And thanks to those of you that watched my stream. Was the first time Iāve ever been āliveā. Felt kinda bad about the boring bits, but Iāll do my best to keep light, clean, and entertaining. Any comments or concerns feel free to tell me. Either here or in a PM.
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I 100% agree with you. However, I think one or two things are ok. Iāve given noobs food, some machines, weapons during hunts, etc.
Once upon a timeā¦ @DKPuncherello gave me a 3x3 AOE shovel when I first moved to Finata, a zillion years ago. Until then, I was a happy solo player, making & using my titanium tools. Every once in awhile I would sneak into town and buy a regular diamond tool, when I had the coin. I had no desire to use a forge or forged items. I assumed they were too expensive & difficult, so I just never messed with them. I started using the shovel DK gave me & I was able to flatten the back courtyard of my place in no time. I was like holy 
! After that, I started making my forge. lol
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Same! Just the other day I gave some player a titanium toolset complete with grapple
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Sure I donāt think thereās anything wrong with a little help or a well timed gift.
Someone gave me the last bits of an iron hammer with 3x3 on it when i was brand new. I had put in a few hours with stone and copper hammers by then and using that thing was like magic.
If I had done essentially my first mining with a gifted tool like that I would honestly have been unable to replace it. And Iām not sure I would have had the patience for the hours and hours of mining with āregularā tools that still came after.
I went through a time similar to what you described too, and also worked my way up to being comfortable with higher end tools by using up a LOT of cheap āforge failsā. So many bouncyhammers and random AoE.
A package like what Lynda describes is great to take a friend past the catching up stage or for someone you plan to mentor a little, IMO. Itās not the coin but personally I wouldnāt do that to a random new player.
Also I watched a bit of the vid but missed the stream. Itās not as engrossing when itās not live but it looks like you were having a good time in there.
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100% agree with all of 
this. There are times when my AOE gets used up and I have to use a regular non-forged tool. It feels sooooooo slow & like it takes forever to get anything done.
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Definitely was! I stayed online for 2 hours longer than I intended. I need to figure out a better way to save the video, pretty sure I lost the first hour of footage.
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Can agree that giving a new player some high level tools can do more harm than good. But, I do think it its good to help them out with some of the first level tools and weapons.
When I first started to play someone on the forum gave me and my son (which he refused to use, he wonāt even use the ones I buy for him) and told me not to use it on a planet lower that a t5. I didnāt and I have to say, WOW, if I had used it on a t2 or t3, I would have probably been so bummed by how slow it was after using that hammer I might have lost interest. If I had been into mining and was focused on how fast I could get rock it would have really ruined it for me. So I am glad that I waited.
On the free weekend I went around with some copper and iron tools, weapons and some food to give to new players. Did realize that some were regular players who already knew how to use them when I would see them grapple a tree and start to swing around like Tarzan. shooting the goats and leaving them there, jumping over them as if they were playing leap frog.
Said they were new, but obviously werenāt. That is on them, though, I gave them in belief that I was helping out others like someone helped me, passing it on. There were plenty who were new and glad to get some assistance and a question or two answered.
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I fully agree on the issue on overgifting fresh players.
Some food so they donāt starve and then show or tell them how they can make that tasty earthyam soup themselves, helps them a lot more than anything else.
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Interesting challenge, it will be interesting to see how much it will take time to reach to this goal.
I did watch your stream and you did advance fast 
After you reach set goal, it would be interesting to see some compilation of progress of certain milestones (if youtube offers some stream content editing possibilities).
With access to a PC, I could easily edit a compilation. Iāll cross that bridge when I get to it tho. Gotta have footage for a compilation 
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Honestly I found using non gem tools so tedious I almost quit. It was when I stumbled on a hunt and got some oortstone to sell to ultimately buy a good hammer that things turned around.
I guess I just donāt see a virtue in wasting time. My time is valuable and if they let me Iād swipe a credit card before slamming my face against rocks for days.
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There are ways of making the rock talk. Which is what Iāll be doing tomorrow 
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Fair enough. The first and second time around I didnāt really see it as wasting my time, so much as working my way up to it. I have no history as an FPS player or a voxel builder so there was a lot for me to tke in and Iām still clumsy, but love the physics here. Except that fall damage problem.
I sure hate starting a new alt (or using a newish skill page) now though I feel crippled, and like Iām wasting my time. So I hear you somewhat but I just took it at a different pace.
I have to admit that for people that like to min/max straight to whatever they perceive as endgame and then idle around, Boundless isnāt offering a lot besides building right now.
Hello friends! Iāll be starting part 2 of the 100 hours challenge here shortly. Hours 3+
Today, Iāll be attempting to make level 12 so I can head to Serpensarindi and maybe mine some stuff. If all goes well I should be set to start crafting more iron stuff, and maybe even some alloy. Check the link if youāre interested.
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Popped into the livestream to say hey, and watch him pulling out gold, silver, iron etcetera with an iron hammer.
Good Stuff!
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Right after you left I found some ruby!
At the end of todayās stream I had 4 ruby, 100+iron, 7 silver, and 15 gold. As a level 13 toon on a t5 world. Mine time about 1 1/2 hours total.
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The next stream wonāt be for a few days. Will post here a day or so in advance.
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Edited OP with new information
Listen to me complain about the lag for an hour. While I try to fix the issue.
Will return within the hour to continue where I left off.
At the end of 10 hours I have all the machines, spark generator, and a few strength brews. I have two forged iron hammers(+dmg, +ease) and a loot magnet/flashlight.
Forgot to mention the thirty topaz 
Edit: itās impossible to find diamonds before level 20ā¦HA!!!
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I saw you!!
Lol
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I was there for the coal. Though I did like the tree colors.
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