My ONE issue with he game... Jungle Emeralds

[jmotivator]

Why do you make an essential piece of game progression a rare chance item that is dropped by rare container in rare map locations?

I've explored roughly half of the outer worlds where the aliens live, and the passage and I have yet to get one jungle emerald in any large alien chest, solarite chests or the chests in the passage.

Oddly, in all of my searches I've received lots of rubies and sapphires and not a single jungle emerald.

I realize this is not the experience for a lot of players, and I assume I just got a bad seed, but when you hit this wall it really sucks. I have collected every armor set and weapon 3 times over, have hundreds of bars of solarite and galaxite, endless chests of food and crafting materials, mined all of the Sun Crystals, killed the Mimites in my searches and farming... I've done everything I can do up to this point in the game and then it just comes to a screeching halt because of this dumb, randomly generated, rare drop.

And I'm writing this because half of the time I complain on this forum the item magically drops in my next play session. Haha.

[Seraphita]

I got tons of jungle emerald. The key element is that you just need one, I think? Unless I remember wrong, the first of some bosses need one. On kill, it drops two...

So if you see this pattern, you then proceed to use the two to kill more and etc. In short, it gets a little grindy here but it can provide a lot of materials you need. :D

[jmotivator]

Yes, I realize that after you get the first one it gets easier... my issue is I have about 20 hours now killing everything that can drop one and opening everything that can contain one and I haven't gotten that one...

[Fulano]

Wow ya, that is bad luck. I do have 8 squares worth of mob farms by my base, They're only the 16x16 squares covered in a checkerboard of tin traps though.

Right now the one I've found the least of is the desert emeralds but I've already found probably 5 and I've only beat the jungle titan so far. I think I've got around 12 of the sea and jungle emeralds.

I do highly recommend looking into the mob spawning guide, the spawning system is weird in this game in my opinion.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2846860078

Here's my tldr from the guide:
*The game splits the map into 16x16 areas.
*Around every 15 minutes each area has a chance to spawn monsters depending on the tiles in that area.
*Generally only 14 spawning tiles maximize the chance of that monster spawning.