Automate Geode Collection?

[doofree]

Is there a way to automate the collection of geodes? You need to process quite a few for the soil and mushrooms needed at tier 9 and manual collection seems very tedious.

[KellinIt]

Eventually you unlock the Aboretum building and you will be able to make Geode Clusters that can go into the Geode breaker machine. It will break into the smaller geodes that when broken down in the geode breaker machine produce glowshrooms, copper ore and volcanic soil.

[doofree]

That's true, but that is a really long and complicated production chain plus you need to farm Glowshrooms to make the Geode Clusters in the first place as well. You're still manually farming either the Glowshrooms directly or thru farming geodes. You can put a Spark Thrower in the cave (I've got 3) but the respawn rate is too slow to make that effective. There should be an another way to farm geodes. I'd suggest adding Giant Geode Deposits that you can mine with an Ore Miner, or maybe better, having the giant ore deposits produce both copper and geodes.

[DreamingDemon]

Production chains getting longer and more complicated is honestly to be expected... this is Tier 9. And I don't mind spark throwers for harvesting. Just make more of them.

Don't sprouts respawn the mushrooms?

[Wingblaze]

So the reality is that at the (current) late game, the production chain is always long and complicated. You probably want to automate geode production because you need a source of volcanic soil. This will ultimately feed what you need for the other late game arboretum recipes.

As for needing glowshrooms, when you have fireshroom clusters you split them into individual mushrooms and glowshrooms, and the process can be self-sustaining. (Similar to coral seed production.) The entire process can be automated and no need for throwing sparks.