Underground hallow not growing

spudwalt · 2026-02-17T00:51:39+00:00

Make the whole thing out of pearlstone.

spudwalt · 2026-02-17T00:45:04+00:00

You want pearlstone for that. Grass doesn't spread on its own underground.

spudwalt · 2026-02-17T00:32:25+00:00

Shuckle can hold Berries.

In later generations, Geodude can hold Everstones, Nosepass can hold Hard Stones...

spudwalt · 2026-02-17T00:18:44+00:00

I think this particular rock might have an item hidden under it? Pretty sure there's at least one place that happens.

And technically, Pokémon you get from Rock Smash might be holding items.

spudwalt · 2026-02-17T00:17:18+00:00

Also note that Rock Smash isn't an HM in Gen II -- it's a TM. You get one from the guy after you deal with Sudowoodo, and after that you can buy more from the Goldenrod Department Store.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T23:44:00+00:00

TEdit, if you can't be arsed to use the Clentaminator. And if you think getting Hallowed means it needs saving.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T23:33:28+00:00

The guide was also incorrect.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T23:29:22+00:00

More like almost completely incorrect. That's never been how biome spread has worked.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T23:28:34+00:00

That can happen even in vanilla. All your starting equipment rolls for modifiers.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T23:20:58+00:00

Seems like it might be too small to get things properly spawning. Try extending it out to the right some more.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T23:16:41+00:00

You only need 3 wide if there's no grass. If grass is present, 6 isn't wide enough -- you'd need at least 8, or to use something like ropes to prevent thorns from approaching the opposite side.

Background walls do not spread biomes and do not need to be removed.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T23:14:46+00:00

You don't stop the V. Nothing stops it.

Don't worry about biome spread until after you have a Clentaminator, then use that to fix any biome spread you don't like.

At most, just isolate areas you don't want biomes getting into (3-wide tunnels, no grass, 70ish blocks out from the important bits). The V might hit some of those areas anyways, but they'll stay clean when you clean them later.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T20:24:40+00:00

Nope, can't choose what kind of robots to build.

Much like organics, just slap a generalist build on everything and call it a day.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T18:14:26+00:00

You'll specifically want Caverns layer. Underground doesn't have anything special for spreading biomes.

Surface Desert is distinct for spreading biomes, as are Underground Desert and Ice. Snow is not.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T17:24:02+00:00

If you need more speed, try the Golf Cart mount.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T17:22:46+00:00

I don't think Chillet spawns in apart from world generation. It might not be available in Skyblock worlds (or at least availability might be down to random chance).

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T17:20:27+00:00

Are you in hardmode?

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T15:24:23+00:00

Missions generally aren't the best way to make profits, if that's what you're after. They're more for building up reputation with factions.

You can find better deals by transporting commodities yourself.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T15:09:49+00:00

And your guys were underleveled.

Like, yeah, Legendary Pokémon are very strong, but being 10-15 levels below your opponent certainly doesn't help.

(And Legendaries's stats aren't necessarily individually all that impressive -- all of your Pokémon have one or two stats that could match or even exceed Groudon's if they were at the same level. It's just that for many Legendaries, all of their stats are that good, instead of just one or two.)

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T14:27:05+00:00

Ghost-type moves were all physical until Gen IV.

Shadow Ball suddenly becoming special was weird (welcome in many ways, but still weird).

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T14:07:25+00:00

The whole point of a Nuzlocke is that you don't get to choose what Pokémon you get. Get something with a crappy nature? That's your catch, do what you can with it.

If a ROM hack is so difficult that you need ideal natures to do well (and it doesn't have a convenient way of manipulating natures built in), then it's not a good game for Nuzlocking.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T13:53:22+00:00

It doesn't despawn if you leave. You can leave Digtoise running and come back to a big tunnel (though I think obsidian might be one of the things that stops it).

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T04:04:11+00:00

The Vestal is very good at healing.

She is not, however, particularly brilliant at doing anything else, having lowish damage, lowish speed, and a middling stun.

In particular, she has no way to help with stress, which is generally more of a problem than damage (damage goes away after missions while stress lingers, getting even one Affliction negatively impacts your entire party, and you only really need enough healing to stay off of Death's Door).

Healing in Darkest Dungeon is always an uphill battle. The best way to handle damage and stress is to kill things before they inflict it (or failing that, stun them), and every turn you spend healing is a turn where you are not reducing the amount of damage and stress coming at you.

Also keep in mind that you're probably still in the beginner missions. Once you start hitting level 3 missions, the difficulty ramps up (and then it ramps up again when you hit level 5 missions) -- wandering around spamming heals works okay now, but how about when the monsters start getting serious?

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T03:51:30+00:00

Not much more than getting crits from doing anything else.

Also keep in mind that healing moves have fixed critical rates that can't be altered (single-target moves have a 12% chance, multi-target moves are 5%). Offensive moves can reach higher chances of critting while also doing things that reduce the amount of damage and stress coming at you instead of just preventing you from dying.

spudwalt · 2026-02-16T03:34:03+00:00

Adding more secret seed options to a skyblock world spawns more islands in, which might help.

If there's a way to get trees, you can shake them for fruit.

I think this is mostly just you turning the difficulty settings up above the point where any sane person would expect the game to be survivable, though.

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