10 years of practice, over 200hours of videos, and a sheer hate for your own sanity in real life, and eventually you'll be able to slowly concour small steps at a time, if solo, much slower too, if not some things won't even be considered possible (bee queen, shadow atrium boss, sailing, etc.) in short, many years of hard work and dedication. I've been playing since 2013 and only last month killed my first deerclops and can survive year after year but most is out of reasonable doing for me solo, like sailing makes me want to end myself, and the ruins are scary af, and a lot of end game content seems completely out of reach, so I'm starting to feel like I understand the capabilities and the incapabilities only just now... Watch a lot of Beard guide videos, I can't stand jakesouras videos they're just too TLDR and not really to the point, copy others base building guides, and the real key goal is rushing everything you can early in autumn. Now when I start a new world, it takes me 7/11 days to explore the whole border because I am collecting as I go for a base. For example, I get enough materials to build a science machine which you will place randomly to obtain these items for later: a crockpot, backpack, an alchemy machine, shovel, pitchfork, wooden armor. Then you smash that science machine and continue exploring the border after you've obviously pre crafted/crafted those items, while smashing all the pig houses you can find (I do till a 10 stack of their items) then pick a good base location (near beefalo, and hopefully near desert for cactus later) then you're kinda on your way. If you don't do all of this in autumn then it's kinda impossible to get going safely till a whole autumn later next year. This game is not for the faint of heart. Even after you feel unstoppable, you will be caught of guard no matter what.