best ways to find gold ore?

[Discarded]

I'm fairly familiar with the game, but i'm starting over and am trying to get a full gold armor set. it's a real pain in the a** and it feels something similar to banging your head on the wall when your missing only 1 piece of armor.

I'm wondering what the practicality is of using Spelunker Potions to find gold ore? is it worth it's wait gold? (har har har)

using a world viewer on a different map i cannot see any "real" pattern to the ore's locations. it appears to show up equally in all of the 3 top layers. i haven't got into the dungeon yet, and using meteorite to go island hunting sounds like it would take as long as finding the gold ore itself.

so i'm looking for ideas that people Use, and the best ways to use the spelunker potion efficiently.

[Cheffy]

get to the rock background, and go to cave ends, use spelunker potion and start mining!
i also use the technique of looting ores of floating islands, they give u a fair bit of gold. hope i helped :)

[Cheffy]

Actually, ignore gold... go for demonite, kill eye of cthule around 1-2 times and get war axe of the niught and light's bane, then kill eater of worlds around 3 times
and make full shadow set

[Discarded]

Originally posted by GamingMaster:

Actually, ignore gold... go for demonite, kill eye of cthule around 1-2 times and get war axe of the niught and light's bane, then kill eater of worlds around 3 times
and make full shadow set

i did that on my first HC playthrough rocking silver armor, i just wanted to show gold up for the experience of beating him with the best at the currect progression level. Chasing gold armor for the challenge of finding out how to find it

[Real Goblin]

To get the best of the Spelunker Potion, have a ton of Hellavators and a Magic Mirror, activate the potion and fall through one, looking for Gold. Repeat with the other Hellavators until the potion weras off. However, this is NOT practical and you would almost certainly find enough Gold to make the set in a few Hellavators,.

So I also suggest that you start a new mine, and dig down 100+ blocks, then dig left or right 10 blocks, then dig down 5 blocks, then opposite the direction you went last time, and over and over and over. This allows you to see as if you dug a fricking huge pit when you started the the zig zag patter (even more so if you light the tunnel properly.)

[sagevallant]

If you are capable of finding sky islands, they are often FULL of gold & silver ore. The issue is that, once you're up there, you generally don't need them anymore.

[starbeetle]

Go deep in the mines and use a spelunker potion.

[DolphinBoiii]

I seem to find gold ore around the skeleton dungeons.

[Discarded]

ill just accept it as a luck of the draw thing and just attempt it a few times with spelunker potions.

[sagevallant]

There are generally two ways of finding things. 1: Random luck. 2: Cheat by way of Map Viewer.

There is a general depth you should be looking at, particularly on a large world. But there's no guaranteed approach.

[Dibzahab]

Of all the different styles of mining, the one I find by far to be the most efficient is to find a hole and jump into it. The amount of area you can cover in a good tunnel system is incredible, and when I play multi-player Terraria, the efficiency difference becomes hugely noticeable. Large worlds seem to have the best cave systems, medium worlds seem to have the worst. Unless you have mods or adept at using starfury/aqua missile/whatever to scout through rock, using spelunker potions is crucial.

The guy who suggested you skip gold has the right idea, though. My progression usually goes iron -> warding watches -> gold broadsword -> blade of grass -> shadow armor.

[Discarded]

Originally posted by Dibzahab:

Of all the different styles of mining, the one I find by far to be the most efficient is to find a hole and jump into it. The amount of area you can cover in a good tunnel system is incredible, and when I play multi-player Terraria, the efficiency difference becomes hugely noticeable. Large worlds seem to have the best cave systems, medium worlds seem to have the worst. Unless you have mods or adept at using starfury/aqua missile/whatever to scout through rock, using spelunker potions is crucial.

The guy who suggested you skip gold has the right idea, though. My progression usually goes iron -> warding watches -> gold broadsword -> blade of grass -> shadow armor.

you mean the copper watch can have preffixes? thats just....GENIOUS!, you were talking about watches right? prior to EoW?

[TAltAcct]

Originally posted by the derpyderp:

I seem to find gold ore around the skeleton dungeons.

when you go near the dungeon the dungeon guardian instakills you so thats aterrible idea

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[DeeVeeTree]

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[Clank9078]

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