Mining Pain

[kmshark2]

What a pain in the ... wrist - even with a controller! Way too difficult in my opinion. Devs should get rid of the silver requirement for the barn. Have to go way too deep in the mine for silver, with a crappy beginner's pick and hammer. Any way to get it easier? Can't buy from shop yet. Anyone?

[queer_gleam]

I don't have access to ores or upgrades for hammer and axe and I've found 3 towns.

[RPGenie]

Originally posted by kmshark2:

What a pain in the ... wrist - even with a controller! Way too difficult in my opinion. Devs should get rid of the silver requirement for the barn. Have to go way too deep in the mine for silver, with a crappy beginner's pick and hammer. Any way to get it easier? Can't buy from shop yet. Anyone?

I didn’t like that part either. I had to bring a ton of food and immediately go upon waking. Focus only on getting past the 10th floor so I could start there the next day. It took me the two next days to find exactly 3 silver ore from one vein (looks like iron). Once I got past floor 10 I only hit veins that looked like iron to check for silver and focused on getting to next floor.

[kmshark2]

Yeah, but getting to the next floor is what's so crazy.

[archonsod]

I focused on getting down to floor 20; silver seemed reasonably common after that. Didn't have too hard of a time getting there - up until floor 15 there's only a few things buried, and the ladders were always in a room rather than a tunnel. I could swear they have a slightly bigger circle too, but that might just be me.

[The_K00lDude]

Originally posted by kmshark2:

Yeah, but getting to the next floor is what's so crazy.

Make sure to use the scanner! (Controller it's the X button). When you see the circles on the scanner, try to hit the ground in the very centre of the circle.

The circle gives the illusion of the next level/ore being found around that area. But from what I've noticed, it's always the centre.

[kmshark2]

Originally posted by The_K00lDude:

Originally posted by kmshark2:

Yeah, but getting to the next floor is what's so crazy.

Make sure to use the scanner! (Controller it's the X button). When you see the circles on the scanner, try to hit the ground in the very centre of the circle.

The circle gives the illusion of the next level/ore being found around that area. But from what I've noticed, it's always the centre.

YES! I realized that was exactly my problem. I forgot about the scanner and was having a very difficult time finding the next level ladder. I feel so dumb.

[VR]

I wish Stardew Valley had something like the scanner. Being able to speed run floors is a feature I didn't know I wanted or needed.

[The_K00lDude]

Originally posted by kmshark2:

YES! I realized that was exactly my problem. I forgot about the scanner and was having a very difficult time finding the next level ladder. I feel so dumb.

haha it's easy to forget, the game throws a lot of tutorials at you near the the beginning.

Originally posted by VR:

I wish Stardew Valley had something like the scanner. Being able to speed run floors is a feature I didn't know I wanted or needed.

yeah that or they just reduce the amount of levels needed for the next upgrade in rarity. 10 levels always feels like a drag, especially when they mostly have the same stuff until you reach #10.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by The_K00lDude:

yeah that or they just reduce the amount of levels needed for the next upgrade in rarity. 10 levels always feels like a drag, especially when they mostly have the same stuff until you reach #10.

It has the same stuff after too. That's kind of the problem, though to be fair to Natsume it's fairly common in most farming games, even Stardew. Problem being you can get the same stuff on level 11 you can find on level 1, the difference is level 11 has at least four crystals to mine while level 1 has at most two. So when you have resources that can only be found in certain level ranges, you pretty much always just want the last ten floors of whatever range they can be found in since they'll have the most mining spots and thus the highest chance of giving you what you need.

[The_K00lDude]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by The_K00lDude:

yeah that or they just reduce the amount of levels needed for the next upgrade in rarity. 10 levels always feels like a drag, especially when they mostly have the same stuff until you reach #10.

It has the same stuff after too. That's kind of the problem, though to be fair to Natsume it's fairly common in most farming games, even Stardew. Problem being you can get the same stuff on level 11 you can find on level 1, the difference is level 11 has at least four crystals to mine while level 1 has at most two. So when you have resources that can only be found in certain level ranges, you pretty much always just want the last ten floors of whatever range they can be found in since they'll have the most mining spots and thus the highest chance of giving you what you need.

ye I didn't mean just this game XD. I just think the 10 rule needs to be looked at, for all farming sims.

[VR]

Originally posted by The_K00lDude:

Originally posted by archonsod:

It has the same stuff after too. That's kind of the problem, though to be fair to Natsume it's fairly common in most farming games, even Stardew. Problem being you can get the same stuff on level 11 you can find on level 1, the difference is level 11 has at least four crystals to mine while level 1 has at most two. So when you have resources that can only be found in certain level ranges, you pretty much always just want the last ten floors of whatever range they can be found in since they'll have the most mining spots and thus the highest chance of giving you what you need.

ye I didn't mean just this game XD. I just think the 10 rule needs to be looked at, for all farming sims.

Why can't they have proper mining where we need to reinforce and add structure to the mines as we go instead of it being about floors? That way it's less about the 10 floors and more about reaching the resource safely. I think I'd prefer this as a mechanic if it takes away some of the RNG time wasting.

[MuscleBroStolas]

Maybe you should play a different game.
I've never had any issues finding the ladder. Maybe it's just on the Switch, but there's a dowser that tells you where to dig. If you aren't using it, that's your fault, now isn't it.

[tammysams66]

I dug all areas of lvl1 of lectenbury mine and never found ladder to 2nd floor there is supposed to be 50 floors I'm doing tutorial

[irismustang]

Originally posted by tammysams66:

I dug all areas of lvl1 of lectenbury mine and never found ladder to 2nd floor there is supposed to be 50 floors I'm doing tutorial

You can't go past the 1st floor in the tutorial. You can only go to other floors once you leave the village and time and stamina start to count against you.