important question

[Gamerfss86]

is it even worth mining underground? ive tried it a few times and nothing but stone ive found

like creating mine shafts.

l xxx l xxx l xxx l
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l= mining in a line
x=skip these blocks as its not needed to mine (which saves time)
---= the main mine shaft that connects all the mine shafts together for easy travel back to base

what i do is mine a stair case down to very bottom and count my way up to start this mineshaft on the side. but counting depends on what materials id like to find. this is the way it is in minecraft.

but i have no idea if its even worth doing this and dont want to waste the time ingame doing it if its not worth it.

thanks for any info on this subject

and im also thinking of making a guide for this game

[76561198831382916]

It is not. Terrain is not randomly generated, you will only find ore in the places it was placed by the devs. If ur looking for Coal, go 2 E06, for Iron, G06. Don't listen to the voice telling you the island is too far away, it lies. ;)

[Gamerfss86]

lol and thanks for clearing that up.

[Mdage]

So are there no other resources than what is shown on the surface? This kinda takes the joy of exploration out of anything below ground level, a bit sad really.

[76561198831382916]

Maybe. I think it's cool because its predesigned. You can explore underwater, that's fun. Caves are full of secrets. A cool one is on G06.

[Mdage]

Originally posted by Cofefe:

Maybe. I think it's cool because its predesigned. You can explore underwater, that's fun. Caves are full of secrets. A cool one is on G06.

I can never see enough to make it viable, even wearing a mask its all too blue to distinguish anything and its not like you can take a torch with you

[76561198831382916]

Take a Lantern, works great!

[76561198831382916]

They should fix the mask though, it doesn't help at all.

[Mdage]

Originally posted by Cofefe:

They should fix the mask though, it doesn't help at all.

Yeah as far as I can see it just extends your air for a bit and makes everything more blue...not really that helpful

Plus I heard that lanterns degrade over time even though they use a torch which does not. Can you top the lantern up with another torch or do you waste the iron?

[76561198831382916]

Not sure, mine hasn't broken yet. About half way through. Its durability is very good, but I assume you lose the iron. It would be great to change the way it is crafted, like instead craft an empty lamp, then use that to craft the normal lamp with a torch.

[Mdage]

Thanks for the tips, going to head back to D04 to get some gold that supposedly in the spider cave there, then was thinking of traveling out to the gravel isles to stockpile some iron. Damn those big spiders are annoying tho...

[76561198831382916]

Originally posted by Mdage:

those big spiders are annoying tho...

IKR. Sadly, have no tips for those suckas. Just hard to kill!

[Bransor]

I had the exact same question. Thanks for the answer. So it's a lenar game then? Meaning you have to go where the Dev wants you to go and have to build what he wants you to build to progress and repeat?

[Gamerfss86]

Originally posted by Cofefe:

Originally posted by Mdage:

those big spiders are annoying tho...

IKR. Sadly, have no tips for those suckas. Just hard to kill!

i do.

build a 2 block wide 2 block tall hallway.. the hallway that your about to enter to find the spider queen in use this hallway.

(dont matter which side you place it on)at the start of the hallway of the entrance to the spider queen place a block on the ground and on top of that one then place a third block on the back of the bottom one you just placed facing the spider queens room.

the spiders will jump up on that last block you just placed and get stuck kinda so you can farm them from the side. they will get unstuck if you run around the side of it. this is why the hallway needs to be 2 blocks wide

[Mdage]

Originally posted by Bransor:

I had the exact same question. Thanks for the answer. So it's a lenar game then? Meaning you have to go where the Dev wants you to go and have to build what he wants you to build to progress and repeat?

Not exactly linear, you have plenty of options of different islands to go to to get the ingredients you need (with some late game core exceptions), its more the fact that their are very few to no minerals under the surface, so all veins are exposed to some extent. Therefore if you are looking for something in particular (say iron), you can usually tell if the island you are on has what you need in the first 5 mins of landing, by running around and searching faces of exposed stone for the telltale colors of minerals or ores.

Basically a 'what you see is what you get' type of thing rather than a 'you never know what you got until you dig a bit'.

Originally posted by gamerfss86:

build a 2 block wide 2 block tall hallway.. the hallway that your about to enter to find the spider queen in use this hallway.

Yeah worked this one out last night thanks!
By building a sort of rolling shield I was able to avoid the web spitters until I was close enough to hack at their legs without them able to attack me around my shielding blocks.

[Gamerfss86]

the bosses are actually for end game lol so have fun collecting the strings

and the dev team *might* be making a new hardcore mode and making islands random generated when starting a new game. they have not said for sure tho. my gut feeling says they are