I have a golden pickaxe and mostly complete golden armor. I also have an enchanted boomerang. I'd like to go find the dungeon, but while I can make short work of most individual monsters, I can't get past the swarms of monsters that descend on me whenever I reach the corruption that exists on either side of my spawn. I've tried running past them, but there are some hills and I'm not able to build sufficiently to get up over them.
Do I need to tunnel under the corruption (I can't tunnel through)? Do I need a to build a skybridge over it? Or is there some trick to dealing with the large swarms of creatures that quickly develop in trying to pass through corruption?
Best Answer
The enchanted boomerang can be difficult to use against the various Eaters that will swarm you in the Corruption. It's not quite fast enough to take them all out before they overwhelm you or knock you back into one of the many caverns. They like to surround and swarm you very closely.
For traversing the Corruption quickly, I'd recommend:
Tunneling under the corruption would be incredibly time consuming, and I'm not sure how far the Ebonstone goes down in your world, so you may not be able to quickly do it at all. Tunneling through Ebonstone would require either a Nightmare/Molten Pickaxe, or a Dryad to sell you Purification Powder so you could mine through it with lesser pickaxes. A skybridge would be less time consuming and is also a viable option, but keep in mind that if you have a Meteorite fall later on, if it hits a skybridge, your crash site will end up with only a few blocks of Meteorite. :(
If you can't handle the Corruption right now, the Dungeon and Skeletron are probably a bit too difficult at the moment with your current gear. If you haven't yet, focus on taking down the Eye of Cthulu and Eater of Worlds so you can make Demonite gear, which will prepare you better for the dungeon. Remember that the Eater of Worlds' individual segments also drop Shadow Scales, so even if you fail in completely killing him, you should be able to get at least a few drops.