The blue crystals

[captainsherry]

Everything but the blue crystals seem to respawn, or be able to be bought somewhere, or even be found in a hidden box .. so I cannot complete the last challenge to give the guy 24 crystals to build with.

[Meep]

Everything is on a random timer, not sure the priorty. Anyone have a better clue?

[Valdy]

As long you are on a high enough level with the pickaxe, you should be able to collect all the crystals needed from the caves. I did find one or two crystals in a crate or barrel as well.

[captainsherry]

I finally got all the blue crystals, but I had to get all the rounds of metal then silver ore before the blue crystals would respawn.

[Meep]

You weren't before? Honestly I think a lot of us clear scenes just to pass the time when we have this problem. If it's helping than all the better.

[Yaelle]

DOH!! You know, I was thinking of doing the same, but with animals. I had only two quests left - this one & the thing with the deer antlers (I guess thats all?) and I swear I haven't seen a deer in 6000 years.
So I wondered if I needed to start hunting other animals to get deer to spawn.
As for the crystals, ugh. Taking forever. (that's ok)

[mikeydsc]

I sure dont remember the 1st - 2 games being this grindy.

Just to make the game longer by grinding is not the way to go devs. Your original formula worked better than this version.

Go back to that please. I am already having to grind in the early stages just because I bought a shovel and a few ropes for the caves. If you by stuff out of order its a grind.

[stephaniepal123]

Sorry Mikeydsc that you are having a hard time. I played this game 5 times last week and worked out all the grindy. See my post under Gold. It is actually much, much less grindy than 1 and 2.
The Rest Cave and being able to buy and sell on the map are soooo much easier than before where you had to remember where to go to find something. So do not give up. It is really fun to anticipate what and when you do know when to buy stuff. (by the way, I am a 73 y.o. grandmother).

[stephaniepal123]

Oh yes, the question was about the blue crystals. They are in almost all of the caves and the mines. They do respawn...just keep going back after you have cleared the caves. You will get more than you need for the 24 for the silver smith in Gray Valley.

[mikeydsc]

Originally posted by stephaniepal123:

Sorry Mikeydsc that you are having a hard time. I played this game 5 times last week and worked out all the grindy. See my post under Gold. It is actually much, much less grindy than 1 and 2.
The Rest Cave and being able to buy and sell on the map are soooo much easier than before where you had to remember where to go to find something. So do not give up. It is really fun to anticipate what and when you do know when to buy stuff. (by the way, I am a 73 y.o. grandmother).

I so happy you have an opinion, but mine is different than yours and the grinding is not welcome. Sure the merchant map is new and ok but going back n forth to maps isnt and no 1 n 2 was not this bad.