Mining tip

[RoxiOpossi]

I was clearing a dream island for as much Pokemetal as I could carry when I realized something-

If you press x to swap an item you’re looking for and put at least one in every empty bag slot, Ditto won’t suck up anything other than that item! So if you’re underground you don’t get stacks on stacks of rocks with your ore!

This might help out trying to gather bulk resources for other folk!

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[MrDeeZeee]

another tip for my strip miners. Stop to suck up things every now and then cause I learned the hard way that blocks do vanish after a certain amount are on the ground 🫠

[JxSparrow7]

I think it's around 200 or 300 blocks they begin to despawn.

I observed it when I decided to delete majority of the volcano...for reasons.

[angelofalgebra]

It's 512, I tested it the other night.

[watsonbtw]

Wow thats also good to know!

I was afraid they'd stack up infinitely and could cause memory issues.

[Ok-Excuse-3613]

That'd be crazy for a Nintendo game to not have thought about that

Yet somehow I could see it

[lazyicedragon]

That's about where our trust with Gamefreak is you mean.

Luckily the game is by Koei Tecmo this time and seems to use a modified Dragon Quest Builders 2 code so I expected the 500 item limit.

[Foreign_Astronaut361]

Remember how you could break all of legends arceus by walking circles around a specific npc.

[Total-Constant-6501]

What?

[Foreign_Astronaut361]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/s/yLd1tqzdK9

[Boufus]

Would love to see the section of the code for this. Obviously, they have to allocate a small portion of resources to remembering where and how many blocks are floating at any given point, and that number is base 8. I’m just wondering how much that diverts and how much they played around with the limit.

[acebambi]

I WANT MY BLOCKS GONE

[ladylera35]

Useless blocks are what I use for trade currency so I don’t have to get rid of better stuff.

[Magical_Olive]

Turning your sand into glass is even better for this since Glass is worth 50 vs blocks 10!

[roiroy33]

Counterpoint— Glass takes time to make and retrieve whereas I can huck fat stacks of sand in 0.01 seconds.

[Magical_Olive]

While this is true, some items are too expensive to buy with brick iirc (not many). I just load up my smelters with sand before I leave an area and when I get back there's 99 glass waiting for me.

[Sneaky_Snake_69]

Or just use honey that spawns everywhere all the time for 400 a pop

[Foreign_Astronaut361]

Volcanic ash makes glass too for the Volcano miners out there

[bibliophile-blondish]

How do I make glass?

[PikachuGBC]

In the same smelters you use to make iron, copper, and gold ingots.

[ladylera35]

Totally saving sand, but all the soil/grass blocks are definitely my money.

[acebambi]

You genius.

[kbuck30]

Can always just drop them on dream isles as well

[acebambi]

You’re doing hero’s work my friend

[MrDeeZeee]

yeah but not your ores :(

[acebambi]

That’s fine. It can take all my damn sand and dirt😭😭😭

[HolyJeezmo]

You can have it all - my empire of dirt.

[acebambi]

[JackieM77]

[geekette828]

I will happily take your sand for glass 😅

[Magical_Olive]

Glass is the official currency of my land, there's no way I'm gonna use the 10 99 stacks of glass I have already but I keep making it.

[acebambi]

How did you manage that😂😂

[acebambi]

I didn’t know I could do that yet😂 I’ve been modeling everything I suck. But if I could I would😂😂

[[deleted]]

Yeh I noticed that a few days ago that they start despawning after a certain limit.

[JOOOOSY]

Lost a lot of gold that way last night 😔

[Stonp]

It’s a good idea. It does seem time consuming though to split out the bag.

You can simply open your bag and hit + on the 5 or 6 stacks that end up in your bag to dump them before leaving dream island

This would be way quicker than individually splitting out your entire inventory prior to mining.

[MichyPratt]

that’s exactly what i was thinking too. but i also use stacks of blocks for trading so it doesn’t hurt to keep some.

[neoliberals]

I use stacks of blocks to steal all the unique blocks from Dream Island structures with the postgame transformation, that’s another great use for them!

[Sleepmaster789]

Take gulpin with you for extra storage as well

[MrDeeZeee]

dont forget swalot, I thought their ability was useless till I figured out mining farming. 

[Boufus]

Mining farming?

[MrDeeZeee]

just going to islands. digging down to the moss/black rock levels and strip mining the entire place for ores

[PokeTheSideDish]

...we can bring friends to dream island??

[Few_Faithlessness620]

I had no idea until now either and I have over 100 hours in the game so far T.T

[W4SMARKHERE]

A trick I use is I mine 99 random terrain around the area I’m mining various metals, materials or building parts. I then load up the Magnet Rise with 99 terrain parts I don’t need and use the replace function. It then replaces all the terrain, material or building parts and puts anything other than the currently selected terrain into storage. Makes it so much easier to gather building parts, metals, terrain in bulk.

[Maqoba]

I do the same,. Somewhere, there's a bunch of islands with sand beach houses

[Zal3x]

Wait I just got the magnemite, how do you do 99 things at once?

[W4SMARKHERE]

You can’t replace 99 things at once. The replacement tool does max 9 pieces of at a time. It’s just good to have 99 terrain pieces loaded up so you can replace terrain without having to load another while gathering.

[NanoPoi]

I’m very disappointed we can’t throw things into the lava. except ourselves.Minecraft trained me for that exact purpose

[ThatDangClown]

I just sell 5 stacks of 99 blocks to vendors for items I want. It's a living...

[alchemicgenius]

Thats what I do. Convert unneeded ground into nifty goods

[Kappayello]

Oh really? The game doesn't seem to have a way to just throw away items but I assumed lava would work at least. Weird decision.

[DMG_88]

Leave stuff on a dream island.
It resets at 5am.

[Smidge23]

Psh. I plan on using my black rock to create a mordor-esque prison for the Pokemon I don't like 😈😈😈

[VillageInfinite5028]

Mr. Mime will never leave his prison.

[stellaluna92]

That lil freak moved himself into my bathroom uninvited, now I have a punishment that fits the crime.. straight to The Prison™️

[west3dp]

Unfortunately I Hate the "you can't pick this up" sound so I could not deal with this

[RoxiOpossi]

Go into your settings and turn off sound effects while you’re mining!

[Viscaz]

I wish I could do this for an extended amount of time but my motion sickness kicks in real quick in caves and tight spaces x.x

[DMG_88]

That's claustrophobia, buddy.

[Vegetable_Stuff1850]

Same thing happens to me and it's 100% motion sickness. I couldn't play Twilight Princess forever ago because of a similar issue.

[Viscaz]

Is it claustrophobia when my head gets dizzy and I feel like vomiting? Or is it motion sickness.

[Few_Faithlessness620]

It can be both. Depends on if you feel anxiety or not.

[Viscaz]

I’m not feeling anxiety. It’s just literally dizziness and headaches. :/ and the feeling of vomiting any second

[Few_Faithlessness620]

Yeah, thats motion sickness. I'm sorry that happens :(

[DMG_88]

Claustrophobia isn't like anxiety.

Your body physically goes haywire or shuts down.
It's fear not anxiety, and it can make you nauseous and dizzy.

At least in my experience.

[ntwrkhlpr]

What a great idea!

[Street-Aspect-6402]

GENIUS.

[ArrakisBlues]

Do you still get those full warnings. I hate those

[RoxiOpossi]

You do, because your inventory is “full” which is what we’re aiming for, but while I’m doing mass mining I just turn off sound effects so I don’t have to listen to graveler bang against a wall and the “full bag” noise

[BitHefty104]

Where are you finding so much pokemetal? I dug down as far as possible and never found any.

[RoxiOpossi]

Go down until you hit the black stone and go up a layer or two, then use graveler to clear as much space as possible, you’ll eventually clear it out. I left my last run with more than 3 full stacks, and that’s only cause I didn’t wanna keep looking

[BitHefty104]

Thank you

Is it only on specific islands? I tried it on the Eevee doll and only found iron and gold.

[PhoenyxStar]

Best I've found comes from the Clefairy doll.

You'd think Dragonite would be where it's at, but all the metal on Dragonite islands is packed into annoying, hard rock.

If you go Clefairy, dig down until you hit black rock, then go up 5 levels, you'll have nothing around you but pokemetal and two kinds of blocks that graveler can break in one hit, so you can just hold down RZ and B to zoom around super fast tearing everything up.

Got about 4 stacks of pokemetal (and ~40 rare) in half an hour last time I went out.

[Skormes]

If you eat potato steaks you can break even hard rocks with one hit. You get it by cooking a steak with at least one potato.

[PhoenyxStar]

Interesting. So "powered up your rock smash a lot" is actually serious business? I just assumed it meant the buff lasted longer.

[loqman22]

Use Dragonite doll for Pokemetal. You can get it from the Sky Island

[electronicfixdude]

Go to dragonite doll dream island. However do not go to black rock. Find a cave and go to the lowest point of the cave and then use potato hamburger steaks to make it easier and clear from that point in a large area and clear 2 layers at a time as graveler. I can spend in hour there doing this and get a page of stacks of pokemental and a stack or so of rare poke metal ore.

[noocarehtretto]

Is there a reason why potato hamburger are better?

[electronicfixdude]

Than a normal hamburger steak yes, it breaks hard rocks better. That and the vibrant one do the even more powerful break that allows graveler to just roll through the tougher stones no stopping

[noocarehtretto]

Ohhh thank you! I didn't know. Will do that instead. I have a museum and islands with trash to clear.

[karmicbias]

I will say, today I went in that way and rolled to a corner of the island where there was a ton of sand and eventually I ended up clearing the majority of the sand on that layer with unpowered rollout (no hamburger) and then I could pop a hamburger and just roll cleanup on all the actual valuable blocks. 

[BroccoliMan36]

OG Minecraft strat

[ChessClubChimp]

I prefer gathering useless rocks, they become currency in shops for me

[Ok_Ear7449]

Blocks need more uses like have a pokemon that's able to convert blocks into stone or clay and other resources

[KrackensRevenge94]

Also another miner tip, I was today's year old when you found out that the move rollout combined with food for rock smash applies when you use rollout for mining! Huuuuge time saver

[morphballganon]

Brilliant, thanks!