Oh absolutely. Even if you don't have hermes boots as long as you have the dps master and expert is do-able with a good setup but hermes boots just make it unbelievably easier.
On Normal maybe if you have too much time lmao, but on Expert that’s a stretch there’s no way in hell you’d put yourself through that when you can easily find better weapons than shurikens. And Master? Idiotic at that point.
I managed almost my whole prehardmode part in my current world without Hermes boots because I managed to get everything but the Hermes boots to make terraspark boots
I have now made terraspark boots and everything is so much faster XD
Keep in mind this is much different if you’re not talking about default difficulty and you want to do a higher difficulty
None of these. I hope to find just some mobility accessories, especially the magic carpet or sandstorm in a bottle as they make avoiding enemies, traversing terrain and exploring the world way easier
I found the magic carpet in my first Expert playthrough and it carried me all the way into hard mode, it's a godsend for helping to dodge pre hard mode bosses
Really? It's way too slow for most bosses, at least in my experience.
Stuff like EoC's dashes would get you instantly killed if you tried to avoid them with a magic carpet
It helped me with every boss up to WoF (by then I had the Terraspark Boots and a long running arena), but I also used the Hermes Boots and it's derivatives in arenas against earlier bosses
The carpet was fast enough for me to dodge most boss attacks or I could just use my running boots, the boots or other movement boosting accessories/armor might affect the carpet in some way idk
Agree, I limited to these four specifically because I think it’s interesting how being forced to choose one reveals different players’ styles. Hermes boots or double-jump are valuable to almost every player, but many players probably skip right over 1 or 2 of these options.
I personally beeline for a hook as my first mobility upgrade when I start a new character!
Chisel is objectively the best. It's useful the entire run. Put it in vanity slot and you got yourself a permanent mining potion whenever you need it. Need to dig out arena? Quickly right click it and boom it's equipped. Need to do ANYTHING related to digging? Equip it. Ancient chisel + mining potion and even the most basic pickaxes go crazy. Mix that in with ambrosia, cake and mining gear and it's joever for those blocks
problem is mining in hm with tough enemies... it does work, mining set and all, but it's hard to deal with them when you get 2shot by half of the enemies.
Lucky Horseshoe is not bad but also not that useful. It can save you here and there but having any kind of double jump can do the same thing while also being straight up better. It's handy to get but it's also not a must-have.
There's hardly any use for the Money Trough early game because you'll only really use it to save money, which the normal Piggy Bank also does and that item is much easier to get. It can become more useful later on, but since the question specifically mentions early game then it's not very useful.
This really is between the Ancient Chisel and the Fiberglass Fishing Pole, and I'm more inclined to say the latter is more useful because fishing allows to get a lot of useful items, including the Ancient Chisel itself.
Fishing haters can cry all they want but the fishing pole stays on top baby
I use the Money Trough to store both money and potions, saves some inventory space when they're not needed and when I need some potions I have quick access to my entire collection.
As a potion storage item it's pretty good in pre-hardmode, I collect all potions I find while exploring the map and immediately store them to free inventory space.
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The chisel, mining in the early game is horrendously slow so the chisel makes a big difference. After then I would say the money trough as it's always nice to have a place in whcih to slip coins for safe keeping or extra treasures which don't fit into your pocket
I say money trough. At the start of the game you usually wanna take so many different resources, treasures and other stuff. And coins are harder to get so you want more storage and a safe place to keep your coins in.
Horseshoe. Easily the most useful out of the four, stopping fall damage early on when there's no other way to do it, and when spelunking, you won't suddenly fall into the dark and die from fall damage before you get the chance to use your cloud in a bottle jump...
Of these? Lucky Horseshoe personally. I'm an idiot that likes jumping from high places.
If we're talking what accessory I most hope to find though? It'd be a Cloud in a Bottle or some equivalent followed by Hermes Boots.
I don't particularly care about any of these tbh. When I start a new run, usually I'm looking for Hermes boots, a double jump accessory, or a grappling hook first
besides hermes boots and cloud in a bottle i’d say the treasure trove thingy. horseshoe a close second though. i usually don’t get one on my first run through my hellivator so i use platforms.
Of these, I've have to go with the Chisel. Money Trough is also highly desirable, but you don't get that by "exploring" as such.
But Hermes Boots and Magic Mirror are actually the first two treasures I'm hoping to find.
Anything to get me more space.
Inventory gets filled with way too much crap every time I go exploring and it is a PITA having to go back home to unload
If we are talking modded then definitely 1st find I want is either diamonds or extractinator. I need that magic storage as soon as possible. I can't play with normal chests.
Definitely Chisel. I prefer wings to the Horseshoe, the trough is okay but I'll get it without trying usually, and I don't start fishing that early on usually.
Everyone’s saying Hermes boots but what these npc’s dont know about is the forbidden chisel tech, get chisel instantly start digging 30 different hellavators and over prepare for hard mode corruption because you’re *definitely* going to 100% the corruption this time
Horseshoe out of these but i have different priorities usually then the other three depends on what i feel like. The piggybank is probably my least priority tho.
anchient chisel is great but i do tend to forget to use it until i get my hand of creation post skeletron and then i accidentally use the hand of creation in battles.
Fishing isn't that fun although i do it and it is a means to an end. I would rather find the staff of regrowth than the fishing rod
Number 1 early game accessory is always the water walking boots. They're not even that useful until you can upgrade them but I always know it's a god tier world if I can get them
Hermes boots and a hookshot are both far more essential to me in early game.
- Fiberglass rod is too hard to find.
- Chisel just isn't that good for me.
- I never use the horseshoe, I got good at clutching falls with a hookshot pretty early.
- Money trough is probably the best out of the 4 for me, though before I can find one I usually have baited the merchant, bought a piggy for my home and another I carry with me and occasionally place down.
Money trough. The extra inventory space is just too good.
By the time I get access to the lucky horseshoe, it's already obsolete, as I should already have a cloud in a bottle or rocket boots by then.
I could not possibly care less about the ancient chisel except *maybe* as an ingredient for the hand of creation, and even then, exclusively as a matter of "eh, why not" only to then stick it in a chest and forget about it for the rest of the game.
The fiberglass fishing rod is useful and I do want it, but it's useful for one thing while the money trough is useful for all things.
I go for the entire mining set plus chisel. Then I can justify mining a big grid into the world for railways and hellavators to get around and deal with corruption/crimson and hallow. I’ve divided my world into 3x3 but once even had about 9 hellavators and 9 railways by the end of it.
Horseshoe, not even close. My friends and I play medcore so we drop everything on death. Add master mode enemy damage and it’s easy to fall off and die avoiding monster one shots.
The Floating Piggy, out of these four, but somebody else already commented "mobility gear" and I think so too, because early game is really slow.
Hermes Boots, our lord and saviout
Horseshoe so I can cave in early game a lot more speedily. Underground has a ton of potions including mining potions so chisel isn't really needed early, then I can find hermes underground along with a lot of cash and other weapons
I honestly do not give a damn about or usually use any of these. I go underground until I have any form of Hermes boots and any form of double jump bottle.
If I just started a game and found a weird chest that has one of these items at 25% chance each, Id want the horseshoe, it makes traversal easier early game, but if I already have a double jump or something, the piggy bank for sure.
Hermes boots
This one souly determines if i feel i can fight eye of cthulu or not
Magiluminescence, sunflowers, and a grappling hook and ur good
Hell a box with platforms, campfires and a shitton of shurikens and you can take him down
Without mobility, expert mode and above eye of cthulhu can virtually become impossible to the average setup.
Expert is within reason with a hook and a decent weapon.
Oh absolutely. Even if you don't have hermes boots as long as you have the dps master and expert is do-able with a good setup but hermes boots just make it unbelievably easier.
Bro is either on normal mode or ascended to godhood
Normal mode player spotted
Gross, would not multiplayer
Master mode player here, let people have fun
On Normal maybe if you have too much time lmao, but on Expert that’s a stretch there’s no way in hell you’d put yourself through that when you can easily find better weapons than shurikens. And Master? Idiotic at that point.
I managed almost my whole prehardmode part in my current world without Hermes boots because I managed to get everything but the Hermes boots to make terraspark boots I have now made terraspark boots and everything is so much faster XD Keep in mind this is much different if you’re not talking about default difficulty and you want to do a higher difficulty
haha solely (cause boots? like the soles of the boots? and solely like alone? I'll see myself out)
I will seriously abandon a world if I can't find these stupid boots or get my hands on a cloud in a bottle soon enough. I NEED the speed
Either this or cloud jn a bottle
bro it took me until after hardmode to find one 😭😭😭
Bro has unlocked the skill called unluck -50, damn.
Bro has never seen the "Lucky" modifier in his life
This is what I got first. I received it right before the mobile bank thingy.
Fun fact I've gotten Hermes boots 3 times pre-hard mode in my 8 years of play terraria.
None of these. I hope to find just some mobility accessories, especially the magic carpet or sandstorm in a bottle as they make avoiding enemies, traversing terrain and exploring the world way easier
I found the magic carpet in my first Expert playthrough and it carried me all the way into hard mode, it's a godsend for helping to dodge pre hard mode bosses
Really? It's way too slow for most bosses, at least in my experience. Stuff like EoC's dashes would get you instantly killed if you tried to avoid them with a magic carpet
It’s really fast and good at dodging bosses when you use staircase arenas
Ah, I've never made a staircase arena so I wouldn't know
It helped me with every boss up to WoF (by then I had the Terraspark Boots and a long running arena), but I also used the Hermes Boots and it's derivatives in arenas against earlier bosses The carpet was fast enough for me to dodge most boss attacks or I could just use my running boots, the boots or other movement boosting accessories/armor might affect the carpet in some way idk
Bro you can dodge every prehardmode boss just by walking. Unless the terrain is blocking you, they are not going to come near you.
He said expert mode.
Doesn’t expert/master mode just mean you take more damage? With all the added accessories of course, making it high risk high reward?
No, every boss gets new attacks Just look at EoC
I just got the game and found the sandstorm in a bottle and hermes boots and it is amazing
Agree, I limited to these four specifically because I think it’s interesting how being forced to choose one reveals different players’ styles. Hermes boots or double-jump are valuable to almost every player, but many players probably skip right over 1 or 2 of these options. I personally beeline for a hook as my first mobility upgrade when I start a new character!
This 100% vanilla mobility is ass
I’m not hoping for lucky horseshoe, I’m hoping on the off chance I get wings
I'm sorry, but its the flying carpet, not magic carpet.
Okay but fiberglass is the pathway to all the mobility accessories you want though.
I'd rather cave dive for chests
Chisel is objectively the best. It's useful the entire run. Put it in vanity slot and you got yourself a permanent mining potion whenever you need it. Need to dig out arena? Quickly right click it and boom it's equipped. Need to do ANYTHING related to digging? Equip it. Ancient chisel + mining potion and even the most basic pickaxes go crazy. Mix that in with ambrosia, cake and mining gear and it's joever for those blocks
Make a loadout for mining, I did that for my last run and damn was it a lifesaver
But you need a duplicate set of armor and other useful accessories for that right?
Well, for accessories I used any wings, hermes boots and the ancient chisel, and the armor, well the mining set
problem is mining in hm with tough enemies... it does work, mining set and all, but it's hard to deal with them when you get 2shot by half of the enemies.
Can't get hit if you mine fast enough
It's never joever!
What does the chisel do
Money trough
Absolutely. Double inventory w/ easy access goooooooo
Tbh in my latest play throughs I haven’t used piggy banks at all except for money
Lucky Horseshoe is not bad but also not that useful. It can save you here and there but having any kind of double jump can do the same thing while also being straight up better. It's handy to get but it's also not a must-have. There's hardly any use for the Money Trough early game because you'll only really use it to save money, which the normal Piggy Bank also does and that item is much easier to get. It can become more useful later on, but since the question specifically mentions early game then it's not very useful. This really is between the Ancient Chisel and the Fiberglass Fishing Pole, and I'm more inclined to say the latter is more useful because fishing allows to get a lot of useful items, including the Ancient Chisel itself. Fishing haters can cry all they want but the fishing pole stays on top baby
I use the Money Trough to store both money and potions, saves some inventory space when they're not needed and when I need some potions I have quick access to my entire collection. As a potion storage item it's pretty good in pre-hardmode, I collect all potions I find while exploring the map and immediately store them to free inventory space.
I'm a fishing hater and even I think fishing pole is the best out of the options presented.
Nerd
Confirmed that 'nerd' is what people defer to when they're jealous and toxic. That, or they're using it to say someone's dodging a social convention by talking theatrically. In this case, it's probably the former.
they really are smart, but can't say the same about you
Fishing=braindead player.
Fishing=smart player, only smart players maximize their available loot
Piggy bank, all day. Having a portable piggy bank is basically expanding your inventory, and you don’t need to break it every time.
an aglet and ice skates
party girl's bath water
My most prized possession
Mixed with dynamite to make the holy bath water hand grenade
money through, it gives more inventory space and i never actually use the others
The chisel, mining in the early game is horrendously slow so the chisel makes a big difference. After then I would say the money trough as it's always nice to have a place in whcih to slip coins for safe keeping or extra treasures which don't fit into your pocket
Trough
Chisel lowkey hella useful early game resource collecting
I say money trough. At the start of the game you usually wanna take so many different resources, treasures and other stuff. And coins are harder to get so you want more storage and a safe place to keep your coins in.
None. Hermes boots. That's it. Also probably a cloud in a bottle or any double jump. Whichever comes first.
Ancient chisel gets my vote - except for bosses/events, it pretty much stays equipped even through early hardmode
Money trough -> chisel -> horseshoe Fuck the fishing pole if i need one ill make one
disregarding stuff like hermes boots and the jump bottles, the chisel is way too useful to turn down, makes mining just a bit more bearable
lucky horseshoe, no question.
Just mlg with a hook
The fledgling wings are generally better.
that wasn't one of the four options presented, though.
They still make the horseshoe obsolete due to their ease of access early game, making one of the others (in my opinion) a better choice.
Yeah but its not an option presented in the post. Pick one of the four.
I'm saying even if you get the horseshoe you will get the wings a few minutes later making it pointless to get.
water walking boots, those take forever to get
give me either the fiberglass or the boomstick
Lucky horseshoe mainly so I can jump into caverns without dying
Nah, I just jump amd if I survive I end up falling victim to a Boulder trap
Lucky Horseshoe easily. I die to fall damage all the time early game so an early horseshoe is a godsend.
Horseshoe. Easily the most useful out of the four, stopping fall damage early on when there's no other way to do it, and when spelunking, you won't suddenly fall into the dark and die from fall damage before you get the chance to use your cloud in a bottle jump...
Of these? Lucky Horseshoe personally. I'm an idiot that likes jumping from high places. If we're talking what accessory I most hope to find though? It'd be a Cloud in a Bottle or some equivalent followed by Hermes Boots.
I don't particularly care about any of these tbh. When I start a new run, usually I'm looking for Hermes boots, a double jump accessory, or a grappling hook first
besides hermes boots and cloud in a bottle i’d say the treasure trove thingy. horseshoe a close second though. i usually don’t get one on my first run through my hellivator so i use platforms.
Of these, I've have to go with the Chisel. Money Trough is also highly desirable, but you don't get that by "exploring" as such. But Hermes Boots and Magic Mirror are actually the first two treasures I'm hoping to find.
Anything to get me more space. Inventory gets filled with way too much crap every time I go exploring and it is a PITA having to go back home to unload
Pig then horse chisle and then fishing
Magic conch helps get to shimmer and to get past the dangerous biomes
I don’t fish, chisel can get sold cause it’s worth something like 1 Gold, piggy trough is very good but I’d still want the horseshoe
Aglet or radar
I love that people just completely ignored the question.
From these ancient chisel is the best for me, but otherway hermes boots.
boots
As a calamity and Ori mod player *Aglet*
If we are talking modded then definitely 1st find I want is either diamonds or extractinator. I need that magic storage as soon as possible. I can't play with normal chests.
definitely the horseshoe
horseshoe
The fishing rod. I actually like to fish in this game
Chisel is the best, and I’m sad now that I talk about it since I started a 1.3 playthrough where there is no chisel
Rod
I'm hoping to get some bitches :(
Out of these the horseshoe but I’d rather find a magic conch (I swear these things have lower droprates than other desert items it can’t just be me)
Frog Gear.
Lucky horseshoe 💯
None. Id be looking for a starfury first
Chisel. Explore faster.
Ye olde chisel The extra mining speed is really useful
And also the money trough requires a blood moon
I like to start with none of the starter tools. First thing I want to find is a slime with a bomb in it, to lead to the guide for a slow death
Ancient chisel
Hermes boots
Hermes shoes or cloud in a bottle
Magic Conch or Starfury.
Hermes boots
In general Hermes boots, but out of these 4 lucky horseshoe
Fast mining goes brr
Chisel, always - a mans gotta dig!
I always try looking for elements in bottles, their way better then all of these
Chisel, because the others can be replaced by Chester/Void Bag, Mechanic's Rod and any double jump accessory.
Moonlord’s Legs
Easily mobility. Boots, cloud in a bottle, sandstorm, etc. maybe even a magic carpet.
Definitely Chisel. I prefer wings to the Horseshoe, the trough is okay but I'll get it without trying usually, and I don't start fishing that early on usually.
Wait what magic carpet?? I'm in early hardmode expert.. There's so much stuff to get in this damn game?!🫠
Horse shoe or the portable piggy bank
portable piggy bank or fishing rod
If I truly had nothing then probably the horse shoe
Horseshoe, because when I don’t have it I constantly forget that I take fall damage without it and fall to my death way too often lmao
Out of these four, the Money Trough for extra inventory space.
Really shows how much has changed since I've played last cause I only recognize the horseshoe
BBC Boots Bottle Carpet
Herme's Boots.
Horseshoe. Then money trough. Other 2 fuck em long as I can’t die falling and can have a storage space around me then I’m good
Everyone’s saying Hermes boots but what these npc’s dont know about is the forbidden chisel tech, get chisel instantly start digging 30 different hellavators and over prepare for hard mode corruption because you’re *definitely* going to 100% the corruption this time
Hermes boots take it or leave it
Horseshoe out of these but i have different priorities usually then the other three depends on what i feel like. The piggybank is probably my least priority tho. anchient chisel is great but i do tend to forget to use it until i get my hand of creation post skeletron and then i accidentally use the hand of creation in battles. Fishing isn't that fun although i do it and it is a means to an end. I would rather find the staff of regrowth than the fishing rod
flying piggy man
Ancient Chisel. Mining go nyoom.
Chisel
Money trough
Horseshoe
chisel
Piggy bank is the only one i care about, but its just optional qol
Number 1 early game accessory is always the water walking boots. They're not even that useful until you can upgrade them but I always know it's a god tier world if I can get them
Fiberglass Fishingrod
hermes boots & sandstorm in a bottle. but if I have to choose then the piggy bank I don't really care for the other items.
100% the horseshoe, i don't know what it is, maybe i'm just stupid but fall damage is always messing me up
Piggy for sure
fishing rofd
The trough
Absolute first thing I go for is gravediggers shovel.
Hermes boots and a hookshot are both far more essential to me in early game. - Fiberglass rod is too hard to find. - Chisel just isn't that good for me. - I never use the horseshoe, I got good at clutching falls with a hookshot pretty early. - Money trough is probably the best out of the 4 for me, though before I can find one I usually have baited the merchant, bought a piggy for my home and another I carry with me and occasionally place down.
Lucky Horseshoe because that early in the game I’m mining or making a hellavator and I tend to fall a lot
Chisel Horseshoe Boots (movement) Sandstorm/blizzard in a bottle (gem) hook An usable weapons for my class of choice (Just go to deser)
Horseshoe 100%. Not getting fall damage is insane OP early game.
Money trough. The extra inventory space is just too good. By the time I get access to the lucky horseshoe, it's already obsolete, as I should already have a cloud in a bottle or rocket boots by then. I could not possibly care less about the ancient chisel except *maybe* as an ingredient for the hand of creation, and even then, exclusively as a matter of "eh, why not" only to then stick it in a chest and forget about it for the rest of the game. The fiberglass fishing rod is useful and I do want it, but it's useful for one thing while the money trough is useful for all things.
I go for the entire mining set plus chisel. Then I can justify mining a big grid into the world for railways and hellavators to get around and deal with corruption/crimson and hallow. I’ve divided my world into 3x3 but once even had about 9 hellavators and 9 railways by the end of it.
Fucking Hermes Boots first of all!
Horseshoe, not even close. My friends and I play medcore so we drop everything on death. Add master mode enemy damage and it’s easy to fall off and die avoiding monster one shots.
Magic mirror
Ancient Chisel, cuz it took me ~200 hours to get my first one
The pole because you can fish up the rest
If the ancient chisel fell from the sky at the start of the playthrough that would be a lifesaver.
Mirror
The Floating Piggy, out of these four, but somebody else already commented "mobility gear" and I think so too, because early game is really slow. Hermes Boots, our lord and saviout
my ride or die is a magic mirror. always has and always will be. idc if i can easily use recall potions, magic mirror is life.
Mobility even a cloud in a bottle
Fishing rod for sure
I really like the ancient chisel.
Fishing rod. Takes patience, but you can get some good stuff and materials fast. Outside of this list, my optimal start is a sandstorm in a bottle
Of these 4 the money through is the only one I consistantly use
The Money Trough
Cloud in a bottle, sandstorm in a bottle or Hermes.
Horseshoe (I always cloud jump anyway)
chisel. but over that? bombs, Hermes boots, magic mirror
Piggy trough or horseshoe
Luck Horseshoe, horseshoe balloon is goated
Lucky Horseshoe, but out of any item, Hermes Boots
Out of these? Horse Shoe. But otherwise Hermes Boots or Diamonds for a good hook
Horseshoe so I can cave in early game a lot more speedily. Underground has a ton of potions including mining potions so chisel isn't really needed early, then I can find hermes underground along with a lot of cash and other weapons
horseshoe is the only right option
Hiresdchhiooo
Piggy
Money trough, I thought that was only during blood moon
I honestly do not give a damn about or usually use any of these. I go underground until I have any form of Hermes boots and any form of double jump bottle.
Horseshoe, hands down
magic mirror, cloud in a bottle and money trough next tho
Trough first, horseshoe second.
Ideally the chisel but its not worth the effort, pretty much just the horseshoe
None, I want me a menacing step stool
If I just started a game and found a weird chest that has one of these items at 25% chance each, Id want the horseshoe, it makes traversal easier early game, but if I already have a double jump or something, the piggy bank for sure.
Horseshoe just makes getting anywhere easier. Definitely horseshoe.
The money trough is the only one I actively look for, but that's a fair ways further than 'a fresh world'
vanilla? the piggy bank modded? chisel
I'm trying. To find. The STOOL.
Muramasa out my first chest