Best floor for each ore?

[Snowy Sprout]

If you don't want to buy ores from Clint, which floor (not which range of floors) would you say is the best one to target for finding the most of each particular ore?

[Maya-Neko]

Copper - floor 11
Iron - floor 41+42
Gold - 81+82
Radioactive - 1+2

These are all relatively small floors, so you can oversee the whole area quite easy.

And if you're playing multiplayer and are not the host, then 52 is by far the best for coal farming, since the cart always resets^^

[Stardustfire]

you cant nail that, because the floors are random and moveing.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

you cant nail that, because the floors are random and moveing.

That's only true for skull cavern. For the normal mines, the spawn chances for ores, the monsters you can meet and even the floor plans are always the same.

While you can't accurately predict the amount of ores per each visit, you can still definitely visit the same floor over and over again and optimize your approach and that's definitely easier on smaller rooms with less strong monsters. Especially the small round ones (1, 41 and 81 for examply) can be easily fully covered with a red bomb or you can leave within like 1 second, if you don't see any ore. Though, if you want to spend 2 minutes on a spiral floor farming 10 ores, then nobody is stopping you

[red255]

generally speaking if you craft a few crystallariums and fill them with jade, you can go to the desert on sunday stock up on stairs and go down about 100 floors.

while this predominately gets me iridium. I also get a good chunk of other ores.

if you stock up on bombs from the dwarf, or otherwise simply rushing down the mines for qi when they are radio active gets me a ton of ores, cuz I break stuff when its worth slowing down for.

but if we are doing regular ores -Copper floor 21 (kinda sucks really prefer skull cavern)
iron- floor 41 or 61
gold floor 81 or 101
Stone -floor 1 (much better after you get deconstructors to just deconstruct staircases)

[Snowy Sprout]

Lots of great suggestions and info! Thanks everyone!

[Stardustfire]

@Maya not sure where you got tthis wrong info from, but normal mine DONT stays the same as long you dont modded the game or we are speaking about the special Elevator levels like the Lava Lake...

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

@Maya not sure where you got tthis wrong info from, but normal mine DONT stays the same as long you dont modded the game or we are speaking about the special Elevator levels like the Lava Lake...

The "room" layouts always remain the same on each individual floor but the monster, ore and stone arrangements are randomised every time you take the exit out of the mines.

I have also noticed, having done a few tests myself, that using the elevator to travel to different floors will not cause them to reset - they will remain as they were until you exit via the ladder.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

@Maya not sure where you got tthis wrong info from, but normal mine DONT stays the same as long you dont modded the game or we are speaking about the special Elevator levels like the Lava Lake...

The room layouts always stay the same. You'll always find a small circular room in 1, 41 and 81, a long tube with a minecart at 12, 52 and 92 and the spiral in 19, 59 and 99. And the enemies are the same as well all the time, so you'll always find maggots and flies at 11-19, dust sprites and slimes on 51-59 and skeletons on 61-69.

Obviously there are things that change like the amount of rocks and ores on the floor and the position of the ladder, but that's the point of repeadedly doing the same rooms over and over again instead of doing a series of rooms: It's easier to enter a room, farm the nodes you want and then reset the floor by leaving and going back in. It is definitely faster, than going through tons of room and wasting 80% of the time searching for a ladder, because you've some bad RNG that day.

And as said: That's only usable for the normal mines. The skull caverns are obviously completely random, so this strategy isn't usable there and the volcano mines obviously doesn't reset at all, even when leaving the mines.

[rin]

I'd say floor 21 is the best for copper. You can see the entire floor at once and the copper spawns are really good. In one day I got ~120 copper ore, so I'd say it's a good one to go for.

[RoomTempiQ]

Newb here. Am i supposedto go multiple days when first exploring the caves? Ive yet to miss going to bed before 11pm in my current run.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by RoomTempiQ:

Newb here. Am i supposedto go multiple days when first exploring the caves? Ive yet to miss going to bed before 11pm in my current run.

Take your pace. There is elevator every 5 floors that remains unlocked for further visits so it is convenient end your eplorations at floors 5,10,15.. etc. but otherwise totally ok if you take first seasons or even year to reach bottom of mine.

btw there is no real reason o sleep prior midnight as only after the penalty to energy regen starts -and even than I would argue once you have sufficient replenishment sources (eg. first salmonberry season), it is worthy go sleep 1:50 am as the time spend on activities is more valuable than dozen of energy points zou can replenish in no time.

[RoomTempiQ]

Thank you for the response. Im at day 17 in summer already, have like 50k a chicken coop and fishing level 9. Planted like 130 blue berries day one of summer, i do have floor 5 unlocked as of now in the mines.

I thought if you didnt go to sleep by midnight you would have half your energy for next day, i will check when i get home today but do you wake up at 6am regardless if you miss 12 oclock bedtime?

[RoomTempiQ]

Also growing like 10 or so hop plants and saving them to make ale after i get a keg. I usually can water everything by 12pm so i have time to fish still in my days.

[Goritude]

u can miss 12 pm but don't miss 2 am.

For coal farming what is the best floor if u don't play multiplayer ?

[NBOX21]

For anyone still curious as to how to find ores quickly, just know you will never find ores on floor 1 or any floor of a multiple of 5 (to prevent players from just taking the elevator for easy ore). However, one good way to find ores quickly and easily is to take the elevator to a floor of a multiple of 10 (except 0 or 120) and go straight down to the next floor. Leave if you don't find anything and repeat the process until you do.