A steady flow of materials keeps your base and arsenal growing. The trick is to build bases on top of the resources you burn through, then let Pals mine them on autopilot while you're out exploring.
Key materials
- Ore and coal for ingots — build a mining base with Digtoise on a rich node.
- Sulfur (desert) for ammo and gunpowder — a mid-game bottleneck; set up a dedicated node.
- Paldium fragments for spheres; wood and stone from base Lumbering/Mining Pals.
- Pure Quartz and Ancient Civilization Parts for high-tech gear and Pal Gear.
Farming routes
- Build directly on ore/coal clusters so mining Pals work them nonstop.
- Coal is concentrated in the desert and volcano — a second base there fuels refined ingots.
- Sulfur deposits ring the desert; run a loop with a fast mount to top up between base yields.
- Ancient Parts drop from Alpha and tower bosses — farm them once you can beat those reliably.
Never run dry
Assign more mining Pals than you think you need and keep large chests beside them; the most common late-game stall is running out of ingots or ammo mid-project. A dedicated resource base with high-tier miners removes that bottleneck for good.
The refining chain
- Ore → Ingots at a Furnace (needs a Kindling Pal like Jormuntide Ignis).
- Coal → Refined and Pal Metal ingots for higher-tier gear.
- Sulfur plus other materials → Gunpowder → Ammo at the Assembly Line.
- Keep furnaces and benches beside your miners and Transporting Pals so it all flows automatically.
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