Core Keeper: BEST MOLD DUNGEON Clearing Strategy

[@ImakittyLAWL]

Also - you can dig up the floor and place bridges down. I do this when I clear a room to have a "safe place" to drop the mold debuff.

[@jameslarimer9211]

I call samesies, but I used grass ground. Also, bring a hand mortar for when you get bunched up infected. It's also good against tentacles because you can damage them without a direct hit, great for those "trick shots"

[@thelaststraightguy990]

I spammed them everywhere the first time I took on a mold dungeon. Never thought to use a hoe!

[@OriginalRyan]

Great tip to hoe the ground! The spawn rates of the infected cavelings is crazy so neutralizing that is super useful! Also, the cavelings drop blowpipes so if your ranged weapon does break, you'll more than likely pick up one or two in the dungeon.

[@fogismaximus]

I would've never guessed using the hoe lol. I cleared all the stuff on the ground but was wondering how, if possible, to stop them from spawning behind me and ganking me. Thanks for the great tips!!

[@AchiBear01]

Is it possible to significantly reduce the chance of Infested Cave monsters spawning by cutting the ground in an Infested Cave with a hoe?

[@OriginalRyan]

@@AchiBear01 yes! Or you can use bombs that burn the ground as well preventing respawns.

[@DranKof]

"Be sure to get every single spot." -- leaves very first spot un-hoed. =D

[@samvimes9510]

Alright, I've cleared two of these mold dungeons now. Here's a couple more tips: For melee, use the larva spike club. It has a 50% chance to cause knockback and it's _insanely_ helpful (literally saved my life when I was swarmed by those gardeners and trapped in their snare plant). You can also bring a bunch of spike traps with you. The mold dungeons are full of narrow corridors and if you just aggro a few infected, they'll slowly walk over the spikes and then you can smack them right back into the spikes with your club. To break the walls, you can just bring a generator and a drill. Once you've cleared out an area, set the drill up and it'll break through a wall block in several seconds. Also, if you upgrade to the scarlet hoe, it will till a 3x3 area so it'll go much faster. Oh and don't forget to reinforce everything at the repair bench. Took me way too long to realize I could reinforce my equipment. I gotta say though, these dungeons are a whole lot of effort for nothing. Aside from the blowpipe, there's not really any worthwhile loot (unless you want the statues and mold columns for decoration). The sickle has a pretty high drop rate from Ivy, so I think I'm just gonna try to find that boss instead.

[@gothyah]

One VERY important hint that everyone playing Core Keeper should know, is to always carry a repair table and scrap on them, to repair broken tools, weapons and armor. Preferably, keep those on your hot bar, so you don't lose them if you die.

[@BrogenGames]

Now it takes scarlet to repair scarlet tools

[@chrisevil7012]

just fyi, scrap isn't a thing anymore since last update.

[@Tsukiyori9]

@@chrisevil7012 downside it's hard to find scarlet :< friend and I aren't pleased with it

[@dr.shadox4927]

@@chrisevil7012 its actually in game and is enough for repair everything , you only need scarlet bar is you want "upgrade" a scralet tool for example , but can repair it with only scrap.

[@TomMotTom]

@@Tsukiyori9 You are probably just looking in the wrong place. It's very abundant in the Azeos wilderness

[@Blade_Corps]

Thank you for all the tips, I'm just now getting to mold dungeons and knowing all this will save me tons of grief.

[@hemsey9051]

I also found that the drill can dig through mold walls (as can the post azeos critical melee hit), so if youre carrying a drill setup, you can sneak in for chests if you need to - (im fairly sure the drill hasnt been patched to no longer do that)

[@shadowkhan422]

Ability to dodge is *huuuge* help in those dungeons since it can be spammed to counter movement debaff. Before you have mold cancel definitely bring the feather

[@kelfization]

Super helpful! Thanks!

[@yomogimochi72]

Should've tried this before. Thanks for the tips. I neutralise them by placing torch,but it can be broken by them

[@kurii-]

I don't have an issue clearing the dungeon mobs with a scarlet sword and the no mold set. You can hit them once, then run back to dodge their attack, and then hold the attack button to kill them before they get a chance to attack again. The tentacles can be tricky if there are 2 of them; you'll need a ranged weapon for this. The swift feather helps a lot if you don't have the mold set as you're going to be placing torches everywhere anyway. The tentacles will give you the most trouble, but they glow in the dark so you can see them ahead of time.

[@keblin86]

I decided to buy the game and as I thought, I am in love. It is soooo good. Trying not to spoil it too much by watching all your videos yet but I felt like watching this one just for a little sneak peak of what I have ahead of me. Once I catch up I may comment a bit more but loving your content on this game. I hope more people get into it. I am now trying to tell all my friends to buy it :D

[@sergey_a]

I just got the ring and necklace from the first enemies and didn't even care about the debuff until then. -70% speed isn't that bad if you're a ranged player. You kill enemies before they approach you.

[@sergey_a]

I also went through it without armor, since it is not needed if you are not taking damage.

[@dr.shadox4927]

@@sergey_a dodge ranged attack from tentacle is a bit risky when you have -70% movement speed

[@unnamednewbie13]

Without the mold jewelry, you can bring a shovel and a bunch of wood bridges and just make yourself a path. If you don't want to deal with mob spawns stabbing you in the back, you can dig out any blocks next to your path and they won't be able to reach you. It's still a slow, methodical way to clear one of these dungeons, but maybe faster than hoeing every single tile. As a bonus, you'll get enough mold ground to make mob spawners and farms.

[@shiznitts]

Never had an issue with these biomes because I found a bomb scarab mortar before beating Azeos. The joys of RNG loot drops. Now I'm way up north carving out the shimmering frontier with only one titan soul to my name. I might just be going a little out of order...

[@cmbyrd1004]

I've shoveled ground behind me every so often, used range weapon to clear reasons on my way back and drip a bridge to cross back over. Saves a lot of time compared to hiring the ground non stop . Plus it's free range weapon skill increase

[@Jasondawn999]

Loool I didn't know hoeing them prevents spawning. Before I got the mold accessories I actually dig up each room fully and building a pathway with wooden bridges.

[@jacksonfite8599]

I have 2 points to add. The first is that I like bringing wood bridges so I can dig out the ground and replace small areas with the bridge so I can shake off the movement debuff. The other thing is that i had azeos's lightning go off and it destroyed the mold walls. It is wierd to think that you can randomly break the walls with crits.

[@Thelitletrainthtcud]

the walls aren't actually immune to damage, they are specifically resistant to pickaxe dmg, drills, azeos lightbean, bombs, and maybe if there was a way to lure ghorm to the wilderness perhaps he would DEMOLISH it all

[@TylerSmith-hs8xw]

You can still break them, but it's hard process. The Azeos soul beam will cut through mold, but you need to melee crit a mob for the chance to summon the beam. But it will cut a whole path out of anything it touches. Pretty neat.

[@ColourShyft]

This is super awesome, using the hoe is a fantastic idea!! Thanks 😊

[@arcbrush]

I just shovel a spot or two out and either put a bridge or a different ground to get rid of mold slows.

[@LeeFleming337]

i was just building bridges over the water in the dungeons.. and brought some walls with me to block off a path so they wouldn't follow me if they did respawn

[@allthingsexadonix6998]

You can also break the mold wall with 3 of the red bombs.

[@shadowkhan422]

The drill also should work and having some generator/drill combos is pretty usefull when exploring aniway

[@Shakon_Krogen]

can you make a mob farm for the mold enemies like with slime and cavelings?

[@CarolineandLyra]

Tip for doing it without the ring and necklace set, dont bother hoeing. Take up the floor and put bridges down everywhere. In big rooms, only bridge areas you need to walk on then leave 1 tile of moat to corner off areas of mould you dont want to pick up, mobs will spawn on the mold but wont be able to reach you. Mixing bridges and moats in big rooms give you plenty of space to move and fight, no movement speed debuff and a safety gap where mobs still spawning, cant reach you. Only once you have the ring and necklace set would I recommend hoeing all the ground as you dont have to worry about debuff to speed.

[@B_dubbya]

I found out yesterday, You can still break through mold walls, if you bring a drill and a generator with you. Takes some time but drills will still break them. I got Curious while setting up drills on a scarlet node near a mold biome. Tried it and it works.

[@gothyah]

he did mention that in the video

[@B_dubbya]

Yea, I missed the mention of that originally. Rewatched and caught it thanks.

[@BossQ-oi6ui]

Multiple giant bombs explode at the same time can break the mold wall :D

[@amon_san]

i plastered the ground with spike traps. now i can farm the area

[@arod7113]

Woh nice didn't know you could just hoe the ground, you can also block off dead ends with walls so that you don't have to hoe everything

[@MangoTheBum2]

so what are the chances for the shamans staff to drop? i wouldn't mind getting it for collection in the first place and it seems like it would be better then the musket, also is scarlet armor "required" or can you do it in iron?

[@CrazedArmadill0]

you can definitely do it in iron armor. hoeing the ground stops enemies from spawning but will not stop the slow debuff. if you're worried about that, I recommend digging sections of the ground out and replacing them with wooden bridges to create a 'safe area' in between your hoed ground. watch out for the tentacle enemies, getting hit by those is basically a death sentence. I like to use the feather in the dungeon for quick escapes, and use the remedaisy necklace instead of the mold vein. slow and steady is the name of the game.

[@MoreMediocreMilton]

I killed many shamans without getting a fire staff then got 3 in 10 minutes. Looks like the drop rate is under 2% so go find as many shamans as you can 🤣

[@gothyah]

the fireball staff has a 1.93% chance of dropping from Caveling Shamans

[@shadowkhan422]

@@gothyah Well worth it though . You need to explore stone area a lot so prob will get it with no farming anyway too(or while farming for boss summon)

[@bra1nc417d]

And how do you get the fire staff?

[@MoreMediocreMilton]

Caveling Shamans drop them

[@bra1nc417d]

@@MoreMediocreMilton Thank ya.

[@Tsukiyori9]

Wait. U can have a staff. I need to find one

[@KarmaGamer0502]

There is pretty much 0 reaspn as to exploring these dungeons, sure the poisonous sickle is good, but you can farm it from the ivy boss, it's much easier and takes way less time to clear each dungeon Btw my dungeon clearing method is to bring a poison immune necklace in my inv, then equip the 2 set mold speed debuff remover and a sky ring, if I were to get poisoned n low on hp, I fall back equip n unequipp the poison immune necklace then drink potions, I tend to bring around 200 hp potions, using range to deal with the tentacles and melee to kill the infected, you can just group them up, swing then back off then swing then rinse n repeat till they all die which saves time. And about the infected spawning from behind...I tend to just deal with them, and even if I'm cornered, you can just run past them, their attacks are so slow, as long as u don't get stuck, u can avoid them

[@MoreMediocreMilton]

This video was aimed towards someone that has not been through the dungeon and doesn’t have the mold necklace and ring. There’s no way you can run past the infected cavelings in a narrow hallway without the set.

[@KarmaGamer0502]

@@MoreMediocreMilton hmm true, guess it won't hurt to explore a few dungeons, though tbh their chest rewards should be more generous instead of nothing or just a few scarlet ore Just doesn't feel rewarding when completing the dungeons

[@keblin86]

@@KarmaGamer0502 While I am not as far as you guys yet, I got to say I love exploring in this game. Regardless of the reward I get lol. It's so fascinating. I just love clearing areas and seeing what it leads to. I also have an unhealthy obsession with building rail tracks around the entire map lmao. Please tell me someone else is aiming to do this? haha. Again, no real reason to do this other than I want to, and like to, and yep I know it is a waste of time now as I just got something better to get around with. Kinda, or should I say to get back home with but man I just love exploring in this game!

[@tomaspapak61]

Much faster strategy is to have 20 metal spikes, you can go over it but mobs are damaged and slowed. So put those 20 behind you, clear next one or two rooms, then replace those spikes and over again. Use ranged weapon.

[@MoreMediocreMilton]

The mobs will keep spawning if you don’t hoe the ground so not sure how your method is faster because you’ll constantly be surrounded by new mobs

[@jcmottern]

It's game is like crack I can't get away from it 😁

[@Mesling_]

how do you get so much health? i only have 300

[@MoreMediocreMilton]

4 Giant Mushrooms + 1 Amber Larva

[@Mesling_]

@@MoreMediocreMilton alright

[@devon5856]

Puff-un-guy not puff-in-gee

[@MoreMediocreMilton]

Puh-fin-geeeee