What does Dark Morkite and Pots of Gold do?

[battlezoby]

It's unclear as to whether they increase the amount of mineral per deposit that you can harvest, or just how much comes off per pick-axe swing.

If it's just per-swing, barely seems worth it unless you have more barley than you know what do with it (which could be the case,) or for Deep Dives.

If it's per deposit, then we should probably tell new-joiners to let us mine the Morkite deposits rather than let them do it. Could mean the difference between those last deposits you can't find and an easy success.

[Smetrix]

It multiples the amount that drops from what you hit with your pickaxe. So if you do have any late joiners, you should tell them not to mine anything, since the buff only applies to those who drink it.

[Suzaku]

Dark Morkite increases how much morkite you mine with your pickaxe. Other methods, like using C4 or destroying all surrounding terrain so the vein pops, will not yield additional morkite.

Pots O' Gold increases how much gold you get when mining gold with your pickaxe. Same as with morkite, obtaining it any other way does not count.

Yes, if new players join and you're concerned about not getting the maximum potential yield, then you should inform them that you have the brew active. That said, there's always enough of either resource, so a humble request to not be upset if they don't cooperate.

[Aimee]

https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Abyss_Bar

[SCamp]

Dark Morkite speeds up mining missions.
Pots o' Gold slows the entire game down to a crawl.

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

a humble request to not be upset if they don't cooperate.

Don't be silly. With "Kick Player" and friendly fire available, there's no need to be upset.
If anything, it makes the play-experience more interesting.

Originally posted by SCamp:

Dark Morkite speeds up mining missions.
Pots o' Gold slows the entire game down to a crawl.

I agree gold is mostly a waste of time most of the time.

Actually, has anyone run out of resources other than Beer-crafting ones past the first few promotions worth of play? Seem like the only way to do that is to unlock way more useless cosmetics then you ever have any real use for. Seems like the useful stuff (overlocks and not much more than the 24 Class-Buildouts pairs worth of cosmetics) will leave you with more resources than stuff worth buying. (Unless you skip mining the resources which are more valuable, which is almost all of them.)

[Пещерный гНОМ]

Originally posted by battlezoby:

I agree gold is mostly a waste of time most of the time.

You are saying that because you're rich! Imagine you are poor! You wouldn't say that.

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by Eugen:

Originally posted by battlezoby:

I agree gold is mostly a waste of time most of the time.

You are saying that because you're rich! Imagine you are poor! You wouldn't say that.

If he's poor, it's probably because he's mining Gold rather than the stuff that sells for times-50 currency, or worse yet, buying stuff at 150-currency-per-unit rather than mining it instead of gold.

[Khal'cynee]

Originally posted by SCamp:

Dark Morkite speeds up mining missions.
Pots o' Gold slows the entire game down to a crawl.

*ENTIERLY LOA...*
*DONKEY TI...*
*I need to make a deposit !*

[Konachibi]

Originally posted by Khal'cynee:

*ENTIERLY LOA...*
*DONKEY TI...*
*I need to make a deposit !*

You forgot:
"I'M FULL, WHERE'S MOLLY???!"

But yeah, Pots O' Gold doesn't apply to Bosco if you're playing solo, so if you REALLY want to maximize your gold yield and there's a gold vein high up on a wall, you're either digging or making platforms to it, 'cos robo-buddy doesn't get the benefit.

[Smetrix]

Originally posted by Konachibi:

Originally posted by Khal'cynee:

*ENTIERLY LOA...*
*DONKEY TI...*
*I need to make a deposit !*

You forgot:
"I'M FULL, WHERE'S MOLLY???!"

"You carry a load well, Molly :)"

[Konachibi]

Originally posted by Smetrix:

"You carry a load well, Molly :)"

"I wanna punch the guy in R&D who programmed Molly"
(No seriously, the amount of times she walks in front of me or pushes me off a cliff because she decides she wants to be somewhere is astronomical)

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by Konachibi:

Originally posted by Smetrix:

"You carry a load well, Molly :)"

"I wanna punch the guy in R&D who programmed Molly"
(No seriously, the amount of times she walks in front of me or pushes me off a cliff because she decides she wants to be somewhere is astronomical)

Actually, I've thought about maybe starting about a thread about the difference between the incompetence of R&D at DRG, and the potential incompetence of Ghost Ship.

When it comes to Molly, either Ghost Ship is having a laugh at our expense, or, more likely, the incompetence is equal as they both (DRG in-universe and GH IRL) programmed Molly as they did.

By comparison, the armor on Bosco seems to be completely invulnerable to bug attacks, and the Drilldozer is always damaged on the left-side (or right - I'm dsylexic) first. Why not just stick some of that invulnerable armor on that one spot and Doretta is invulnerable? Obviously in that instance, it's DRG's incompetence that leads to failed missions, but unlike Molly, letting Doretta be damaged isn't incompetence by Ghost Ship because they're job is making a fun game rather than trying to obtain more hearthstones. (BTW... the Blizzard Games[hearthstone.blizzard.com] reference was lost on me until I typed out that word just now.)

[gary]

Pots of gold acts as a multiplier for the gold but only if you actually hit the gold (as compared to digging around the gold), it can be a lot of fun when combined with the gold rush mutator but as others have noted it will slow the game down a lot and you don't get that many credits from gold. When I have pots of gold + gold rush I generally set my game to friends only until I've farmed all the gold.

Dark morkite is similar but is rarely ever needed, there is always more than enough morkite in the cave, it really depends upon how deep you want to go on the mission.

[Нагризолич]

Originally posted by battlezoby:

It's unclear as to whether they increase the amount of mineral per deposit that you can harvest, or just how much comes off per pick-axe swing.

But... It's literally the same thing.

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by Нагризолич:

Originally posted by battlezoby:

It's unclear as to whether they increase the amount of mineral per deposit that you can harvest, or just how much comes off per pick-axe swing.

But... It's literally the same thing.

No. If it was "just some comes off per pickaxe swing", the deposit would be depleted faster but yield the same amount of minerals as if you took a longer time to mine it without the buff.

Increasing "the amount of mineral per deposit" is the opposite of that, and, I'm guessing, doesn't actually let you finish it faster - you just get more minerals for your trouble.