Spiral Knights - Easy mineral farming

Easy mineral farming

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Fri, 07/03/2015 - 18:15

Holy-Nightmare

Quite likely most of you have amassed a large amount of minerals over the time you have played SK. Still with the recent spritely prize boxes you may find yourself coming up short or maybe you want to take advantage of the increased market for Sprite food.

So, where do you go to farm minerals.
Check the arcade and look for the elevator that drops you off immediately in a "DECONSTRUCTION ZONE"

These particular floors have no forced battles and you can quickly gather minerals and head to the gate, finish the floor and head back to the subtown you were just at to run the floor again.

Even better is the ability to craft food in the subtowns so you never have to leave the arcade.

To get the most out of this it helps to have a team of knights since minerals are shared.

Fri, 07/03/2015 - 18:27

Bopp

burying the lead

I agree, but the part about traveling in a party should be emphasized more. You might not get 4 times as many valuable minerals, but you can easily get 2 or 3 times as many.

Also graveyards have no forced fights, although their layout is not quite as convenient as that of deconstruction zones. When none of the latter are available, try the former. You might as well try clockwork tunnels levels too.

Fri, 07/03/2015 - 20:28

Skepticraven

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There's a mission where you start with minerals in the arsenal area, so you could obtain minerals that you want without having to run around for a bit.
I dont remember the mission (or even if its the first depth of the mission for repeating), but I believe it is a "clockworks tunnel" style depth. Moderate running, but no forced fights.

That being said, I'm not sure the sprite food market is going to become advantageous to strictly farm minerals.
When I was more active selling materials (+sprite food), my calculated cost was 20crns per mineral. Repeating a depth for minerals only would be slower farming than completing the depth itself.

Fri, 07/03/2015 - 20:48

Holy-Nightmare

@ Skeptic

This is more or less farming for oneself (with the new sprites) and selling what your team picks up on the side for extra CR

Sat, 07/04/2015 - 02:17

Dinosaurvista

yea

You *need* a party to farm crystals quickly. You are able to carry four times the load, after all.

And additionally everybody in the party gets all the minerals you gathered. In total you will gather 16 times the amount of crystals you would have gotten if you were solo, but this doesn't matter too much per se as only 4 of them are yours.

Emphasis on crystals, as i'm not taking into account the size of the deposits, since small deposits are a measly 1 whilst shiny deposits are a massive 12. Way too much probability maths for me.

Sat, 07/04/2015 - 04:36

Bopp

Skepticraven

I believe it's The Collector, that has minerals at the very start of the mission.

Sat, 07/04/2015 - 06:38

Zincamania-Forum

Beyond the Axes of Evil

In the mission "Beyond the Axes of Evil" you can use alchemer charges to reach the ghost blocks south of the elevator. There are 5 minerals there and the elevator is right next to the spawn area. You can skip the entire level that way and repeat it easily since it's the first depth. People used to farm for lockboxes on the spinning wheel there and it gets you fast minerals as well. Not sure if it's really worth farming though, since pet foods are cheap anyway. (I mean, you could go in a good gate like the Golden Queen gate that has a d15 and 16 arena right now, pick up 2000 crowns from each arena and buy your pet food with the crowns. That is most likely faster and definitely more fun, and you have a chance of getting elite orbs as well.)

Sat, 07/04/2015 - 09:18

Vohtarak-Forum

I'm vohtarak, call me by that name

Yes, that mission that starts with minerals is the collector

Sat, 07/04/2015 - 15:30

Traevelliath

Can't you farm for literally anything else and get minerals while you do so? The only difference is that you have to play with 3 other people. Just about every floor in the game will have minerals on it.

If you really want to maximize mineral gain, then you should look for the shortest levels, not the levels that give you minerals early.

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