Actionhanz replied to I think the game really sucks after getting the pickaxe October 21, 2022 @ 5:54:04 am PDT
While it is true, that the copper "era" is the most annoying, believe me when i say it will get even more awesome after you get through this and reach iron and silver. Just get through copper as soon as possible. Here are some tips:
- your first run is only you with the boss-pickaxe an no tech whatsoever and almost certainly no weight-buff from the vendor item, cart and ship needs bronze nails, so just go light and retrieve an inventory full of copper. Throw everything else away like stone.
- second run is to get as many tin-ore as you need for the copper you found. its 2copper and 1 tin for 1 bronze.
- you only need 5 cores to start bronze crafting. get 5 cores, build a coal-thingy, make as much coal as you need. destroy the coal-thingy and place a smelter instead. smelt your copper and tin and make bronze. build all the necessary stuff from it that you REALLY need for now, which is a cart and the first ship which has 4 inventory slots on it. Also workbench upgrades and metalcasting bench with upgrades. dont make armor and weapons yet, also no tools.
- make a small base inside or close to the black forest with at least 3 copper veins in close area and place a portal so you can travel easily between them. Thats your "bronze-base". Btw you can destroy your ship at your homebase, it will drop 100% of its materials, go through the portal and rebuild it there, same with the cart.
- then just make enough tech-structures to smelt both copper and tin ore and what you need to create bronze-bars. Then just make the bars there and either run them home with your cart, or sail with the ship, you can transport only 120 bronze bars sadly but thats enough for half of what you need for a long time.
___ it really depends on the location, cart is better if you are close to your homebase, ship is better when the cart would have to go through to many obstacles obvs.____
And thats it. After you have enough either expand your "bronze-base" to be your main base for smithing, all depends on the location, or just keep building up your homebase and make a "copper-run" from time to time. It really depends how the landscape is set up in your world.
If your starting area is reeeeeally close to a black forest and there are 3 veins on the edge of the biome border, you can even do everything on foot.
But if not just remember that its way faster in the long run to combine the both heavy copper-ore and tin-ore at the location and ship or drag those bronze bars home instead of doing multiple runs and trying to do everything at your home location.
- your first run is only you with the boss-pickaxe an no tech whatsoever and almost certainly no weight-buff from the vendor item, cart and ship needs bronze nails, so just go light and retrieve an inventory full of copper. Throw everything else away like stone.
- second run is to get as many tin-ore as you need for the copper you found. its 2copper and 1 tin for 1 bronze.
- you only need 5 cores to start bronze crafting. get 5 cores, build a coal-thingy, make as much coal as you need. destroy the coal-thingy and place a smelter instead. smelt your copper and tin and make bronze. build all the necessary stuff from it that you REALLY need for now, which is a cart and the first ship which has 4 inventory slots on it. Also workbench upgrades and metalcasting bench with upgrades. dont make armor and weapons yet, also no tools.
- make a small base inside or close to the black forest with at least 3 copper veins in close area and place a portal so you can travel easily between them. Thats your "bronze-base". Btw you can destroy your ship at your homebase, it will drop 100% of its materials, go through the portal and rebuild it there, same with the cart.
- then just make enough tech-structures to smelt both copper and tin ore and what you need to create bronze-bars. Then just make the bars there and either run them home with your cart, or sail with the ship, you can transport only 120 bronze bars sadly but thats enough for half of what you need for a long time.
___ it really depends on the location, cart is better if you are close to your homebase, ship is better when the cart would have to go through to many obstacles obvs.____
And thats it. After you have enough either expand your "bronze-base" to be your main base for smithing, all depends on the location, or just keep building up your homebase and make a "copper-run" from time to time. It really depends how the landscape is set up in your world.
If your starting area is reeeeeally close to a black forest and there are 3 veins on the edge of the biome border, you can even do everything on foot.
But if not just remember that its way faster in the long run to combine the both heavy copper-ore and tin-ore at the location and ship or drag those bronze bars home instead of doing multiple runs and trying to do everything at your home location.
2:13 pm, October 21, 2022