Please stop with the plastic scraps !? (SPOILERS)

[StressFrakture]

50 plastic scraps for one task and then Oswald's Level 10 task is making something that needs 120 plastic scraps?!

There is no way to get those but to fish in the plain water (not in a fish circle) at the docks area in Eternal Isle.

Half the time or so, you still don't get a plastic scrap. You get a random low value fish.

It's stultifyingly boring. IT's tedious. It's NOT fun. This is a game...it should be fun.

The clocks quest was funny. Fishing for 170 plastic scraps is not.

[Zubon]

Get the shovel upgrade and remove rubble. That also produces plastic scraps.

[PlayerNumeroUno]

defiantly have a fishing buddy when fishing the scraps. I too was like what the heck, but after I realized we can then fish for plastic scraps to craft really cool trolley tracks give purpose to the dlc now after everything is said and done.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3247779681

Oswald's quests after building his house were not especially fun. Glad to get them finished, that was the best part in my opinion. The temple was cool, the race was cute. Grinding for mining materials was not fun. Spam fishing for plastic scrap was not fun. After experiencing the layers of non fun to come to the scrap plastic was just blah. Was like really, and then I realized we could craft trolley tracks after the quest using the plastic scrap we spend hours getting for the quest.

Maybe they were trying to get us to remember where to get the plastic scrap is for when we're ready to craft the tracks for decoration through extreme repetition?

I can now remember where spinal gems are and how only mostly shiny spawn which are not used in his quest he wants the regular. I already forget the names of the other brumblestone? and nope can't remember. Repetitive forced learning.

Can't change what's done. Most reviews I've seen would give Oswald quest line negative reviews. But at least we can now craft trolley tracks :D now we must forget about the pain and frustration.

[PlayerNumeroUno]

speaking about the clocks, the triplets: I had to go to the wiki to figure out the locations. Normally when a quest like that happens we are given a memory with like fish here for clock, mine here for clock, dig here. Instead:
Rumba was seen swimming around Ancient's Landing.
Conga was spotted resting under a rock in the Wild Tangle
Waltz was spied getting a good tan in the Glittering Dunes

Didn't flow well for the rock one I was like okay we mine for it at rock spots??? after a few I had to look at the wiki.

If future players were given a map memory I'm sure they would appreciate it.

And when we were back in the house with all the clocks around and had to look at the convo between oswald and olaf I had to look away with all the clocks freaking out. That was not pleasant.

During the mining competition it would have been funner to have oswald go around to mining spots and we both had to mine spots with chance to drop bonuses with him, same with fishing up scrap? If they though that would be fun i'm afraid for the future.

[StressFrakture]

Postat inițial de Zubon:

Get the shovel upgrade and remove rubble. That also produces plastic scraps.

Thanks. Which rubble, please? And how do I get a shovel upgrade?

[StressFrakture]

The clocks were kind of funny. They didn't really stay so I just waited sometimes and soon enough one would come running past, and I'd eventually catch the clock.

Then we had to catch a few more once that ended. Kinda not fun. A sense of completion is what's fun. But not after so much tedium it can't even be enjoyed.

Getting 50 plastic was bad enough. But not long after that we have to get 120?

A fishing buddy, I don't think matters, because for quests the buddy's catch does not count.

I haven't even gone back to the quest yet. So far, I am still trying to complete some of the Star Path stuff.

[wesnef]

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Postat inițial de Zubon:

Get the shovel upgrade and remove rubble. That also produces plastic scraps.

Thanks. Which rubble, please? And how do I get a shovel upgrade?

The moss-covered rocks in the DLC areas, Ancient's Landing. Unfortunately, only a few new ones spawn each day, but clearing out a fully-spawned set of them last week got me ~15 plastic. It's not fast, of course, but it's more of them without fishing.

(I'd seen this thread when you originally posted it, so I'd been clearing the rocks since then. Combined with the plastic I'd already stashed in my chests, I had more than needed when I hit the final Oswald quest.)


And you upgrade the tools to work on DLC trash (mossy rocks, copper rocks, glass stalactites in the desert, evil weeds in the jungle) using the Timebending table.

[StressFrakture]

Thank you wesnef!

I didn't know that about the moss rocks in the new isle. I'm going to do that. Fishing when you don't really want to, is so tedious, and the plastic does not even come up every time.

[StressFrakture]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3257102758

Well, I didn't see any moss covered rocks in the isle area. Did you mean the ones with yellow flowers and vines? I broke those apart and only got turf, I think. No plastic.

I also tried the orange rocks again just in case: All copper.

Then I saw those weird leaf things and nothing works on them.

[ThanatosX]

I think those are just landscape items. You can remove them since stuff like that is just a general nuisance.

[PlayerNumeroUno]

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3257102758

Well, I didn't see any moss covered rocks in the isle area. Did you mean the ones with yellow flowers and vines? I broke those apart and only got turf, I think. No plastic.

I also tried the orange rocks again just in case: All copper.

Then I saw those weird leaf things and nothing works on them.

one is in the photo right behind you, the large and small rubble piles: https://dreamlightvalleywiki.com/Small_Rubble

[StressFrakture]

So the rocks with vines and yellow flowers on? Thanks.

Unfortunately none yielded plastic. I guess maybe it's like fishing or other tasks. I got turf and maybe one clay. Not sure. I will keep trying. Thanks.

[StressFrakture]

Postat inițial de ThanatosX:

I think those are just landscape items. You can remove them since stuff like that is just a general nuisance.

The leaves? I tried but no tool did anything. Oh I see what you're saying. Use F and then remove. Thanks.

[wesnef]

Postat inițial de StressFrakture:

So the rocks with vines and yellow flowers on? Thanks.

Unfortunately none yielded plastic. I guess maybe it's like fishing or other tasks. I got turf and maybe one clay. Not sure. I will keep trying. Thanks.

Huh, that's weird. I generally get 30-50% plastic from them. (i.e, if it drops three things, might be 1 plastic & 2 dirt; but 4 will be 2 plastic & 2 dirt, etc.)

Sorry, seems like RNGesus is out to get you. :(

[POMPOKO]

I gave up on the quest. I had no idea that it was so much plastic and I'm not gonna grind that stuff out, the reward is not even so tempting to do this now, so I'll just wait until they do what they did with minnie and reduce the amount. Sometimes I wonder who comes evne up with these numbers.

All the last piles that give plastic only gave me 3 plastic in total. They really need to stop these quests where you have to collect so much of material

[wesnef]

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Postat inițial de StressFrakture:

So the rocks with vines and yellow flowers on? Thanks.

Unfortunately none yielded plastic. I guess maybe it's like fishing or other tasks. I got turf and maybe one clay. Not sure. I will keep trying. Thanks.

Huh, that's weird. I generally get 30-50% plastic from them. (i.e, if it drops three things, might be 1 plastic & 2 dirt; but 4 will be 2 plastic & 2 dirt, etc.)

Sorry, seems like RNGesus is out to get you. :(

Having kept track the last week or so, the small rocks give 1 plastic and the large ones give 2. Always. The amount of dirt varies.

edit: been clearing the rocks 2-3 times a week since doing the Oswald quest, and I'm up to 53 plastic at the moment. No fishing. /shrug