best way to farm silver?

[Hydra]

ive been making tons of silver by just hunting every low risk animal in my region, and end up with thousands of textiles to trade. wonder if there is a better and easier way to farm silver?

[ButterStuffed]

Producing a lot of drugs is a good way.
Later game you can make a pawn with double drill arms full time mine for gold/plasteel

[Hydra]

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

Producing a lot of drugs is a good way.
Later game you can make a pawn with double drill arms full time mine for gold/plasteel

deep drill mining or inside mountains?

[Punyrock]

I like to grow extra crops to sell during the early game. Things like corn and berries are easy if you have extra growers lying around.

[ButterStuffed]

Originally posted by Hydra | unusual.tf:

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

Producing a lot of drugs is a good way.
Later game you can make a pawn with double drill arms full time mine for gold/plasteel

deep drill mining or inside mountains?

Deep drilling. An industrious or neurotic miner with double drills can get you all the valuables from scanning so quick you won’t have the traders to trade it away.

Did that once and I would have stockpiles of literally thousands of plasteel that I just couldn’t get rid of.

[Marcondy]

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

Originally posted by Hydra | unusual.tf:

deep drill mining or inside mountains?

Deep drilling. An industrious or neurotic miner with double drills can get you all the valuables from scanning so quick you won’t have the traders to trade it away.

Did that once and I would have stockpiles of literally thousands of plasteel that I just couldn’t get rid of.

What am I missing here? Over 1500 hours in game...double drill arms?

[Hydra]

Originally posted by Marcondy:

Originally posted by ButterStuffed:

Deep drilling. An industrious or neurotic miner with double drills can get you all the valuables from scanning so quick you won’t have the traders to trade it away.

Did that once and I would have stockpiles of literally thousands of plasteel that I just couldn’t get rid of.

What am I missing here? Over 1500 hours in game...double drill arms?

i also dont know what this means. explain?

[liosalpha]

Trade stuff, like top hats out of leather (anyone buys it and it cheap,fast to make out of spare stuff), smokeleave or art of any spare material you have (or if you have a good artist make silver art.)

drill arms are bionics, making you a mining god. stil need to be lucky with ores

[flu007]

Bit more info: You unlock drill arms through the "Specialized Limbs" research, for which you need a techprint first.
A drill arm gives +160% mining speed, at the cost of -8% movement.

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by Hydra | unusual.tf:

Originally posted by Marcondy:

What am I missing here? Over 1500 hours in game...double drill arms?

i also dont know what this means. explain?

Specialized limbs research, allows replacing hands with arms that help in combat or mining or farming tremendously.

[Sugar Show]

There is a way very cheat, cheaty, cheatiest...

Everymap have own Shrine (The ancient Danger) and inside have 3 treasure, plus coffins with ancient soldier that have good gear, destroy the mechanoid guards and claim the loot. You can do this like 5 times per day so it can be the fastest way to farm money

[esculapio]

Originally posted by Sugar Show:

There is a way very cheat, cheaty, cheatiest...

Everymap have own Shrine (The ancient Danger) and inside have 3 treasure, plus coffins with ancient soldier that have good gear, destroy the mechanoid guards and claim the loot. You can do this like 5 times per day so it can be the fastest way to farm money

I just came across an empty ancient danger. Does it mean there is another one with the loot somewhere else?

[Tohtori Leka]

Best way is to do everything. Overproduce goods you need yourself so you can always sell some and produce as much of everything else you can to sell. If you want to focus on just one thing, drugs are the best because everyone buys them and you don't need to wait for the right trader.

But farming a lot of silver isn't really what you want to be doing because it only makes raids harder. Unless harder is what you want.

[xerator]

my problem is keeping my wealth down . :P guess thats why this game is so good we all can play it different ways

[Raymond]

long range scanner. I built entire colony out of pure silver this way. Each mining trip can easily net you 2000 silver. They are also light so you don't have to bring too many pack animals. Just a small caravan of 2 miners and 2 pack animals is fine.