So yeah I ended up getting Terraria via a gift from a friend and it's fun. However I made a Large world for my Single player file so I'd have plenty to do. Anyways while exploring I found a corrupted area of the game world and went to digging, however no matter WHAT i do down there eventually I crash if I'm in that part of the game, often with an out of memory error or something which I can't honestly fathom how that's happening.

It's ALWAYS in the corrupted area of the game....so anyone else having this issue? What is going on that's causing this?

large worlds are too big, they always have issues, better to use a medium one

small or medium worlds are probably the best anyway; I started with a large world but couldn't find anything except stone, dirt and a corruption area. Getting ores and such was a real pain on it.