where to find gunpowder?

[!(gerMAN ^wolf)!]

k so i never really bothered with gun powder, was always relying on arrows, but need it 4 mines, and was wondering were i can find allot of it, besides the traders

[YamaKami]

You need to make it from Nitrate and Coal. Otherwise you can find it randomly in loot pools around thw world but never in any great quantity. You get more bang for your materials if you do it at a chem ctation too.

[!(gerMAN ^wolf)!]

Originally posted by YamaKami:

You need to make it from Nitrate and Coal. Otherwise you can find it randomly in loot pools around thw world but never in any great quantity. You get more bang for your materials if you do it at a chem ctation too.

k so then where do i get a heck lot of nitrate and coal?

[YamaKami]

Originally posted by !(gerMAN ^wolf)!:

Originally posted by YamaKami:

You need to make it from Nitrate and Coal. Otherwise you can find it randomly in loot pools around thw world but never in any great quantity. You get more bang for your materials if you do it at a chem ctation too.

k so then where do i get a heck lot of nitrate and coal?

Mine it. You find gravel patches on the surface and chase them down to bed rock.

[!(gerMAN ^wolf)!]

Originally posted by YamaKami:

Originally posted by !(gerMAN ^wolf)!:

k so then where do i get a heck lot of nitrate and coal?

Mine it. You find gravel patches on the surface and chase them down to bed rock.

damit was fearing this is the only sollutions but ty anyways

[Mopped]

Du kannst Felsen zerschlagen aber effektiver sind diese reinen Vorkommen. Nitrat und Kohle findest du im verbrannten häufig, ebenso im Schneegebiet und Kohle auch oft in der Wüste.
2-3000 haste da schnell zusammen, entsprechendes Werkzeug und Skills vorausgesetzt......

[Reeva!]

Originally posted by !(gerMAN ^wolf)!:

Originally posted by YamaKami:

Mine it. You find gravel patches on the surface and chase them down to bed rock.

damit was fearing this is the only sollutions but ty anyways

it's not the only sollution, you can get gunpowder in small quantities from random zombies, or you could search Tree Stumps (commonly spawns abuntantly in the snow biome) they sometimes have up to 40 gunpowder (on 100% loot), and there's an added chance for med kits and antibiotics, nightvision goggles, and so on, so you'll get more out of it than just gunpowder, it'll be worth your time, but once you start up your world, if it's new, you should give the game about 3 days to really spawn in a lot of tree stumps.

[stupid space bitch]

You can get coal from the burnt biome, from chopping trees and other things, and mining. You can get both coal and nitrate from mining rocks above ground, but once those run out you'll have to start digging underground

[Lung]

smash up the smaller boulders to, they give a higher yield in these materials. You can also find surface piles of both. You will see black or white rocky piles, that are quite sharp and stand out from their environment.

[YamaKami]

Originally posted by Naomi:

Originally posted by !(gerMAN ^wolf)!:

damit was fearing this is the only sollutions but ty anyways

it's not the only sollution, you can get gunpowder in small quantities from random zombies, or you could search Tree Stumps (commonly spawns abuntantly in the snow biome) they sometimes have up to 40 gunpowder (on 100% loot), and there's an added chance for med kits and antibiotics, nightvision goggles, and so on, so you'll get more out of it than just gunpowder, it'll be worth your time, but once you start up your world, if it's new, you should give the game about 3 days to really spawn in a lot of tree stumps.

There is no other method that will result in any large amounts of gunpowder. You'd be lucky to get enough that way to make it through a single horde night. Mining is vastly superior so far as coming up with any decent quanity of gun powder.

Originally posted by stupidspacebitch:

You can get coal from the burnt biome, from chopping trees and other things, and mining. You can get both coal and nitrate from mining rocks above ground, but once those run out you'll have to start digging underground

And you will have meager amounts of gun powder to show for it. Mining again is the best way to go about this.

Originally posted by Lung:

smash up the smaller boulders to, they give a higher yield in these materials. You can also find surface piles of both. You will see black or white rocky piles, that are quite sharp and stand out from their environment.

Iget the feeling many of you are new, terrible at the game, or use very little amuntion so far as types requireing gunpowder are concerend.

[Ghostlight]

Originally posted by YamaKami:

Originally posted by !(gerMAN ^wolf)!:

k so then where do i get a heck lot of nitrate and coal?

Mine it. You find gravel patches on the surface and chase them down to bed rock.

In A16 they changed yields. Mine the surface rocks instead. There is zero point in making an actual mine in the latest version, as surface rocks are far more efficient now. Unless you really enjoy doing that of course.

Just look for areas on the map dotted with boulders and hit them with a pick. With the right perks and equipment, you can pull ingredients to make 5000 Gun Powder in about half a game day. You will also pull about 15k Iron and way more Stone than you'll ever need at the same time. It is now far more efficient than mining underground.

In addition, in the dark green (when viewed on the map) foresty biome, the clusters of surface boulders are much bigger than they used to be, often sprouting 15+ boulders on a single clay patch, so it's even more ridiculous there. You will not have to travel far to make silly silly amounts of gun powder.

[YamaKami]

Originally posted by Ghostlight:

Originally posted by YamaKami:

Mine it. You find gravel patches on the surface and chase them down to bed rock.

In A16 they changed yields. Mine the surface rocks instead. There is zero point in making an actual mine in the latest version, as surface rocks are far more efficient now. Unless you really enjoy doing that of course.

Just look for areas on the map dotted with boulders and hit them with a pick. With the right perks and equipment, you can pull ingredients to make 5000 Gun Powder in about half a game day. You will also pull about 15k Iron and way more Stone than you'll ever need at the same time. It is now far more efficient than mining underground.

In addition, in the dark green (when viewed on the map) foresty biome, the clusters of surface boulders are much bigger than they used to be, often sprouting 15+ boulders on a single clay patch, so it's even more ridiculous there. You will not have to travel far to make silly silly amounts of gun powder.

You state this as if I have not played A16. Mining is the best way (even in A16) to get more than a bandaid solution amount of ore. You didn't agree with this in A15 either, and for some time have been enamoured with the resource rocks. Which are not a better method and will not yield anywhere near as much as mining ore deposits.

[Del]

Surface boulders are the easiest way to begin with. Mining will get you way more. Finding one half reasonable nitrate deposit while mining will get you more nitrate in a few minutes than half a day of boulder harvesting. Where you find one deposit, there will be more nearby. Coal and nitrate deposits are a lot more abundant in a 16 than they were in a15. Mining will also get you heaps of rock, iron and sand.

[Ghostlight]

You state this as if I have not played A16. Mining is the best way (even in A16) to get more than a bandaid solution amount of ore. You didn't agree with this in A15 either, and for some time have been enamoured with the resource rocks. Which are not a better method and will not yield anywhere near as much as mining ore deposits.

I'm the miner for 3 trigger happy friends. Pulling up to 10k gunpowder a day from suface rocks. Readers can believe me or you. Shrug. Like I said, they CHANGED it. Day 40 and we have 2 chests just containing Raw Iron - we cannot smelt it fast enough with 6 Forges. We have more gun powder than we can use (like 20k surplus). And I have not ventured much further than 0.5 km from our new base (in dark green biome as I said) to achieve this. No need to go off into remote biome to find the right ore. Bandaid solution huh?

Not to mention it is super efficient to gather Clay, Goldenrod and Cotton at the same time if you need those. AND you get Coal and Nitrate in equal quantities from surface boulders. Gun powder needs both. Good luck digging a mine that supplies you with both.

To quote Robert Shaw in Jaws, "Don't you tell me my business again, Mr Hooper."

[Ghostlight]

Originally posted by 3delinquent:

Surface boulders are the easiest way to begin with.

No, they suck to begin with. They soon out-pace mining.

[YamaKami]

Originally posted by Ghostlight:

Originally posted by 3delinquent:

Surface boulders are the easiest way to begin with.

No, they suck to begin with. They soon out-pace mining.

You clearly suck at mining to be able to state something so incredibly inaccurate. In my best "donald trump" voice re: job as a miner.... You're fired :P