Pillar Farming Exploit

[LightsFaith]

There is a bug right now that is highly exploitable and easy to reproduce.
What this bug does is drop the loot from fishing and mining except the 2 rarest resources of the fishing and mining pool.

1. equip a sentinel and take off the weapon. If you equip an animal they will kill the enemies.
2. Find a pillar and activate it using operator (preferably a pillar that does not push away enemies)

3. kill every enemy except the brood mothers.
4. either run around it or sit on top of the pillar. When the maggots die from expiring, the pillar will drop loot
5. After a while the pillar will go on cooldown. Wait 10 seconds and hit it again with operator and sit on top of it or run around it.

And just like that you've mostly everything from fishing and mining. All that's left from both are the rarest fish and mineral.
I feel like this is supposed to be a feature as i assume killed enemies within these pillars drop the loot but when killed by the player it drops nothing.
Only when the enemy dies from expiring or from killing each other do they drop the loot.

Loot from 10 Minutes of farming this.

[SepticSean]

its not a exploit lmao

[Helch0rn]

they drop loot if you kill them with your operator

[LightsFaith]

11 hours ago, SepticSean said:

its not a exploit lmao

items dropping isn't an exploit but the method to doing so as explained in this post with the maggots was. They've already fixed it in the most recent update, but i was uncertain at the time whether the items dropping was an exploit as well so i had them both added in this post.