s710 Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 How to efficiently get black pearls? So far I have only farmed eurypterids with my mosa to get black pearls. But even on 5x harvest, I will only get between 1 and 9 pearls per eurypterid. This leaves me with like a hundred pearls in maybe 30-60 minutes, which seems very uneffective to me. So I wonder if there is a better way to do it? Will normal tusoteuthis drop black pearls? Can I kill tusoteuthis with a single mosa? I saw some videos about it, and it seems like tusoteuthis will eat alive any other create down in the seas. (my mosa is having 55k life and 700% dmg). How do you farm your black pearls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BertNoobians Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 kill alpha mosa, they give 100 pearls. tuso give around 33 pearls, they are no match for a mosa. to be sure kill them away form big rocks and sea floor to prevent getting glitched. (PVB mode, person vs bugs) alpha tuso i dont know how much they give, i use a platform so they glitch into me after there first grab and then its an easy kill. but beware of eels now. if you are unable to swim away from them, it may mean a certaun death to you and or mosa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrist14 Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Alpha squids give 75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobRoss Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 paint your silica pearls black. no seriously just go alpha hunting, swim around the island a couple of times and kill everything inluding eurypterid. you should get plenty, just be carefull with squids qs mentioned by BertNoobians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s710 Posted March 16, 2017 Author Share Posted March 16, 2017 Ok just to make sure, my mosa can kill squids, right? Up to what level? (max level on my server is 201). As mentioned my mosa is having 55k life and 700% dmg (also having mastercraft saddle). As I understand it, the squid will grab the mosa, and it will not be able to move anymore. Will it still damage the squid though? And must I dismount for it to damage the squid, or can/should I stay mounted? On the other hand, should I maybe get a high level squid myself for even better killing deep sea stuff, or should I stick to the mosa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobRoss Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 17 minutes ago, s710 said: Ok just to make sure, my mosa can kill squids, right? Up to what level? (max level on my server is 201). As mentioned my mosa is having 55k life and 700% dmg (also having mastercraft saddle). As I understand it, the squid will grab the mosa, and it will not be able to move anymore. Will it still damage the squid though? And must I dismount for it to damage the squid, or can/should I stay mounted? On the other hand, should I maybe get a high level squid myself for even better killing deep sea stuff, or should I stick to the mosa? i'd suggest you stick to the Mosa, but thats personal preference. and you can take on any lvl normal squid with that Mosa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrist14 Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 I kill squids of every level with my plesio. So as long as you don't get the glitch where you can't hit them, you're fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzamaniac Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 I don't know if it's been fixed but whenever I fought a tuso with my mosa, it would let go halfway through the fight and try to flee. When that happens, it's head morphs into the mosa: While I can bite it, it can no longer move or grab me because Im behind its tentacle hitbox. Happened to every single tuso I fought with a mosa, even an alpha which was kicking my butt. Also in caverns of lost hope, you can bring a basilo and kill the tusos effortlessly. Some in there I've seen dropped like 66 black pearls, non alpha. Might want to bring a buddy on another whale just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaelnayyan Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 2 hours ago, Wazzamaniac said: I don't know if it's been fixed but whenever I fought a tuso with my mosa, it would let go halfway through the fight and try to flee. When that happens, it's head morphs into the mosa: While I can bite it, it can no longer move or grab me because Im behind its tentacle hitbox. Happened to every single tuso I fought with a mosa, even an alpha which was kicking my butt. Also in caverns of lost hope, you can bring a basilo and kill the tusos effortlessly. Some in there I've seen dropped like 66 black pearls, non alpha. Might want to bring a buddy on another whale just in case. I found a wild Wazz on the forums! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzamaniac Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 14 minutes ago, Kaelnayyan said: I found a wild Wazz on the forums! awww shieeet!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s710 Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 I just fought an alpha squid yesterday, and to my surpise it went really well. It was level 112 (90k hp), but it didnt even bring my mosa down to half of its life. It was a bit annoying to chase it when it began to run away, because of the ink clouds, but well. After killing it, the mosa did not pick up any loot, and no corpse/lootbag was left. This was a bit disappointing. However I spawned in another alpha squid of the same level, and killed it (via kill command), which left around 35 black pearls, 100 (!) tentacles and some other minor stuff. I am disappointed about the low amount of pearls, but the tentacles are great, as they are needed for the bosses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSmollet Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 i just go in underwater caves always come out with 100+ pearls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrist14 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 4 hours ago, CaptainSmollet said: i just go in underwater caves always come out with 100+ pearls BLACK pearls was the question lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAmE Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 On 3/16/2017 at 6:38 AM, Wazzamaniac said: I don't know if it's been fixed but whenever I fought a tuso with my mosa, it would let go halfway through the fight and try to flee. When that happens, it's head morphs into the mosa: While I can bite it, it can no longer move or grab me because Im behind its tentacle hitbox. Happened to every single tuso I fought with a mosa, even an alpha which was kicking my butt. Also in caverns of lost hope, you can bring a basilo and kill the tusos effortlessly. Some in there I've seen dropped like 66 black pearls, non alpha. Might want to bring a buddy on another whale just in case. Mosas with Platform Saddles can consistently glitch inside alpha squids if you move toward the squid while attacking if they grab you. 6 hours ago, s710 said: I just fought an alpha squid yesterday, and to my surpise it went really well. It was level 112 (90k hp), but it didnt even bring my mosa down to half of its life. It was a bit annoying to chase it when it began to run away, because of the ink clouds, but well. After killing it, the mosa did not pick up any loot, and no corpse/lootbag was left. This was a bit disappointing. However I spawned in another alpha squid of the same level, and killed it (via kill command), which left around 35 black pearls, 100 (!) tentacles and some other minor stuff. I am disappointed about the low amount of pearls, but the tentacles are great, as they are needed for the bosses You need to either be very careful about killing the Alpha and eating its corpse, or eat its body near the ocean floor for the bag to spawn. You won't auto loot if your inv is over half full. Best way to gather black pearls, efficiently, is killing squids of alpha, or non-alpha, variety. Alpha Mosas give the most pearls in a single kill, but the decent to high level ones can severely hurt your mosa, if not outright kill it (Depending of course). Really depends on how many pearls you want/need. If you only need a couple hundred, quickest bet is to kill everything Alpha, and all the squids. If you need a couple thousand, I would stick to squid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s710 Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 So the alpha squid black pearl amount is roughly the same as normal squid? Thats kind of disappointing. Okay, the absorbent substrate is really nice (i think it dropped 100?), but when only out for pearls then normal squids should probably be the better choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzamaniac Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Also basilosaurus is now extremely useful for black pearl gathering. With 3 high level ones, we were able to kill a 150 alpha mosa pretty quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaelnayyan Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 2 minutes ago, Wazzamaniac said: Also basilosaurus is now extremely useful for black pearl gathering. With 3 high level ones, we were able to kill a 150 alpha mosa pretty quickly Show off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrist14 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 1 hour ago, s710 said: So the alpha squid black pearl amount is roughly the same as normal squid? Thats kind of disappointing. Okay, the absorbent substrate is really nice (i think it dropped 100?), but when only out for pearls then normal squids should probably be the better choice. Alpha squid gives roughly 2-3 times as many as a normal squid. Normal squid is roughly 21-30, usually around 26 for me. Alpha tuso is 75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazzamaniac Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 40 minutes ago, Kaelnayyan said: Show off I'm just showing an example, you can easily kill a lower level with a single whale Thus gettin them pearls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sardonyx Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I almost forgot how pearls used to be in short supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSmollet Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 8 hours ago, Harrist14 said: BLACK pearls was the question lol. i know, i was talking about the cave of lost hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrist14 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 2 minutes ago, CaptainSmollet said: i know, i was talking about the cave of lost hope Lol ah. You said underwater caves, which doesn't immediately bring to mind just one cave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSmollet Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 4 minutes ago, Harrist14 said: Lol ah. You said underwater caves, which doesn't immediately bring to mind just one cave i assumed because the other ones have no black pearls, and not just that one but the lost faith cave provides some pearls as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrist14 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 51 minutes ago, CaptainSmollet said: i assumed because the other ones have no black pearls, and not just that one but the lost faith cave provides some pearls as well Mm...what exactly in the cave of lost faith drops black pearls? Pretty sure nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigrainmaker Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 So how do you kill squids I just tamed a mosa to test out how to kill it and it just grabbed the mosa and wouldn't let go and killed both me and the mosa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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