Diamond mining pain

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^^ what he said. Currently, if memory serves, the world regens approximately every 13 hours, so if the atlas updates every 24 hours, that means roughly half the time your atlas is outdated, and that is no bueno

Edit: i did read somewhere on here that they are looking into having the atlas update constantly or have it on a live feed kind of thing(however ya wanna word it) dunno how that would affect servers speed though. A bunch of players running around with fully filled atlases constantly being updated as other players mine the world…

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I get about 2-300 diamonds every trip out. Just have to know where and how. Atlases are completely broken for me atm though btw. They show nothing.

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guys at what altitude u are mining? diamonds are between 5-40 altitude so very deep dont forget that :slight_smile:

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I didnt know i could mine that high! ive been keeping between 10-20 alt. Time to update my strat! Need more Diamonds.

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I thought bombs actually destroyed the stuff. Also why do we have to resort to bombs… Also i’m happy you get so many diamonds… Thanks for showing off. not helpful. I’ve followed what every other person has said. WHICH I LITERALLY SAID. SO instead of being a ■■■■ about it maybe help me or stay off forums. … I mine by doing many things that I have tried… I have dug straight… I have dug straight and then every third on both right and left dig as far as I can 1x1 then repeat. I have done every third block dig a 3x3 and go out left and right 10 blocks and maybe even connect those. And yes under a mountain and yes I found a diamond and tried to dig this all around the diamond not too far or too close.

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While I appreciate the frustration here, please refrain from hostilities to other users.

Currently bomb mining is very efficient, and is usually faster than strip mining due to the larger explosion range, which is why players are suggesting it. If you’re on Serpensarindi, going to altitude 10 in a hotspot on the atlas will give you a better chance of finding diamonds.

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Nerf the bombs alrdy steggsie

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Why? The bomb mining have a good balance. And actually found saltpetre to make bombs its very hard, i think its ok.

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Also nobody mentioned that you need power before you can make titanium bombs…

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I can underatand the frustrations, needing the diamonds to make good bombs in order to het diamonds, especially when I’ve literally only found 10 all in all the entire time I’ve played :smiley: BUT I’ve found that not knowing where to look leads to not getting what you’re looking for. Ive been mining mainly at mantle (which is where I was informed there are diamonds, roughly between mantle amd 15 alt.) Obviously there is some confusion out there as to where diamonds are found, but the fact that you can mine up to 40 alt deep is fantastic! As for bombs, while yea titanium I’m absolutely sure would be great and efficient and all, though if you’re like me and have no coin (too much warping on the new worlds ToT) or only one power coil for the workbench, making bombs a lower tier to start out with would be a good solution. I mean, if ya can’t get the best, go woth the next best thing. Am I right? But neither here nor there (just like these diamonds) you just gotta keep at it. I’ve spent days on end looking for those suckers, and yea I got frustrated not finding any, but I promise the sweet relief of finally finding a decent little vein of diamond seams is soooooo rewarding. Sure, again like me, that might not change the fact you’re behind in development compared to most, but none the less, try, try, and try again. Or did I misunderstand the meaning of ‘grind’? But all in all, as long as you try, you can at least say you tried. Eventually you’ll succeed buddy :smiley: as will I, and the next guy, and the next. It’s only anmatter of time and effort :heart:

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I’m no pro, but I use chisels to help me create a tunnel length wise, then use the stone square chisel every block to the side.
(If you hit resources you can’t chisel anymore so you know when you’ve hit)
So really because it’s alternate youre actually viewing well over a plots size area…make sense? I’ve found more ore veins doing this than straight up mailing with hammer… How can I view my altitude? Debug?

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Press P to go to places, then LOCATIONS tab, under ORIENTATION you have current location: N, S (Altitude: xx)

xx is your… yep you guessed it right :wink: current attitude :slight_smile:

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My tips for mining beginners:

Chisel mining.

You’ll need nearly no power nor expensive tools just stone chisels.
The chisel doesn’t care about the blocks armor.

Just use an Iron hammer for Seams.

Speed (Dexterity stat) and reach (Control stat) however will help you a ton !

Chisel-tunneling:

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Chiseling down/up/sides

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The name of the game is simple.
Uncover as many blocks as fast as possible and of course praise Rngsus or Lootsifer if you prefer.

Happy mining :slight_smile:

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Its not hard

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Chisel mining is actually my preferred method just so I’m not eating through the iron hammers :heart: Found a lot of ore that way, just sadly wasn’t chisel mining the only time I found diamonds :joy: Funny how Lootsifer works :joy::joy::joy:

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its no hard? pff you dont know the process to get them rigth?

using mass craft.

1.- you need volatile blood and flint (18,72)
2.- saltpetre fragments (36)
3.- 500 power (for titanium) the best
4.- titanium allow

volatile blood if you dont have a good hunter its hard farm this.

flint its easy to farm.

Saltpetre fragments its hard to found them, if not, why its very expensive?

500 power, you know what do you need to make the power coils?(without mass craft)
need copper to make the machined blocks, to get them need compact copper, refine them, and machined, need around 50 rought diamonds to compact them, to get the diamonds you need go to lvl 5 planet, ohh wait, to go to this planet need protection, you need spend skills point to protect you, you need good tools because its a lvl 5 planet, the block have a lot of defence and healt, ohh but to go to the lvl 5 planet need a portal, wihtout the PS help, its very hard and expensive to travel, now, you have the diamonds but you need tech components too, in low levels its hard to found them, you need to mid+ levels planet to have a good rate.

now the titanium allow, you need 72 gold/silver allow and 36 titanium bars to make 50 titanium bars, to make gold/silver allow you need coal and a good furnance to make the bars, and you need mix copper with gold and iron with silver, you need go to mid+ lvl planet to farm gold or silver, again you need the PS, to find gold or silver you need time to found them, the titanium you need to go to lvl5 to find it.

ok, now you have 500 power to make titanium bombs, why titanium? because them have the best damage and aoe.
if you go to the lvl 5+ planets you need launch around 8 coppers bombs to break the block, 4 if you use iron (wihtout skills pooints) 6 copper or 3 iron (with skill points) if you use copper or iron bombs its a bad way, why? because the time to explote and launch them are a lot, if you use copper you spend time, but you do a 3 radious hole, if you use iron you dont spend time to explote and launch the bombs, but sacrifice the radious,
for those reazons titanium.

With titanium its more easy, but expensive too, you need the doble items than you need to make copper/iron bombs, and rare ingredients (titanium and gold/silver)

Idk why you say that to make bombs are easy.

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Please update the tooltips on Bombs so people know their use is mining and that they have almost no other use.

I think it’s a horrible mechanic and has cheapened the importance of mining and gem finding, such that it isn’t even mining anymore, but if you’re going to keep it in the game, at least put all players on an even playing field by explainin’ how it works.

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I dont care about the rest of the recipe. I have made and not bragging over 100k with saltpetre only. People are just too lazy or just dont have a clue what they are doing. Lol

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Yeah it’s a very long process to get to efficient titanium bombs. In fact, there’s so much you need to do before you get to titanium bombs, they could make an entire game about it! All the way from beginning with nothing, working up to something. I think this may have been the intent of the developers, as there is currently no “god mode” where you can just get everything for no effort input yet.
The essence of progression means that some things are better than others, and you have to get through some struggles to get where you want to be.

Lastly, remember that stripmining at one altitude (if it isn’t giving you any reward) is unadvisable, try going up and down as wel not just back and forth

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dont use gold bombs use sliver it has a bigger range