where is the best way to get prismatic shards and radioactive ore?
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HaleyRocks
Farmer
Radioactive Ore? I farmed large quantities in my previous save. Just finish the 2 quests Mr.Qi gives, that enable Dangerous mines and Dangerous Skull Cavern. Post completion, visit both places and activate the altar, so as they become Dangerous permanently.
Radioactive Ore is best farmed with:
1) Very Lucky Day
2) The deeper the floors, the bigger the chances to find nodes
3) Food/drink buffs help but at a minor fraction
4) Make sure to pick the Blacksmithing profession (cannot remember the lvl 5 one), which makes you find more ore and sell bars more expensively. If the Statue from Farming mastery also gives you randomly the buff for extra ore all day long, all the better for you, really!
Prismatic shards was a pain for me, always. Forgetting all about them and going Skull Caverns, or seeking Mystic Nodes in the quarry and pretty much any dungeon, usually works.
Bawby
Farmer
Those sound like really good days to me.
Lew Zealand
Helper
imnvs gave away the easy method but if you want more Prizzy Shards a bit earlier in the game:
Skull Cavern
High Luck Day
Luck Buffs (Lucky Ring, Lucky Lunch or Pumpkin Soup or Magic Rock Candy if you got it)
Bombs
Stairs
your favorite load-out
Stairs down to about Level 100
Bomb ore dense areas
Stairs down when bombing done
Stairs down if the level is too infested. Do not waste time with monsters, if there are too many then skip the level for a better one.
I do not mix/max this, just play it for fun and to my advantages and get 3-4 Prizzy Shards in each run. Record is 7. Low is 3.
Skull Cavern
High Luck Day
Luck Buffs (Lucky Ring, Lucky Lunch or Pumpkin Soup or Magic Rock Candy if you got it)
Bombs
Stairs
your favorite load-out
Stairs down to about Level 100
Bomb ore dense areas
Stairs down when bombing done
Stairs down if the level is too infested. Do not waste time with monsters, if there are too many then skip the level for a better one.
I do not mix/max this, just play it for fun and to my advantages and get 3-4 Prizzy Shards in each run. Record is 7. Low is 3.
Albino Chipmunk
Tiller
For radioactive ore, you would want to have dangerous mines active. Reset floor 1 over and over again and do this on a day with both high daily luck (purple star) and luck level (magic rock candy best food. Qi ginger ale is alright but I prefer triple shot espresso)
A pickaxe with swift is nice for breaking the nodes but a slingshot filled with explosive ammo is better. You can also place down a staircase and use explosive ammo on it as EA explodes on contact with stairs. For rings double iridium band + glowstone is the best as magnetism helps collect ore further away from you
As for prismatic shards, I recommend the skull caverns and going deep down there as iridium nodes have a 3.5% chance of dropping them and those nodes get more common as you delve deep. I recommend getting a lot of bombs, slingshot with explosive ammo, non buff food (cheese, salads), buff food and drinks that increase speed and/or luck (Spicy eel + triple shot espresso being a good combo). Staircases help alot and setting up jade crystalariums help. Also do this on a day with high daily luck since they help with ladder pacing and ore nodes are more likely to cluster. For rings, I'd do double iridium band and lucky)
What I've written here should be simple. I could add in more details if you want, and for those they may require more strategy
A pickaxe with swift is nice for breaking the nodes but a slingshot filled with explosive ammo is better. You can also place down a staircase and use explosive ammo on it as EA explodes on contact with stairs. For rings double iridium band + glowstone is the best as magnetism helps collect ore further away from you
As for prismatic shards, I recommend the skull caverns and going deep down there as iridium nodes have a 3.5% chance of dropping them and those nodes get more common as you delve deep. I recommend getting a lot of bombs, slingshot with explosive ammo, non buff food (cheese, salads), buff food and drinks that increase speed and/or luck (Spicy eel + triple shot espresso being a good combo). Staircases help alot and setting up jade crystalariums help. Also do this on a day with high daily luck since they help with ladder pacing and ore nodes are more likely to cluster. For rings, I'd do double iridium band and lucky)
What I've written here should be simple. I could add in more details if you want, and for those they may require more strategy
Akuriko
Sodbuster
Thanks so 75 or deeper for skull cavverns and I have the mines already on dangerous I just turned it on for the radioactive ore, it seems its going to take me forever to get it for the recipes to craft stuff and to buy the things from the island trader, I been thinking to just go through qui for the 3 items to make my weapons stronger.
MogBeoulve
Local Legend
If you ultimately want the galaxy souls to forge infinity weapons, they are also a rare monster drop. I usually get enough that I don't have to buy or trade for them.
Akuriko
Sodbuster
I do have a question on radioactive ore, so if I reset the mines again to floor 1 and work to 120 with ladders as long as the quest is active the ore will already spawn a lot? or does it not work like that like the legend 2 fish quests, or do I need to have the quest active to spawn more radioactive ore? as for prismatic shards I need either to spend days and days in level 100 plus of the skull mine or need to get perfection maxed out to get 1 daily? I'm at like 50% on perfection, I'm prepping to get all the cooking done right now leaving me just a few things like the 8 elusive relics I think for the museum.
i should check on the perfection level I do know I need the clock, the hero title, ship all items etc I have been working hard at it and now I'm in year 8.
i should check on the perfection level I do know I need the clock, the hero title, ship all items etc I have been working hard at it and now I'm in year 8.
MogBeoulve
Local Legend
Radioactive ore can spawn anywhere as long as dangerous mines are active, which you can toggle on/off after the first time you complete the quest. Most people reset certain floors over and over, but I am way too ADHD for that.
imnvs
Local Legend
Not a fan of this method. You have such a low chance for radioactive nodes on level 1. You'll be resetting that level a LOT. When I'm to the point where I'm hunting radioactive ore I'll have multiple crystallariums (I've been known to do a full shed) pumping out jade and trading them for staircases in the desert. I've often had multiple stacks of staircases in storage, and by that I mean more than two. Then when I want to dive the mine it's easy to grab a stack and just spam them down to level 100. It doesn't take that long and then I'll be getting a LOT more radioactive ore in just a few floors than you could get from resetting level 1 all day.
This, however, I agree with. I always bring my slingshot loaded with explosive ammo for mine runs. I just start firing at every monster/wall near a node as quick as I can, gather up the ore still lying around while defending myself, probably have already found a staircase, take it down... and repeat.
See, I like what Albino Chipmunk was talking about with the sling and explosive ammo. Monsters make it easier to get such explosives off, though not likely to kill the monsters. Just start firing at anything that moves as you appear on a new floor and gathering up ore as it appears, and then you're likely to find a staircase.
Akuriko
Sodbuster
im still trying to learn to use a master slingshot with explosive ammo, I use a controller so its kinda difficult to get the aim just right nowever as a side note I started a new save to play around and I heard if you put your name as a code for 74 every time someone calls your name a presmatic shard comes out so I tried it and it works, lol
Mystical Dawn
Greenhorn
Hello
What floors are the best to get the radioactive ore I have switched between the danger mines and still haven't gotten any which right now it is switched I haven't changed it for like 3 days in game
HaleyRocks
Farmer
At or over lvl 100 in the mines, during very lucky days, works well usually. ~3 nodes at the floor that has a chance to spawn them! Warning, though: Multiples of number 5 numbered floors, do not yield a chance for any ore to appear.
On the plus side, you can quit, reenter and use the elevator down, all at your convenience, as well as pacing. Remember to bring lots of stairs with you, the occasional food/drink luck buffs and you will do okay.
If the total "catch" wasn't good enough, you can try resetting your game (but you will never need to do that, really)!
Mystical Dawn
Greenhorn
Is that with the mine at Calico Island or the Regular mine?
HaleyRocks
Farmer
The mines with elevator. The very first mines you go to, in the mainland. But post finishing the Qi quest and enabling the altar, to turn them into "Dangerous". Radioactive Nodes can be found, only in Dangerous mines, or Dangerous Skull Caverns (calico desert dungeons).
FilthyGorilla
Local Legend
If you're not encountering ore it's probably because you have bad daily luck. As it's highly luck dependent to spawn, with horrible daily luck it can be outright impossible to spawn until you start to get really deep.
Generally, the best way to farm the stuff is resetting something like the mines floor 0 or sc floor 0, but that can take an eternity, general runs through the skull cavern like you would a run for iridium is all around good (you don't really need a lot of the stuff in most cases either).
Another tidbit I'll add in general for anyone going through this thread. Another way to get better radioactive ore spawns is to 'double activate' dangerous skull cavern/mines, which has a considerable impact on the ore rates, almost to the same degree as max daily luck (and of course stacking with it)
Here's a video on how to actually do it and a little deeper explanation into the effects double stacking has, it's long but only the first couple minutes are important:
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Mystical Dawn
Greenhorn
Thank you