Do you mine iron in the swamp using wishbone or crypts?

It seems like the nodes I find using wishbone are small and underwater. Are they even worth it?

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tmjaea@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Crypts + big aoe hammer 🔨🔨🔨

Bael422@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

You can use a hammer to mine nodes?

tmjaea@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

No, to kill all the enemies before they can reach you

RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

This guy crypts. Listen to him.

criitz@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y

Never used wishbone for iron. Only crypts

pezmaker@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I have to use the wishbone, I don't know how anyone couldn't. I only get handful of crypts per swamp and iron doesn't go very far in crafting. Aka I need every piece of scrap iron I can get my hands on in any way I can. I'm creating things pretty far past iron and it all still needs some iron it seems like.

I'm probably doing things wrong.

RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

The swamps that have the Bomemass altar usually (but not always) have a lot of crypts. On a new run, I'll usually try to find a crypt that's right on the waterline somewhere so I can get in and out with a little less risk and hope it has a location stone for the boss. Once I find the boss location, I'll make a longship out of my first crypt iron and hopefully a shield and head to the boss marker and see if I've got a good collection of crypts to work with. Finding the boss marker can be trouble sometimes, so I also keep an eye out for it up in the ruined towers as I'm sailing and mapping swamp coast line.

Mamertine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Not really. You can mine them if you want, but imo it's not really worth it. Exceptions for us that swamp is right by your base and you need a couple more iron. That said we all know a couple more iron becomes stacks of needed iron.

Album@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

No it's not worth cuz you can only mine so deep in the swamp until it fills with water

rbos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

I've never treated wishbone as more than a novelty in the swamp, so I have no sense about how widespread iron nodes are. Should try that next playthrough.