>>10671In vanilla grinding helps you, but its not really mandatory. you dont need ankh shield or any kind of rare drops to beat moonlord, while doing supreme calamitas withour auric tesla or 10+ crafting stage wall of text utility equipment is almost impossible. Thorium is meant to be kind of like an unofficial update. Its not supposed to scale much after moonlord. About difficulty, you can try to change how the controls work and make an actually decent bullet hell fight, like blushiemagic in elementsunleashed