I ended up buying my first set of coils. As people say, invest in advanced and its without a hassle.
If you like the challenge of making it self, then yea you need to equip your workbench with so many basic coils to get advanced, but you will need for other materials other machines with power, so it will not be only workbench, I guess also Mixer, Compactor and Refinery for the alloys…
that’s why I said to better buy it for the start, unless its a challenge you want to overcome yourself.
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I grinded my first 15 normal power coils for the workbench then switched to adv ones.
The first thing you can make that is notable is at 500 power titanium tools, if I remember correctly.
I dont remember if there’s anything under 500. But first notable thing would be compact soft coal and essence from large fossils at 500 Power. And titanium tools require no power.
Huh, you are right. Maybe I do not remember things correctly, but I think when we started that they used to take 500 power.
I have some of my old regular (100 power) coils laying around I would sell you for super cheap just to get them out of my storage if you want.
Never did that I remember. I know they changed ingredients on gleam lanterns and brick but I don’t remember anything else getting changed. But I could be wrong and they could have removed power from titanium tools.
That was in EA. I’m a PS4 player for more than a year now and don’t remember it so probably changed before 1.0
It didnt, I started on release and I am confident that we had to have 500 power for titanium tools.
Its funny cause this is something I wouldnt have changed, without the 500 step there is really nothing good on the workbench below 1500 power.
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Yeah they did change this as it meant you needed to get hold of gems before you could even use titanium. It’s why I mined my first 360 diamonds with iron hammers, haha
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I used silver :3 and shared coils with @AeneaGames at that time so it was a bit easier for us.
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Ha, still remember the overnight crafting of portal conduits with our combined workbench coils!!
And as for mining, I remember using an iron chisel to chisel half a block off of one row and and half a block of the row next to it making a 1 wide path. Iron chisels didn’t care which material it was and didn’t use up much energy either. When it wouldn’t chisel a block I knew there was something worthwhile, ores, coals or gems!
Slow going tho, now I use 3x3 speed hammers 
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Yea it’s easier just to buy advance power coils…
I have already forgotten how hard it was to mine without one hit aoes and super speed brews lol. ^^
Your first venture into a really profitable business as I remember lol, where highly sought after back then~
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Which is what I did too! Had 500 power, wanted 1500, bought 3 advanced power coils for 8k each (!!) and crafter another regular one and I was at 1500.
From there on tho I crafted my own coils as much as possible. Now I just buy them not too worried about coin at the moment, but back then yikes! Everything was more expensive…
Hehe, yeah, sold quite a few of them to Krafter’s!!!
That and gleam lanterns (when they didn’t need glow caps) were my money makers! There was this shop on Beckon which bought any colour gleam lantern, they’ve gotten quite a few cool blue ones from me! 
Psst cool blue gleam when people would buy it at 100c. Used to farm the poop outta that. First coil I bought cost me 26k ish. Crazy to think where the prices are at now.
A good group hunt usually easily provides enough coin for me to fully coil a machine. Have you tried that route?
Those lanterns went for 120 to 150 I think! Easy money!
Damn right they were full on…now you can get them under a 1k…but I sell mine at 1200. I am not willing at all go cheaper just way to much goes in making them to be any cheaper for me anyway…but I still sell them.
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