Oakshield replied to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ did the mistlands blow my love for the game out of me February 12, 2023 @ 6:14:10 am PST
I can't say Mistlands is my favorite biome, but hating it..... no, not at all.
I guess part of my experience is bases upon my SP game; in which I was very lucky.
I found out the location of the queen was in fact at the coast; making it so much easier to set up a base there.
Next I found that at one side of the staircase leading to the sealed door was a wooden wall. After smashing it, I found several rooms under the staircase and the plateau leading to the sealed door; which in turn became my new "base".
After that I just explored the area; one bit at the time, trying to find the required amount of cores to build and upgrade the next level forges.
What I didn't do, was building an extensive base over there. All I had was a bed, a chest, a portal and a few wisplights. Every thing else; including preparing the food and breeding the chickens was done at my main base at a BF island.
However, despite that, I did learn a few things.
1) The mistlight sucks if you move too fast. And it certanly sucks to the Nth degree when you're in an infested mine. it's therefore better to equip the Dvergr Circlet and the Meginjord when you're heading in an infested mine for better light.
Bottom line: don't move too fast, but instead move a bit, wait for the light to catch up on you, then move forward again. And use the time you wait to look around you and to listen.
2) About each and every infested mine has a 1 or 2* seeker. I've usually found them at the bottoms of those watery pits. Advantage of that area, you have the slope going down, get into sneeking mode and shot them from the top. Both bow and Crossbow will do nicely.
3) In general you can haul a lot from the Mistlands, but if you're doing it smart you won't need that much at all. Concentrate at hare meat and skin, sap, jotun puffs, carapache, black marble and soft tissue first. The two latter can be found when mining out the remains of the Yotun, which are found all over the land.
If you want to harvest the metals - copper / iron - you wil need a coastal base. But considering we already got two biomes where you can find those and both requiring a ship as well, I personally won't bother much with it.
Instead, set up a small farm near your 'base' and use that to harvest Jotunpuffs. Also, don't plant your full amount, but only half of what you have. That way, *if* a seeker comes to destroy the plants, you got the option to replant and grow them anyway.
As for the sap extractor, don't destroy the chest, let the seekers do that for you. After that you can simply pick up everything that was in the chest as well as the chest materials in itself.
It's a much safer option as to fight the Dvergr, especially since there's no need to use their "soft tissue" anyway.
Thorin :)
I guess part of my experience is bases upon my SP game; in which I was very lucky.
I found out the location of the queen was in fact at the coast; making it so much easier to set up a base there.
Next I found that at one side of the staircase leading to the sealed door was a wooden wall. After smashing it, I found several rooms under the staircase and the plateau leading to the sealed door; which in turn became my new "base".
After that I just explored the area; one bit at the time, trying to find the required amount of cores to build and upgrade the next level forges.
What I didn't do, was building an extensive base over there. All I had was a bed, a chest, a portal and a few wisplights. Every thing else; including preparing the food and breeding the chickens was done at my main base at a BF island.
However, despite that, I did learn a few things.
1) The mistlight sucks if you move too fast. And it certanly sucks to the Nth degree when you're in an infested mine. it's therefore better to equip the Dvergr Circlet and the Meginjord when you're heading in an infested mine for better light.
Bottom line: don't move too fast, but instead move a bit, wait for the light to catch up on you, then move forward again. And use the time you wait to look around you and to listen.
2) About each and every infested mine has a 1 or 2* seeker. I've usually found them at the bottoms of those watery pits. Advantage of that area, you have the slope going down, get into sneeking mode and shot them from the top. Both bow and Crossbow will do nicely.
3) In general you can haul a lot from the Mistlands, but if you're doing it smart you won't need that much at all. Concentrate at hare meat and skin, sap, jotun puffs, carapache, black marble and soft tissue first. The two latter can be found when mining out the remains of the Yotun, which are found all over the land.
If you want to harvest the metals - copper / iron - you wil need a coastal base. But considering we already got two biomes where you can find those and both requiring a ship as well, I personally won't bother much with it.
Instead, set up a small farm near your 'base' and use that to harvest Jotunpuffs. Also, don't plant your full amount, but only half of what you have. That way, *if* a seeker comes to destroy the plants, you got the option to replant and grow them anyway.
As for the sap extractor, don't destroy the chest, let the seekers do that for you. After that you can simply pick up everything that was in the chest as well as the chest materials in itself.
It's a much safer option as to fight the Dvergr, especially since there's no need to use their "soft tissue" anyway.
Thorin :)
3:13 pm, February 12, 2023