ancient fossil. Make the amber staff and head to the jungle, Your objective here is to grab 32 jungle spores, 2 vines (dropped by Man eaters), and 10 thorns (dropped by thorn slimes and any stinging enemies)
craft the jungle armor set pop the rest of those life crystals fill up that mana bar and get ready.

You will likely be raided by the Goblin Army at this point but don't you fret YOU are the boss here make swift work of the army and head back underground to find the Goblin Tinkerer. Once found buy a Tinkerer's Workshop and Rocket Boots. if you havent already ran into them craft an Aglet and Anklet of the Wind. Comine your rocket boots with your running boots and then combine that with your Aglet and Anklet. Congrats you just unlocked a new direction!! If you want to go to the snow biome and get the ice skates to upgrade the lightning boots further but it wont increase speed.

Also!!! Up to you but grabbing the fledgling wings will get rid of fall damage and allow you to fly for a short while. If you were unlucky in your search see if you found a shiny red balloon, craft or find the lucky horse shoe and combine them with your double jump all together in your Tinkerer's Workshop this will also get rid of fall damage and let you jump higher.











IF a blood moon happens get a shark tooth necklaces but you don't need it so don't wait for a blood moon
Also for the future make the frost bolt. You'll need a bookshelf to make it and if you are lucky you'll find one in a house. if you don't, don't sweat it none of the bosses until Perforator use it.












Now if you managed to not ♥♥♥♥ up congrats!!! NOW LETS GO KILL SOME ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BOSSES RAHHHHHH!!!!!!

OK! The arena is one of the deciding factor in winning or losing the fight so try and give a ♥♥♥♥ when you make it. Since you DO have that double jump you can afford to space of the platforms a bit I'd recommend building up to the default build limit twice then start placing horizontally
Like this:










Place down buff stations like the campfire, Heart lantern, and star in a bottle to increase your odds.

Let me start by saying from this point on DO NOT underestimate any of these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that harvest update jacked these ♥♥♥♥♥ up to the moon and actually have some pretty challenging AI.

Bring any summon item that you can use for bonus damage.

King Slime:
Spawn recipe: 20 slime + Gold/Platinum Crown

I recommend bringing the Unstable Granite core it shoots a beam that arcs on to nearby enemies you will use this to start damaging the crystals early
Wiki: https://calamitymod.wiki.gg/wiki/Unstable_Granite_Core

We are gonna want a long arena maybe 4 platform levels tall. King spawns a lot of enemies and it can get over whelming so try to ditch the enemies by running. King will try and cut you off so try to go under or over him to not get cornered










Once significantly damaged he will spawn a green crystal that will dart you on a set frequency.
So you'll have to dodge it in a set rhythm wont you hear a loud BOOM!! MOVE!!!!!!!

2nd phase he'll spawn a red gem that'll shoot a spread of red particles keep your distance with it as the more space you have the more room to dodge in between the lines.









It is at this point you should've been chipping the gems health down as final phase get really chaotic with them around

Now in his final phase he'll spawn a blue gem that's isn't as big of a threat as the previous two so just focus your assault on the King. Also STAY OFF THE FLOOR King Is terrified of losing so he'll hit you for 200 with his body keep away from him.









Now just keep up the assault and you just bagged you first boss. 1/49 down

Poor worm driven from his home, only hostile because of the Golden Heretics actions.

His arena is fairly similar to King Slimes just not as long since you can only stick to the dessert.
If possible bring the crimson rod it's highly effective against worms.

Spawn recipe:
40 sand block + 4 antlion mandibles + 2 storrmlion mandibles

Phase 1 Run from the worm shoot the worm. There will be sand balls raining down look out for the and avoid them











Phase 2 New friends!! You'll notice that the 2 Dessert Nuisances attack together while big scourge comes in for the clean up (dodge the 2 then dodge 1 dodge 2 then dodge 1 repeat)
The sand balls will still be raining from the sky look out for them remember where you are in your arena!!











In the final phase he gets much faster the Nuisances will also be shooting sand balls when they hit the ground and so will the Scourge. Keep on your toes look out for everything and remember no matter how low you get there is still a chance.








The underground dessert has awoken head now to the sunken sea and claim the sea prisms that lie there and upgrade your arsenal.

Alright! You managed to fight your way out of the has-beens and will now face a horror of the night.

The eye is very fast spawns a lot of helpers and uses area of denial attacks. And a huge tip is to dodge him in a triangle formation.

Spawn recipe: 6 lens

Phase 1: The Eye will dash at you while also spawning smaller eyes, you should kill the smaller eyes in order to not get overwhelmed.












Phase 2: The Eye pops his lens off and dashes much faster, Shoots a spread of red spikes(?), and still spawns smaller eyes but now spawns 2 big small eyes that mimic his attacks.
Killing the 2 bigger eyes will help control the fight but the less health they have the more they move around making them hard to put down, and even if you do kill the EoC can spawn more of them. So instead just try to keep the full HP so they don't do anything crazy















Phase 3: In phase 3 EoC tries to get horizontal to you, once he does he'll shoot 2 spike spreads at you, and then dashes at you. To avoid this bait him into the sky try your best to get some horizontal distance from him so that once he shoots the two spike spreads you can weave in between them then drop to avoid the dash.













Good Job now equip your newly claimed Shield of Cthulhu and lets move on!!

Additional info
The Eye drops the summon item "Deathstare Rod" use it for the next few fights.
And if you are indeed using Alchemist NPC hold on to the Alchemist charm and go buy buffs.
Everyone else make primarily Endurance, Ironskin, Regen, and Swiftness.
Alchemist players should also go to the Tinkerer to buy gear like the ice skates if you haven't found them yet.

When it comes to the hellevator you are gonna want quality over speed remember you're gonna reuse this thing. So dig a 2 block tunnel perfectly straight all the way down to hell.











It's going to take some time but you'll have a straight drop to hell.

Head underground to a glowing mushroom biome then try to shape the room into an half oval shape (with the bottom being the round part)

All the gear you had on before should still be fine just make sure you have the Shield of Cthulhu on for this fight. And don't forget to use the Deathstare rod and/or the Crimson rod (if accessible) that's free damage.

Boss summon recipe: 50 Glowing Mushroom

The fight; I think Crabulon has more then 1 phase but I honestly can't tell when it changes he just kinda does the same attacks but more agressive











Crabulon rains down mushrooms from the sky make sure to keep your eyes on Crabulon while also moving inbetween the falling mushrooms. Crbulon will sometimes jump it is important that you DO NOT try to go over him he will beat you most of the time. What you should try to do is go under him if its safe and if you have to. Another attack Crabulon does is shoot a small spread of mushrooms form their body so watch for that.

One more tip the mushrooms the rain down can be killed and when killed drop hearts and mana so keep using that granite core for some bonus heals.

Now consume the Mushroom Plasma Root and lets move on.
4/49

The Eater of Worlds may not eat world but it will sure as hell eat you watch for its heads.

Once again the gear you have on now should still be fine you can use the mushroom summon that Crabulon drops but that's up to you. The Deathstare rod should do just fine anyway.

If you wanna keep using the Amber staff/Aquamarine staff go ahead it will get the job done.
If you tire of this loadout you can use the Hyphae Rod Crabulon drop it's pretty effective against worms.

Boss summon recipe: 20 Vile powder + 10 Rotten chunk

The fight:
Phase 1: 4 EoW will spawn and will start by chasing you then dropping down just to pop up again and continue chase, They will also be shooting bile at you. Just keep strafing in one big circle and you'll be fine.

Phase 2: In phase 2 they will start shooting shadowflame at you but as long as you keep moving it will never hit.











Phase 3: Phase 3 is just Phase 2 but since you broke its body in mutiple places they will be more worms. They will try to cut you off in your circle strafing so just keep an eye out.












After the fight open the bag use the worm scarf if you want it negates damage by 14% but since you aren't playing melee you probably wont have to worry about that. Make the Nightmare Pickaxe and go get hellstone.

Note: At this point the Tinkerer will have started selling the lava charm and obsidian rose so buy those and the water walking boots make a obsidian skull and combine it all together and then combine the Lava Warders with the Frost Spark Boots to make Terraspark Boots.

This fight is actually hard but I'll give away the brains tell. In The last phase of the fight the Brain will make completely opaque illusions and the only way to tell which one is real is by looking at its attack










Again your gear is still fine.

Boss summon recipe: 20 vicious powder + 10 vertebra

The Fight:
Phase 1: The Brain will have creepers orbiting it and the Brain will be immune to damage. The creepers will shoot spikes at you don't get surrounded and you'll be fine.











Phase 2: The Brain will spawn in one of 4 areas and will shoot red darts at you. Once you spot the real one move in the same horizontal direction it's moving in and its up to you on whether to move up or down to avoid getting hit.













Phase 3: Phase 3 is a far more in tense version of phase 2 all of the brains will be shooting darts and the only way to tell which is the real Brain you have to look for the attack that looks different from the rest. This can be VERY hard to do in a intense situation especially if the illusions spawn overlapped. If that happens you have a 50/50 depending on which side the tell attack came from.
When the Brain dashes at you move left if its moving left and move up if its moving down and vice versa.











Congrats that was a hard one. equip the brain of confusion it gives you a dodge which i calamity is a guarantee get out of hit free card the first time you get hit and has a 15-90 sec cool down. Craft the Deathbringer pickaxe and go mine hellstone.

Note: At this point the Tinkerer will have started selling the lava charm and obsidian rose so buy those and the water walking boots make a obsidian skull and combine it all together and then combine the Lava Warders with the Frost Spark Boots to make Terraspark Boots.

Just checking in, how ya doing did you ever upgrade your base or are you still living in a hole in the ground anyway none of that matters does your equipment look something liker this? Alchemist bros are you upgrading your alchemist charm to tier 2 which allows you to store buffs in piggy banks?










Yes? good
No? you are either better than me or learned a hard lesson.

Are you hitting up Draedon's labs to get schematics early?
Yes? good
No? what are you waiting for my permission? Go.












And lastly did you get hellstone?
Make the imp staff for bonus damage and make the flare bolt it'll be useful in the Perforator fight.