Trick to get 1 Molybdenum Ore?

[Chris]

Hi,
is there a trick or "glitch" to get 1 Molydbdenum Ore without Hard Rock Grinder or the Trencher Drill?
How it looks like, DJ did a good job to eliminate all possibilitys...
(to unlock conduits without starting C5)

[Siro]

The easiest way to shortcut past hard rock grinders is the care package, which you can enable on a new map at world creation once you've beaten the cryo once. It provides the Buildgun v3 which can just straight up superdig chrome and molybdenum.

Another method is, once the adventurer's pack is released, to enable the Pandora's Box mutator at world creation and pray to the random number generator to drop the ore. And it might also be possible the Lucrative Mobs mutator also drops the ore, but I've not personally experimented with that mutator yet.

That being said, Hard Rock Grinders can produce a pretty significant amount of ore (carpet it with hoppers), which you'll need to build your first Trencher+motor and blast furnace+casting basin.

[Wariat117]

You can use mod to craft ore, then disable mod.

Achievements are back once you disable mod and game acts like you have never modded.




Also you unlock care package when you start climate centre, you don't need to kill cryoplasm.
Beating cryoplasm unlocks flatland mode.

[DjArcas]

Uh, how would you craft the conduits? :-p You'll need a lot more than '1' ore for that.

[Nedrith]

You can always research the 512 advanced/XL/Ultimate pods and then when you start up the hard rock grinders finish the research in a few seconds.

With that said to mass produce conduits you will need trenchers. To get the bars for trenchers, you'll want the HRG's. Might as well make them, they are pretty easy to make and power.

[Chris]

Ok. Bad idear. But wiki and xml says, you need only MK3 laser and Polished Chrome Lens.
The Lens Cromer needs standard items.
The Lens itself are 4 Chromium Bars.
3x4 =12 Bars for a Conduit. Not that mutch....

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by Chris:

Ok. Bad idear. But wiki and xml says, you need only MK3 laser and Polished Chrome Lens.
The Lens Cromer needs standard items.
The Lens itself are 4 Chromium Bars.
3x4 =12 Bars for a Conduit. Not that mutch....

Not really sure what you're trying to achieve here. Sure, you can probably find an exploit, and spend 6 weeks prepping for the Cryo, achieving the same as you would in 6 hours if you just followed the progression.

[Nedrith]

Originally posted by Chris:

Ok. Bad idear. But wiki and xml says, you need only MK3 laser and Polished Chrome Lens.
The Lens Cromer needs standard items.
The Lens itself are 4 Chromium Bars.
3x4 =12 Bars for a Conduit. Not that mutch....

double that to 24 bars since you need 2 to make a set. Now without an exploit or a mod that does it the only thing that will mine it is the care package with the build gun upgrade. 24 bars takes quite a bit of time to farm up with superdig.

Also keep in mind the conduit's only real bonuses are it's 128m range vs the 64m for the LETs and it's back and forth power balancing. the back and forth power balancing isn't that important for anything before FF, even then you can get by without it. 9 MK3 lasers with exceptional lenses will transfer the same PPS as a conduit and can be placed anywhere instead of only on the side of a T4 battery.

So for the small bonuses you are getting, it's not really worth the cost or time to find an exploit.