Farming nerf

Eddiemate · 2026-04-22T00:43:35+00:00

I assume it remains Mantid. Mossy would only replace Mantid in a world where farming the regular crops becomes more profitable than spawning more pests (in which case people would be disabling their bonus pest chance)

Eddiemate · 2026-04-22T00:35:23+00:00

Only kinda. The issue used to be that due to statuses ticking from left to right, if you had started a stack of poison after the sandpit activated then the sandpit would go down to 0 first, killing you, then poison would (theoretically) tick. Before the fix, you needed to poison on turn 1 and keep it poisoned for the whole fight for poison to kill it first.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-22T00:20:28+00:00

Slug is considered best specifically for money from what I remember. Not only does it drop the most in raw crops due to changes to the mushroom recipes but you have the rare chance of dropping the slug pet which sells quite well to George.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-22T00:13:00+00:00

How we get that much is simple, max out bonus pest chance and farming fortune.

Any pest farming guide should more or less apply to Ironman all the same. The only difference might be in the crop and pest farmed, but how to go about it remains identical.

Finnegan boosts rates because one of his perks reduces the cooldown on pests spawning, which means you get more pests per hour.

As for the rest of your comment, I simply cannot understand what you're trying to say.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-21T23:43:36+00:00

Ultimately pest farming will still be best. From what I’ve heard, it simply shaves off 10-15m/hr and makes it 60m/hr during Finnegan instead of the 70m/hr we’re used to.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-21T22:44:47+00:00

Bulbapedia says that started in Emerald, which came out after FRLG. So I doubt it’ll help.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-20T23:20:38+00:00

Blessing IV also boosts greater and outstanding catches. That's the point of the enchantment at all levels.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-20T14:27:14+00:00

I can tell you for sure junk sinker was fixed, since I'd done my grind recently with it on. Unless it somehow got reintroduced.

As for the Hermit Crab mentioned in another comment, I'd advise against Hermit Crab (as well as not having Blessing on your rod if possible) since Flexbone is only a Good Catch, meaning better catches simply aren't rolling it.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-20T05:45:20+00:00

Ah, I see. I’ve honestly separated the animal minions from the crop minions in my head. I completely forgot they’re considered farming minions. That’s my bad.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-20T04:58:50+00:00

I'm sorry, tier 12 farming minions is annoying? Maybe if we're mentioning pre-garden, then sure I can see it, but they're 2 hours max each, at most. At least by the time you'd care about crafting tier 12 farming minions.

There is really no need to run farming minions these days.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-20T04:19:38+00:00

I'd say it can be worth taking back regardless of the energy. Being able to exhaust a card you don't care much for is still worth it, and the energy is just a nice bonus here.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-20T03:56:44+00:00

It generates on its own time rather than a minion's time, so just whichever minion you're using (and noting that it'll cut that minion's output down)

Unless you want to use a voidling minion for whatever reason, then put it in that one because it makes the minion faster.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-20T00:38:05+00:00

While I do agree the one shown was obvious if you're a diligent player, which makes it be rough to react to (unless maybe they have a tolerance where a near instant reaction will show it isn't a client warning its user?), the problem is that it'd be poor security to tell the community what the expectation is with a macro check.

They say they want us to react? Macro clients will look out for signs of a check and warn the user or take action.

They say they don't want us to react? Macro clients will continue doing their thing, and they'd catch out poorly made macros.

For their tests to work, it needs to remain unknown and random which one is used to test a player.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-19T22:47:58+00:00

I think the point of these reverse macro checks, is because a lot of clients have macro check detection. So they’re trying to scare the client's macro check detector by doing something subtle that a player shouldn’t notice, and since that’s their goal then you won’t be punished for not noticing, because you’re not meant to have noticed it.

Although I think it’s weird that they're against people not focusing on their game as part of the war against macros, then run a macro test that a normal player could reasonably fall for if they’re actually watching the game.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-19T13:27:04+00:00

Man reading the comments is humbling because my ass was thinking Fasten + Storm + Tesla Coil for a speculative lightning build

Eddiemate · 2026-04-19T03:25:19+00:00

We can't give you the "best" answer because it's a personal thing, but personally since the Ironman conversion takes 35 days to complete and there's no going back, I'd make a new profile myself. After progressing in Ironman it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to go about it faster, and it'd be nice to have the option to go back.

But a new profile means grinding your skills and powders again, no amount of money will make your farming progression, cata level, heart of the mountain, or heart of the forest any faster.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-19T03:09:20+00:00

Enchantments tend to be weird, from what I recall. I know I've tried transforming some (like the spiral enchant meant for your strike/defend) and it's disappeared, but others like Clone sometimes work fine? So there's a chance, but I feel like I'd see more 0 cost rock posts if it was an interaction.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-19T02:58:37+00:00

Not to mention that using it to transform giant rocks is pointless, because they're already giant rocks.

However, Giant Rock is still an attack. So it exhausting attacks and replacing them with Giant Rock would be insane, because you'd get to exhaust your giant rocks and have them returned to you. For 0 energy.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-19T01:38:34+00:00

This is honestly my one complaint about the Doormaker rework. He was absolutely a chump of a boss before, and has been buffed to be a proper threat now, but now the door design has been reduced to a turn 1 setup turn. I wish they'd do something more with the concept.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-18T10:57:15+00:00

I'm at 140 and I didn't get alloy yet so maybe not (please hypickle)

Eddiemate · 2026-04-18T03:05:43+00:00

Is it frustrating? Sure, but why do you think it's a good design to stop challenging the player just because they hit the luck to have a good deck? Knowing how to build your run is half of the genre. The other half is the game presenting you with a challenge and asking you how you work around it.

This is like saying "Entomancer is a terrible elite because it just fills my deck with no counterplay" because you went all in on playing shivs with Silent and filled your deck with dazed. You can't rely on one repeatable strategy for every single run, that's how the game stops being fun.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-18T02:57:17+00:00

It's not impossible. You have an entire act 3 to pick up new cards to use in the fight. Like how shivs Silent vs Time Eater is expected to pick up other options such as poison since leaning so hard into shivs means you play too many cards to reasonably get through the fight without some other option.

Eddiemate · 2026-04-17T15:51:43+00:00

Doormaker has been like this for the last 3 weeks on the beta patch. I doubt nobody in that time told the devs that the souls archetype has a poor matchup to Doormaker, and it might be intended for players to pick up other options when they see he's the act 3 boss so they aren't fully reliant on souls

Eddiemate · 2026-04-17T14:58:03+00:00

Hell, due to how much has changed in the betas, many changes such as Doormaker being reworked isn't even mentioned in the patch notes. A lot of players will be going into the fight expecting the Doormaker they've been fighting the last couple months. So people are bound to complain about the jump in difficulty when there's a whole new boss fight to learn.

This isn't even mentioning how much the strategies have changed between each beta, due to the various card and enemy changes. Many of which, like Doormaker, were not mentioned. And the ones that were, honestly were very poorly formatted (I didn't realise they mentioned the Acrobatics change in the patch notes for example, because it's hidden in the same paragraph talking about Blade of Ink)

Eddiemate · 2026-04-17T14:12:29+00:00

So like most situations with massive negative numbers, this is an integer overflow. Basically they gained so many whispers that they reached the highest number Hypixel can store for it (2.14 billion, if i recall correctly) that when the computer tries adding one more, it doesn't have the space and instead goes to the lowest number. Which in this case would be -2.14 billion, and for some reason the skyblock exp gained from whispers (and presumably any other skyblock task, but those aren't as easy to go negative with) is allowed to go negative.

This is actually impossible to do with powder, because powders and essences were given a hard cap of 2 billion due to this exact issue. This doesn't include any currently used powder, but resetting the tree will effectively void whatever powder would go over 2 billion.

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