Getting Started
- Create your world and set the difficulty to 2.0 in Journey mode to enable Expert difficulty.
- Build a house with walls, a table, chair, and a light source.
- Craft a wooden bow and remake it until you get a decent modifier.
- Make wood armor for early defense.
Early Game Progress
- Gather stone and clay (for pots).
- Loot surface chests for climbing claws, Hermes boots, and bombs.
- Collect gems for a gem hook (15 of the same gem).
- Mine ores and craft a better bow (preferably gold/platinum).
- Enter the corruption/crimson, blow up orbs for your first gun (arms dealer will move in).
Armor & Weapon Upgrades
- Explore the underground desert for desert fossils and an extractinator.
- Craft fossil armor using sturdy fossils – offers ammo conservation and range buffs.
- Build an Eye of Cthulhu arena.
- Make frostburn arrows (ice + torches + arrows).
- Get Hermes boots before fighting Eye of Cthulhu.
Boss Progression
- Eye of Cthulhu
- Use fossil armor + frostburn arrows.
- Drops the Shield of Cthulhu (dash ability).
- Eater of Worlds/Brain of Cthulhu
- Break 2 more orbs then fight the boss.
- If you can’t kill it, just collect 6 tissue samples/shadow scales.
- Craft Nightmare Pickaxe.
- Get Obsidian + Hellstone
- Use the Nightmare Pickaxe + Obsidian Skin Potions.
- Craft the Molten Bow and Molten Pickaxe.
- Skeletron
- Prepare arena, get Goblin Tinkerer.
- Kill hands first, then head.
- Bee Queen (Optional)
- Get the Bee’s Knees Bow (very good multi-target weapon).
Dungeon & Hell Loot
- Explore dungeon for bones, cobalt shield, handgun, shadow key.
- Craft Necro Armor or keep Fossil Armor for ammo conservation.
- In the Underworld, open shadow chests for Hellwing Bow (great vs Wall of Flesh).
- Build Hellbridge.
Wall of Flesh
- Use Hellwing Bow or Bee’s Knees.
- Drops: Ranger Emblem, Clockwork Assault Rifle, Pwnhammer.
Hardmode Progression
Early Hardmode
- Farm dark mummies for dark shards.
- Craft Onyx Blaster (shotgun + dark shards + souls of night).
- Use Pwnhammer to break altars (spread ores).
- Mine cobalt/palladium, then mythril/orichalcum.
Weapons & Ammo
- Onyx Blaster: Powerful early-Hardmode gun.
- Craft Holy Arrows (pixie dust + unicorn horn).
- Craft Endless Quiver and Musket Pouch.
- Craft Fairy Wings (20 souls of flight + pixie dust).
Mechanical Bosses
- Destroyer
- Use Daedalus Stormbow (from hallowed mimic) + Holy Arrows.
- Twins
- Use Onyx Blaster or Mega Shark with Cursed/Ichor Bullets.
- Skeletron Prime
- Similar strategy, watch for head spin.
- Craft Hallowed Armor (Ranger helmet).
- Craft Pickaxe Axe/Drax for Chlorophyte.
Late Hardmode Progression
Post-Mechs
- Mine Chlorophyte, make Chlorophyte Bullets.
- Farm Life Fruits to boost health to 500.
- Make Ranger Wings (e.g., Tattered Bee Wings).
- Farm Plantera:
- Use Mega Shark + Chlorophyte Bullets.
Post-Plantera
- Explore hardmode dungeon.
- Farm Ectoplasm, Black Belt, Tabi.
- Craft Master Ninja Gear.
Frost Moon (Optional)
- Farm for Chain Gun (from Santa-NK1).
- Craft Shroomite Armor (choose helmet based on ammo preference).
Golem & Optional Fights
- Defeat Golem using Mega Shark.
- Farm Duke Fishron for Tsunami Bow and Fishron Wings.
- Defeat Martian Saucer for Cosmic Car Key (UFO mount).
Endgame & Moon Lord
Lunar Events
- Kill Lunatic Cultist.
- Defeat Vortex Pillar first.
- Craft:
- Vortex Beater (gun).
- Phantasm (bow).
- Make Super Healing Potions (1 of each lunar fragment + greater healing).
Moon Lord Fight
- Build a long asphalt runway.
- Use Fishron/Empress Wings.
- Run and dodge the Death Ray by flying over Moon Lord.
- Target all 3 eyes and then the core.
- Use Vortex Beater + Chlorophyte Bullets or Phantasm + Holy Arrows.
- Use Master Ninja Gear, Emblem, Quiver, Wings, Shield, Soaring Insignia (Expert).
Congratulations!
You’ve completed your Terraria Ranger journey in Expert Mode! There’s still more fun to be had—try other classes, mods, or challenges!
If you enjoyed this, let me know if you want versions for Mage, Summoner, or Melee too!
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