Iron ore availability needs a fix

[Cheerio]

Its been a week and there is still a big problem with iron ore availability in this game. The problem: it is required for too much in too big quantities, and the amount people can mine is just not enough to satisfy the demand. I have seen a 51 lvl player making iron ore runs, and numerous 40+, at 3AM. The competition for those ores is insane. So what can be done to address this:
1) Increase iron ore respawn timings. I personally think this is the best solution.
2) Boost amount mined from every mining operation.
3) A revamp of crafting to account for iron scarcity. Very time consuming and hard to do.

I understand there will be opposition to this.
Firstly, people who have already invested a lot of time into mining iron ore to help level up there crafting will be upset if everyone else gets an easier time doing this. This is unfortunate, but the problem still needs to be addressed.
Secondly, people will say this is still very early in the game, let the economy adjust itself. Well, I think there should be a sort of balance at every stage. If in early stages of the economy basic level resources are supposed to be the most sought after, fine. But the thing is other basic level resources are not as scarce as iron ore is, it's not even close. So either those basic level resources need to be made more scarce, or just iron ore needs a fix.

Currently dealing with iron ore scarcity is just too frustrating and too much of a pain. It is required in quantities so big that just mining it when you stumble into it is not an option. And making an attempt to farm it just doesn't work because there are dozens of players doing the same thing and that kind of competition is incredibly frustrating for a thing that is supposed to be so basic. Please fix it ASAP!

P.S.
some other quality additions to the discussion

starkmaddness の投稿を引用：

Iron should be needed less for high tier recipes and the other materials should be needed more. For all recipes really. Reduce the dependency on Iron and to balance, decrease the drop rate of higher tier materials.

This also help address the problem of iron ore being like x100 times more valuable than gold, which makes the game's economy look ridiculous. This is clearly not by design.

[fwarlinger]

Its fine in my opinion.

[UnholyDentist]

♥♥♥♥ iron, just level your mining and ignore smithing. It requires way too much ingots and you end up way overlevel by the time you can craft yourself something. Level all your gathering skills as you progress and arcane for pots, engineering for tools/projectiles. you can even ask somebody to craft you bags, no big deal.

[WarWolf]

I feel like its fine i go out and grab 1000 ore on a run doesnt take to long either plus i gather other stuff on the way

[Cheerio]

jfoytek の投稿を引用：

Cheerio の投稿を引用：

Its been a week and there is still a big problem with iron ore availability in this game. The problem: it is required for too much in too big quantities, and the amount people can mine is just not enough to satisfy the demand. I have seen a 51 lvl player making iron ore runs, and numerous 40+, at 3AM. The competition for those ores is insane. So what can be done to address this:
1) Increase iron ore respawn timings. I personally think this is the best solution.
2) Boost amount mined from every mining operation.
3) A revamp of crafting to account for iron scarcity. Very time consuming and hard to do.

I understand there will be opposition to this.
Firstly, people who have already invested a lot of time into mining iron ore to help level up there crafting will be upset if everyone else gets an easier time doing this. This is unfortunate, but the problem still needs to be addressed.
Secondly, people will say this is still very early in the game, let the economy adjust itself. Well, I think there should be a sort of balance at every stage. If in early stages of the economy basic level resources are supposed to be the most sought after, fine. But the thing is other basic level resources are not as scarce as iron ore is, it's not even close. So either those basic level resources need to be made more scarce, or just iron ore needs a fix.

Currently dealing with iron ore scarcity is just too frustrating and too much of a pain. It is required in quantities so big that just mining it when you stumble into it is not an option. And making an attempt to farm it just doesn't work because there are dozens of players doing the same thing and that kind of competition is incredibly frustrating for a thing that is supposed to be so basic. Please fix it ASAP!

No Crafting is way to easy already if anything Iron Nodes need to be slowed down from re spawning as fast as they do....

However we do need Horses....

again, if crafting is too easy, they should make it harder, but it should be done to all of it. Crafting being "balanced" can't rely on iron ore being broken.

[RandomEnchanter]

what people are neglecting mentioning is that mining iron and silver are the most effective ways to level up your mining skill as well, even after 50. this is due to the rarity and relative exp values of everything else. you can go to an area with 12-30 iron/silver nodes, but only have 2 gold in the area

[jfoytek]

Cheerio の投稿を引用：

CyberDown の投稿を引用：

There is plenty out there, you need to look for it, its like the point of this game. You can look up maps to see where ore spawns are if you need to. I have more issues with inventory weight being just so restrictive to the only decent content in this game however.

Actually I have spent hours farming it already. And it is getting worse. Last night at 3AM I was making a run around Everfall for iron ore and from like 15 possible mining spots know how many were available? 1.

Here I will solve all your problems:
https://www.newworld-map.com/#/

Your welcome now stop trying to make an already absurdly easy crafting system easier....

[fox]

Nah its fine. I'm on a high pop server and you just need to know basically two things: 1.) where the nodes are or where to expect them, and 2.) when to switch spots when there's too much people doing the same thing.

[Lunacy]

RandomEnchanter の投稿を引用：

what people are neglecting mentioning is that mining iron and silver are the most effective ways to level up your mining skill as well, even after 50. this is due to the rarity and relative exp values of everything else. you can go to an area with 12-30 iron/silver nodes, but only have 2 gold in the area

I thought boulders were? iron and silver is usually a bulk of 2-3 nodes for 150 exp each
but boulders are easily found in large quantities giving 50-80 exp each, and since boulders are everywhere and not hard to find they're usually better for grinding exp timewise

[Etzix]

i mine these suckers for like 3k/45 minutes

[Lord_Abaddon]

Honestly the main issue with smelting in general is the fact it takes multiple bars to craft the next level. it makes sense 4 iron ore would create one bar. but how does 3 iron bars and a little charcoal become a 3rd of the size and turn into steel? it should be 1 iron bar and other ingredients to make steel. same thing with steel to starmetal ect ect;

[holdem]

Lunacy の投稿を引用：

Martin の投稿を引用：

There is tons of iron.. all over the map. Instead of writing about this.. go explore. Loads in the starter zones and more in the others.

Thing is if you just go out and play normally it can be very rare to come across some Iron or Hemp.
I'm 41 so far and I find iron and hemp to be incredibly sparse. There's a few good locs but im not gonna spend hours backtracking there.

people like you need a magic wand that insta fills your storage......

[Budmind]

just give it another week or two, mining iron is easy and fast as it is already, with starmetal tools, proefficiency potion and a good route i haul like 3k iron ore in 15 minutes + enough azoth to recall to my house and start again immediatly.

[Calous Caine]

There is plenty of iron, go to a different location:
https://www.newworld-map.com/#/

[UnholyDentist]

holdem の投稿を引用：

Lunacy の投稿を引用：

Thing is if you just go out and play normally it can be very rare to come across some Iron or Hemp.
I'm 41 so far and I find iron and hemp to be incredibly sparse. There's a few good locs but im not gonna spend hours backtracking there.

people like you need a magic wand that insta fills your storage......

Have you seen the movie "Spaceballs"? There a scene where deathstar transforms into a maid with a hoover and start vacuuming out all the air from the planet. Imagine if we could do that with ALL nodes, just hoover them in from the whole map.

[Manhattan]

I see an easy fix. Every node is iron ore by default. Give it rolls/chance to dynamically spawn as a higher tier node based on lvl of land you are in. There aren't so many nodes that they couldn't give each node 10 different alternative locations each to spawn to detour spawn campers. Give an intern the project to compile your spawn points.