My primary world, home of the original Glass Island and Skyrail system.
My modded world, featuring the delightful 
Super Hostile - 
There was only one way to defeat this obstacle of course.
Chop down everything.
I've tackled bigger trees than this already, though not quite so dense. In addition to being almost all bark and no leaf, Shadowheart boasted some lovely iron ore. Of course there is no reward without risk on this map, and the heights I was about to start at, rather daunting.
Not falling to my death was going to be the overall goal. On the plus side, there was a pretty good chance I'd land on the lower platform rather than the ground. On the downside, I'd still be just as dead.
I could hear skeletons rattling inside the core of the tree. It was most disconcerting, and I felt a lot safer working from the top down. Lots of time to contemplate how to deal with those spawners while I chop wood.
The dock or road looked even more appealing in daylight, I wonder what I'd find, if anything, if I followed it? That would have to wait. After many days of chopping, there was little left of the branches. I was going to have to breach the core again and deal with the spawners.
On second thought, maybe now is NOT a good time to deal with the spawners.
