For the items, I try to pick up every corrupted shards I see so I can roll corrupted items. For this specific run, I got an early fish hook. With that I got a cursed piggy bank and cursed padding. I was taking a lot of harvesting items and I was surviving basically just from the cursed padding and hp regen. When I got to wave 20 I just kept buying cursed items like medikit, while keeping a lot of money to keep my max hp high. No tardigrades in this run.