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Farming spots/methods that outperform all others


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The idea for this thread is to gather some information about places and methods of farming that greatly outperform others. I am trying to farm resources in the tens or hundres of thousands per run, not really looking for tips like "hey there's a lot of pearls near the tree on the rock where I have my base". I am looking for the objectively most efficient, large-scale farming methods. I want to farm in the tens and hundres of thousands, not just a single patch where I get enough for some casual play. Regardless of server settings, these places and methods will be the most effective ones. I've omitted metal, oil and obsidian because I never really have trouble finding places where I can slotcap those. Tek Stryder in the blue area of Abberration gave me 1 million metal ingots in less than an hour. Some oil pumps in the oil field on Ragnarok for a few weeks gave me enough oil that I'll never have to farm oil ever again. Obsidian is easy to fill up with a Tek Stryder on Gen 2. Fibre, hide, crystal, sap and pearls (among others) are the ones I usually find I'm running out of, long before I ever have problems getting enough metal/obsidian/oil. I'll go first with some I can remember right off the top:

Hide/fur
Ovis leveled into health, slaughtered then harvested with a chainsaw. I usually do this next to two ded storages. One sheep gives more hide than 2-3 extinction drops or any cave run. You need to spend points into melee damage, otherwise you'll break the chainsaw before you can harvest a single sheep. With all points into melee and a maxed chainsaw, I have to be super light on my finger when I tap the button to harvest because it yields so much raw mutton I get slot capped in like a split specond. Anyway, no other method of hide farming stands up to this so if you are crafting a lot of high end saddles for army dinos and replacing them often, you basically need to have some ovis breders as well. You also get equal amounts of fur from this method, so if you are planning on crafting some expensive fur sets, this is _THE_ best way to farm fur also.

Crystal
On Genesis part 1, in the Lunar biome, certain areas have little flowers that give crystal. You can harvest them with a bronto. It's very easy to slot cap the bronto. Tek stryders are also really effective at harvesting these. The cluster I play on have something like 2-3x harvest and I slotcap the bronto in minutes. Okay, maybe not "slotcapped" because the stuff is heavy, but the difference is like the difference between a fart and full-blown, explosive bloody diarrhea. Many orders of magnitude more efficient than anythign else, like for example running a Tek Stryder in the space biome on Gen 2. Every other method I've tried or heard about is vastly inferior to using a Bronto in the lunar biome. They are found in many places, but one spot I know for sure because it's where I stumbled on them, is next to the "King of the whatever" mission terminal. King of the hill? I forget the mission name, but around the terminal that starts that mission you can find loads of the crystal flowers.

Sap / Plant Species Z seed
Just stumbled over this on dododex recently, but in the lunar caves there are yellow flowers growing near the water inside the caves. These yield poop-ton of sap, and loads of Plant Species Z (light plant) seeds, when harvested with a Bronto. You know those seeds you have to stand around for like 40 seconds to get one of? I got like 300 of them last night in ten minutes. Nice if you want to put up crop plots on your Abb base to stop nameless spawns or are planning to tame light pets. Slotcapped with Sap in minutes. Tree Sap taps or Joshua trees just don't even compare.

Fiber/berries
On Ragnarok, around 50,37 somewhere, slightly northwest from the green obelisk, there are some yellow flowers on the ground. You cant neccesarily tell from looking at them but these yield a lot of fiber and berries, and are very clustered together, such that slotcapping a bronto for berries is something like 4 swings on my cluster (2-3x). Bringing five theriz here, specced for delicate harvesting, lets me harvest 500,000 fiber in no-time. Enough for a good amount of saddles. The tops of stone pillars in the Gen 1 ocean biome are comparable but due to landscape/accessibility I still think the Ragnarok spot wins out.

Element Ore
Great as skiff fuel because it's so cheap. There's a sub-cave down in the rock drake trench on abberration with a giant skeleton fossil inside. No mobs spawn there, and there's some element ore nodes you can farm relatively danger free. I usually get about 20k ore every time I come here with an anky. The skeleton is not to be confused with other skeleton fossils that also exist down in the radiation areas, but there's a specific one where no mobs spawn. I can post coordinates if people are more interested, this is basically where I stock up on fuel for my Tek Skiffs.

What I really wanna know is if there are some "imba" methods to harvest pearls (both silica and black) that compare to these methods. I know about the silica pearl cave on Ragnarok in Viking's bay + Anglerfish but it "only" yields me about 30-40k silica pearls per run and then there are no more in the cave until I leave and come back later. I need loads more and am looking for a way to not have to keep coming back to this cave regularly to get the amounts I need. I know supposedly there were good silica farming spots on crystal isles, but that's the one map our cluster doesn't run, so I have to make do with "only" the rest of the maps. And then as far as I know, the best and easiest method for black pearls is gachas, which I have. Again, just wondering if there are some places or harvesting methods I'm unaware of. I tried theriz with delicate harvesting on genesis 2 but the black pearl and element dust nodes on the asteroids have to be handpicked, which means running gachas while I breed dinos yields me more faster and isn't so tedious. I haven't tried them on Black Pearls in the volcano on Gen 1, but the amounts there seem so low it's another one of those things where I'd have to come back several days in a row just to get the amounts I need. Also curious about red/blue/green crystals or crystallized sap. Haven't found any imba spots for any of those yet but I know there are places I haven't tested. The Genesis 1 underwater caves seemed underwhelming.

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4 hours ago, Mai said:

hide from gen2 running quick 5-10 minutes alpha mane/velo missions and buy from hex shop

How much are you getting and at what rates? I'm not exactly sure the exact rates on the cluster I play on as the admin has set them individually for each resource, but they range between 1.5x to 2.5x, so it's somewhere in that range. With those rates, I get about 20k hide from one ovis in about 1-2 minutes. Basically what I do is raise up like 30 ovises at a time, leave them raising over night, then slaughter them all in the morning. That gives me about 600,000 hide from about an hour of total work or less.

I bred ovises with 20 health mutations, so in actuality my numbers are going off of all the ovises I generated while breeding and combining my line. So I have about two cryofridges of unmutated ovises and those are giving me those numbers. You get more hide for every point spent into health on the ovis though, so I'm thinking I'll get a lot more from my new ones. Valguero is full of Ovus, so it's easy to tame a lot of them and find a high health one. Even without mutations I don't think the hexagon shop can come close.

Edit: I just looked up the server settings on the cluster website and it's:

HarvestResourceItemAmountClassMultipliers=(ClassName="PrimalItemResource_Hide_C",Multiplier=1.290000)

So 1.29x harvesting rates are giving me those numbers. That's not even that boosted. I'm telling you, this is the sick way to get tons of hide. If you are crafting 200 armor+ Rex saddles for entire Rex armies, that amounts to about 200-250k hide per ten saddles. If you want to maxcraft them you probably have to make more than 20 so outfitting a Rex army can cost from 600k-1m hide.

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7 hours ago, Mai said:

its official rates so there's no waiting period between raising babies and with a giga it takes less than 5 minutes from mission start to finish

Alright, fair, so that comes out as about 25k hide per 5 minutes then. Comparable to the ovises. I only spend a minute actually farming the ovis, but I have to raise them, so it's not as on-demand as doing missions. But it's very bulk-friendly. Raising them doesn't require anything active from you, and harvesting them is faster than doing the mission, though maybe more tedious depending on how much you can or can't stand hardcore grinds. I guess if you don't already have ovises, it's easier doing missions. Another thing that's nice about ovises is you can bring them with you. So for example, I farm my metal on abb. So I can bring ten ovises there and farm the hide there to not have to transfer the materials with my character, which for 600k hide would be a few trips back and forth, causing lag for everyone else while my char loads in and etc.

Another thing that's nice about the ovis thing is it can be combined with other base chores. Say you wanna make up a fat batch of shotgun ammo and need to make some tens of thousands of gunpowder. With how dedicated storages work now, you can spec all points into damage for harvesting and still refill crafting stations without needing the weight points. As long as the layout of the workshop is well thought out. Basically any batch crafting I need to do, like electronics/polymer/gunpowder/ammo/narcotics/stimulant/soups, can be combined with the hide farming.

Then again, the nice thing about doing missions is you also get loot which can be really good. I think I'll need to try your way. Maybe I'm a little out of date. :P

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Just thought of another "pro-tip".

Raw meat runs
If you're raising a lot of hungry dinos like Gigas for example, and you need a poop ton of meat, the gamma follow missions on Genesis 1 yield a lot of meat. Almost one slotcapped giga with raw meat per run, which is also like 5 minutes. Prior  to that I used to do red drops or 50k element veins on extinction, which is also a good way to farm LOADS of meat. Just CTRL+C the word "prim" and paste it into the inventory search field and "drop all" every once in a while when you get full, and only save the raw meat, throw everything else. I usually get about 6-8 full tek troughs from one loot drop/element vein, or two escort missions. I hate transferring with a full inventory and I breed on several maps, so I'll usually farm meat on the map I'm raising on. But since farming meat on extinction and gen1/gen2 is so many orders of magnitude more efficient than the previous maps, I usually raise my carnivores on those maps.

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Have to admit, the hex store does kinda kilter things a bit, but looking at the max farming/production, typically human technology to best most tame harvesting with the possible exception to metal, stone, flint....In those cases, high level anky, doedicurous, and quetzel zips along at a fairly good pace with the platform saddle and ramp trick. Well, if you have a freind help you that is.

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This thread could be some great information, I will share something to hopefully keep it going.  For Black pearls I stock up on crystal isles with angler fish in the electric bubbles at the eldritch isles location of the map. I would be interested to know if there is a much better farm method also for element shards? Currently farm them in space on gen2 with ankylo.

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1 hour ago, poskeydjames said:

I would be interested to know if there is a much better farm method also for element shards? Currently farm them in space on gen2 with ankylo.

if you have the whole space to yourself then stryder is the best but if there are multiple players farming too then your next best option is with golem or magmasaur

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Element is map specific so there's probably many useful methods. For Gen 2, Stryder in space is absolute winner. It's not just the best method on Genesis, it yiels the most element out of any method on any map. Using a mantis leveled into damage with a high damage pickaxe on Extinction element veins yields a lot of element vs. harvesting yourself. If you use a mindwipe to spec into dmg you can get more by harvesting yourself, but without weight it gets tedious, and you have to respec twice for every vein. Mantis gets almost as much but negates all of those hurdles.

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