My solution: Add an incantation that allows you to swap tools between regions, just like there is for keepsakes.

Although I would like having them available at all times, this seems like the best fix given the system they're using so far. Especially because resources vary from place to place and picking something like the shovel to get the seeds from the woods means you lose on anything you could've picked from the next biomes.

All tools should be available at all times once you unlock them. The current system is just unnecessary grind

I wasn't happy that I could take only one tool, but then I kept playing and now I can take two. I'm not sure what the limit will be.

/edit: apparently the second tool has only one use, but can be upgraded to more uses.

Oh, it’s not the time. I don’t mind the time actually. That’s a neat little reward after each run. It’s the tediousness of planting and reseeding that gets old fast.

Honestly idk I think 1 tool is fine, but I dislike psyche being a tool because it is slow and tedious to farm without it. I'd rather just get more/not have a tool for it amd be able to compel shades by default. At like 22 it takes me 200 psyche for 1 more slot which of course wont really get me a card.

I like it. Each run I think to myself what I need and what tool I should bring. Gives a little extra meaning to each run.

The thing I really hope they look at is a quicker way to deal with the crops. I have a ton of seeds. Tending to 6 crops individually between each run is just kind of tedious. Not a huge complaint, but being able to do all of that faster would be nice.

I don't mean this to be dismissive but I genuinely don't understand how you keep running out.

Do you have enough storage? I have plenty of space for a lot more but at 266 days in this campaign I have 472.8k storage.

My favourite biome to set up cultivators is the acidic plains (specifically the initial scouting mission as there are no enemy waves) because acidic can have the same plants as desert and volcanic which covers everything you can't plant in the tropical biome - I currently have 12 cultivators set up here; 6 planting the Ferdonite tentacle mushroom, 4 planting the Rodonite variant, 2 planting the radioactive cacti, and this is giving me an output of 60.5 Carbonium, 91.7 Ironium, 4.1 Uranium, 6.2 Titanium, 36.2 plant biomass, 3.9 Ferdonite and 2.5 Rhodonite; the 6.2 Titanium is with the -14 from Supercoolant refineries.

For the basics ones (iron/carbo), the most efficient way is to use synthetiser. Once you get to nuclear plant, power is not much more of a problem to fuel them. A small trick is to use one of the early desert map with very common wind storm that push wind turbine to 500% and spam these, spam synthetiser and leave it during a storm. Free constant production.

For anything else, as you said, cultivator is the way to go for long term, or jump from an empty map to another new.

First, use water as a coolant everywhere. If the location doesn't have water - pump it from another location via liquid compressor.

Second, mining nodes is a constant race. No matter how hard you try the will all eventually run out, faster than you would like. Because of this switching to infinite supply is the best strategy long term. Use synthesizers for carbon and iron, preferably NOT on your HQ location, power then with gas first, then nuclear and finally with fusion.

Then - go farming. Farms may seem to provide very little bit they're actually infinite and only require water and space. Once set even a single farm will provide you with constant supply of the resource. Bonus point - it provides plant biomass which you can use to turn into gas and get a lot of free energy early on. But single farm is slow. As a beginner setup, set at least 5 cultivators for each "crystal" resource (hazenite, ferdonite, etc) and at least 10 cultivators per each metal. Use different biomes for different plants, however, jungle and acid cover everything and have the best plants for that (haver most yield). And again, do NOT set farms on your HQ map - for many reasons. Choose maps without attack waves, the best one is Hazenite Concentration (it's the only jungle map without attack waves, enemies only come from a single point so it's easy to defend) and acid scouting missions.

My "endgame" setup provides me 30 per second of each rare resource and 500/sec of each carbon and iron. I never bother capturing any resource nodes at all.

Just do a harvester station. Meanwhile search for new deposits on a new biome.

But yeah, that's normal. That's why plant harvesting is a must

Farming for Titanium and other rarer resources is vital, I hate the lava biome and mining titanium is very boring.

-after a while, you gonna encounter options form the house contractor that cost diamonds but give you things like: beating boss give you gemstones or higher reward in the troves
-dont go in darkness rooms unless you are forced to go in that room, beating bosses give higher amount of darkness anyway
-the current and fastest way farm darkness is by keep beating bosses at low heat. while doing so, try aiming for Poseidon's boons "Ocean bounty" then "Sunken treasure"
-if you havent bought the "fated list", BUY it! it will give you tons of resource while also give you some replayability
simply by buying everything in the "work order" section of the House contractor is gonna make your runs yield more resources

0 Heat, take Poseidon's Keepsake and go for Ocean's Bounty and Sunken Treasure, hopefully Huge Catch as well, take Chaos gates to get as many Eclipse Boons as you can. Buy all the Gems and Nectar you can from Charon and the Wells, as well as Light of Ixion and Trove Tracker. Do all treasure troves and fishing spots, of course. You can use Fated Persuasion to reroll boons and the wells for what you need.

Darkness and gems are best farmed by fishing for the chaos and poseidon boons for greater yield. Do this on a heat you beat so bosses all drop darkness.

I have yielded over 2000 darkness on runs doing this. I think I could pull 4k under the right circumstances. Gems are done the same way really.

Keys and nectar are from beating rooms really. If you can complete runs with a weapon quick, do that. Nectar can be a boon from dionysus so hit him up every run you can.

Titan blood and diamonds can be purchased easily in most runs once comfortable, but darkness is slow if you don't target it specifically.

Farm hard for gems and trade them up into nectar. Vanquisher's Keep and Darker Thirst contracted upgrades will expedite the process; before you get those, maybe focus on prophecies and Dio boons as others have said.

You can heed all of these gentlemen's advice, it's all good. But don't worry if you can't farm it quickly, you're not really supposed to. You will eventually get all the nectar you need, it just takes some time. You won't need that much of it in the grand scheme of things anyway.

The nectar isn't really "farmable"as such... It'll naturally come in time. Also it's available through trading part way through the game

Try to fish as much as possible in Elysium. And fish well too; they give 1-3 nectars depending on rarity.

Nectar is a bit tough to farm, but you can get a nectar from one of Dionysus' boons. You can also trade keys for nectar at the retched broker, and there are several prophecies that award both keys and nectar in the fated list of minor prophecies.

It's more like planning the spending of your resources than the spending of your energy.

Unless you go high skill levels and/or high levels you will mainly be farming discoins, tendency elemental mats, and regular mats. Generally speaking level 70 and important skills to 7 is a decent stopping point to move into the next sinner. P3, ECB, and more levels depends on whether it is effective for their role.

Early on, farm whatever you need to hit power spikes as efficiency doesn't matter as much as completing more difficult content for more rewards.

Supposedly there isn't much efficiency difference between all the regular material stages, so I usually farm the highest energy stage so it goes quicker.

Shop efficiency usually doesn't matter as usually you can buy it out, but mania essence over discoins as discoin farming is more efficient.

In general, you should always aim to clear the highest level of what your current characters can do and use them for farming, whether it's the Rust stages or the main story stages for specific materials. Obviously this becomes bit of a back and forth situation where you need to do a stage to get stronger but you also dont wanna spend all your stamina on on that stage because once you're strong enough, you should push for a higher difficulty stage. So just try to use your best judgement

If you're a newer player, you probably also have a decent amount of boxes for materials too so that should help get your first team rolling.

Personally I tend to use most of my stamina in the rust levels, for materials I tend to use the supply box, doing the events and some content like RoD gives you a good amount of those.

Run all of these tbh. If the game provides and allows, just go for it. Setup geores with golems as they are needed later for vibranium. MA doesn’t have a lot, but still some of the useful seeds as dirt, trees, water etc. bees are just easy to do so no reason to pass on them. The more resources you get the less you have to care about little things and can just enjoy the factory aspect.

MA is good early game but once you can afford the upgrades bees surpass them. Personally I just don't even bother with MA unless it's for something specific like heart of the sea or nether stars, which you will later be able to farm more efficiently with Wannabee's, because the more combs and honey you have the easier it is to make more.

To add on to what MrZ said. Now that botany pots support saplings and MA. They both just got a lot easier and faster.

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tbh, upgraded auto-sieves with fortune V + a netherite barrel with omega upgrades is more than enough for most part of the resources. If you need something in particular you dont get from these, than just use bees/geores/ma as you preffer

the islands below Heraklion also spawn lots of 500gp carrying patrols.

I like the new sprint, and the changes to combat generally. Hades 1 felt rather spammy, I like the combat pacing here a bit better.

I don't like the current UI, there's a lot of minor issues with it. Main example coming to mind is the Fear menu, it's very wonky and hard to read.

Like: surface/underworld run. It's good to have a variation

Dislike: nêmesis stealing our gold if we lose her challenge

Yeah I've seen people say that cast is more versatile now and I very much disagree. I think it can be really fun, but the game is designed around its necessity. And I don't think the casts get very diverse. At the end of the day, it's still just a circle that helps deal with enemy placement. 

I loved the cast in Hades 1. You could choose to ignore it or you could get some really fun builds with it. The Meme Beam was my favorite. Beyblades could get ridiculous. There was that duo boon that a second cast every time. Aspect of Poseidon was so fun too. 

Hades 2 would break if you could get more than one cast a time, but that was also part of the fun of the cast in Hades 1. With chaos and others, you could end up with an insanely fun and silly build. 

She is infinitely worse about it than Thanatos was in the first game

He was way too easy to beat and Nemesis is way too good at killstealing everything, I'm sure there's a middle ground

I wish it would force you to rarify first before it let you pick I forget 99% of the time

Yeah, but 100 gold, at Erebus even, is too much. She could throw us an onion or nothing. But stealing while she can one shot almost every enemy is a bit too much for me.

Never thought about the casts! At least Hades' launches and sticks like in 1 but yeah, no variety other than that.

Thing I like: Erebus, I think it's so well designed as well as the camp. It feels like a lot of thought went into it.

Thing I dislike: the weapon aspects. Hades 1 aspects were awesome and varied so different in how you played. The aspects in Hades 2 feel very lack luster imo. Would love to see some more tweaks to them for sure. And of course it's still in early access. So we'll see what happens.

FFA zone in low pop times will net good return. A big issue is t1 availability specifically rawhide. Cutlass was a suburb zone for farming rawhide now you gotta do buffalo and deer which is much more competitive.

Flux is also costly right now but material converters are coming back that will help.

Its actually much easier to get tier 5/6 then getting t1..

I've found, going into the PVP area late nights are easier to gather higher tiered resources. I'm a heavy tank so I don't stand a chance if I'm attacked but I keep half what I find and level up quick with the rarer resources. Just rinse and repeat.

There's an area that I like to specifically farm rawhide with proficiency booster, music buff and 625 gs tools I'm able to farm about 7-8k rawhide in 30 mins and I reach my capacity about 10500 rawhide in about 45 mins.

So if I farmed for x2 proficiency booster time (60 mins) and don't teleport to town to store valuable drops and run back theoretically almost 15k rawhide in an hour is possible but only when then there's nobody else around the time increases dramatically with others around.

I'm not a hardcore player, but this seems like a good starting point to find info.

https://gaming.tools/newworld/

FFA zone just not on Tuesday or peek hours Wednesday even then being off the main road is pretty safe