Any way to farms Clay faster?

[medion_no]

For the miner village, is the most horrible part of the game. I know there is a point with two, or three clays in the first mine but that is not enough.

[mono_wolf]

Well, only in the mines and in the forest is possible to get it as a drop from the Dark Slug mob. So you need to walk up and down and tricker battles, is not that difficult to tell you the truth, I am also there and I finish the battles with mostly aoe hits/valor chant/weapons that do 1 hit K.O.

[Ichthyic]

1. find every character that has "mining" in their ability description.
2. level them up to 30.
3. $

[mono_wolf]

Ichthyic, but clay is dropped by Dark Slug mob. I didn't notice having a character with "mining" in their ability will make them drop more. I think it is random. Just now I tried with Riica (mining ability) and without Riica and the drop is the same.

Or I am doing something wrong O.o?!?!

[medion_no]

There is a point in the first mines that gives you a few clay drops too. Maybe im getting bad luck with the enemies but farming clay for the 30 bricks has to be the lowest point of the game for me.

[mono_wolf]

@medion_no, it is just total random the drops in my opinion as I just tried out. Nevertheless, if you get Dark Slug mob when you tricker a battle be sure that you may get around 80% of the time clay (maybe more percent, I don't know, maybe it need to be tested methodicaly).

[Ichthyic]

there are at least 2 clay nodes in the first mine. not sure about the second.

go look at the wiki. check the mine maps.

[Ichthyic]

I double checked. there is only one clay node accessible before mine 3.

it's in mine 1, the 3 area, near the upper left, you need a ladder to get to it. it's in "1st layer, uneven bedrock"

but even then, it only generates 2 clay per strike, and sometimes generates coal instead of clay, AND has a long regeneration time.

it is definitely the case that they wanted to make clay the limiting factor in finishing the bridge-building chapter. first, 30 bricks for a nameplate for the carpenter's house, then I am sure the bridge itself will need bricks too.

not sure finishing this is worth the time. I just spent a full day JUST to get halfway to building the carpenter's house.

shorter: your OP is absolutely correct. the limit on clay is absolutely ridiculous.

[mono_wolf]

"Rome wasn't build in a day" as they say ^_^
So for clay demand would be much better to fight mobs for the drops instead of waiting the regeneration time.

[Ichthyic]

even doing both is not nearly enough. not. nearly. it is by far the biggest chokepoint.

they should just add dedicated clay mining points that work just like all the other mining points. unecessary delays is what breaks a game. I doubt I will bother finishing this. not worth the time.

[mono_wolf]

Well, we might just say that Mining Village (due to clay demand) is a type of a mission that players prefer to return when they have done all the other missions.

To tell you the truth, I start doing some missions there too but as I notice that there are a lot more missions left behind - which one of them has a time period - I want to do those before hand because Mining Village missions has lot of "farming" style, so it is lower in my "To Do" list but still it intrigues me to finish it ^_^

[Ichthyic]

why are you even arguing with me?

you were the one looking for a way to speed up clay acquisition.

:P

[mono_wolf]

Originally posted by Ichthyic:

why are you even arguing with me?

you were the one looking for a way to speed up clay acquisition.

:P

I am not arguing with you, I am just having a deep conversation xD xD

and...I am not the one who was looking a way to speed up clay acquisition, OP is I was just giving/posting some poor ideas ^_^;

p.s. Here is a "reward" for your above post because I found it funny - IN A GOOD WAY - please don't take it wrong ^_^

[Aumires]

I really want to think that the Clay nodes should be affected by your Miners. Cause it doesn't and makes the grind far worse than it should be.

That's also where I stopped the Time Mine myself. I got already like, everything done I think besides the whole Coal gathering.

It is really ridiculous.

[Ichthyic]

yeah, it starts off fairly reasonable and kinda fun in the first two chapters... then it just rockets in the opposite direction towards completely unreasonable and no longer interesting.

bad design decisions in that.

[mono_wolf]

Mates, I did some battles in Mine 1 floor 1 to see what I get out of Dark Slugs with and without miners in my party, the results are:

Without Miners in Party
5 clays out of 10 battles (5 of those battles gave me 1 clay each)

With 3 Miners in Party
6 clays out of 10 battles (2 of those battles gave me 1 clay each and other 2 of those battles gave 2 clays each)

I am not good with maths but I think Ichthyic you are right on having miners in team, you get 1 clay drop more. So anyone can do their math to find out how many battles may need to get the amount of clays for bricks, etc.

p.s. Ichthyic, I deeply apologies if in case I offended you in any way with my above posts (it wasn't intended :/ ), just wanted to cheer up the mood in here a little ^_^;

Edit: Just now one of my battles with 2 Dark Slugs in, I got 2 clay drops so maybe it is random 1-2 clays per x battles