Coaltana failure

[Cinderpalm]

So, the coaltana defense, didn't know about it. Activated it and died, the usual basically. Went back far more prepared, killing larvae antlion armor, perked up, all seem to be going well. Fighting off some larvae around the stones almost sizzling at this point and the mastery bar finishes filling and... Failure? Huh? I've repeated this 3 times now and each time it's been a failure. Did some searching and couldn't find anything on what I might be doing wrong.

Do I need to like sit down on the silly thing when the bar fills or something? If I'm not adjacent does it just, fail at the end? If so, that seems incredibly dumb. But, whatever. Can someone answer me as to what I'm doing wrong? Or is it needing to have all larvae dead or somethign when the bar fills? For reference, the hp of the sword has been 50-75% full each ''successful'' clear which ends in failure for some reason...

Aggravating, I was having fun too till then.

[RattyRattington]

Reminds me of when anytime an invasion event happens at my home base and I killed everything, it would say "Payback delivered" as if I failed despite me absolutely slaughtering everything and not having my walls broken.

Unfortunately I don't have an answer for you, all I know is that when I did the Coaltana event, it worked on 1st try. I was always on the rocks around the Coaltana while guzzling down Mints. Though this was before the latest content update.

[Cinderpalm]

Hmm... Thanks for the reply anyway. I'll give it a go later on today, that was the next on the list for attempts. But knowing it worked for you up on the rocks leads me to believe you need to be near the coaltana as well, not just have the bar fill up like every website says.

[FoamySlobbers]

Publicado originalmente por Cinderpalm:

So, the coaltana defense, didn't know about it. Activated it and died, the usual basically. Went back far more prepared, killing larvae antlion armor, perked up, all seem to be going well. Fighting off some larvae around the stones almost sizzling at this point and the mastery bar finishes filling and... Failure? Huh? I've repeated this 3 times now and each time it's been a failure. Did some searching and couldn't find anything on what I might be doing wrong.

Do I need to like sit down on the silly thing when the bar fills or something? If I'm not adjacent does it just, fail at the end? If so, that seems incredibly dumb. But, whatever. Can someone answer me as to what I'm doing wrong? Or is it needing to have all larvae dead or somethign when the bar fills? For reference, the hp of the sword has been 50-75% full each ''successful'' clear which ends in failure for some reason...

Aggravating, I was having fun too till then.

once you finish filling the bar, all the larva just leave. (also when they attack successfully also they will just leave. so it's hard to know if they got to it.) you might need to get into your "saves" and load before you started to run this mission(might be bugged).

tips: *after you turn it on, move to the outside to reduce the sizzle.
*Fight the larva before they jump up on the coal, get them to fight you.
*hopefully you have fresh defense for your status mutation
* take some mint to eat, they help reduce the sizzle.
* smoothies smoothies smoothies. and bandages.
Good luck.

[Serpiko82]

More tips:
- Mint Mace (possibly upgraded) should 3-hit larvae (killing one with each combo).
- You may throw some gas arrows at the Coaltana rock to help killing larvae that make it there (it will hurt you as well, though, but Fresh Defense will keep self-damage at minimum).
- Larvae approach underground. You should be able to either attack them even while still burrowed, or dig them out yourself to deal with them earlier (I don't remember which one though).

[Cinderpalm]

Did a couple test runs in creative before. I have to be standing near the coaltana when the bar finishes filling or else it'll fail. Thank you for the replies though! Most helpful!

[blackphoenixx]

Publicado originalmente por maurizio.g1982:

More tips:
- Mint Mace (possibly upgraded) should 3-hit larvae (killing one with each combo).

The mint mace is a little too slow and uses too much stamina to comfortably deal with ladybird larva imo.
A fresh stinger spear (or rusty spear if you have it) worked much better for me.

[Serpiko82]

Publicado originalmente por blackphoenixx:

Publicado originalmente por maurizio.g1982:

More tips:
- Mint Mace (possibly upgraded) should 3-hit larvae (killing one with each combo).

The mint mace is a little too slow and uses too much stamina to comfortably deal with ladybird larva imo.
A fresh stinger spear (or rusty spear if you have it) worked much better for me.

Yeah, spears deal more DPS with less stamina consumption, but I kept and upgraded my mint mace as my standard all-purpose fresh weapon, so I didn't really feel the need to make another fresh weapon.

I made my rust spear salty specifically to use it against termites.