Worm Bins are Awesome Now

[maestro]

Up until 1.6, everybody laughed at the poor worm bin, and for good reason. Bait is cheap to buy, or you can make it by the hundreds if you go through floors 10-20 every once in awhile in the mine, and make bait out of the bug meat that is dropped there.

But now we have deluxe bait, and that takes moss, something that doesn't appear all the time. To get moss, you need a green rain which only happens in the middle of summer, and I don't know if it is guaranteed. Sure, you can get 150-180 moss total in one of these rains, but that ain't going to make you enough bait to last a year, AND you might want moss for some of the other things moss is used for.

So, instead, make deluxe worm bins. All it takes is a normal bin + 30 moss. 30 moss sounds like a lot, but it's a good investment, and IMO it's what I'd spend a chunk of the first year's green rain moss on. I'd make like 3-4 of these bins, and just stock up on bait any day you're not fishing.

[Taverna66]

the bins are not working for me, produce one time and stop

[maestro]

Originally posted by Taverna66:

the bins are not working for me, produce one time and stop

Might be mod related.

The bins should be giving you 4-6 bait once per day at morning. They work fine for me.

[6teaNEIN?]

Originally posted by maestro:

But now we have deluxe bait, and that takes moss, something that doesn't appear all the time. To get moss, you need a green rain which only happens in the middle of summer, and I don't know if it is guaranteed.

what do you mean? I started a new game for 1.6, and before the green rain in summer, I had ~200 moss already.
I think green rain is guaranteed, once a year (in summer, obvs), but green moss grows all the time. there are so many trees all around the map, and each one is capable of developing moss.
green rain is epic though, I collected ~500 moss that day xD
I do agree though, deluxe worm bins are awesome, just wanted to point out that moss isn't as scarce as you make it seem :)

[maestro]

Originally posted by Pʂყƈԋσ Pυϝϝʂ:

Originally posted by maestro:

But now we have deluxe bait, and that takes moss, something that doesn't appear all the time. To get moss, you need a green rain which only happens in the middle of summer, and I don't know if it is guaranteed.

what do you mean? I started a new game for 1.6, and before the green rain in summer, I had ~200 moss already.
I think green rain is guaranteed, once a year (in summer, obvs), but green moss grows all the time. there are so many trees all around the map, and each one is capable of developing moss.
green rain is epic though, I collected ~500 moss that day xD
I do agree though, deluxe worm bins are awesome, just wanted to point out that moss isn't as scarce as you make it seem :)

Odd. I never noticed any moss anywhere until the rain happened...

[6teaNEIN?]

Originally posted by maestro:

Originally posted by Pʂყƈԋσ Pυϝϝʂ:

what do you mean? I started a new game for 1.6, and before the green rain in summer, I had ~200 moss already.
I think green rain is guaranteed, once a year (in summer, obvs), but green moss grows all the time. there are so many trees all around the map, and each one is capable of developing moss.
green rain is epic though, I collected ~500 moss that day xD
I do agree though, deluxe worm bins are awesome, just wanted to point out that moss isn't as scarce as you make it seem :)

Odd. I never noticed any moss anywhere until the rain happened...

interesting. might just be another bug/kink/whatever that needs to be ironed out. would be nice to hear some other's opinions.
one of us may be experiencing an abnormality, or like you say, you just didn't notice it

[maestro]

Coulda been in one of the hotfixes too, as I started this save on the 19th right after it dropped and played most of Spring in the first day.

[aY227]

It's 4-5 bait per day... well ok, not terrible but not great.

[Exodite-Dragon]

I didn't personally see any moss growing on trees until very late in Spring on my new file. It struck me as odd given moss seems used in a lot of early foraging recipes and such, so I have to imagine it wasn't spawning as frequently as it should've been prior to one of the hotfixes.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by maestro:

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Odd. I never noticed any moss anywhere until the rain happened...

I got some moss there and there while use scythe on trees (mostly by accident) since spring already.. was not huge but hat some dozen already by green rain.. and definitely got way more out of it, had over 300 stored at end of first rain day and was not very efficient/dedicated in getting it (and there is also moss on all trees on all maps now)

[Crater]

I don't understand the logic of this post. The title says worm bins are awesome, then OP craps (rightly) on the use of worm bins, and then randomly switches to suggesting deluxe worm bins. That's an entirely separate item. How does that make worm bins awesome in 1.6?

[Buffmania]

Originally posted by Tabasco:

I don't understand the logic of this post. The title says worm bins are awesome, then OP craps (rightly) on the use of worm bins, and then randomly switches to suggesting deluxe worm bins. That's an entirely separate item. How does that make worm bins awesome in 1.6?

Worm bins used to be absolutely terrible, expensive and only unlocked at fishing 8. Now they're unlocked at fishing 4, take less to craft and produce more bait.

The deluxe upgrade, unlocked at fishing 8, uses an existing worm bin and 30 moss. After about 15 days of production, you'll effectively get back the moss used.

The cost to buy an equivalent amount of deluxe bait produced per day is about 400-500g. The old version's worm bins only produced about 25g worth of bait per day at best.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Tabasco:

I don't understand the logic of this post. The title says worm bins are awesome, then OP craps (rightly) on the use of worm bins, and then randomly switches to suggesting deluxe worm bins. That's an entirely separate item. How does that make worm bins awesome in 1.6?

Deluxe Worm Bins are awesome.

You kinda need the regular ones to make them, though.

/shrug