Originally posted by Ptolemy:

Like I said in the other thread, fuling totems drop from fuling berserkers which are technically infinite in supply in a world until Yagluth is defeated, even though in practice the fuling attack event may come up rarely. They otherwise don't respawn.

Iron is fully renewable because oozers drop scrap metal, but I doubt anyone could be bothered farming oozers for iron when they could just start a new world and grab up all the iron there instead.

This game, like Terraria, is really not designed with long-term high-population persistent servers in mind. Since players can just go harvest nonrenewable resources from a new world, that is what you can expect them to do once things begin to dry up in their old world.

So once Yagluth is defeated, you cant farm them anymore, which really kills the idea of farming it in the first place. That still doesnt answer if totems respawn.

400+ hours and ive never once seen an oozer drop scrap metal

This isnt even long term, me and 4 others have had a server running for 2 weeks and we already went through 1000+ iron between building and equips. 30+ crypts raided.

Keep in mind the game still has 3 unfinished biomes on top of that for us to deal with later. Does it really sound like its going to last?

I can see this sounding unreasonable if you play solo but a server full of thirsty players snaps up metal faster than the average magnet. We arent even a full crew of 10