How do I find a rook?

[Arthravis]

Not sure why I can't find anything on this, but as WX I've never gotten the upgraded acceleration circuits because I can't find a clockwork rook for the life of me.

Is there any way to find them besides "lol just run around and pray" ?

Edit: Clarifying for people that it's not gears I'm after, but a Rook scan for WX's circuits. Having an equally difficult time with the super gastronomy circuit and the chorusbox one.

[Krolpand]

if you find the set piece with many marble statues, there is a way. you need to find "suspicious marble pieces", mine the original statues (they will look like the enemies you're looking for) and mine the completed statue on a full moon to spawn the regular enemies or on a new moon for the much more difficult nightmare version.

other than that caves and digging up graves MIGHT yield some gears.

[dynatierchen]

go into the desert and farm tumbleweed. u can get gears like that

[tools guy-kun]

can you not scan broken clockwork rooks? should be the same, if I'm not mistaken.

you'll easily find them in the ruins, but you'll most likely need to bring some gears to repair them. then again, you'll more than likely get the gears you need from the clockwork knights and bishops that are down there.

[bob644016]

Originally posted by tools guy-kun:

can you not scan broken clockwork rooks? should be the same, if I'm not mistaken.

you'll easily find them in the ruins, but you'll most likely need to bring some gears to repair them. then again, you'll more than likely get the gears you need from the clockwork knights and bishops that are down there.

yeah you can scan the damaged rooks in the ruins, it has the same effect. If you do not wish to or are incapable of running caves though, then you either just get lucky and explore the map and hope you get/nobody has killed a rook yet, or the method Krolpand stated works too, although it requires more effort.

In regards to "Having an equally difficult time with the super gastronomy circuit and the chorusbox one," you can get the chorousbox circuit by scanning crab king or pearl, both can be found on the ocean, and the 'hunger circuit', if i'm not mistaken, the worse one is gotten from scanning hounds and the better one can be found by scanning slurpers (can be found in the muddy/lichen biome outside ruins). As far as i know though, if you have caves disabled it is impossible to get the upgraded hunger circuit. Then again i havent played wx in a while and didnt bother to fact check so you may want to test this out in a creative server or something.

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by bob644016:

Originally posted by tools guy-kun:

can you not scan broken clockwork rooks? should be the same, if I'm not mistaken.

you'll easily find them in the ruins, but you'll most likely need to bring some gears to repair them. then again, you'll more than likely get the gears you need from the clockwork knights and bishops that are down there.

yeah you can scan the damaged rooks in the ruins, it has the same effect. If you do not wish to or are incapable of running caves though, then you either just get lucky and explore the map and hope you get/nobody has killed a rook yet, or the method Krolpand stated works too, although it requires more effort.

In regards to "Having an equally difficult time with the super gastronomy circuit and the chorusbox one," you can get the chorousbox circuit by scanning crab king or pearl, both can be found on the ocean, and the 'hunger circuit', if i'm not mistaken, the worse one is gotten from scanning hounds and the better one can be found by scanning slurpers (can be found in the muddy/lichen biome outside ruins). As far as i know though, if you have caves disabled it is impossible to get the upgraded hunger circuit. Then again i havent played wx in a while and didnt bother to fact check so you may want to test this out in a creative server or something.

it's unlikely that I will since WX just doesn't interest me as much despite their rework but maybe sometime. thank you for the information, at least now I can share it with others who are in need of it more than I am.

[Jackpot]

For the speed upgrade you CAN scan the Ancient Guardian and the damaged rook (found in ruins)

Since finding normal rook requires you to either
Get lucky and find the setepieces that have him.
Or destroy the Rook chesspiece during full moon.

You have better odds of going into ruins and either
Find an enemy rook to scan
Or fix one of the damaged clockwork piles and hope it's a Rook you get and since you fixed it, it'll be friendly so you can scan it without taking damage.