Efficient ways to grind Metal in the endgame?

[Derpykat5]

Sticker fusion is a fun and balanced addition to this game that has no loopholes or exploits, but in order to take advantage of this feature properly I need more metal to buy more rare stickers from the vending machine. That leaves me with the problem of efficiently grinding metal; where are the best places to farm it?

[Gummy Bread]

Depending on the other resources you've got built up, visit mourningtown again. The npc in there lets you trade wheat for the other resources. The shirtless merchant might as well, but its random on top of random if they show up, and have a stuff->metal/wheat trade

Failing that, i dont know if its coincidence, but metal beasts seem to favor dropping metal. Higher level also drops more stuff. Turn up the level scaling and head to metal beast heavy areas. Autumn hill for allseer, marsh caves for ferriclaw, maybe even hunt down miss mimics

edit; oh and i'd add, fusions obviously give a bunch of loot, but i dont know if the "metal drops metal" applies to them, so it might be random, but faster. Same with archangel refights, they give a ton, but i dont know if any of them guarantee metal. Still, if either of those give like 4k wheat, that trades into 200ish metal

[ChokeMeHarderDaddy]

Get some 5 star tapes, save your game and recycle them if you get a high amount of either wheat or metal keep it otherwise load and keep recycling

[Stalectos]

Originally posted by HenryStanller:

Get some 5 star tapes, save your game and recycle them if you get a high amount of either wheat or metal keep it otherwise load and keep recycling

to add to this it feels like metal type tapes consistently give high metal but that could be confirmation bias on my part.

[Derpykat5]

You also earn metal equal to your fused material gain each time you cash out in the gauntlet, so that can also be a decent way to get it especially if you dive in on a higher difficulty.

[MerlinCross]

Originally posted by Stalectos:

Originally posted by HenryStanller:

Get some 5 star tapes, save your game and recycle them if you get a high amount of either wheat or metal keep it otherwise load and keep recycling

to add to this it feels like metal type tapes consistently give high metal but that could be confirmation bias on my part.

I was coming to say this myself but again I haven't really crunched the numbers so maybe it's just a mass confirmation bias going on.

Like holding down the B button makes it easier to capture.

[BoneBreaker]

the wandering merchant was an outstanding source for me,

5 wood to 1 metal
got around 25000 metal through this one spawn.

This spawn got triggered through a villager quest.

Hard to get such quest with the deals you might be looking for, but I would encourage you to try your luck.

So you too can suffer buying 5 packs a time for half an hour and then later give up because you almost reached your stickerlimit