Little-Known Pro-Tips Thread - Now up to 113 Tips!

[The_Lich_King]

If you start the world late and need high quality stone for a stone axe, don't look for it by traditional means, instead go fishing. Ever since the global trash pool included decayed items left on the surface as well, like 90% of things i fish up are stone that people just left on the ground in mines. You should be able to boost your quality at the start quite significantly by fishing.

[vatas]

1. Have empty through
2. Put 1 fodder into it
3. Grab the fodder into bucket

You now have bucket that you can hold in your hand and dump all the unwanted herbs into to create fodder while foraging.

[Zebukin]

You can spin around in your chair with the rowdy emote

not anymore. Fixed probably

[BuildusMaximus]

When mining, safe squares are more important than danger squares. You're making a mistake if you mark a dust spot and say "don't mine anything near this." You've undone all the SAFE information you've gathered. Come up with a system of either tiling safe squares and stockpiling dangerous squares or vice versa and think in terms of immunity instead of danger.

tag: mining safety

[vatas]

Your presentation has lot of room to improve but I think your point is correct.

[mvgulik]

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[MagicManICT]

When mining, safe squares are more important than danger squares. You're making a mistake if you mark a dust spot and say "don't mine anything near this." You've undone all the SAFE information you've gathered. Come up with a system of either tiling safe squares and stockpiling dangerous squares or vice versa and think in terms of immunity instead of danger.

Develop a code of tiling using nearby rocks. Fun fact: stockpiles decay and can easily be messed with by passersby. Even another miner in your village can come along and screw up the stockpile without thinking about it. On the other hand, tiling in caves is effectively permanent. Either way, people can get it wrong when marking a space, and it should never be assumed any method is 100% correct. As long as everyone in a village is on the same page for methods is what's important. (it's not like we're arguing tabs or spaces here....)

[Archiplex]

When mining, safe squares are more important than danger squares. You're making a mistake if you mark a dust spot and say "don't mine anything near this." You've undone all the SAFE information you've gathered. Come up with a system of either tiling safe squares and stockpiling dangerous squares or vice versa and think in terms of immunity instead of danger.

tag: mining safety

This is how minesweeper works btw, or at least, how you should be playing minesweeper. Dust serves as a way of locating collapse tiles, no dust means you can mine a 3x3 centered on the tile.

[BuildusMaximus]

Not mentioning anything about the meaning of the amount of fallen dust makes it a true inadequate presentation.
(It kinda suggest the writer is not aware of the meaning of the fallen dust amount.)

You're right, a more complete version would also layer in the dust count mechanic. I was just focused on that everyone I see marks bad squares and then don't do any adjacent to that, which undoes the good square info they have.

[mvgulik]

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