No studs from objects spawned by discovery tool?

[ModerateRebel]

I'm currently trying to get the billionaire achievement and l'm looking for efficient ways to generate studs. A common way I found in youtube videos is to copy/paste the "Safety Deposit Box" in a custom build and than spam the spawn button.
However for some strange reason I don't get any studs from those boxes, neither from any other object spawned by the discovery tool. I also started a new game to check if my save state is broken but a fresh slot behaves the same way.

Is this some sort of bug or recent nerf?

[kpdavatar]

They may have changed it a while back.

I posted how I got it here.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/332310/discussions/0/1499000547477233220/
Other people responded with ideas too.

[ModerateRebel]

You optimized the amount you can sell in one trade up to 25 million studs, did not know you can push this method this far. I only sold around 10 million per trade because I only collected crystals, gems, cutlasses and flintlock pistols. The limit of this method is the spawn rate of the night trader which I find rather annoying. Trapping the night trader was suggested by Koles on youtube but for some reason it does not work for me. The night trader flies through the cage like a ghost and then disappears.

The linked thread offers a solution to the copying problem which I succesfully tested: You have to go to a creator town with a bank and use the building tool "drag and select". You have to place a dummy 1x1 plate so the tool allows you to click the copy button. This way you can do the click spam method with the "Safety Deposit Box" and get studs. I managed to crash the game by clicking too fast and spawning too much boxes simultaneosly which limits this method.

Actually 25 million studs per trade sounds great if you still have something to discover in between the trades which I do have. You don't have to use a bomb to blow everything up. If you leave some empty space in the center of the brick build you can spawn the containers on top of the others and the old ones get destroyed by the new spawning ones.

[Chronicler06]

Seeing as I just recently unlocked the billions studs achievement myself, I'll explain how I got it. As you mentioned, you can't simply place a bunch of "safety deposit boxes". Instead, you'll need to use the copy tool on the one you'll find inside the bank building, either by finding a town with that building in it or unlocking the Brick Build of that bank building, which will allow you to place that building (and all its contents, including the safety deposit box) on any world. When using the copy tool, I included the floor tiles underneath that deposit box, allowing me to place 32 of those boxes in a square arrangement of 4x8, covering an area of 32x32 studs. Smashing all of the boxes in that arrangement at once gave me just over 500,000 studs, so if you do the math, that means you'd need at least 2000 of those 32-boxes to reach one billion studs.

There are two ways to go from here: your method of "spamming the spawn action", or my method of clearing and flattening a huge area, copying and placing tons of those 32-box blocks (at minimum of 40x50 by my calculations), and then simply ramming through all of them with a large vehicle as if mowing the lawn. Unfortunately with either of those methods, if you smash too many boxes too quickly, you'll risk crashing the game, and if you don't do anything to save the game (like randomly placing a vehicle nearby), all the studs you gained will not be included with your stud count when you reload the game.

I eventually managed to prevent the game from crashing by simply adjusting all the video and effect settings down to all the lowest settings possible. Even then, it took me about five hours to mow down enough safety deposit boxes to finally reach one billion studs. Thankfully, (unlike what I've heard in some YouTube videos) you don't have to collect all of those billion studs in a single session. You just have to simply reach one billion studs, so if you'd rather not spend an entire day on this achievement, you can spread it out over multiple sessions, so long as you make sure you do stuff to ensure you save your game with whatever amount of studs you've collected.

[Submissive AN Breedable]

I made a video on how to optimize stud farming. Thanks to user Chronicler06 for the safety deposit box strategy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8aVUl8HVUc