Which biome should I buy?
This comes up every once in a while on forums. While some parts of the answer never change, recent updates have added more goodies to worlds.
All worlds: All worlds contain the possibility of a paint bunker, head bunkers, crystals, miner fossils, shell fossils, trilobite fossils, and onyx. The presence and quantity of these things vary.
Note: World exclusives may or may not be present in your purchase
Temperate: This is a good world for beginners with low survival. That’s not to say that you can’t get another world, but you’ll have to take precautions (or explore in slow stages). This world’s exclusives are fish fossils. Apart from Arctic worlds, it’s also the main world for finding anbaric mushrooms.This world also boasts trees on the surface, which make the lumberjack achievement easy. Weather danger: Acid rain
Arctic: This world’s main danger is freezing. You can prevent that by building fires and tapping them, or by upgrading your survival. Arctic worlds may contain many exclusive rares, including elder arctic mushrooms, diamonds, ice sculptures, mammoth fossils, and the Jackalope head. You can also find plenty of ice and snow here.
Desert: This world’s danger is in getting thirsty. For players with low survival, this means stocking up on jars full of water (simply craft empty jars, find a source of water, and place the jars in the water. Then mine them again). This world offers sand and beryllium ore (good for engineering).
Hell: Hell is interesting in the way that theoretically, low level players can mind continuously. But you’ll want loads of jerky. Hell has layers of bedrock that require bombs to blast through it. Hell also has infernal protectors over red chests. Don’t try to get to the chest, there’s a better way. Find all the machine parts and click on the expiator. Then dig a path to the surface, create ghosts by mining bloodstone ore or undertaking, and lead them to the expiator and click on the machine to deliver them. You’ll need around a dozen ghosts. This breaks the protectors and leaves the chests free for the taking. Other hell exclusives are bloodstone ore, elder infernal mushrooms, the old one fossils, fire salt, and large red crystals. Weather danger: Fire rain
Deep: You’ll need a high level mining skill to get to every nook and cranny here. Also avoid the maws spewing gas (purify these by collecting machine parts and clicking on the world machine). World exclusives here are orange crystals, large red crystals, large purple crystals, devil cigar mushrooms, elder apostate mushrooms, and shade mushrooms. Gather these mushrooms with care and distance so they don’t explode in your face.
Brain: A relatively new world type, the biggest danger here is brain mobs. You can stop these by linking up an inhibitor to an evoker using a collector on a steam pipe and plenty of brass pipe. World exclusives here are large red crystals, hunter heads, and brain tanks. These tanks can be mined and used as great decorations.
So maybe I’ve confused you with all this talk. In the end, items from any of these worlds can be bought from other players, or you could mine them in public worlds. So when you buy a world, think of the long term plan - do you want to build a creation in an arctic biome or a desert one? With enough resources, you might be able to transform one world type into another anyway - see Frosted Dunes for an example of an arctic world remodeled into a desert one.
Ahahahaha, I’ve confused you again, probably. If you’re really after a private set of resources, then I hope this post can help you out.
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