any tips how to dig faster ?

[AlmightySo]

I need to dig around my house to place spikes, I got steel shovel and some skill points in perks. maybe coffe or beer will help?

[Hedge]

Beer is good in game and real life. Or do like the slags on Howl at the moon server and hire some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to do your dirty work. Seems they are ready willing and able to do ya right.

[AlmightySo]

Originally posted by Hedge:

Beer is good in game and real life.

agreed. but beer still gives stamina only, same for coffe

[MeDaDaddy]

It's skill-based basically, so the higher your skill with tool the faster you dig and less stamina you use.

Practice makes perfect :)

[Sigh-Phi-Guy]

do you have some sexual tyranassarus perks?
even with only 1 or 2 levels of it, i never run out of stamina.

[Graebeard]

Try a different method of digging. If you want say a 5 deep and 5 wide trench, dig straight down 5 blocks, then dig a tunnel 1 block wide and 5 high all around. Then, move over 4 blocks, and repeat. This should give you 2 concentric squares 1 block wide. Now, bend down and clear away the bottom layer between the tunnels. This will make everything above collapse and it's easy to clean up. Just beware as you get near the end that stuff doesn't fall on you. On way to prevent this is to start whackin the E key as fast as you can to pick stuff up before it covers you. We've done this with deep pits in solid stone and dropped 20 by 20 sqaures 40 blocks deep.

Saves a lot of time and energy.

[prpl_mage]

I think shovels are mining tools, so spending points in Miner 69er should really improve yer digging.

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Originally posted by M.Bohosiewicz:

I need to dig around my house to place spikes, I got steel shovel and some skill points in perks. maybe coffe or beer will help?

Best tactics IMO is to choose the right terrain where to place your base... if you go in the desert you can easily dig sand and quickly replace that with your own blocks. You'll have a moat and basement in no time. :-]

[beerf1y]

Beer is always a helper.

[RnRollie]

if you want a trench.... place a line of TNT sticks (or Gas/Oil drums)... step back.. shoot the first.. watch the show... if it needs to be deeper, repeat :)

A line of of explosives creates a trench about the right width, although it needs to be a bit deeper intially. But the second instance will do that. You'll have a trench the right depth & width ready for finishing off with concrete blocks (walls & floor) :)

Depending how you evolved in game, it mgiht actually be easier/faster to create gupowder/dynamite or fuel/gas then to dig yourself silly... although with a purple shovel and the right perks/upgrades, total time would be about the same.. and digging would be less noisy and attrack less witches/spiders :)

[Boresight]

An auger might help.

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Originally posted by Boresight:

An auger might help.

Downside is that it's loud and will cause the heatmap to grow causing zeds to appear. Upside is it gets the job done for fast cleanup of most blocks. Also as stated above, using TNT properly (and carefully) will make quick work for building trenches and tunneling.

[RobertW]

Only work with a tool or use a melee weapon when your stamina is higher than 30.

[Mauzzz0]

BEER

[YamaKami]

Auger for speed, but if I were you I would stick with the steel shovel and stamina buffs...

[Grim Sorrow]

miner 69 ,sexual tyranausaurus.