I am aware that random distribution is at play here, but it feels a little too extreme at the moment. If I hadn’t had 3x3 diamond hammer, max power+mining stats, and a mega strength brew? I could have easily wasted a ton of time carving out branch tunnels in the totally dry area and walked out with nothing.
Yeah you walked away with more stone hurray, who here agrees, that higher tier and more dangerous world’s should not hold any one level tier materials? Copper, iron, level one ores of any kind such as coal, fossils or tech?
Diamonds and sapphire were easy enough for me, was getting about 100/hr using bombs and fists. Rubies on the other hand has been a bit of a slog. Started out ok with about 75 the first hour and the next 125 took the rest of one evening and the next. Still going to map Alcyon more tonight and try to find a good spot.
I read on another thread about the world regeneration possibly not populating an area with resources that has been previously mined until a certain point. Not sure if that’s how it works but one area I was at which showed light blue on the atlas had some tell-tale signs of previous mining that had regenerated some but I mostly found basic stone and few resources.
Jesus, could you breakdown what your hammer and stats are? Do you follow the atlas? Strip mine layers above and below? Straight line mine shafts? This is crazy, how on earth you get 1k in 40 minutes
I thought i did good today at 140 topaz in an hr lol
@Jiivita as always your the man. Thanx so much for all your videos. Pre-alpha and beyond.
Also I appreciate that you have so much room for the complaining side of things, but you bite your tongue a lot, and just stick to the facts. That in turn creates a professional product. You are very good about not voicing emotional rants at all, and just giving the community great advice on how to accomplish different problems.
I will give personal experience for gold, not a wiki
Magic number for all t3-5 planets so far is Alt 19. Obviously no gems on lower tier, but some Gold.
I drop to 18 and mine above 2 blocks. Then after after I make a tunnel, I will drop 2 blocks and repeat another tunnel under that one.
On t5 and t6 planets I am finding more gems if I hit the mantle and tunnel in. I can find many scraps sloppy miners leave behind on the mantle. But Alt 15-16 seems to be more magic hour on t6.
Also the cross effect is the worst aoe imo for mining important things. Its great for general rock harvesting though on lower planets. All aoe tools with low damage are great Lamblis and lower planets. They are a waste on higher tier planets if your hitting every block 12 times before they break. Better to just use iron until you can afford higher tier hammers. I rather have a one adjacent below aoe than a cross any day. cleaner tunnel prospecting.
Also You may not make any more money than a iron hammer, because cheap iron hammers break rocks and diamonds just as much, just 20 times slower. So on one hand you have a price per hour, and the other hand a price per hammer. Either way it’s a cost.
This works great when there hasn’t been 50 people before me. The problem is there are more miners than planets right now. In which no method works other than trying to be the first in a untouched area.
