Stamina regeneration

[dataVi]

I'm about 3 weeks into the game and just completed the hydrogel quest. Does this game ever get to a point where I can mine in the abandoned ruins without blowing through my stamina in 30 seconds?

[Zewtastic]

Raising the level of your base increases all your stats. So Stamina will increase, just not quickly.
Gradually you will have stamina and time becomes the issue..
Make sure to have furniture with the stats you need.
In building mode, check the upgrade stats to see what the next level will increase for you. How much will stam go up.

[Coltrek]

Here's a mod that do Stamina Regeneration.
https://www.nexusmods.com/mytimeatsandrock/mods/8

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Higher level clothing with stamina stats, expanded home base with stamina furniture, eating two full course meals per day at saloon, stamina regen food that you can cook yourself.
Perks that reduce stamina use on certain actions.
Also make sure to refine your pickhammer to stat that has chance to return 2 or 4 stamina on use.

[dataVi]

I know how to increase my max stamina, but it still looks like a maxed out base and high level clothing yield max stamina of about 600. That's 200 daily swings of a tool and an additional 13 more on average with the perk. I don't have the refiner yet, but I imagine the proc rate on refined tools is also low just like the perk.
Stamina food seems underpowered as what looks to be the most obtainable items only return 35-40 stamina, giving another 14 swings on average with the perk. I'd need to take dozens of consumables if I wanted to mine all day. Dining is inconvenient since I need to stop what I'm doing to go eat.
Maybe my problem is just that Sandrock seems to have a much slower progression than other games as far as stamina is concerned.

[TyresTyco]

Yeah the fact that food is ultra useless is what annoys me the most in this game. It's so useless that it's not even worth to get.. at least until you have so much money so you can buy it all without much hassle.

But farming for food that gives a couple of stamina back? Useless. Better do what you have to do instead of grinding fish, meat etc.

At least at the first 50% of the game.

[Zewtastic]

Originally posted by dataVi:

I know how to increase my max stamina, but it still looks like a maxed out base and high level clothing yield max stamina of about 600. That's 200 daily swings of a tool and an additional 13 more on average with the perk. I don't have the refiner yet, but I imagine the proc rate on refined tools is also low just like the perk.
Stamina food seems underpowered as what looks to be the most obtainable items only return 35-40 stamina, giving another 14 swings on average with the perk. I'd need to take dozens of consumables if I wanted to mine all day. Dining is inconvenient since I need to stop what I'm doing to go eat.
Maybe my problem is just that Sandrock seems to have a much slower progression than other games as far as stamina is concerned.

Now you're getting into the design flow philosophy of the game.
It's not about power-gaming and having endless stamina, even though all hard-core gamer's naturally think that to be the goal.
It took a bit of work for me to not be driven by the feeling I had to use all my stamina every day, no matter what.

[neo_crimson17]

Look at the skill tree and try to unlock the ones that boost your stamina and inventory space. Look into weapons and armors that give extra stamina.

Look into furniture and other decorations that you can piece together at the museum that gives extra stamina if you place at your home base. Then cook up dishes that recover stamina. One of the cheapest dishes is to grow sweet potato and wheat at your farm. Get the blender and turn wheat into flour. Potato + flour (wok) = sweet potato bake which gives +5 stamina each. you'll need to go to Qi to research the cook station and the blender.

Order food at the Blue Moon Saloon and it will recover your sp (stamina). The more dishes you order, the more stamina you can recover. Look into creating the ore refinery machine so you can boost item rarity. Higher rarity and level also gives better stats (purple rank).

There's a skill in the social skill tree that can boost additional gol and an extra commission that you can do per day. After you've done your commission quota, you can also go the Civil Corp Office and accept monster hunting missions to earn more money.

[tizonsuzon]

For me personally, I made a mod that makes every action cost 1 stamina point. It helps me enjoy the game more to be able to play some things the way I want instead of the way the developer designed. I can still go mining most of the day in the beginning, but do run out late at night.

[Zewtastic]

hacking games is never the answer.

[neo_crimson17]

Originally posted by tizonsuzon:

For me personally, I made a mod that makes every action cost 1 stamina point. It helps me enjoy the game more to be able to play some things the way I want instead of the way the developer designed. I can still go mining most of the day in the beginning, but do run out late at night.

But that would make it too easy for you and remove some of the challenge. Hopefully, you don't ruin your own enjoyment in the long run though. But more power to you, brother. It's your game enjoy however you want.

[SimuLord]

If you're running into trouble with stamina in the mines specifically, consider using the refiner to increase the "dig radius" of your pickhammer. That will dig out more of the rock and dirt per swing of the pick, particularly useful for relic hunting where you know where what you're looking for is but you have to dig to get it.

This is less of an issue when what you're after is on the surface (like the resource nodes); for that, the same boost to tool strength as you'd use for scrap breakdown in Rocky's yard is good in the mines as well.

You can also refine to give a % chance of getting stamina back on each swing.

And, of course, there's always the cooking station for creating stamina food. Check "cooking" on the wiki, it'll show you which recipes give stamina back, and some of them are crazy powerful (Fine Sandberry Zongzi can be made on the apprentice cooking station and the materials are found around your workshop area, and Sweet N Sour Pork Ribs are great once you've gotten the Chef's Cooking Station upgrade, just for example.)

And, of course, there's the standard disclaimer: Sandrock isn't a game for the impatient. It's at its heart a resource management game, and making it easier removes part of the appeal of the whole core gameplay loop. But it's a singleplayer game and you can do whatever you want with it; there's no such thing as cheating when it's just yourself playing—as anyone who's ever seen me play solitaire with a deck of actual cards knows.

[Zellnagi]

Refining your clothing and furniture will also help to add a few more points, if used with "Yard Knowledge" in knowledge you can boost your stats from furniture to an higher level, once you expand your yard and house then you can add on.

Leveling up to get stamina is not really that hard if you know what to do, in knowledge there are things that can help with getting EXP.

[Aerogems]

Originally posted by Zewtastic:

hacking games is never the answer.

If you're playing on your own and it makes the game more fun for you, what's the problem?

[neo_crimson17]

Originally posted by Aerogems:

Originally posted by Zewtastic:

hacking games is never the answer.

If you're playing on your own and it makes the game more fun for you, what's the problem?

Yep. Each to his own. At the end of the day, it's his game. He bought and paid for it after all. It all came down to "did you have fun play it?" This is the core for most if not all video games.

[aphfid]

Originally posted by dataVi:

I know how to increase my max stamina, but it still looks like a maxed out base and high level clothing yield max stamina of about 600. That's 200 daily swings of a tool and an additional 13 more on average with the perk. I don't have the refiner yet, but I imagine the proc rate on refined tools is also low just like the perk.
Stamina food seems underpowered as what looks to be the most obtainable items only return 35-40 stamina, giving another 14 swings on average with the perk. I'd need to take dozens of consumables if I wanted to mine all day. Dining is inconvenient since I need to stop what I'm doing to go eat.
Maybe my problem is just that Sandrock seems to have a much slower progression than other games as far as stamina is concerned.

Thanks for your post. This is probably my pet hate with Sandrock, and something I was hoping would change. I check forums occasionally to see if this has changed and if it might be worth giving Sandrock another go.

Portia basically left it up to the player to decide how they wanted to play. If they wanted to split their time doing a bit of everything every day, they could. If they wanted to focus on different things on different days they could. Sandrock seems a game that plays the player rather than the player playing the game. They are very different games in this respect.