What is the best core/difficulty to play this on? I lost all my shit falling into lava in an online server waiting room...

there are 4 "classes":
melee (close combat)
ranger (the one with the guns)
mage
summoner
your character is not linked with a class, the items you use is what defines what class are you. You can change at in any moment, even in combat.
And there are a lot of items

Just play the game you absolute fucking darling. Stop spoiling yourself on such a wonderful experience.

Gotta admit this is pretty based, wish there were more games with permadeath that let you keep playing in the same world

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watch your mouth or I'll play this damn game right fucking now! (actually setting up a new world and about to jump in)

Softcore normal for your first playthrough, then softcore expert, mediumcore is retarded and unfun, hardcore is interesting but only do it once you're good at the game, expert mode is really fun and worth playing but also extremely difficult

For your second run I'd recommend looking into mods.
Thorium is the best one, adds like a whole game of content (heaps of bosses, two classes, heaps of items).

i think i'm playing either soft or mediumcore, one world is in expert, one is not. Played on both worlds with same char, currently doing the weird ass towers iirc, 2 down, 2 to go.
am i far from the last boss?

softcore is best
minecraft mode isnt good for terraria where you cant get fucked in 0.001 seconds

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