brown29knight replied to Random helpful tidbits November 11, 2022 @ 4:03:33 pm PST
Dig out below a silver vein. Not only will the steep sides keep wolves and golems from getting to you, and the silver itself will protect you from some drake fire, but if you can get the silver vein 100% exposed, so it is floating in air and not touching the ground anywhere, you can then jump on top and break the center, and the entire vein will explode all at once, giving you all the silver, with less wear on the pickax (usually)
Copper goes WAY deeper than the stuff you see on the surface. Arguable if the time to dig it out is worth it, but if you can't find many veins, or find a vein sticking out into grasslands, digging down may be a good option.
Bring a hoe to the swamps, and use it to keep yourself out of the leech-waters. Stagbreaker is also a perfect anti-leech weapon, able to hit them when they cannot hit you.
Break everything in frost caves... You'll get fine wood, Iron, Bronze, Entrails, Bone, and far more red jute and Fenris hair then if you leave the background furniture alone.
Easy wild beehive removal: Drop a workbench and deconstruct the building the beehive is on. Also works for hard to reach chests. Later, in the plains, this can be used to get massive amounts of materials, including iron, by deconstructing Fuling villages.
Lean-tos in the grasslands have 3 core wood pieces each. Deconstruction lets you use core wood before the black forest. Sunken longships are made of fine wood, use an axe (any type) to get it before you forge bronze.
When fighting Abominations: Stand in front of its right front foot (your left), and use an ax. Axes do extra damage, and in that position it will miss with it's left foot stomp, and not use it's body slam, leaving you to only have to parry the swipe, which is the weakest of its attacks. You can also lure them to the flames that are found in the swamp, and fight them there... they take huge burning damage, and die in seconds.
Those flames in the swamp summon suturlings. Suturlings die when they contact water, so use a pickaxe to submerge the land around the flame... they will spawn in and die right away, letting you jump in the water and loot the cores and coal.
Obliterators give coal for materials destroyed in them. Some of the best things to use to get lots of coal: Trophies, coins, and seeds,as well as anything you have too much of.
Copper goes WAY deeper than the stuff you see on the surface. Arguable if the time to dig it out is worth it, but if you can't find many veins, or find a vein sticking out into grasslands, digging down may be a good option.
Bring a hoe to the swamps, and use it to keep yourself out of the leech-waters. Stagbreaker is also a perfect anti-leech weapon, able to hit them when they cannot hit you.
Break everything in frost caves... You'll get fine wood, Iron, Bronze, Entrails, Bone, and far more red jute and Fenris hair then if you leave the background furniture alone.
Easy wild beehive removal: Drop a workbench and deconstruct the building the beehive is on. Also works for hard to reach chests. Later, in the plains, this can be used to get massive amounts of materials, including iron, by deconstructing Fuling villages.
Lean-tos in the grasslands have 3 core wood pieces each. Deconstruction lets you use core wood before the black forest. Sunken longships are made of fine wood, use an axe (any type) to get it before you forge bronze.
When fighting Abominations: Stand in front of its right front foot (your left), and use an ax. Axes do extra damage, and in that position it will miss with it's left foot stomp, and not use it's body slam, leaving you to only have to parry the swipe, which is the weakest of its attacks. You can also lure them to the flames that are found in the swamp, and fight them there... they take huge burning damage, and die in seconds.
Those flames in the swamp summon suturlings. Suturlings die when they contact water, so use a pickaxe to submerge the land around the flame... they will spawn in and die right away, letting you jump in the water and loot the cores and coal.
Obliterators give coal for materials destroyed in them. Some of the best things to use to get lots of coal: Trophies, coins, and seeds,as well as anything you have too much of.
12:13 am, November 12, 2022