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[sparky1324iscool]

I am at tier 2 and want to go to tier 3 and I have the large excavator, 2 mobile wash plants,and I rented a drill to find most of the gold but I don't know what I should buy next to make more should I pay off the claim and how do I remove dirt without losing gold and keeping it organized any help is appreciated would love discussion

[Officer Payne]

If you have nuggets enabled, you can rely on those to keep your daily operation (gas, repairs, etc.) going. They do not count as mined gold and the owner of the claim does not take 30% of it. There is some variation between how much gold you pull out of the ground with Tier 2, but generally, it’s 8% of what the drill may show for that square. To give you an idea, I used the same setup as you to get 82 buckets of paydirt. After running them through the Magnetite separator, I ran them through a hog pan with a pump. Each bucket fills the mats to roughly 3%. 33 buckets gets you to 100%. Wash the four full mats in a new bucket and process the rest. From 82 buckets, I got two buckets with ultra concentrated paydirt. That saves you the space and trouble or storing and transporting almost 100 buckets. Later, I ran it through the wave table and got 661 ounces of gold. The rough average from high yield and lower yield zones on the claim in those 82 buckets was 7.4 ounces of gold per bucket. It takes roughly 5-6 minutes to fill one bucket using the mobile wash plant and big excavator. So the key is: use nuggets to pay for expenses and avoid paying rent, save your buckets and do not process them through the wave table until the day you decide to purchase all of your equipment or claim, and wait until 1 or 2 days before permafrost in the winter to buy because equipment will be at its lowest price point.

[Vandragorax]

I am in the same place as you sparky, just set up T2 been going for a couple of real life evenings and not showing much for it. It is SLOOOOW and boring just digging gold with the excavator non stop. I really wish there was something else to the game that would keep me interested.

I made about 60k cash in one game-day by processing 4 buckets from the mobile wash plant, that filled up the magnetite separator to 100%.

I worked out that minimum costs to get to T3 for me seems to be around 380k cash so I need at least another 5-7 in game days of constant excavating for that. I've drilled almost the whole of the first area and I don't think I've even got enough gold in the ground to make that much.... or just barely lol... there are 3 giant pockets of gold in my plot but nothing that goes above 25g/m3 and it seems like the T2 processing is piss-poor and I lose a lot of that gold in the refining process. It would be nice if there was a better process available than just Mobile wash plant > Magnetite Separator > Wave table.

Anyway this game seems like a stupid grind to me, and I am at the point where I'm considering just giving up. I could either spend another 2 real life evenings excavating for hours and hours, then buy a T3 setup and do it all again, or buy the next plot up for (hopefully) a better mining yield but still be stuck with using the T2 setup on that new plot..... so yeah. Quite depressing lol. I think there are not enough fun game design elements in this game to keep the progression ticking along at a nice pace. Progression seems all over the shot.

[Namaride]

Originally posted by sparky1324iscool:

I am at tier 2 and want to go to tier 3
I don't know what I should buy

dont buy all those stuff yet, like the drill? sounds expensive. x)

[schutt]

You need to put a lot of dirt through the mwp to buy T3 equip. Best way is save up for T3, then save up to buy the claim. If you like "optimizing" buy the T3 in winter, its cheapest then.

[Sven777b]

just as a sidenote - take a look at the sharings for your claim-rent ....
As for me - nothing is as important as buying out that greedy Arnold. (just my calculation)

And drilling at old arnolds is like searching for a salty spot in the middle of the sea. The gold in old arnolds is almost equally distributed.