how to get mining guild tokens fast

[Slidfungus]

i want the digging thing

[Dragorin]

Do the first two quests in the castle after that the isn't a fast way to get a lot in one go without resorting to mods.

[Klandor]

Or just regularly study your Map that you was available around Ember Cradle when you started your Save. If you need a new one, the Shop has them. They'll have Exclamation Marks where Quests are available. The Exclamations will be either Green or Red. Reg is generally a Prospector Token Quest, so you can check them out and see if it's worth doing. Prospector Quests tend to have reasonable rewards, so a handful of Quests will bring in a pretty penny of Prospector Tokens.

That being said, the Castle Quests ARE the most valuable, but it requires both Prospector AND Farming Quests to be completed before one can advance to the next round of Quests.

[cricri]

A lot of quest a 600 2000 it s very fast
l have 11000
the digging dont stop at T2 he destroy all to T3

[Katgoesmoo]

Potential spoilers ahead.

The are a couple of quests that are very lucrative, providing a total of approximately 19k prospecting guild tokens. However, you do not need to do a single farming quest to access them. They are indeed leading up to the King's quest, and progressing to that later on will also require farming and fishing, besides mining. Those 19k-ish tokens will be more than enough to purchase the digging vehicle (the hydromole) and set up a small T3 mine, provided you have the additional resources for the drills, harvester and (highly recommended) intake boosters.

Bastion Keep is located west of Ember Cradle (the starting plot), up the hill. That's where the jeweler is, you've probably sold stuff there already. If you head right, as you are facing the jeweler table, you will enter the fortified area. You need to take the starting quest in the chain from the guard to the right, he needs a gold dagger of 200 weight, and gives 805 tokens on completion. After you turn it in, the doors to the tower will open, and inside you will have access to two more quests, one for farming, one for prospecting. The prospecting quest will reward you with 18k tokens,

This quest will require 5000 iron, 1000 gold (both perfectly reasonable amounts for a decent starter build in Ember Cradle) AND 400 corestone. Problem is, you can't get corestone in Ember Cradle with drills. You can get the occasional corestone nugget by panning, but it will take you ages to gather 400 weight. So, in order to do this quest, you need a decent sized T2 setup somewhere else. And that means that you will first have to dig yourself a mine (literally any other plot than the starting one will do) using other means. You could do it with a hydro-roller (cheap and slow) or nukes (expensive, but faster to get a workable area deep underground). As a reference, if you place your drills at the bottom level of T2 dirt (14 blocks down), you can get the 400 corestone in about one hour using 5 T2 (cloutium) drills.

Digging deep is the way to go.
Happy mining!

L.E. Other than that, the more prospecting guild quests you do, the better the rewards will get (up tp 2-3k tokens per quest). You still might need some amount of cloutium and corestone to fulfill the more highly rewarding quests.

[roboticaust]

The above is spot on. Only have a few things to add that are mostly speculative from my own experience vs friends and other reliable sources on the discord. So if any of this is wrong, well I did warn you that it's speculative.

Firstly, it appears that if you never proc a single corestone on that save yet, the quests won't ask for them with the exception of the kings quest line.

There is also appears to be some hidden scaler beyond just clearing more quests. I'm not sure what it is per say, but I have noted difference between how quickly mine scaled vs others. My best guess is it's tied to how many drills you have bonked out in Icehelm.

I also noted that moving up to crafting t2 drills caused npcs to start requesting raw ore at t2 depth values as well. Even if one was never placed and utilized.

Without making this an even bigger wall of text, I was able to clear all the achievements and bring my token per quest amount up to 1k-2.5k in all of 10 quest completions (2 batches of 5).

tl;dr. Craft a small army of drills for EC beforehand and you should have an easier time of it.

[Zellnagi]

If you get a few task boards then you can read all the tasks at once and if you pin the map up on them next to your crafting area then you can speed up things, use of an extra smelter, gem compresser, saw, and chisel with scales allows for close to perfect amounts to use, best way to not waste stuff, not having to do extra clicking on the map and scrolls helps too.

[JimboTCB]

The token gains from quests ramp up super fast after you start doing them. I've only done a few quests on a new save and I'm already getting 1000+ tokens at a time just for stuff which is still only T1 materials. And the map and task boards are a godsend for making quick trips around to pick up quests, I bomb around town on my ATV, pick up all the quest scrolls and do them all at once, and by the time I'm done and have made all the necessary items, several more quests have refreshed and are ready to pick up.

[Slidfungus]

i did the first quest for the guy outside the door and the next one is for 18,000 lol

[Klandor]

Originally posted by Slidfungus:

i did the first quest for the guy outside the door and the next one is for 18,000 lol

Yep, I'm about to go complete that one, myself. Do note, though, that in order to progress PAST those two Guards at the base of the stairs, BOTH Quests need to be completed. That means the Farming Task as well as the Prospecting Task. I suspect that's true all the way up the staircase - 1 x Farming Task and 1 x Prospecting Task and both need to be completed to advance...