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Mining
- Mining is important but remember you don’t have to mine everything you see whenever you see it. Try not to be greedy. Take what you need. You can always go back for more. You have limited inventory space so don’t waste it on stuff you don’t need.
- Mining deals with 3 types of resource. Rock(stone, granite, etc), ore(like iron and copper but this can also include coal), gems(of which there are many). Rock is probably 75% of an ore vein. Ore is 20% and gems are 5%. Don’t feel like you have to mine everything. If you need ore - focus on the ore. If you need rocks, focus on the rock. Trying to do everything will fill your bags up super fast.
- It’s easier to mine down, than it is up. So when you find an ore vein you want to excavate, try and get on top of it. It might require a little bit of climbing and quick platform work. But you’ll be able to do a more thorough sweep of the ore vein mining downward rather than up.
Adventuring Basics: Camping
- Always carry basic materials in your pack so you can build a camp hearth.10 wood scraps. 6 stone. 6 coal.
- Always carry 5 iron bars and Lots of metal scraps. You can then build a repair station in your camp. Being able to drop a camp hearth wherever you are so you can repair your armour and weapons while away from base is game changing.
- Until you can create food to take with you. Making a camp hearth and camp table, then cooking some meat or mushrooms is the best way to regenerate your health while adventuring. So carry some meat in your pack.
- Remember to deconstruct the camp when you’re finished to reclaim your materials.
Cold and Tired Basics
- You’ll see ‘cold’ pop up as a status effect on your screen. Being cold, or bone cold, increases your stamina cost for actions and means you get tired and exhausted faster. This can leave you vulnerable to attack when you don’t have the strength to defend yourself (when say the noise of you mining triggers a horde, or patrolling enemies see your light or hear your singing). Try putting a camp hearth next to yourself to keep warm while you mine. It will stop you getting cold and you’ll keep your strength up longer. Remember to deconstruct the hearth for your materials back before you move on.
- Being tired and exhausted comes to us all. A tired dwarf doesn’t have as much stamina, and an exhausted dwarf can’t regenerate stamina . But a couple of things will clear the debuff. Sleep is the easiest thing to do! In your base or at a camp site. Eating lamas bread cooked in an oven, or singing at a statue or while drinking some ale will also shake off fatigue.
Food
Build an oven at your base as soon as you can. Ovens cook food that can be eaten while adventuring, to restore health without a heath and meal table. Make sure you carry plenty of oven cooked food when exploring, to heal yourself back
Ale
Ale is just as important as food. Make brew kettles to brew it, and flasks to carry it with you away from base. Drink evening ale before bed to get an extra buff waking up! Different ales in flasks give different buffs. So try them all!