so according to my calculations, assuming that "upgrade blacksmith" is the only upgrade that matters in the long-run, each level of hellstone takes about 1.28 times as many days as the previous level.
A bit less if you include the effect from having more gems each rock.
@masterSlayn:
it is a matter of how many gems you've been shoving into your pickaxes lately.
if you upgrade once for every time you give the blacksmith a gem, expect to get mostly usefull pickaxes.
if you shoved 2000 gems at the blacksmith, and upgrade once, then you'll have to shove around 2000 or so gems at him for a decent chance of a small improvement.
"error: unable to find current ore "hellstone ""
huh. Well, evidentially, whatever patch you tried to apply...'borked' it even further.
Apparently, wind essence is another one of those "not worth mining unless you're one-shotting it for gems or progressing to next level" type of ores.
This calculator is awesome, helping to avoid wasting time on the useless ores. :D :doublechecks that a 5-star rating has been given:
It seems to be able to find hellstone for me no matter how I type it. You do need to put the number in it, please let me know exactly what makes it fail and I'll try and fix it. Really glad you found the calculator useful, thanks for the rating!
according to the calculator, before darkstone is better to mine than the smaller magic cyrstyal, adamantium is more valuable to mine than either.
interesting.
Yep, but don't forget to stop back and check regularly as the best ore changes as your pick gets better and your power increases. Thanks for using this!
break, BREAK you puny little amythest...give your moneys to meeeeee....
also, the feeling you get when your auto-mining is "only" 1000 hp away from being able to one-shot an ore..
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level 5: the most urgent threats are the two middle pools. one of these will become unreachable if you don't deal with it.
once you deal with that, you need to carve out the entire map to maximize reactor space. build a few tech domes.
when you have plenty of energy, dig out the roof above the evil crown, and build LAUNCHERS. (not blasters, launchers...ok, 2 blasters is fine, that's it.).
You should be able to do it in less than 30 minutes of in-game time, even if you go slowly.
NOTE:
you CAN beat it in 15 minutes without using launchers, but only if you know EXACTLY what you're doing.
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It seems to be able to find hellstone for me no matter how I type it. You do need to put the number in it, please let me know exactly what makes it fail and I'll try and fix it. Really glad you found the calculator useful, thanks for the rating!