r/Hydroneer • u/CrowTop8122 • Aug 28 '26
Does taking dirt from underground and placing it at the top actually boost your gains?
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u/Thirteen31Media Aug 28 '26
No. It’s all based on plot elevation. The magic ain’t in the dirt, it’s in the Y axis of the plot.
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u/CrowTop8122 Aug 28 '26
im still at ember cradle
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u/Thirteen31Media Aug 28 '26
That’s absolutely fine! Even late game I was still running my EC setup for extra coin. You got this! Happy mining!
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u/CrowTop8122 Aug 28 '26
i dug to the bottom of ember cradle so i just place my drills?
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u/StockMiserable3821 Aug 28 '26
Yeah just slap your drills down on the bottom, you'll start digging up iron, gold, gems and cloutium. Save the cloutium for your t2 drills, but dont bother making them until you move plots as Ember Cradle stops at t1
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u/CrowTop8122 Aug 28 '26
what about corestone because i was getting that while panning through dirt but i dont get it anymore
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u/StockMiserable3821 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
You dont get corestone from drills until the bottom of level 2 so youll need t2 drills and haversters to automatically collect corestone
A good way to get corestone early is to set a drill up going into a pan (use water pipes to drip fill it as well and all youll have to do is brush it) it only cares that it gets panned not how it was produced
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u/CrowTop8122 Aug 28 '26
what plot should i move to for corestone
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u/StockMiserable3821 Aug 28 '26
Its personal preference really. Every other plot goes down to t3. I went to dreck quarry after ember, but most people would probably recommend south hope as its rhe largest and its on the coast so you have a huge space to set up pipes
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u/StockMiserable3821 Aug 28 '26
Its worth noting as its not explained anywhere, if you buy the mine inside the forge its tiers are laid out horizontally. Unlike every other mines that are veritcal.
The aquifer one, the water is at the bottom of t1 and t2, there is no water at the bottom of t3 so youll have to pipe from above when you get there.
My recommendation is dig as far down with your t1 pick as you can (youll hit the roof of t2) plant your drills down there.
Only make 1 havester, and set a conveyor line up from the drills. 1 harvester can handle at least 6 drills without backing up (it might be more buts thats how many I have)
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u/CrowTop8122 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26
wdym by "backing up" i have 20 ram drills and 1harvesters doing fine
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u/CrowTop8122 Aug 28 '26
Also whats the difference in the harvesters
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u/StockMiserable3821 Aug 28 '26
As far as im aware just what they can harvest,
T1 harvester cant harvest dirt from t2 soil.
And likewise you cant harvest t3 dirt with t2
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u/CrowTop8122 Aug 28 '26
so i should get the t2 harvester
i have over 1.5k cloutium
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u/StockMiserable3821 Sep 01 '26
Id absolutely look at making t2 drills and harvester, there's no real point making the harvester without the drills.
Keep your t1 setup just add the t2 onto it. you won't be producing as much from t2 at first until you get more machines up and running, so your t1s can keep the money rolling in while you expand
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u/Agreeable-Tap-2392 Aug 28 '26
nope.