For those looking for a good way to farm stone!

[James]

I just uploaded a video explaining how I farm stone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KBh8z9BPQ&feature=youtu.be

Let me know if it helped.

[stunner]

Great flint farming video. +1 would recommend this method for farming flint.

[saice]

Saddly as Bluestone points out you get so much flint and so little stone you better just breaking out your own pick and do the work yourself. You going to get about the same stone for the same time using a metal pick and like a quater of the flint. Your not really saving all that much time using the anky for stone at the moment.

[James]

Yes you do get a lot of flint, but its extremely easy to just toss it. Plus, farming with the ankylo keeps you from having to repair(cutting in to the amount of metal you are coming out with). The ankylo 1 shots every rock after you reach a certain % melee damage and can clear a large radius in the fraction of the time it would take someone to do with a hatchet.

[CoLS Firestar]

Yeah, this is good for farming flint.
Best way to farm flint is to find a quiet beach or dense forest and set up a macro that spams "e" and keep moving. You'll get a stone every one to two seconds. Much faster than trying to ride an ankly -and- no repairing.

[saice]

As CoLS Firestar points out spamming E on the beach really is faster with no flint or repair issues.

But repair is not really an issue as you might have noticed you get a lot of metal from stones while farming them with a metal pick. If you are bringing a dino to carry stuff it can care a handful of picks and when you get back to base you can use all that metal you just got to repair them. It is not really a net loss at all.

Don't get me wrong the Anky SHOULD be good at getting stone but right he does not really compare to the other ways to get stone. You only really saving yourself a few clicks by riding the Dino which you turn around and lose from invory managment and having to hop on and off to transfer stuff and from the slow movment the dino has.

Its not a /bad/ way to get stone. But it is not what most would call all that good a way to get stone.

[James]

After some testing, this is what i averaged with the following methods for gathering stone.

Metal Hatchet

3 minutes

~200 Stone
~2 Metal
~29 flint


Metal Pick

3 minutes

~65 stone
~33 metal
~183 flint

Picking up stone

3 minutes

~190 stone
0 metal
0 fint

Ankylo

30 minutes

~2700 stone
~800 metal
? flint (threw it away because it clogged my inventory)

With both the hatchet and pick, i actually went longer than 3 minutes because i almost had their durablility entirely gone. Both with the hatchet and picking it up straight from the ground, i would have only averaged 2k stone in 30 minutes, and the hatchet would have actually left me with a deficit of metal, and picking up stone gave me none (plus i feel like doing this for 30 minutes multiple times would end in me getting carpal tunnel since i would only do it manually).

Granted initially it may be more beneficial to run around and pick it up rather than tame an ankylo (of course you could run around gathering stone while the ankylo is taming so that time would be negligible) in the long run getting an extra ~700 stone per 30 minute interval would eventually make up for it plus ~800 metal in that same time gives this method a huge leg up on the others. And it would also be possible to get more with the ankylo, seeing as ive had this one for a very long time and put points in to weight and probably too many points in to health before i started putting everything into damage.

From the numbers i got (your more than welcome to test yourself) the ankylo method is definetly better than any other method (unless you count having multiple people gathering at the same time, but that could easily be countered by having more than one ankylo).

[Sam]

Originally posted by BWK__:

I just uploaded a video explaining how I farm stone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KBh8z9BPQ&feature=youtu.be

Let me know if it helped.

Awesome!! Thanks for the info, going to be taming one of those right when I get home.

[Savageone]

I tend to go a little overboard on my mining trips. I have a high dmg anky leaking the way, followed by another anky to act as a buffer( so Dino's don't get stuck on me) followed by two trikes, a stego, 4 mammoths and two brontos. Just keep doing laps around the mountain until I'm full. Nroamlly bring back 4-5k metal and 12-15k stone. I drop most of the flint, but normally keep 3-4k to use for sparkpowder and what not. Average trip is about 4hrs.

[AlphaboyZz]

Well i was farming earlier on my Anky and getting quite a bit of stone/metal and having a tribe member fly to me when almost encumbered to take the load back to base. We picked up about 400 metal and 700 stone in roughly 15 minutes. I mean it seems like quite a bit to me but stone burns through very quickly. If the person flying and I both were on foot farming stone we probably could have gotten more using hatchets in the same amount of time. I just prefer using the anklyo because it is more fun for me to kill dinos while breaking rocks rather then running around just smacking a rock a few times with my hatchet especially with the way lag is at the moment where your first few hits dont even register. My anklyo is a lower level and 2 hits rocks at the moment but once he one hits them it will be alot quicker. When the tribe does a stone gather mission we usually get around 4k stone by using hatchets and bringing large mounts to hold the stone while we farm. Its only about an hour of work and its fun in a group.

[James]

Originally posted by kubasam:

Originally posted by BWK__:

I just uploaded a video explaining how I farm stone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KBh8z9BPQ&feature=youtu.be

Let me know if it helped.

Awesome!! Thanks for the info, going to be taming one of those right when I get home.

your very welcome :D just remember that when its first tamed its not going to be getting nearly as much as i showed in the video. Plus since i made this they have added kibble, higher level wild dinos, and higher caps on dinos. If you tamed one thats level 75+ you can just put straight damage. If your worried about it dieing if its lower you can just put a few points in heatlh first.

Originally posted by satreaARK:

Well i was farming earlier on my Anky and getting quite a bit of stone/metal and having a tribe member fly to me when almost encumbered to take the load back to base. We picked up about 400 metal and 700 stone in roughly 15 minutes. I mean it seems like quite a bit to me but stone burns through very quickly. If the person flying and I both were on foot farming stone we probably could have gotten more using hatchets in the same amount of time. I just prefer using the anklyo because it is more fun for me to kill dinos while breaking rocks rather then running around just smacking a rock a few times with my hatchet especially with the way lag is at the moment where your first few hits dont even register. My anklyo is a lower level and 2 hits rocks at the moment but once he one hits them it will be alot quicker. When the tribe does a stone gather mission we usually get around 4k stone by using hatchets and bringing large mounts to hold the stone while we farm. Its only about an hour of work and its fun in a group.

yeah once you get your ankylo higher level if will be a lot better. id suggest your tribe taming a few trikes or mammoths to use as pack mules so you dont have to rely as much on someone else that way if your on alone and want to farm or just want to just use one person for the stone you can get a large amount in one trip. :D

[AlphaboyZz]

Yeah we have a mammoth and bronto as well as a rex we use to carry alot of weight on stone runs. However its PVP so it wouldnt be smart to send 1 person out with all the mounts :P

[Ⓝᵒᵗ Ⓛᵘᶤʲᶤ]

I usually find a cluster of stone nodes and farm with your axe not your pickaxe this will give you a lot more stone over flint. This is a easy early game method and even in some cases late game. https://youtu.be/Dd4YgGTMCO0 -(My YouTube video)