Early on I think having a crafting character helps a ton. Crafting skills take up a huge amount of skill points. That’ll free your main up to spec 100% into mining. You’re going to want 8/8 power, dmg epic, hammer epic for sure. To help with energy get the energy epic and energy regen. Add some dexterity, luck, and points into the attributes skill and this will make you a good miner and decent at everything else.
You’ll be able to chop wood and kill lower level creatures with a decent enough bow. My main spec is mostly miner, even at 50. I completely ignored any protection/health skills. You will die, but once you get to a spot, dig a hole 3 deep and cover yourself. If you die you will make xp back fairly quickly with mining. Once you get more points you can put them into the stealth epic and control and mobs will mostly ignore you unless you get right beside them.
Save your coin until you can mine t5. At that point invest in a forged hammer. Preferably with 3x3, durability, and dmg. Also invest in persisting pies to make the hammers last longer. The hammer will pay for itself by the time its broken if you sell your extra mats.
So instead of the 200ish tables at 30 mass to hit lvl 50 you need 400ish tables. Lol. Still doesn’t seem like a lot. There’s plenty of miners that’ll give their rock away for free or miners that would love for some to tag along and grab all the rock cluttering the area lol.
There’s a ton of great suggestions. I’ll probably redo my spec into a miner this evening and go from there. Apparently levels are everything, so I’ll spend some time getting XP by mining.
That said, I just got out of my first meteor hunt, what a ride that was. lol
No joke. @FayaAOP is building a massive stepped pyramid of sorts on the 0N 0E area of Besevrona, and has some other similar side-projects elsewhere, I think.
I am sure it’s already mentioned, but find portal hubs every planet (except exo’s) has several portal hubs.
Like Portal Seekers, Ultima, Hubbit and TNT (those are the ones i know of).
Make use of them.
Making alts is a good thing but if you keep focusing on one character you can build 5 different pages on it.
Have 1 main 2 alts.
Main builder/miner/lumberjack/hunter/gatherer
Alt 1 crafter-forger
Alt 2 crafter-shops
Atm you should only need 3 characters max
Main - crafter (alt) - shop owner (alt only if you plan to start a shop [tax epic]).
Further if you are in need of coin check the shop request baskets and collect what they buy.
Find an Exchange if you need specific materials. I own the terra exchange on Antar VI.
Take your time, progress is progress.
And like i say to a lot of beginners Knowledge (menu) is your friend. It can tell you what you need and where to find it. It also changes color palette when you are on a other planet.
My question here is if you don’t bother with all of the protections, what is to keep them safe as they run around the planet to get to a good mining spot? Unless they do the farm mining?
I guess I’m weird, I preferred to advance slowly and enjoy the game. I stayed on level 3 and 4 planets until I had enough skills to keep me from dying as I ran around looking for items and used a atlas to find a good mining spot. Which was probably around 500 or more hours of game play.
I used just my unforged titanium tools (can buy the bars real cheap at a lot of shops) and was happy with what I got as I learned and gained xp for points and in how to play the game. I have over 1k hours in the game and I have just now switched to titanium tools, unforged, for the lower level planets and use the AOE tools only on level 6 planets when mining or in a rush in a regen farm for sand and soil to make glass.
Was using unforged titanium axe last night while on Shedu Te to gather sweet beans, bitter beans and exotic yams from plants. With my forged weapons (I forged them) got for a fringe benefit, lol two cores, a road runner feather, a horn, lots and lots of blood and other items I need from the critters I killed for making forging mats. And was killed three times. Stupid hopper did a sneak attack once and killed me, twice I took on a elemental when I should have ran – not stood my ground. Real smart of me (Not !)
But, I have never felt I needed to rush and get to the end as fast as I could. I like to enjoy and savor the game, same with my ice cream, why rush a good food, enjoy every bite !
Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge. An atlas is only a few hundred coins, grab one for the world along with a gem of choosing. It doesn’t take long to traverse the surface to get to 1 mining spot. But I was talking about the atmospheric protections, you don’t need all of those either to start mining efficiently.
The number of plots you get is way too low to build a decent sized base. That’s why I am rushing all of my characters to 50. At around 600 hours played I am finally getting close to enough plots for a home base (around 1600 plots across 5 characters)
Edit: I have a few thousand hours into Minecraft. I’ve built things out of blocks a time or two. I don’t want to waste my time making a tiny dirty shack again. I want to make an actual build and the progression system is way too slow for that. I gather blocks exponentially faster than I can get space to place them.
wow even with the area I just plotted onto my base (nearly doubling its size) my base is not this large. I mean considering i just added around 400 plots I’m getting into the neighborhood of 1000 (at least 800+).
I am reading this a bit late, but I recall feeling the same.
3 characters, Hunter, Miner and crafter worked for me, the miner is progressing fastest, but depends on what will you like to do in game most. Sometimes I wish i had just one, but still I think three is better.
When felt stuck, I set “goals” to achieve and made a plan to reach them, which helped.
If you like to experience meteorite hunting or show how to gather different materials efficiently I will gladly show and explain how to.
I started quite slow, but I think that what works the best is to go meteor hunting either solo or in groups.
So I would sugest that you two start a hunter character, it will be hard at the begining, but you will gain enough xp and oort stones which you can sell in markets for around 170 coins. Once you have a good amount of money you should get a good gem slingbow and grapple.
Once you can get a constant income with oort stone you can buy whatever you need, brews, pies, coils and tools like aoe hammers (3x3 would be nice but cross is good too) so you can go and get ores with a miner.
Keep all the rocks you get and use them to gain xp, you only need mass crafting skill and lots of crafting tables (teaching pie would improve your xp gains).
I would 100% say get another character! Make one your miner and one your builder/crafter. You’ll level them both as you go and the skill points will go further. I tried to do everything on one character when I started and having a second toon really made it easier. Use teaching pies.
This is actually discussed on the forums all the time. Being an MMO the game is, in my opinion, best played with others. Personally, I think the game is too big for one player to do everything. You have your friend, which is awesome, so you’re not truly a solo player. Dividing up your roles, which it sounds like you’ve done, is wise and after you get your characters leveled it will get easier.
Also, I would recommend making a second character so you can hunt. Hunts will bring you a ton of resources, Oort, and also will help you get to know others in the community. The best hunts for newer player like yourself, are JaceyLive’s. He (or someone on his behalf) hosts hunts nearly daily. They are most of the time on Circapous (T4), so you’ll need 1pt in caustic protection. Everyone meets at Meteor Meet and the hunt lasts two hours. I would stay away from the T6 hunts until you get more experience/skills.
At the stage of the game you are in, I would say don’t worry about portals… maybe get a 1x2 player portal which links you to a city with close access to a major hub. Keeping up with portals is a lot of pressure Oort-wise… so for now a 1x2 with 900 shards will stay open for 5+ weeks… use that and then sell the rest of your Oort for coin. I pay 185c ea in my shop for Rough Oort… that could be really helpful for you to have the coin for other things that are more helpful at your stage of the game.
For more advice I recommend watching Jiivita videos on YouTube. He has a lot of good videos that explain how to do almost anything. I would not pay too much attention to some of his forging techniques, but he can tell you the how to’s of just about everything else in the game. His videos really are great for new players.
If you need help or have questions, feel free to visit iLLumiNaughty, on Trior. We are new player friendly and glad to lend a hand or answer questions.
