What does work speed affect? Some tests surprised me.

[playezr]

Focused on making a mining base and looking through suggestions digitoise was said to be the best. I bred some with traits boosting workspeed and hunger. I was surprised how badly they seemed to perform.

This isn't active mining in a party but rather passive mining at a base. I found an article where someone extensively tested what workspeed affected and mining wasn't one. I changed my digitoise traits to boost attack and they seemed to mine much better.

What do you think is the best miner and passive traits?

Here is the workspeed article on reddit I found. https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/1ajxyjp/what_work_speed_on_pals_affects_how_mining_and/

[Raven]

Can I be real? Digtoise just sucks. If you have his tool then when you mine manually with him, he's great. Best miner in the game most likely IF it wasn't for lilly's spear. But for automatic mining, he's just bad. Blazeamut will do much better for you, and if you use mouse and keyboard, you can just decimate all the nodes on your base with lilly's spear way better than you could do with digtoise.

So to answer your question: You would want Swift/Runner/your preferred attack boost that isn't muscle head and some sort of utility if that's your fancy (swift and runner being useful because they spend less time traveling to nodes and/or transporting, which is something to be done with anubis).

[playezr]

Seems the doc updated recently and digitoise seems to spin faster with workspeed but doesn't seem to change much in terms of output.

[playezr]

Yeh considering making some mining anubis just for the sake of mining and transport but I'm concerned they will mine then stop to transport it

[Raven]

Originally posted by playezr:

Yeh considering making some mining anubis just for the sake of mining and transport but I'm concerned they will mine then stop to transport it

No, they prioritize mining over transporting, if they have literally anything else to do, they will do it before transporting (which is problematic on public servers because items despawn so fast)

[playezr]

Not on our server we adjusted that setting and others. Time to breed more anubis

[Julmara]

huh lillies spear is a pickaxe update to the refined one ?

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by Julmara:

huh lillies spear is a pickaxe update to the refined one ?

It's a melee weapon that you can unlock at level 40.

[The Grand Mugwump]

Originally posted by Raven:

Can I be real? Digtoise just sucks.

Supposedly digtoise becomes an epic base miner when condensed to 4 stars. Whether the amount of effort to accomplish that is worth it...probably not. Digtoise also burns through hunger like crazy when mining deposits at a base.

[playezr]

I feed them pizza

[Hellsmoke]

Originally posted by playezr:

I feed them pizza

A Ninja Turtle fan I see. I made a base with two of them to mine while I'm away and it seems they didn't do anything at all while I was gone. They had food, they had two transport guys, they had beds and they had the hot spring as well as the mining upgrade for the base.

Came back, there was 1 ore in the chest.

[The Grand Mugwump]

Yes, digtoise is absolute garbage for mining deposits in a base if they are at 0 stars.

[DirtyMick]

Originally posted by Julmara:

huh lillies spear is a pickaxe update to the refined one ?

It's just good because you can do a trick to attack super fast with it. Sword is actually better to carry around imo. Good attack, does about as much damage to mining nodes as a refined pickaxe, and has much much more durability. It can replace your axe and pick once you get it, so you don't need to carry those around anymore. But yeah, if you want you can just use Lilly spear and use the attack speed exploit with it.

[Elfblood]

I found workspeed is just the attack speed, and damage is..yes the damage to the rocks, ores.. I go with reptyros as they can also kindle, or only mine with reptyro cryst. So my breed is, all 3 workspeed traits and one damage. upgrade workspeed on the statue, and with good food they shred ores like crazy. ranking them up also helps. a dude on my server is going anubis and this seems also very good, as he is small and fast.
digtoise is ..just bad. dont use. ;)