I prefer to use mods that make the game far more difficult, like Fargo's Masochist mode or the Infernum mode mod. Sometimes I'll just use vanilla's Legendary mode if a mod has support for that. I'll usually pick one of those three and then I'll sprinkle in a larger compatible mod like The Stars Above along with a ton of QoL mods. I rarely mix more than one or two large mods, as they don't really tend to play well together generally.

Currently though, I'm playing through an ultra-modded modpack I found recently called "Infernal Eclipse of Ragnarok", which is very different from what I normally do. It's a mod made to allow Calamity (plus add-ons like Wrath of the Gods and Catalyst), Thorium, Secrets of the Shadows, & Consolaria to all work work together with Infernum mode. It rebalances bosses and items, adds in new content, and just about anything else you would need to play the mods together without Calamity greatly overshadowing the others in difficulty. Several of these mods add their own version of the thrower class, so they're all merged into one unified class. And Thorium's bard & healer classes have new content added for post-thorium content so they can stay relevant too.

Technically I'm playing an add-on to the modpack called "Homeward Ragnarok", which additionally adds support for Fargo's Souls and Homeward Journey, but I wouldn't recommend it over the base modpack. Homeward Journey isn't really balanced well yet and doesn't have any Infernum mode boss AI, so they all end up being very easy to kill compared to the rest of the bosses. And the sheer amount of content has made the game lag a ton, where my frames drop to below 40 any time I fight a boss anywhere but space (which I have to do a lot of the time).

Still, it's been a lot of fun so far. I beat my first superboss, Astrageldon, yesterday after getting my butt handed to me like 30 times in a row. It's a very well designed boss, and learning its patterns were a lot of fun. I've also been making a bit of a trophy platform, where I'm collecting all the relics and trophies and such for each boss.

Oh no that's not a screenshot of Terraria, that's actually a photo of me standing next to my computer after I tried running Helldivers.

SuckerPunch def took this franchise to the next level with Yotei. I sometimes stop and look at the surrounding views after doing a shrine.

Killing bosses are so satisfying since the story is so good.

Most of the game is relatively easy except that boss on Mount Yotei. The struggles with him.

Man, I wanted to like that game so bad... I just don't think it's for me