Hints for cave work?

[Your English Teacher]

I'm nowhere near a dehumidifier, but in the meantime, any suggestions for trying to work in the caves and get to the desert with enough stamina to swing the pick about three times in a row? :)

[Mourn]

only thing I can think of is to stock up on antibiotics and antivenom (for the worms) or the pills if you're at T3 tech. I'm about 4 copper bars away from the dehumidifier, so getting there, just hit lvl 25

[chumbucket]

The vaccine in the workshop is amazing. Before that, I just cooked pumpkin, carrots and either berries or squash for extra stamina, and used the t1 antibiotic (yeast, silica and charcoal) to reduce the duration by half

[ZorTheCruel]

For sure, stay out of the water in the cave, that's the fastest way to get it. By staying out of the cave water, and very frequently dipping outside the cave (like every 2 nodes mined, go outside for a sec) I avoid getting pneumonia in the first place.

[stb155]

Caves are the most frustrating part of the game for me.
Can't see ****. caus there's only bad and worse light sources available.
Movement is bugged,so can't reach some nodes and often get stuck and have to use liberate from menu.
The pneumonia was bad before, but now with the worms respawning every time you go out/back in it is just re****d.

I don't get why they made them that extremely annoying.
Sure, they want prevent us from living in them caus its easier than building outside.
But we are way beyond that, deep in it is just insanely annoying and frustrating to get some ore territory.
Worms: ok, but they really need to respawn every time you go out for short time ?
Pneumonia: Does it really have to be that extremely crippling ?!?, and why i get it so fast ?!?.
(wearing a suit that allows me to stay under water for hours ffs). Should only get it when you sleep or stay >10h inside.

[Protect Freedom]

Caves are super easy,

First of all, you can build in caves.
So for lightsource place some floortourches and turn them on.
To reach all Ore nodes, simpley build a ramp on the wall, go up and mine

Originally posted by stb155:

Caves are the most frustrating part of the game for me.
Can't see ****. caus there's only bad and worse light sources available.
Movement is bugged,so can't reach some nodes and often get stuck and have to use liberate from menu.
The pneumonia was bad before, but now with the worms respawning every time you go out/back in it is just re****d.

I don't get why they made them that extremely annoying.
Sure, they want prevent us from living in them caus its easier than building outside.
But we are way beyond that, deep in it is just insanely annoying and frustrating to get some ore territory.
Worms: ok, but they really need to respawn every time you go out for short time ?
Pneumonia: Does it really have to be that extremely crippling ?!?, and why i get it so fast ?!?.
(wearing a suit that allows me to stay under water for hours ffs). Should only get it when you sleep or stay >10h inside.

[BADUNKADUNK]

Agree with above. Caves are really easy and could even need a bump in difficulty in the future.

Have 5-10 floortorches, some wood and a bow. Place the torches one by one and kill the worms that spawn. Once u placed your torches you can mine the ore without new worms spawning. Also floortorches basically take no fuel so you can just keep them lightened up and make 2 or 3 runs to empty the entire cave.

[Mantuke]

you can also place your smelter in the cave. Makes carrying the metals much lighter as bars than ore.

[Al Capone]

agree with above that is exactly what im doing in the caves

[stb155]

Originally posted by BADUNKADUNK:

Once u placed your torches you can mine the ore without new worms spawning.

That was the only useful information so far.

Used floor torches in the beta, but found their handling a bit annoying.
(crafting fuelling, placing, activating, removing)
Went with just dropping torches since.
But if floor torches keep the worms from respawning, that makes them worthwile i guess.

[FarVision]

Some food for Stamina. Floor torches for lighting. Antibiotic paste or pills. Anti poison for the worms until you get it down.

[Cutter]

Very odd...my floor torches did not stop them from respawning if I logged back on.

[Kenuty]

Originally posted by stb155:

Caves are the most frustrating part of the game for me.
Can't see ****. caus there's only bad and worse light sources available.
Movement is bugged,so can't reach some nodes and often get stuck and have to use liberate from menu.
The pneumonia was bad before, but now with the worms respawning every time you go out/back in it is just re****d.

I don't get why they made them that extremely annoying.
Sure, they want prevent us from living in them caus its easier than building outside.
But we are way beyond that, deep in it is just insanely annoying and frustrating to get some ore territory.
Worms: ok, but they really need to respawn every time you go out for short time ?
Pneumonia: Does it really have to be that extremely crippling ?!?, and why i get it so fast ?!?.
(wearing a suit that allows me to stay under water for hours ffs). Should only get it when you sleep or stay >10h inside.

when you carry a torch, hit q to drop it while you mine derp and then pick it back up or build standing lights

[Klaus]

Caves are bugged because of collisions and terrain hit-box's. Some ores you literally cannot build to because they are under the terrain yet appear to be accessible. Some nodes appear half under the map so you can only mine half a node which is a waste. Game is not getting the proper updates it needed 6 months ago, since the issues I'm proclaiming were prevalent then.....

[Your English Teacher]

I haven't cooked much yet. I'll have to make that my next venture into the abilities.

[Ben]

Use the medicine, antibiotic and anti poison