So I just reached the bottom of the world. I've opened about 10 chests, and yet only my first contained a Seth portal piece :/. I know it's random, but I mean come on! I've got to have sunk at least 6 hours in at this point. I have full gold armour (which I believe is the strongest at the point I'm at) and I was planning on making my home world Seth, so I haven't done any building or anything yet. A little frustrated, but it's still a good game.
When I start an Adventure world, the first thing to do is build my home. That is always the first order of business for me. With the original game I had built a vertical ladder shaft, going all the way to the bottom. I liked that better. But on JJX I have dug steps instead. It saves precious iron nails.
Precious? I've dropped straight mineshafts to the bottom of the world on four different planets and I'm sitting on over a max stack of nails just from crates. Nothing precious about them in my experience. Never mind that I could probably make another couple of thousand from the amount of useless bronze I could make.
I did not notice when but recipes no longer appear. The only reason I'm worried is because I have some stuff that I have no idea what to do with like magical dust and bandages. Also does anyone know what is stronger than what like gold is stronger than silver is stronger than copper is stronger than iron and so on but what is stronger than gold. And where do the serpent and worm swords fit in.
There are three more tiers of armour/weapons after gold, though I don't remember what they're called. I don't THINK you can find them in the terra though, so full gold armour is the best armour for the terra to my knowledge. Pages ar inconsistent; sometimes I gind five in five minutes then none in an hour. I'm not far enough to know what those other swords are.
So finally made it to Alba and got a decent spread set up. The house I built has an outdoor area for farms between two interiors. I was hastily trying to finish the outer interior (relative to portal and safety). Night fell. Baddies spawned. Took a death. No probs respawn is close. Baddies are still there. Screw these guys, I'm going to use the portal to reset the badsters. See ya full building inventory. Five star game all the way. Someone mentioned bronze only having the use of being nails and then turning the nails into iron ingots. That's the real deal right there, when you vaporize your stacks of iron ingots and bars.
What I do is start digging a vertical shaft with diagonal leap spaces and then put a bucket of water in the middle of the vertical shaft, so you won't die if you fall AND You can quickly wall jump. And then I explore and branch out along the way
Anyone up for some trading? I'm looking for either a four leaf clover or 2 diamonds. I can trade a couple of cut gems for exchange of either.
First thing I do is bust out a simple shelter: bed for spawning, portal back to the previous planet if part of an Adventure set, and room left over for portal to next planet if part of Adventure set, otherwise it's just a simple shack with 2 doors and a bed with some room left over for a trap door to a mining shaft if needed. Any of my real homes / creations are on stand alone worlds made specifically to primarily build upon as opposed to exploit like an Exxon Mobile exec, and I just pop back to the world that is serving as my main base of operations to drop off mined and gathered goods as needed, as well to craft more tools before returning to wherever I'm mining/gathering. Then it depends what I created that world for. If I created a stand alone to get at stuff on the surface or in the soft earth (e.g. usually wood and coal), probably just start running around the world more or less literally strip mining it top down. If it's an Adventure class or a world, or one I want to thoroughly explore, I commence dropping a mine shaft to the bottom of the world with a trap door at every floor as shown in the images I attached to this post My method is not exactly quick, but it is thorough and the flip side to it is, because it's so thorough, you're not worried about "wasting" so many ladders or torches: you find far more stuff than you need. This game has a LOT of crates in the back layer covered by a normal front layer block, so people relying on the more fast paced methods that target things they can see are missing a lot of free nails, ladders, torches, coal, sprouts, and even rares. I couldn't possibly find any sensible use for all the nails I have by now and by switching back and forth between nearer surface and deep world mining, you keep more than enough coal and ores for torches and tools.
I usually build a home of some sort first. I want someplace to put my bed, craft stations, treasure chests, and portals. But on my for-realsies-base adventure world, I find the highest level of "unbreakable background" and flatten the world down to that point first, then build a home. I've got an underground Limestone Brick palace in Terra, with a Glass greenhouse on the ground level. I really need to stop being lazy and upload an image of it. I went and laid down dirt in a color gradient across the entire world, it looks really nice. I've also got a (very basic) Dark Brick pyramid in Seth. Not entirely sure what I'll do on Seth yet, but I'm thinking more surface buildings. I usually have a waterfall/mine shaft that starts right under my home and goes straight down to the bedrock. I might explore the underground in a haphazard way, but I like to keep that waterfall as a point of orientation -- if I'm ever "lost", I can just dig in one direction or the other and find it.
Really enjoying this now and I've taken to using the method c.hannum showed above. Its slow but is cool. The only thing that annoys me now, I wished the game paused when you are looking at your inventory or crafting something. I keep getting killed when I'm trying to do other things and cant switch back to my sword quickly enough.
Uncheck "Continuous Time" in the options and things will freeze when you go to inventory or craft book. There is a bug if you switch from craftbook to inventory back to craftbook that it starts up again (or from inventory to craftbook to inventory), but just don't do that in tight situations
Last night I decided to try looking for a 4 leaf clover, found one within 5-10 minutes but haven't noticed much difference/payoff since equipping it. I'm on the last planet now so I guess I'm just digging to find cool stuff.
Well I'd heard that you find them in the grass, but it didn't hit me until last night that the grass being discussed is that plant that grows on the ground, above the ground blocks, on Terra planet. So you just run along the surface of Terra and cut down the grass plants, and I found it by doing that. I had a diamond ring equipped, not sure if that increased my chances.
I'm finding the mob spawns are getting ridiculous. I've dug a decent way down but now I'm spending 90% of my time either fighting or doing a corpse run back to collect my dropped things. Right now theres 4 knights or whatever they are called, 2 with gold swords and armour and two with bows and theres a miner zombie. It's really getting silly and starting to spoil my fun a bit.
