Hardmode is busted, it's just "survive for 20 minutes until RNG kills you"
I was standing near the recycling bench picking up a coin when the crawler's noise started- I instantly sprinted for the door but it beat me there. I've min-max my runs so that I always have lamp upgrades for first night-time but I've died countless times to either deer at the absolute edge of my light radius. My first 2 day run was ended because I wasn't introduced to the fishing pole trap until then.