Digtoise’s Ability Changed My Mining Base to a Breeding / Ranching Center
While assigned to the base, Digtoise only does 1 damage to rocks right now. However, when he’s in your party, he goes through mining nodes like nothing. Make his Pal Gear item, and you can command him to spin NON-STOP until the node is gone.
His ability has a charge bar, he can easily demolish 4-5 nodes before having to recharge. If you catch 2 Digtoise, you can full clear just about any mining base in a couple of minutes, completely eliminating the need for dedicated miners assigned to the base.
So what does this mean? It means we have a whole other base’s pal capacity to put to work. Assuming you have item production going at your main base, the second base becomes the perfect spot to do breeding and ranching.
This Is My Current Setup at Base 2:
- 2 Breeding Farms, for making multiple species eggs at once (single species breeding is only really limited by cake production)
- 1 Ranch, multiples do nothing
- 1 Storage Box
- 1 Forge, since I like to smelt my ore before taking it home just so ore is only in 1 location
- 1 Cooking Pot, for Cakes
- 1 Mill, for Cakes
- 1 Wheat Farm, for Cakes
- 1 Berry Farm, for Cakes
- 1 Feed Box
Optional: 1 Cooler Box – if you want to stockpile more cakes/ingredients, but I think they don’t last long enough that they need to be stored anyway
For Assigned Pals:
- 4 Breeding Slots, fill these with whatever 2 pairs you’re breeding
- 1 Chikipi for Eggs
- 1 Mozzarina for Milk
- 1 Beegarde for Honey
- 1 Flambelle for Flame Organs
- 1 Cremis for Wool
- 1 Woolipop, for Cotton Candy (Quietly an incredible Sanity fixer that never expires. Don’t sleep on Cotton Candy)
- 1 Planter, recommend Broncherry
- 1 Waterer, Surfvent is an easy to get LV2
- 1 Mau (Optional) for coins
- 2 Vanwyrm / Ragnahawk – for transporting and cooking/smelting
If you’re at the 15 pal cap, stick in another Kindling pal for cooking.
Stop by and clear out the ore nodes with Digtoise in all of 2 minutes, set the ore to smelt, get the wheat and cake sorted. If you have LV3+ Kindling, by the time you get done getting your bases sorted all your ingots will be finished.
People are making ore bases and it’s a waste of time. You should be making bases where it’s large and flat and also no convenient fast travel. Digitoise can burn through rocks and all of the mining nodes are close to various fast travel spots around the map.
Just west of the northern desert has an amazing spot where you can just jump off the cliff and you’re in the desert biome for oil and plenty of nodes if you need a quick top off.
Bases really should be focused on the stone and lumber buildings and farming/ranching. Just use the digitoise to manually mine. It’ll eat through an entire rock in 15 seconds or so.
I’d rather leave the brunt of the mining chores to my pals while I go around exploring, catching and whatnot.
After a while the ore you can mine and carry yourself ain’t gonna cut it unless you spend a decent amount of time doing only that, even with Digtoise