More drills?

[Joman]

Can I get more drills without crafting them on the big anvil in the mountain?

[Phoenix Cat]

No, you can only buy the first one. The rest you have to craft.

[Regicide]

There are some "other ways":

You can activate creative mode for your current game. Special Items will be then available in the shop, like a wizard stick that can duplicate stuff.

There is also a mod that makes drills purchasable, but sadly the creator made the prices so crazy high that you need to cheat to ever buy one. (So it's pointless and you can use creative mode instead)

Warning: Both, using mods or the creative mode, will disable Achievements permanently for that savegame.

As a little hint for crafting in Icehelm: Take a wooden cart with you (you can buy a faster one in Bridgepour in the shop with the small lake) and place it on the anvil. Crafted drills will then directly stick to that cart. Will make it a lot easiert to craft and move all that drills from A to B.

[Joman]

All the drills???
I'm new to the game and sold all my iron. Did not know before, that I need it for new drills...

[Zerschmetterling]

After you get your first harvester, it's rather easy to get more Iron. All you need is a vertical conveyor and a normal conveyor. You can shovel dirt directly onto the conveyors. At the beginning, you don't have to worry to much about starting at a lower level. Shovel dirt fast enough, and quantity beats quality. just keep digging downwards while putting dirt on the conveyors and you will get better ore automatically.

[Joman]

I have a pretty good automation running now in the first mining site. Two drills connected to this washing machine. A lot of conveyors and everything gets sorted into these large buckets.

The only thing I still do manually ist carrying the ores to the smelter in these large buckets.
I have iron enough now to get more drills.

[Regicide]

In the shop in Bridgepour you can buy a smelter. If you place it right, ore will directly drop into it and gets automaticly melted. This will ease things up and also prevents you from the game becoming too laggy.

Note that Drill position is important, not were you get the dirt from. So if you want your Drills to work with the most valuable Dirt, place them as deep as possible on your first plot of land.

When you start to expand (buying another plot of land) you will need the T2 and T3 drills for T2 and T3 Dirt. And for those you need a lot of clotium and the deeper your drills are, the bigger the clotium nuggets.

[Joman]

Can I craft the tier 2 drills with 1000 iron instead of using clothium?
Or do i need iron + clothium?

[Klandor]

Originally posted by Joman:

Can I craft the tier 2 drills with 1000 iron instead of using clothium?
Or do i need iron + clothium?

You need BOTH of them. T1 takes Iron Bars ONLY. T2 takes Iron AND Cloutium Bars. T3 takes Cloutium AND Corestone Bars. The Bars do not have to be an EXACT amount, but they do have to be EQUAL TO or IN EXCESS on their WEIGHT. Any excess weight will be returned to you, as Bars, at the output located on the lower left front of the Big Forge... Bars inserted into the Crucible can be multiple Bars. The lever, though, will only work if the TOTAL Weight of the Bars is sufficient to fulfill the requirements. So 3 Bars of Iron, TOTALLING 1000 Weight of Iron works, even if each individual bar is LESS than 1000 Weight (for example a 305 Weight Bar, a 508 Weight Bar, and a 240 Weight Bar will work and return a single 53 Weight Iron Bar at the front lower left of the Big Forge).

[Regicide]

If you want to be efficient in Icehelm and want to move as less as possible do the following:

Grab a cart (you get a basic one for free, but I recommend to buy a faster one in Bridgepour) and yes, cart, not car (truck).

Place the cart directly on the anvil and then start crafting. The drills will stack into the cart, so after you are done, you can just grab the cart and move back to your place. It's a bit slower then with a truck, but you don't need to pulle every drill from the anvil and carry it to the item elevator.

(If you're patient enough, you can even fit the cart on the truck, but I've heard some wierd things can happen if you don't do it right.)

For the bars: Like Klandor said, you can just use two big bars of Iron and clotium, since the Forge always will give you the surplus amount back.

But for me I was even to lazy to move down there and grab the 2 leftover bars and bring them up again everytime after every single drill.

So I prepare myself by bringing the eaxct amount of bars I need for the amount of drills I want to craft. In case of T2 or T3 seperated in 2 pans. And the bars have the exact size needed. So I place the pans next to the lever and just throw them into the forge, one after another and craft many drills at once without even moving a bit.

But to prepare that many bars with the optimal size you need the "Saw Hook" from the Shop at the Port in Bridgepour + a Keypad from the Logic Parts Shop. And for the Saw Hook you need Prospector Guild Tokens that you maybe not yet have earned. (Easiest ones are by completing the first Kings quest in the bastion, a 200 weight gold dagger))

With the Saw Hook you can very easy and quick cut stuff (everything, even vegetables and gems) to the weight you want/need them.

If you want/need some Screenshots for this setup, just tell me

[Klandor]

Just a quick note on what @Regicide said above, the Logic Keypad ONLY does whole numbers. Therefore, you'll need to round upwards when you need something that is not a whole number (the keypad has no decimals)...

[Regicide]

Originally posted by Klandor:

Just a quick note on what @Regicide said above, the Logic Keypad ONLY does whole numbers. Therefore, you'll need to round upwards when you need something that is not a whole number (the keypad has no decimals)...

You are 100% right.

(but honestly, at this point? who care about a 0.5 weight? I normally generously add up at this point)

But I was thining about to mention the bug that these days still often pop up: The broken Keypad upon purchasing.

So if you @Joman follow my advice and get the Saw Hook + Logic Keypad and it doesn't work, just save and reload your game. This will make the keypad work =)

[Joman]

I also don't care about the exact weight of the ingots...

[Klandor]

Normally, I don't, either. I have so much Gold, Iron, and Gems sitting around, I just round up and use the Logic Saw to cut to that size. I've also gotten there with Tomatoes and getting there with Carrots, but I've only JUST started to grow Corn, and only have a single plant of Garlic and Beets. I haven't even bought any Broccoli. I'm working towards my 3rd Sprinkler, at which time I expect my Farm to start taking off fairly quickly...

[Regicide]

Especially on the beginning, when you start with a new plant and only have one seed, the farming machine comes in handy. If you, for example get only one vegetable out of your first one and it has a weight of for example 1.3, the seed machine just would give you one seed back. But collecting it with the farming machine and throw it out will give you two fruits 1.0 and 0.3 and those will net you two seeds.

You can do this with the logic saw, too.

This will speed things a little bit up at the start.

[Joman]

I did not do any farming yet. Is it needed for some kind of progression in the game?