Originally posted by electricdawn:

I NEVER saw an exposed silver vein in all of my mountain explorations, and without the wishbone you would need to hammer an entire mountain with a stagbreaker to "maybe" find a silver node.

I mean, either you weren't looking closely or I find this VERY hard to believe. I find 2-3 per mountain pretty often, though finding just one is common. They're always around the most hilly sections, being exposed due to the natural sloping of the land. You won't see much of it, but they're there.

Originally posted by electricdawn:

You don't want to do this. Beating Bonemass is a piece of cake in comparison to trying to find silver on a mountain with wolves and drakes at your tail and no idea where to start.

I mean, as long as you're equipped to fight Bonemass, there's no reason Mountains mobs should be any higher threat to you. Its not like Bonemass drops anything that helps you fight them.

Originally posted by electricdawn:

The wishbone makes it so much easier to find silver, trust me. Why make it unnecessary hard on you when you don't need to?

Not really anything harder about it. The only difference is that you're just wandering in the mountains instead of hunting for the specific spot to dig. I wander into swamps before fighting The Elder for drops you can get there that can help. I enter Plains before fighting Moder because there's things out there that can help fight her, I even enter Black forest before Eikthyr because why not.

Do you have to enter the next biome before fighting the boss of the previous? Not really. Thought there's not really any reason not to either.

Originally posted by electricdawn:

Edit: My equip that I used to beat Bonemass in under eight minutes:
Lvl 3 iron chest
Lvl 3 iron greaves
Lvl 3 iron banded shield
Lvl 3 iron mace
Lvl 3 root mask

You also need a poison resist potion and of course sausages, blood soup and either muckshake or turnip stew for stamina.

With that, Bonemass is really easy since you can block all its attacks, except poison, and you have the mask and the potion to deal with that.

That's all fine. Though I'll note that in my recent run my first time fighting bonemass allowed me to beat him in less time, ignoring the need to block even and could immediately fight him a second time for a wall trophy without healing or anything. Would run Serpent Stew and Serpent meat because why not and some other stamina food, and have the Frostner hammer already ready to go, dealing higher damage with multiple vulnerabilities and higher base damage. Literally it was just walk up to him and spam the power attack until dead. No dodging, no blocking, just hit after hit. Easy Peasy.

The only hard part about the way I do it is that you take a bit longer to find silver and you find less of it per biome. However, this allows you to explore more to find more caves and such as well as having an established portal network and temporary base setup for more in-depth mining once you do have the trinket for finding the underground nodes. The exposed ones really aren't hard to find though. There's usually one on just about every mountain peak.


I mean, you have your way, I have mine. Neither is more right or wrong than the other. I just don't have any sort of rush to progress when I play. I'd rather it be slower progression with more exploration and far more preparation that borders on the unnecessary.