Questionmarkmarkquestion Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Can’t seem to find any, mined for at least 30 minutes and probably went over 100+ ores and got nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheePrime Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Well for starters it’s a gem so it drops from gem nodes not ore nodes. That particular item I’ve not seen from any other sources, not vault room, nor pillar loot. So continue mining and sacrifice a goat to RNGesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeckChairVonBananaCamel Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Specifically, look for the greenish-blue mining nodes, these nodes drop gems. (The orange-yellow ones are ore nodes and only drop ores.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARINunit9 Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 My problem is actually Heciphron. It's a rare gem, which means you have a 75% chance of getting Xenorast or Embolos instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)poloslash18 Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Questionmarkmarkquestion said: Can’t seem to find any, mined for at least 30 minutes and probably went over 100+ ores and got nothing Change the mining tool to the Focused Nosam Cutter. They are extremely rare and only with that mining tool they started dropping. Blue veins not yellow veins also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)ForNoPurpose Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, (PS4)poloslash18 said: Change the mining tool to the Focused Nosam Cutter. They are extremely rare and only with that mining tool they started dropping. Blue veins not yellow veins also. I got them with my sunpoint. You can rarely get gems from yellow veins on all open worlds too, if on the mining circle you see 2 points to aim for, the super small one will guarentee a random gem extra to the main reward of the vein. On gem veins you can get as many as 3 different gem rewards combining the base and a possible 2 rare rewards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toppien Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 the pilars sometimes drop 2 at a time, even 4 if you are lucky, thats how i got enough for my necramech XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jylon Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 thaumica seems to be the pain to get for me. it is the hesperon of this update -o- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void_Ocelot Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 None of these methods are working for me. I can get every other time of mineral or gem, just not necrathene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunarez Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 I have my suspect that it's up to Vome/Fass cycle but haven't do a test yet. But I seems to get no Thaumic on Vome and no Necrathene on Fass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talinthis Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 I got about 35 from pillars and it didnt take too long. Seem very rare still as you can get zero or 10 each run. I can almost certainly say it doesnt drop from the vault, unless I just haven't got any in the past 3 dozen runs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culaio Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Not sure if you already have it unlocked but entering Cambion Drift in steel path mode(directly from orbiter) may help you farming gems, thats because in this mode you have permament Resource Drop Chance Booster, and how does it matter ? its because according to wiki this booster affects mining and fishing in open worlds(at least it does in plains and orb vallis)in case of mining it doesnt affect quality of gems but it increases frequncy of blue veins that drop gems, which means more chance to drop gems. Though I cant confirm it steel path booster works like this because I didnt test it enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)AllOrNothinDays Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 They can take a while if you're having bad luck, the map doesn't help since you spend so much time looking for mining spots that might just be unreachable so you waste time compared to the plains. They need to take them off trees or whatever they grow on so you don't have to look under things that are so misshapen that you can hardly see the mining spot and just keep it straight forward and put them on the ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monolake Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 in caves and on "trees" under-slightly left from Undularum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void_Ocelot Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Vome & Khra pillars were the most reliable source of Necrathene for me, about 10 in an hour. As far as mining I got maybe 2 hits in 2 days to give me Necrathene 3-4 per hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Questionmarkmarkquestion Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 57 minutes ago, Void_Ocelot said: Vome & Khra pillars were the most reliable source of Necrathene for me, about 10 in an hour. As far as mining I got maybe 2 hits in 2 days to give me Necrathene 3-4 per hit. Yup after 1 day of taking all these people’s advice I got so much from necrathene from the pillars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk1911 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 6 hours ago, Void_Ocelot said: Vome & Khra pillars were the most reliable source of Necrathene for me, about 10 in an hour. As far as mining I got maybe 2 hits in 2 days to give me Necrathene 3-4 per hit. Most of the time I kill everything before the timer runs out and I don't get much and they stop coming after a while so I don't know about the pillars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetosayajin Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Go in solo free roam - find the artifacts/pillars - shoot to activate with amp and kill everything with amp(or xaku if you have it). I never had to mine a single gem this way and I have a lot in stock.I think nekross helps but I'm not sure about this(still go with him on the off chance he does) Each run for me is about 5-10 min max(mostly finding the artifacts takes time, because I don't have them memorised). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk1911 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, vegetosayajin said: Go in solo free roam - find the artifacts/pillars - shoot to activate with amp and kill everything with amp(or xaku if you have it). I never had to mine a single gem this way and I have a lot in stock. Each run for me is about 5-10 min max(mostly finding the artifacts takes time, because I don't have them memorised). Again I am doing that I assure you but as I said the enemies run out after about 30 seconds or slightly more, never lasts the length of the timer. On top of that any attempt to reset the pillar only activates it but no enemies spawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetosayajin Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Just now, Hawk1911 said: Again I am doing that I assure you but as I said the enemies run out after about 30 seconds or slightly more, never lasts the length of the timer. Yes most of the time they don't. Sometimes they spawn again after a while, sometimes they don't. Still I go to the next artifact and the next and then extract and go again. It takes little time and effort and it rewards a lot.Eventually you will get the needed amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk1911 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 1 minute ago, vegetosayajin said: Yes most of the time they don't. Sometimes they spawn again after a while, sometimes they don't. Still I go to the next artifact and the next and then extract and go again. It takes little time and effort and it rewards a lot.Eventually you will get the needed amount. I recall a few players saying that the drop rate was nerfed in the past few patches, and based on what I'm seeing or lack there of I don't doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetosayajin Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, Hawk1911 said: I recall a few players saying that the drop rate was nerfed in the past few patches, and based on what I'm seeing or lack there of I don't doubt it. Maybe...they "fixed" a few drops.The mech mods drops for example, I have only one after multiple(about 20) x3 runs. Or the scintillant, I did a lot of the second bounty that drops it "common", it dropped only once in about 40 runs. I kinda will wait and gather more things for my hungry boi to eat while they fix the update. It will probably take a week or two more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk1911 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 At any rate, on my 2nd run around I got 8, so far out of the 6 repeat runs that's all that I have gotten, and that's with a drop multiplier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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