Ingot Farming Tips?

[evening]

Help, the recipes I need to upgrade my base cost ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amounts of iron. Any tips on how to farm quickly?

[Khenal]

Find a base location that has a bunch of iron. There's a lot of big groupd of iron around, mark them on your map when you spot them. Get some pals with level 2 or higher mining. I've had the best luck with reptyro. Tombats are good, too, they'll mine through the night. Make a base at an iron location, use mining pals and transport pals. If you don't want to make a base, get some pals that give carry weight (cativas, bronchery, lunaris, others) and teleport to the ruined church location that has a pile of iron ore very close to the fast travel spot, and mine everything. They respawn in like an in-game day.

[shinjay5882]

Put ALL your points into Weight and fly around and farm for Ore. Really, thats it.

[Raven]

Originally posted by shinjay5882:

Put ALL your points into Weight and fly around and farm for Ore. Really, thats it.

This is probably the worst advice I've seen.

The other two have good suggestions, basically having a base dedicated to mining will help alleviate a lot of your issues with ingots. There is a few videos online that can show you great places to start a mining base, the desolate church comes to mind (I might be getting the name wrong), it has like 6-7 ore nodes, but even if you start that early, getting the right pals that can automate the farming for you is going to take awhile

[Tazz]

https://youtu.be/LWLP3BF4LKA?si=XOp2y4WmOQek7-Rv

[Sentient_Toaster]

Unlock a grapple gun as soon as you can. They make it much easier, because you can move yourself by grappling even if you're 2000 pounds (or 15,000 pounds :D) overweight.

There are specific locations that reliably spawn ore nodes. The Desolate Church noted above is convenient -- it's a low-threat area (maybe you'll meet an aggressive low-level rushboar), there's a fast-travel point right in front of the church, there are consistently eight ore nodes behind it that'll respawn a day after you mine them out, there's an Anubis statue inside the church itself and sometimes there'll be a low-tier unlocked chest in front of the statue.

e.g. I'll fast-travel in with my refined-metal pickaxe, check the chest spawn, then head behind the church to mine out all eight ore nodes using my grappling gun to move from node to node (and later, back to the fast-travel point) once I'm carrying too much to move significantly otherwise. This yields 320 ore, enough for 160 regular ingots. Later on, you'll still need ore for refined metal ingots (2 ore, 2 coal) and pal metal ingots (4 ore, 2 palladium fragments).


A mining base can provide some passive mining, but you may find it useful to do manual mining yourself as well once you're at the refined-metal stage (a refined-metal pickaxe in near-100% condition can not only mine out all eight ore nodes at the church pretty quickly, but mine out at least three others -- a mix of coal and ore -- before needing to be repaired). If you're using (non-refined) metal pickaxes to manually mine the church, you may just want to bring two such pickaxes and switch between them, and then repair them both at your base; IIRC, a regular metal pickaxe will need repair before you can mine out all eight.

There are better spots for a mining base than the church (which isn't a great spot for a base, in so far as it has limited flat area to build and there's a fast-travel point anyway); i.e. I recall spotting some areas that have both quite a bit of ore and some coal in the desert in the NE. That's a higher-tier zone, though.

(Edit: Desolate Church, not Decrepit Church. I keep mixing those words for some reason.)