Explosives will remove the stone slabs, I had one I needed gone and I believe it took a medium bomb to do so.
I'll simplify my encrusting question, can someone tell me if the recipes in my book for Gold Diamond Ring or Gold Ruby Ring and so on (requires 4 cut gems each) will give me the same benefits/buffs you would get by encrusting those jewels onto armor? Thanks.
I don't see why not. I'd assume the effect is the same, since you equip the rings like armor, and not like a weapon or tool. I've found some of those recipes too, just haven't gotten around to making one of them.
The reason I'm unsure is because you don't perform an encrusting process to create these, and also cause it appears to take 4x as many cut gems to make these rings than to encrust. It'd use up all 12 of my diamonds to make one, so I was hoping to find out from someone else vs trying it myself. Oh yeah I had another question... Is there ever a reason NOT to convert your copper/iron/silver/gold etc lumps into ingots? The only recipes I've seen so far that required lumps was to make ingots, or to create a bronze alloy which is apparently only used to make nails.
Pretty sure lumps are only used for ingots as well. Seems worth mentioning that if you make the bronze alloy into an ingot, you can turn that into nails. Then take those nails, and you can make an iron ingot out of them. I guess that exists for people running short on iron, or who have an abundance of copper and tin.
Craft notes can spawn anywhere, and do frequently. The only difference between stand alone and adventure is portal piece spawning and portal functioning.
I found a monkey statue and an NES controller. I'm on the 3rd planet and found no portal pieces for the 4th yet. I tried to adopt a very systematic and methodical mining approach but it started to feel like work more than exploration, so now I'm trying to mix up the two strategies.
I can see that. I like the methodical approach because there's no room for error - if it's there, I will find it. Probably the chief reason I prefer it over a more freeform approach is that it's rote and automatic for me after so long doing it. I can mine my butt off while losing no focus on an audiobook or podcast.
I actually had the same experience. On Terra I went around randomly in any direction just cave hopping and exploring and it was a lot of fun. On Seth I tried to uniformly mine by digging a hole straight down with a waterfall and then mining horizontally at regular intervals from there and I got bored with the game real quick and haven't been playing much now. I will probably switch back to my old wild technique just because I find it is more exciting.
I'm looking for the portals. Am I supposed to find them or construct them? I've build almost everything and I am quickly losing interest. A little direction without spoilers would be appreciated.
The portal pieces are randomly distributed in the underdark (there are a random number per adventure class world with a minimum of 3). You assemble the finished portal in a triangle pattern using 3 portal pieces as described in your craft book. At any rate, where they are is totally random. As for building almost everything, unless you've built a 2D pixel representation of Godzilla trashing Tokyo along with a reproduction Ewok village and a Christmas village, I'm going to say, "nope, not even close"
I haven't built jack, my house is a hole in the ground with some blocks above it to keep the llamas out. I'm afraid I won't be able to come up with anything cool to build, for now I'm only focusing on mining and finding whatever I can, and unlocking all the planets. I guess that's one cool thing about this game, you can play it however you want.
Yes, the benefit type is the same for the crafted gold rings in the craftbook and encrusted armor with the same gem: amethyst boosts attack & defense diamond boosts drop rate emerald grants immunity to acid ruby grants immunity to lava sapphire glows in the dark topaz grants ability to breath underwater There might be differences in the boost strength between rings vs. encrusted armor for amethyst, diamonds, and sapphires, as well as the possibility of stacking, but I haven't experimented with that yet nor seen anything more or less definitive from others.
Yes, no, and maybe If you've updated to 2.01, the map does show a red marker where you died last, however, once you exit the game, all temporary items are de-spawned, so hopefully you just paused it to ask this question.
I'm going to craft the diamond ring. I didn't want my boosted effect tied to any clothing so I feel more free to change costumes whenever I want. Thanks man, you're my Junk Jack sensei.
Still haven't found any portals. I feel like I've explored a lot but I guess in reality it wasn't very organized and is probably only about 35% explored. Where are they found again? In chests? Will it by identified as a portal piece? Lastly if / when I find all three I read you place them in a triangle is this using the craft function or just in the game. Sorry do dumb questions but total newbie here!
The portal piece appears as a black chest, easily smashed by a basic hammer. You place the portal pieces in the game, not in the craft box.
No black chests here. About 25 hours into the game and nothing. I've dug to a point where I need a gold pick axe, many shafts. I'm assuming they are in a clearing (civilized-type region). One note, I started adventure on the original build. Maybe I should start again with the new build. It's just starting to feel like work instead of fun.
