Might be in trouble, resource-wise...

[SelenaWolf]

Haha, I'm running dangerously low on copper and iron ore and I only just discovered Jade. I might be in trouble. With as few spoilers as possible, will more deposits be in later maps? Or should I be very, very careful with what I have left?

[Dhaark Phyre]

Use only what you need. Resources are very scarce.

[Darke]

There's a lot of monsters that drop broken weapons and such, you can rest and respawn the cave area you can grind and smelt the results for copper. Similar with iron in the island area.

But you must have really used a lot of resources! O.O I'm still beating my head against the island pirate boss and failing, and I've got two chests filled with smelted bars, and another two chests with either raw or ground ore I'm slowly processing.

[Oldman_Blackdragon]

Originally posted by Dhaark Phyre:

Use only what you need. Resources are very scarce.

This just isn't true. Almost all resources can be gathered from enemies and enemies can be respawned as much as you like With the sleeping bag

For copper I would run the last part of the canyon, lots of scrap there. Iron will be a bit harder at your level. As Darke suggests look for enemies that drop broken weapons and farm them.

[Raphaela]

I don't know how you've manage to use up all that ore to be honest, but hold your horses if your still using it. None of the below should be spoilers if you've gotten as far as the Jade caves in the swamp.

if you've unlocked the Scrapper I recommend using that instead or making the bars out of ore, as the scrap is not too hard to obtain and overall far cheaper to produce from.

If you want copper I suggest making a teleport in The Mines first floor (The one with the Rat people) which you've been through already in the Canyon Desert map as you can get tons of copper and a bit of planks scrap in one run through that. If you need more mobs to get more, set up a sleeping bag, as you'll have the option to respawn all of them in just that area.

As far as Iron goes, so far it seemed like maybe the turtles in the Tropical Biome for you at this stage in the game.

[SelenaWolf]

Awesome tips, thank you!! That will help! Yea, went 2 or 3 on every useful structure (as needed) and a lot of arrows and a couple bows of steel for island boss. I had the misfortune of the worst items drooping and not being there after respawning.

[Raphaela]

No worries anytime! ^-^

At a later date I might suggest grinding lizards may be better for iron scrap and you'll want the ambers and rubies too.

Also if you ever feel like getting materials from trees without cutting them down and deforesting so much use a blunt weapon and bring some food. You can get apples and twigs from the starting area, dates, bananas, coconuts, palm leaf, logs from the different trees in the Tropical biome (its the chunky ones with the palm leaves at the top in the jungle part that give logs and palm leaf). The great thing about it is it refreshes every so often its not just a one off, its an alternative there too for stuff.