Dwarf Scroll 1

[Miretar]

I have been trying to find this scroll for 2 years with no success. Does anyone have a tip on the best place to find it?

 

[BlaDe]

Killing monsters from floors 1-39 in the mines has a 0.5% chance per monster.

Tilling anywhere in the mines has a ~0.16% chance per spot tilled.

You can till a lot faster than you can kill. I recommend tilling all spots on 15/55/95, then using the elevator to reset the floors.

 

[LRangerR]

@BlaDe would the burglar's ring help?

 

[Zen_the_Ogre]

Yes it rerolls the chances for second chances

 

[Salty1]

Killing monsters from floors 1-39 in the mines has a 0.5% chance per monster.

Tilling anywhere in the mines has a ~0.16% chance per spot tilled.

You can till a lot faster than you can kill. I recommend tilling all spots on 15/55/95, then using the elevator to reset the floors.

Will vouch for tilling. I got to the middle of year 2 without dwarf scroll 1 and it ended up being one of the last artifacts I found - got it by coming back to 15 repeatedly and using the iridium hoe charge up to mass clear the area for a few minutes. This is a good post to tag for remembering 55 and 95 as well though!

 

[Worblehat]

Does anyone have a tip on the best place to find it?

For what it's worth, you've already implemented my strategy for finding the last Dwarf Scroll: grumble about it on the forum, and it dropped a day or two later.

Related point: a great way to get the last Secret Note is to go to the trouble of planting a big field of pumpkins (or melon or cauliflower, depending on season), aiming to engineer a giant crop for the 100% Secret Note drop chance. The game will then mock you by dropping the Secret Note on the next thing you do...

 

[BlaDe]

@BlaDe would the burglar's ring help?

Yes, Zen is correct.

 

[Miretar]

For what it's worth, you've already implemented my strategy for finding the last Dwarf Scroll: grumble about it on the forum, and it dropped a day or two later.

I was tilling on level 15 and an attacking monster dropped the scroll. It seems that the fates do have a sense of humor.

 

[Anhaga]

I was tilling on level 15 and an attacking monster dropped the scroll. It seems that the fates do have a sense of humor.

Fate really does mock us with these things. I've had saves where it took multiple years to get a single Dwarf Scroll III and others where I had 4+ drop before the end of Year 1. I've never had that much trouble getting the other 3 Dwarf Scrolls, since I, II, and IV can all drop from monsters or from tilling (III only drops from monsters), but I'm not surprised that they do cause that much trouble as well.