This is a great technique - I tumbled to it the first time I started doing significant building with concrete, due to the need for all the rebar. In a similar vein to help with travel times for gathering silica to make concrete, I carry a concrete mixer, 100 tree sap, and a small shelter. I travel a good distance to an unexploited area, set up the small shack, place the mixer and then start filling it with all the silica I can find in the area, periodically adding a bunch of stone and have it craft concrete mix. At the end, transporting the concrete mix is much more efficient in terms of weight than hauling a ton of silica around. Enjoy your videos Shabby! JW
I've been carrying a "Pocket Pestle" since day 1, using this exact technique. But why stop with steel? Mine up the oxite and sulfur you come across in your travels and drop a couple trees to make sticks->epoxy or resin. The stacks are like 1kg for 100 of either.
Wow, legit game "life hack," thank you. I will say, I generally do make iron bars first for my steel because it's easy to leave a furnace burning all day, plus, you never know when you'll need more iron, you can't turn steel back into iron (I don't think, I guess I've never actually tried).
@@ShabbyDoo for me, I only use bone arrows unless I'm in long enough to have more platinum/titanium than I need. In long missions, I'm all about the hunting rifle and using my "spare" iron for ammo
Now I run around with the Sheng pickaxe for 50% encumbrance reduction combined with 25% from talent tree. Then focus entirely on inventory slots. No weight reduction needed.
Thanks, great video. First thing I do is mining just enough to get platinum pick axe, than make few storage chests at mine entrance and then deplete whole mine :) Your way will save me quite a few runs back and forth.
@@ShabbyDoo I second running encumbered. It was already faster to do 1 trip encumbered than 2 unencumbered. Now the new pickaxe and backpack make it even better. It's surprising how strong '- encumbrance' really is. Obviously not the best for steel specifically though.
Exactly, thats what i've been doing since BW 3, same with gunpowder. Though these days i'm not really bothering to make guns anymore, also I have the workshop oxigen tank and canteen so not much steel is needed by me. I find Bows just more versatile. Also everytime one of my mates gets their hands on a gun i get flashbacks... We were in the central arctic our first time, went in a cave, outside we saw one polar bear, no problem we dont have to aggro it. Friend gets his Rifle out shoots a caveworm... 2 polar bear sprint in the cave and wipe our party from behind... thanks mate...
I playing yesterday and place three furnaces on the ground and then loaded them all up with all the iron ore . Log out and jump back on later and my three furnaces were gone and all the ore in them from the cave was all gone with it:/ cave D2 is where my stuff Unspawn
This is a great technique - I tumbled to it the first time I started doing significant building with concrete, due to the need for all the rebar. In a similar vein to help with travel times for gathering silica to make concrete, I carry a concrete mixer, 100 tree sap, and a small shelter. I travel a good distance to an unexploited area, set up the small shack, place the mixer and then start filling it with all the silica I can find in the area, periodically adding a bunch of stone and have it craft concrete mix. At the end, transporting the concrete mix is much more efficient in terms of weight than hauling a ton of silica around. Enjoy your videos Shabby! JW
I've been carrying a "Pocket Pestle" since day 1, using this exact technique. But why stop with steel? Mine up the oxite and sulfur you come across in your travels and drop a couple trees to make sticks->epoxy or resin. The stacks are like 1kg for 100 of either.
Very true!
or wheat ;)
Wow, legit game "life hack," thank you. I will say, I generally do make iron bars first for my steel because it's easy to leave a furnace burning all day, plus, you never know when you'll need more iron, you can't turn steel back into iron (I don't think, I guess I've never actually tried).
Haha no you can't turn steel to iron. I'll do the same sometimes on my long missions but i'll keep ores too for flint arrows.
@@ShabbyDoo for me, I only use bone arrows unless I'm in long enough to have more platinum/titanium than I need. In long missions, I'm all about the hunting rifle and using my "spare" iron for ammo
Now I run around with the Sheng pickaxe for 50% encumbrance reduction combined with 25% from talent tree. Then focus entirely on inventory slots. No weight reduction needed.
Thanks, great video. First thing I do is mining just enough to get platinum pick axe, than make few storage chests at mine entrance and then deplete whole mine :) Your way will save me quite a few runs back and forth.
Glad it helped! And yes 60 plat is always top of my list before my "Dong" breaks 😅
The way I do it is that I make my friend do it instead. ;)
I have one of those on stand by just in case... ROFL!
@@ShabbyDoo XD
you would make a great teacher shabby ;-)
I just mine it all and run around over encumbered. Carry on
Well now you have a pickaxe that will lessen that penalty by 50%!
@@ShabbyDoo I second running encumbered. It was already faster to do 1 trip encumbered than 2 unencumbered. Now the new pickaxe and backpack make it even better. It's surprising how strong '- encumbrance' really is. Obviously not the best for steel specifically though.
My lifehack i do is to have 2 mortar and pestle to have steel bloom production in one and epoxy related stuff in the other one.
Exactly, thats what i've been doing since BW 3, same with gunpowder. Though these days i'm not really bothering to make guns anymore, also I have the workshop oxigen tank and canteen so not much steel is needed by me. I find Bows just more versatile.
Also everytime one of my mates gets their hands on a gun i get flashbacks... We were in the central arctic our first time, went in a cave, outside we saw one polar bear, no problem we dont have to aggro it. Friend gets his Rifle out shoots a caveworm... 2 polar bear sprint in the cave and wipe our party from behind... thanks mate...
That is a bit... unfortunate... rofl
I playing yesterday and place three furnaces on the ground and then loaded them all up with all the iron ore . Log out and jump back on later and my three furnaces were gone and all the ore in them from the cave was all gone with it:/ cave D2 is where my stuff Unspawn
That is very weird
excellent ;-))
Don't you need the anvil (40 iron ingots, 20 wood, 10 stone) to make iron nails?
Yes you need an anvil for iron nails
I haven’t got the steel bloom option in my mortar and pestle..can anyone help plse
How are you modding the lighting in the cave? Why is it not pitch black?
Shadows - low, effects -low, shadings - low
Exactly! If you want specific details go check out my video, if you're subbed it should be right on my home page
but to say, this cave is special and not like others
how is that cave so bright?
Hey ShabbyDo, great tip, is that cave worm infested?
It is not! Completely safe cave. Riverlands C3
@@ShabbyDoo no more there is darn WORMS now (03/22/2023) :-(
Wrong. The furnace does not prioritize in the way told here. It prioritizes the first ore it sees...
This is old, they've since made a change
All for fast way to get all the iron/coal out of the cave but wow graphics look terrible with these settings - doesn’t even look like a cave!
Yeah sometimes the graphics just don't load well for a bit when you have shadows down, sometimes you just need to leave the chunk and come back haha