Jungle emerald - or why stupid game decisions suck

[[1422] xdaneo]

First of all, I used to enjoy this game for what it is, though the grind has gotten the better part of it towards bosses 5 and 6 already.
But now, things have gotten out of hand.
To summon the 7th and 8th boss, you pretty much have to rely on random monster drops, that you can't force in your monster farms.
I mean, honestly???? Who thought this would be a good idea.
And don't get me started on challenge rooms, I don't even know what to look out for.
I'll refrain from giving this a positive review and just stop playing.

[SCamp]

Just go explore the Shimmering Frontier and pop open yellow crystals and kill the small Mimites (the ones that look like crystals). Maybe explore a ruin there too.

https://core-keeper.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Emerald

You can even farm up some spawn tiles for mimites/orbital turrets.

By end game you can just farm them off the final story boss.

[[1422] xdaneo]

Originally posted by SCamp:

Just go explore the Shimmering Frontier and pop open yellow crystals and kill the small Mimites (the ones that look like crystals). Maybe explore a ruin there too.

https://core-keeper.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Emerald

You can even farm up some spawn tiles for mimites/orbital turrets.

By end game you can just farm them off the final story boss.

Thanks for trying to help, I'm aware of the wiki and tried exactly that for 2-3 hours, with unfortunately not one drop. I smashed like maybe 8 large sun crystals, at least 100 normal ones and about 50 mimites.
It's beyond stupid you need this for both drops and bosses, also that bosses drop it after you get it once, behold that you didn't use it to upgrade weapons.
Like dude, seriously?

[SCamp]

This isn't a problem with the game. If it was, then you'd have to rate down thousands of games for similar.

Just stop having the goal of jungle emeralds. Farm the biome and alien ruins for solarite and explore to see various scenes. You'll eventually find one passively.

[Red]

Originally posted by SCamp:

This isn't a problem with the game. If it was, then you'd have to rate down thousands of games for similar.

Just stop having the goal of jungle emeralds. Farm the biome and alien ruins for solarite and explore to see various scenes. You'll eventually find one passively.

This is pretty useless advice since progression is locked behind those gems. Both boss progression and also gear progression.

[Draexzhan]

I only got my first Sapphire a good 50 hours into the game. Aaand I lost to the boss because it was my first time seeing it and I wasn't properly prepared for it.
It's a good thing the player data is just a simple .json so I can edit in more of the item because if this boss ends up giving me as much trouble as Ra Akar then I'll be grinding for weeks at this rate. Anyways, grinding for rare drops is just a bad mechanic, especially when it's intended for progression. I got other things going on in my life, man. Don't artificially drag this stuff out for me.

[SCamp]

Originally posted by Red:

Originally posted by SCamp:

This isn't a problem with the game. If it was, then you'd have to rate down thousands of games for similar.

Just stop having the goal of jungle emeralds. Farm the biome and alien ruins for solarite and explore to see various scenes. You'll eventually find one passively.

This is pretty useless advice since progression is locked behind those gems. Both boss progression and also gear progression.

It's not useless, you just have weak mental. Just farm solarite. SF is a huge biome. If you're farming solarite and alien ruins, you'll have plenty of opportunities for gems and you'll also have opportunities to get Obliterator Ray and high-tier armour sets. Farming solarite preps you for end-game gear upgrades.

Getting gems for gear upgrades is garbage if you haven't finished the story. The cost is too high for very little gains. So there's no point to using them for upgrades until you've finished the final boss. Once you finish the final story boss, you can farm it for gems with almost no cost (only coins).

Originally posted by Draexzhan:

I only got my first Sapphire a good 50 hours into the game. Aaand I lost to the boss because it was my first time seeing it and I wasn't properly prepared for it.
It's a good thing the player data is just a simple .json so I can edit in more of the item because if this boss ends up giving me as much trouble as Ra Akar then I'll be grinding for weeks at this rate. Anyways, grinding for rare drops is just a bad mechanic, especially when it's intended for progression. I got other things going on in my life, man. Don't artificially drag this stuff out for me.

You spent 50 hours on a game, I don't think you have much going on in your life.

[ninakoru]

There's always a challenge arena, up to four per zone, if you're lucky, check on the outermost crystal formation, next to the passage, blow mimites, and the big crystal flower destrcutibles (not the trees). Each challenge drops 2-3 gems. Is not that grindy, considering all the prep in all the other biomes. To me was by far the quickest part of the game.

[Lemmers]

You can farm the emeralds in a monster farm. You need the blue ice spawning tiles because those enemies are the only ones that drop all three emerald types.

[Celator]

The Passage on the outside of the world has a lot of temples with chests that frequently contain gems. There isn't anything keeping you from going in there once the great wall goes down, so if you're smart about it you can get a lot of gems really quickly there.

[[1422] xdaneo]

Thanks for the advice, guys. Gave points to the most helpful <3

[Travis the Moonstar]

Originally posted by Celator:

The Passage on the outside of the world has a lot of temples with chests that frequently contain gems. There isn't anything keeping you from going in there once the great wall goes down, so if you're smart about it you can get a lot of gems really quickly there.

This is what I did for sapphires. I think it's the correct advice.

And I hated it. I wish there was a better way of getting them. I think a trader should sell them for 3k each or something as a way to allow the unlucky to progress past the worms.

['JJ]

whats ur playtime? it doesnt even take that long and this forces u to explore, which the game is about. complaining about the minor things

[ninakoru]

Originally posted by 'JJ:

it doesn't even take that long and this forces u to explore, which the game is about. complaining about the minor things

You can mostly ignore mining and exploring due to the over-abundance of ore boulders, and loot in general, I guess is something to be expected.

But I agree, got 6 gems in 30 minutes of exploring the crystal area, from the mimites and the crystal destructibles. A bit lucky but still.

[Torchlight]

Originally posted by xdaneo:

Originally posted by SCamp:

Just go explore the Shimmering Frontier and pop open yellow crystals and kill the small Mimites (the ones that look like crystals). Maybe explore a ruin there too.

https://core-keeper.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Emerald

You can even farm up some spawn tiles for mimites/orbital turrets.

By end game you can just farm them off the final story boss.

Thanks for trying to help, I'm aware of the wiki and tried exactly that for 2-3 hours, with unfortunately not one drop. I smashed like maybe 8 large sun crystals, at least 100 normal ones and about 50 mimites.
It's beyond stupid you need this for both drops and bosses, also that bosses drop it after you get it once, behold that you didn't use it to upgrade weapons.
Like dude, seriously?

Life is like a RNG, If you're looking for something, you'll never get it, look for something else and you'll get what you weren't directly looking for.

[Ginjii Raishin]

No positive review after getting 50hrs on a $20 game. Modern gamers give me cancer. Also, skill issue.