Help finding zinc

[s4ndm4n2006]

I've done what some posts have said and went around the entire coast of the swamp island herbarium realm but found lots of iron and no zinc. I even reset the realm itself and there is still no zinc. Any suggestions?

[wildbill]

You are trying to get an alloy? When you see a treasure chest. Loot it and use your axe or pick to destroy it. It will then drop either bronze or brass, I forget which. BTW, for alloy, you have two choices: Brass - Copper + Zinc and Bronze - Copper + Tin.

[Machika]

Fae is bronze I think and human is brass.

[DixieFlatline]

In your glossary (subsection of the guidebook) you will find tons of info on the availability of resources.

Zinc only spawns in swamps with realm level 0-49. Depending on your difficulty setting, the herbarium realm you are opening might be too high a level.

If you are playing on extreme difficulty, you either have to lower it or walk in an abeyance realm.

On extreme, antiquarian already spawns lvl 60 realms. You might run into a similiar issue with a quest that asks you to make a potion from T1 swamp fiber. Even antiquarian only spawns T2 and up at extreme.

[s4ndm4n2006]

Originally posted by wildbill:

You are trying to get an alloy? When you see a treasure chest. Loot it and use your axe or pick to destroy it. It will then drop either bronze or brass, I forget which. BTW, for alloy, you have two choices: Brass - Copper + Zinc and Bronze - Copper + Tin.

yes i know how to make bronze and brass. Need brass for some items and earlier in game i found a few zinc but now that i am looking for it, it's nowhere to be found. have not yet found a chest or random brass ingots anywhere, but i know i can find some different items that waylike hardwood lumber i've found, and some other one off items that end up sitting in my chests at base since there is only one of them lol, not enough to make anything :D

Oh wait, i have not tried destroying the chests I've looted. hmm interesting, though i can't imagine its enough to rely on for crafting.

[s4ndm4n2006]

Originally posted by DixieFlatline:

In your glossary (subsection of the guidebook) you will find tons of info on the availability of resources.

Zinc only spawns in swamps with realm level 0-49. Depending on your difficulty setting, the herbarium realm you are opening might be too high a level.

If you are playing on extreme difficulty, you either have to lower it or walk in an abeyance realm.

On extreme, antiquarian already spawns lvl 60 realms. You might run into a similiar issue with a quest that asks you to make a potion from T1 swamp fiber. Even antiquarian only spawns T2 and up at extreme.

Thanks, I did look it up and was wondering about why the swamp where I'm not finding it in the swamp where i'm supposed to, but I'll have to check the realm to see what level it is... I set for medium for farming.

[s4ndm4n2006]

is this why?
https://steamcommunity.com/id/mgbeers/screenshot/2425822274369522805/

[DixieFlatline]

Exactly. At medium difficulty, herbariums spawn at lvl 50. You need 49 or below.

So either keep medium and head to abeyance, antiquarian or astrolabe.

Or keep herbarium and lower the difficulty to easy.

[s4ndm4n2006]

Originally posted by DixieFlatline:

Exactly. At medium difficulty, herbariums spawn at lvl 50. You need 49 or below.

So either keep medium and head to abeyance, antiquarian or astrolabe.

Or keep herbarium and lower the difficulty to easy.

Thanks.

[wildbill]

Originally posted by s4ndm4n2006:

Originally posted by wildbill:

You are trying to get an alloy? When you see a treasure chest. Loot it and use your axe or pick to destroy it. It will then drop either bronze or brass, I forget which. BTW, for alloy, you have two choices: Brass - Copper + Zinc and Bronze - Copper + Tin.

yes i know how to make bronze and brass. Need brass for some items and earlier in game i found a few zinc but now that i am looking for it, it's nowhere to be found. have not yet found a chest or random brass ingots anywhere, but i know i can find some different items that waylike hardwood lumber i've found, and some other one off items that end up sitting in my chests at base since there is only one of them lol, not enough to make anything :D

Oh wait, i have not tried destroying the chests I've looted. hmm interesting, though i can't imagine its enough to rely on for crafting.

My point was, I don't think there is anything that specifically needs brass, some recipes need alloy For those, you can use Bronze instead, and then you need copper and tin, no need for the zinc at all. That is what I did when I ran out of Zinc.

[s4ndm4n2006]

Originally posted by wildbill:

Originally posted by s4ndm4n2006:

yes i know how to make bronze and brass. Need brass for some items and earlier in game i found a few zinc but now that i am looking for it, it's nowhere to be found. have not yet found a chest or random brass ingots anywhere, but i know i can find some different items that waylike hardwood lumber i've found, and some other one off items that end up sitting in my chests at base since there is only one of them lol, not enough to make anything :D

Oh wait, i have not tried destroying the chests I've looted. hmm interesting, though i can't imagine its enough to rely on for crafting.

My point was, I don't think there is anything that specifically needs brass, some recipes need alloy For those, you can use Bronze instead, and then you need copper and tin, no need for the zinc at all. That is what I did when I ran out of Zinc.

The chests recipe i have specifically says brass, not alloy but I see why you pointed that out.

[wildbill]

Originally posted by s4ndm4n2006:

Originally posted by wildbill:

My point was, I don't think there is anything that specifically needs brass, some recipes need alloy For those, you can use Bronze instead, and then you need copper and tin, no need for the zinc at all. That is what I did when I ran out of Zinc.

The chests recipe i have specifically says brass, not alloy but I see why you pointed that out.

Ah, I've never made those chests. My base is very functional, but essentially looks like trash

[s4ndm4n2006]

Originally posted by wildbill:

Originally posted by s4ndm4n2006:

The chests recipe i have specifically says brass, not alloy but I see why you pointed that out.

Ah, I've never made those chests. My base is very functional, but essentially looks like trash

Lol part of the fun in these games for me, is making nice looking bases :D