Sorry, full of questions after a few years.

[Your English Teacher]

I need to build some planter boxes. It says I need dirt. I don't remember that being a resource. How/Where do I get dirt?

Thanks.

[Ekeleferal]

Build an iron shovel. You can dig for dirt in the forest biome.

If you're doing open world and running some of the Simple Missions, dirt is sometimes offered as a reward.

[Your English Teacher]

Can I just dig up dirt anywhere, or do I need to find a 'dirt resource location'?

[Your English Teacher]

I'm doing some mission right now where I have to build a hospital base out in the forest near a large lake.

[Ekeleferal]

You can dig as long as the ground you are digging is soil. Sounds obvious enough but some ground surfaces are actually rock.

I forgot that you can build a wooden shovel before you are able to build an iron shovel.

Left click the ground with your shovel to collect soil. Right click to create a crop-plot in which you can plant a seed and grow a resource.

Each tier shovel, when planting crops, will indicate the severity of storm that shovel allows a plot to withstand. The workshop shovel allows a planted crop to withstand the highest tier storm. Plants that cannot withstand a certain tier storm will eventually whither and rot given enough exposure over time to said storms.

[КрендельФигов]

https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Dirt

[Your English Teacher]

Thanks! Off to try a wood shovel I guess. :)

[Snake of Eden]

Yeah, idk why he even mentioned iron.. lol.

[КрендельФигов]

https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Shovels
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Wooden_Shovel (wood)
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Shovel (iron)
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Platinum_Shovel (platinum)
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Titanium_Shovel (titanium)
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/The_Excavator (meta)