Game is grindy AF

[Haruspex]

Refined Ingots, Charcoal, Sulfur, Pure quartz,etc.
I spent more time in my base at this point instead of exploring. Because bases don't render so you have to AFK inside your Iron farms.
You also get like 300 iron per cycle maybe 600 per hour which is just drop in the bucket of the water when you're going to make the stronger spheres. Now you also have to make an AFK charcoal farm in the desert and probably more for the stronger materials.

Fun game but my God something has to be done for Mid game onwards. Allowing bases to render and have your AFK farm working might fix half the problems in this game.

[Squaul]

Also anyway tbh just wait for the mod support release too then you be in heaven just make a request for more settings and tweaks also i din't truly check it out but there is already a mod that do a bit of that so maybe check it out if it tweaks what you want .

[magenight]

If you want you could set up base near the old church, it has like 8 ore nodes there. But I cant say it has a ton of space.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by magenight:

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

Most survival games you can circumvent the grindy parts, yes you can still grind but not this much. Maybe this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in that regard along with ark.

Such as? What survival games allow you to completely bypass grinding materials?

7 days to die. I only farmed a few times my entire playthrough and it doesn't take as ridiculous as AFK for hours. I whip out an Auger and grind materials for 10-15 minutes and I'm practically done farming ore for the entire game unless I'm into making overly huge bases which wouldn't take nearly as long as this game.

Terraria. You just farm some ores to make an armor/tools at that current state of the game. Wouldn't even take you an hour maybe 45 minutes at most then that time decreases as you get more powerful tools.

[Flairical]

The other bases do work it's just that they are super buggy. Last 2 days my mining camp worked fine didn't even visit it that often. Today though they glitch out and just don't work but you'll still get prompts saying there eating etc until you visit base and there just hovering over ore deposits doing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lol. Seems like they need to iron out the buggy work behaviour of the pals otherwise when they actually work I don't find it grindy compared to other games in the genre.

[Wookiee]

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

Originally posted by Nova:

you know you can customize the amount of resources and time it takes to do things right?

Only eggs to incubate. Doesn't change how much ore you get.

No no there is settings for materials. https://i.imgur.com/tVoBtYk.png

[SoloQ]

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

Originally posted by Nanaten:

It does render wtf do you mean, I leave my base for an hour and when I come back, everything has been processed

Try it for ingot farming. You can come back an hour late and come back to 50 iron ores in the box

Uhm what? That's not what happens for me. I come back to 200+ depending on how long I'm gone. Now I've got a smelter there so I can haul more back so it's 150 or so bars per trip.
Why are you going back every hour? Is that even more than one game day? Ore deposits have to respawn.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

Most survival games you can circumvent the grindy parts, yes you can still grind but not this much. Maybe this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in that regard along with ark.

Ark, 7D2D, Zombiod, V Rising, Sons Of The Forest, Raft, Astroneer, Grounded, No Man's Sky, Minecraft, Valheim, Subnautica, etc.

Most survival games are built around grinding, and while I can agree that it's not a fun part of the gameplay loop. It is absolutely the norm for this genre of game. However, you can adjust the worlds resource drop value to adjust the game to your liking so you have to grind a lot less.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Grimzy:

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

Try it for ingot farming. You can come back an hour late and come back to 50 iron ores in the box

I made a ore farm in a spot with 8-9 ore deposists and there is always give or take 400-500 in a box after I do some dungeon runs. So i would say you need to be more efficient rather than game being grindy. Plus my base is level 18 and I still have tons leftover.
You also get a ton of spheres from exploring the given areas so you really craft only a minimum.

I don't believe you. I could literally record TP to a different area and AFK for half an hour and still come back to the same amount of ores.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

I come back to 200+ depending on how long I'm gone. Now I've got a smelter there so I can haul more back so it's 150 or so bars per trip.

Really? I come back to zero in the box because the pals don't seem to mine ores if I am far away.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Flairical:

The other bases do work it's just that they are super buggy. Last 2 days my mining camp worked fine didn't even visit it that often. Today though they glitch out and just don't work but you'll still get prompts saying there eating etc until you visit base and there just hovering over ore deposits doing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lol. Seems like they need to iron out the buggy work behaviour of the pals otherwise when they actually work I don't find it grindy compared to other games in the genre.

That explains it.

[Squaul]

Originally posted by Flairical:

The other bases do work it's just that they are super buggy. Last 2 days my mining camp worked fine didn't even visit it that often. Today though they glitch out and just don't work but you'll still get prompts saying there eating etc until you visit base and there just hovering over ore deposits doing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lol. Seems like they need to iron out the buggy work behaviour of the pals otherwise when they actually work I don't find it grindy compared to other games in the genre.

then report it to the devs please

[Grimzy]

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

Originally posted by Grimzy:

I made a ore farm in a spot with 8-9 ore deposists and there is always give or take 400-500 in a box after I do some dungeon runs. So i would say you need to be more efficient rather than game being grindy. Plus my base is level 18 and I still have tons leftover.
You also get a ton of spheres from exploring the given areas so you really craft only a minimum.

I don't believe you. I could literally record TP to a different area and AFK for half an hour and still come back to the same amount of ores.

That means you clearly dont know what you are doing.
Its not jsut with ores, you can get every resource like that with exception of sulfur because there are no clusters of it.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Grimzy:

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

I don't believe you. I could literally record TP to a different area and AFK for half an hour and still come back to the same amount of ores.

That means you clearly dont know what you are doing.
Its not jsut with ores, you can get every resource like that with exception of sulfur because there are no clusters of it.

I'm going to agree with the OP.. My friends and I set up an ore base yesterday.. and while we were present it was working just fine.. nobody was getting stuck.. or anything. We had 3 guys to plant/farm, 1 guy to smelt and help with other stuff and then 8 miners.. in an area with 7 nodes. All beds made, 2 hot tubs plenty of food and bins were good. everything nicely spaced out nothing for them to get caught on.

First time I left and came back.. I came back to maybe 15 ore in the chest after an hour. the second time all 12 of my Pals stacked on top of one another at a food bin.. like a totem pole. So I moved the food bin just in case. third time I left and came back another hour or so and again.. maybe 20 ore was collected..

I'm glad it's working for you.. but there is something VERY wrong for a lot of us..

I'm on a dedicated server.. today I woke up to every pal.. at both bases so 24 total starving, and then had one of the following ailments: Depressed, weakened, fracture. Food bins full, nobody "stuck" they were just like.. frozen in place or something.

I was able to fix the 4 fractured.. but high grade medicine? That is 5 horns each and takes my lvl 2 herbalist Pal like 5-10 minutes to make just one. I could buy them but that would be 60k.. I don't even have that much money. So I got to spend most of my game-play day farming mats to heal everyone.. I just finished all the ones at my first base.. the really need to look at the AI in this game.

[Pandora's Actor]

you can literally have conveyer belts and prisoners with jobs do things for you. what do you mean grindy

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Grimzy:

Originally posted by Sepulcher:

I don't believe you. I could literally record TP to a different area and AFK for half an hour and still come back to the same amount of ores.

That means you clearly dont know what you are doing.
Its not jsut with ores, you can get every resource like that with exception of sulfur because there are no clusters of it.

Yes man I don't know what I'm doign come back to 50 ores in the box just like I left 40 mintues ago