farm for wood & metal

[superbit]

hello,

i have two crafting device for wood & metal, but I don't have enough ressources and now I'm stuck, having to farm like hardcore.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1865052180852345523/CAE65A4FBBDE150C280718B1C96FD902BEED2AA4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

I don't have enough ressources to repair the communication tower, and same goes for my stuff which is starting to get outdated.

I really feel like I missed something there, the game wasn't so focused on farming before, and I dysmantled about every house I found for the first 15 hours then my stuff required other more advanced ressources so I stopped.
And now I'm like discouraged.
I don't want to roam the world hitting everything I find and wait 1 in game hour for everything to craft.

So I'm asking for more experienced players, is there an easy way to do this ? Like a spot on the map where you find a bunch of stuff or something ?
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1865052180852345795/EF492B1A009FDD47D51E8D6DCEA56E433AFD5341/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false


Thank you, have fun and have a great end of year.

[Gravedigger]

Metal you can get all over the place. Mailboxes, signs, benches, what ever. Part of the game is breaking stuff, upgrade your bat as much as you can and find the best stuff you can. All towns have breakable objects for metal, including the starter area. You can backtrack to older areas to get easy metal.

Wood, any forest will do, provided you've upgraded your machete/axe. If you can't cut the big trees, just focus on the smaller trees. Search around towns and break wooden objects, some of them will also give wood.

South of where you are is a pretty large forest.

[superbit]

Originally posted by Gravedigger:

Metal you can get all over the place. Mailboxes, signs, benches, what ever. Part of the game is breaking stuff, upgrade your bat as much as you can and find the best stuff you can. All towns have breakable objects for metal, including the starter area. You can backtrack to older areas to get easy metal.

Wood, any forest will do, provided you've upgraded your machete/axe. If you can't cut the big trees, just focus on the smaller trees. Search around towns and break wooden objects, some of them will also give wood.

South of where you are is a pretty large forest.

Hello thanks for the quick answer.

I guess I wasn't expecting to have to grind so much, I thought you just had to grind has you progressed into the game, not that I would have to backtrack to hit everything.
Unfortunately that's kind of a deal breaker to me, I don't really have the patience to just hit stuff non stop until I gathered enough.
But I played for +20hours and I'm not complaining, I guess I got everything I could out of the game.
Maybe I'll cheat some of the ressources just to see the rifle and maybe the end game.
Thank you again for your quick answer

[Gravedigger]

Originally posted by superbit:

Originally posted by Gravedigger:

Metal you can get all over the place. Mailboxes, signs, benches, what ever. Part of the game is breaking stuff, upgrade your bat as much as you can and find the best stuff you can. All towns have breakable objects for metal, including the starter area. You can backtrack to older areas to get easy metal.

Wood, any forest will do, provided you've upgraded your machete/axe. If you can't cut the big trees, just focus on the smaller trees. Search around towns and break wooden objects, some of them will also give wood.

South of where you are is a pretty large forest.

Hello thanks for the quick answer.

I guess I wasn't expecting to have to grind so much, I thought you just had to grind has you progressed into the game, not that I would have to backtrack to hit everything.
Unfortunately that's kind of a deal breaker to me, I don't really have the patience to just hit stuff non stop until I gathered enough.
But I played for +20hours and I'm not complaining, I guess I got everything I could out of the game.
Maybe I'll cheat some of the ressources just to see the rifle and maybe the end game.
Thank you again for your quick answer
:dysmantle_boss::dysmantle_campfire::dysmantle_fish::dysmantle_headstone::wishingwell:

If you have to grind much, you weren't breaking enough stuff as you went, tbh. You should only have to grind a little here and there, as you reach new areas you should be getting a steady stream of resources... the game is called dysmantle (take things apart) after all.

[superbit]

Originally posted by Gravedigger:

Originally posted by superbit:

Hello thanks for the quick answer.

I guess I wasn't expecting to have to grind so much, I thought you just had to grind has you progressed into the game, not that I would have to backtrack to hit everything.
Unfortunately that's kind of a deal breaker to me, I don't really have the patience to just hit stuff non stop until I gathered enough.
But I played for +20hours and I'm not complaining, I guess I got everything I could out of the game.
Maybe I'll cheat some of the ressources just to see the rifle and maybe the end game.
Thank you again for your quick answer

If you have to grind much, you weren't breaking enough stuff as you went, tbh. You should only have to grind a little here and there, as you reach new areas you should be getting a steady stream of resources... the game is called dysmantle (take things apart) after all.

Yeah, like I said, when my stuff was fully upgraded, I stopped, because it didn't made sense anymore, I had no idea you would had to convert basic ressources into advanced ressources. And at some point in the game breaking stuff stopped being fun.
But really, I feel like I broke a lot of stuff lol, but clearly I didn't, no big deal.

[TearingOrphan]

Hey there, do you have the sledgehammer yet? If not you are gonna need the gas masks. You can get it from following the temple quest started south-east of the desert. No point in trying to grind resources with only the bat. Just follow the story and hit stuff as you go and you will be fine.

[Panterich]

1. Spend some titanium to make more melters. You can get it all back later by breaking them.
2. Don`t bother with farming or melting scrap metal. You also don`t really need to convert scrap wood, there will be plenty of easy to get planks later.
3. Consider dysmatling "cemetery" fences. They drop a lot, and there is always a bunch clustered together. They can also be found at villas/mansions and around ruins in starting location.
4. Pay attention to power poles. They are placed along every road that connects places. You travel them a lot anyways. This is a good source of resources.
5. Don`t bother leveling houses, take what you need - power boxes and cookers.
6. Use scrap wood as fuel.
7. Woodcutters outfit + upgraded Axe + Motorcycle helmet = easy wood & leaves.
8. As soon as you get your first batches of resources which are used to make melters, forget about the place where the first one is. Build own melters/sawmills near tower+storage.
9. If you plan to complete the game fully, not just the story, then don`t grind what you don`t need right now for your objective. I ended up with tons of stuff by the time i did 100%. End game farming is MUCH faster.

[superbit]

thanks for the advice that's really helpful !

[superbit]

Hi,

So I gave it another try but there's no place to go.
http://puu.sh/IzNkJ/c318d94d2a.jpg
2 of the red circles are blocked by poison clouds, the south is blocked by a gate, the terminal is on the other side, and same if I want to access the middle of the map, there's a locked gate with a terminal on the other side.
I found the katana even I assume it's an upgrade from the scythe ?

I appreciate any directions

[Panterich]

One of your mentioned red circles, that are blocked by poison, the south one, has a second route. You can go south from there.

There is a Crowbar, which is just a starting weapon.
There are 2 end game weapons that "combine" all the bonuses.
Everything else is unique and is not an upgrade of others.

Katana can hit multiple enemies, nothing else does.
Scythe can hit multiple obstacles. Again, nothing else does.

However, due to (absolutely reasonless and totally moronic imo) decision to limit active weapon/tool slots for keyboard users, all of that makes little practical sense. Katana still has nothing to do with scythe tho.

[superbit]

Originally posted by Panterich:

One of your mentioned red circles, that are blocked by poison, the south one, has a second route. You can go south from there.

Thank you!

Originally posted by Panterich:

However, due to (absolutely reasonless and totally moronic imo) decision to limit active weapon/tool slots for keyboard users, all of that makes little practical sense. Katana still has nothing to do with scythe tho.

I agree, a simple weapon wheel would have been way better for this, for this reason I almost never fish or dig stuff.

[Vimpster]

Originally posted by superbit:

I agree, a simple weapon wheel would have been way better for this, for this reason I almost never fish or dig stuff.

Perhaps you know this already, it took me quite a while before I figured it out, but you can swap the items you are actively using at any time, not only at the campfire. The only exceptions to this are items that add health or add material slots. Those things can only be swapped at the campfire.

The main source of steel for me, as well as a source of planks as it happens, are the telephone poles. They line most of the roads in the game. You can get lots of iron (4 per section) from the iron girder fences, such as the one that surrounds the cemetery south of the starting region. Dead trees, the ones with no leaves on them, give you 2 planks each.

[superbit]

Originally posted by Vimpster:

Perhaps you know this already, it took me quite a while before I figured it out, but you can swap the items you are actively using at any time, not only at the campfire. The only exceptions to this are items that add health or add material slots. Those things can only be swapped at the campfire.

I actually knew that but I'm very very lazy lol, I find that to be tedious unfortunately.

Originally posted by Vimpster:

The main source of steel for me, as well as a source of planks as it happens, are the telephone poles. They line most of the roads in the game. You can get lots of iron (4 per section) from the iron girder fences, such as the one that surrounds the cemetery south of the starting region. Dead trees, the ones with no leaves on them, give you 2 planks each.

Thanks, I'll try to focus on that.

But I'm still stuck right now :/,I can't find another way to the poisoned cloud, I'm starting to suspect there's some kind of bug (like I have the sanctuary quest but nothing to do at the farm) or I'm really missing something

[Vimpster]

Originally posted by superbit:

But I'm still stuck right now :/,I can't find another way to the poisoned cloud, I'm starting to suspect there's some kind of bug (like I have the sanctuary quest but nothing to do at the farm) or I'm really missing something

There is a large building to the left of the farm, that is where the sanctuary quest takes you. Once you have done something at that building you get a new quest. You won't be getting through any poison cloud till you get a gas mask which is a reward after completing a certain quest.

[superbit]

thank you, i finally found the desert, i was really focused on that communication tower but it's too expensive to repair right now (10 titanium).

[superbit]

I've made a lot of progress in the game since I found the sledgehammer, thank you for your help people