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Blue ones are boss chest drops that requires some specific key (fire and ice chests)

Green ones are really really rare drops from some monsters.

You'll eventually get many blue ones that you won't be in the need to buy new ones (unless you get unlucky and don't get one or two version of tool.)

If sickle gets C, then stick does too. It's got range, which is nice, and it's a good weapon to use if you've got nothing else you want to break or craft.

And knife is not D tier tho u can hunt rabbit for meat

I've just always had an easier time murdering bassicly everything with the axe. Shovel has always been harder to get down.

Axe can more or less solo the game after you get your footwork down with it. It’s the maximum potential for skill weapon. Shovel is an excellent weapon but not quite as powerful in the long run.

You barely get to use the axe cause you get it pretty late in the game and the shovel has a wide range of attack so you can hit multiple enemies with one swing

Ik we’re doing staff, but I just wanna say table leg is a solid A tier, sturdy, reliable, only used in story moments, generally a great item that I cherish.

Quicker and does more damage. With an upgraded axed and shotgun I would literally stand out in the open at night in the swamps and murder whatever came my way without an issue.

Simple, it’s a better melee weapon.

Staff is B. It’s basically a long range nailboard minus the damage upgrade, you can still craft with it if it has even a smidge of durability left, and you find a billion of them. Makes it a good weapon for sparing other supplies.

Pristine weapons in the depths, fused with silver lynel horns. Both easily farmable each blood moon.

Seconding royal swords (and royal weapons in general). Usually I get them from defeating Hinoxes.

easy! try the 1 hit bonk build, it costs about 18 zonites, and will kill the entire group in 1 hit.

https://youtu.be/RDkrEZQr2zk?si=T1AivBx9PLVkuVTf
the build you want to use is at 0:39 mark, it is pretty self explanatory how to put it together. the crux of it is a 2 hoverstone, 2 rocket combo, along with some out-stretched "arm" that cna guarantee a hit on the bokos.

here is another contraption that can 1 hit these bokos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEnB_N_2Bzg&ab_channel=evanthebouncy

let me know if you have any questions :D

I just search the depths. I drop a pin for every spot I find a pristine weapon held by a ghost soldier and then if I’m low on weapons I run around after a blood moon. Lots of good weapons to be found this way and easy to farm

Dragon Spike shards + multishot if you have it, the. Pick em off one by one. Failing that, two handed and spin to win.

If you got the patience, muddlebloom them all until its just the boss left before you go in

If you're confident taking on silver boko troops, there's a group on the southwest of eldin that has all royal swords.

I realized at some point I just had hundreds of silver boko horns so I just slap those bitch a in anything

Most of the territory specific weapons increase attack powers exponentially after fusing them with something. Especially if they share an element like fire, water, ice, etc

The forest farm is good. Easy hardwood and foragables

Standard. You can get ores, hardwoods and fish with bit of inconvenience. But, farming space is set and there is nothing you can do to increase it. And, standard farm offers the most farming space by large margin.

I like the river farm. Fishing is a good source of income early on. Farm on the larger islands. House your animals in the smaller ones. https://imgur.com/3I2DdF9.jpg

Forest & Hilltop are my two favorites.

I really like Hilltop. Standard was kinda intimidating to me.

One factor to consider is the ingredients you need to make the equipment. Kegs and bee houses require iron bars, which are fairly valuable early game, and different tree tapper products, which in themselves are not easy to get early game. Mayo machines, cheese presses and preserve jars, however, are made of relatively easy to get hold of materials so I usually stick to those to begin with.

Kegs are good. Preserves jar is almost as good and can be useful if you have the materials for them but not for kegs, but personally I'd favor kegs when possible. The quality of the crops doesn't affect the quality of the artisan goods you get, so use your lowest quality crops first if you aren't able to process all of it right away - that will leave you with better crops either for NPC gifts or for when you need cash now.

If you're raising animals, there's pretty much no reason not to have the corresponding processing stuff (mayo machine, cheese press, loom, and oil maker). You'll only need one per animal per day to keep up with production without needing to check on them multiple times a day, for everything except truffles (because pigs have a chance to find multiple in a day). Even with Rancher, Artisan goods are usually more profitable than just selling the produce, which is why the Artisan profession is better. With Artisan, you will always earn more by processing, except maybe with Iridium quality wool, which is worth more than cloth even with Artisan. That said, the Wiki claims that Iridium wool has a 50% chance of producing 2 cloth, and if that's true, then on average, processing it to cloth is more profitable than selling it as-is. But I haven't actually noticed myself get 2 cloth from 1 wool, which makes me wonder if the chance for double cloth actually exists. The animal product processing machines act fairly quickly, so even if you need cash now, it doesn't really make sense to sell unprocessed animal products once you've got the infrastructure set up.

Cheese is the most useful for health. Pale Ale is one of the most profitable things you can produce in the early game.

Happy cake day!

Bee houses are literally passive income. But also preserve jars/kegs to increase early game income. Use preserve jars for crops with a low base price and kegs with higher valued items.

Later on when you have animals then you can invest in cheese presses and mayonnaise machines, and eventually oil presses.

Kegs are my biggest money makers in late game though.

On the start it’s the jam maker, but later on the wine maker is better

Steel paxel IMO is best for most of the game, even with a dragon pickaxe I prefer the paxel because it's so cheap to fix and mines whatever I need. Oh, gamble pickaxe and explosive pickaxe are bottom tier.

I still love Fortuna Major. If I find it I just use it lol. I honestly don't think I've ever made a dragon pick. Diamond works fine when enchanted. Having the unlimited durability is great!

Upgraded Geonach fist/Erepede drill/Vapula pickaxe solos every other pickaxe. Dragonbone pickaxe with good efficiency can do it if you don't want to be eradicating chunks though

lycanite tools can decimate chunks easily

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Gold pickaxe with golden osmosis beats everything. Not only can it dig in large area instantly, but it can also restore durability by consuming experience.

Standard farm type for me, tons of flat land and it's easy to clean up with paths and fences. The Forrest type is probably my favorite, but I can't ever get it to look the way I want.

Four corners! More space than I know what do with, but I prefer the flat land over ponds and cliffs

Forest farm is my favorite with Four Corners a close second.

Four corners or standard. Standard has a tiny bit more space, but four corners is amazing for organization.

Best? Probably four corners. You get the quarry from hilltop and the hardwood source from forest farm, plus there's still quite a bit of tillable land (I believe it's second only to standard farm).

For your second farm I would just pick the one you like the most. You're familiar enough with the game mechanics you don't really need any benefits.

What are you looking for? I went standard, forest, hilltop, beach and now 4 corners and enjoyed all of them just because each had slightly different challenges. Standard is actually my least favorite - just too much of a big undefined space for me, but some people love all the room. I liked beach the most because the lack of sprinklers in the beginning made me change up my usual strategies. 4 corners has been the easiest.

Personally i like the forest farm or the beach one.

Really enjoying the beach farm. River farm would be challenging too

For aesthetics, to me forest is the most attractive.

Beach or river

The standard or forest are objectively the best farms because of what they can offer in the way of aesthetics and profits. Form and function! The others are great if you want to mix it up, though; there's nothing wrong with that! But Riverlands is very restrictive in its size and requires a special touch to make it truly look beautiful as well as not having much to actually offer the farmer, so be wary.

Forest. You get forage and renewed hardwood stumps.

I really enjoyed the foraging/Forrest one! It sounds kinda lame and boring but, it's actually really pretty and you can set up your farm how ya like it easier, in my opinion.

Standard or the forest.

Standard farm, best farm