I Attempted The COBALT CONTRIBUTION Challenge in Dome Keeper

[@Kubwaw]

Gets repairing with iron to save cobalt - immediately repairs with cobalt 😁 Never change, Blitz! Never change!

[@livnwarriors4626]

Makes sense. Kinda alternate it. Iron reduces max health, but combat is expensive. Both have a use case

[@IronDino]

@@livnwarriors4626 True, though you can restore lost health with water.

[@formalcat9526]

But isn't there an upgrade that restore missing hp with water?

[@Kubwaw]

@@livnwarriors4626 Well, not in a scenario where every single unit of cobalt matters 🙃

[@livnwarriors4626]

@@Kubwaw I understand it's a limited resource in this challenge, but there was plenty of cobalt to afford how much blitz actually used it for repairs

[@holdentarver]

Some strategies I would use is to start with drones and resource converter. The converter can make cobalt if you upgrade it. Drones save you so much traveling time. I think focusing on upgrading defense is key so you don't have to repare the dome. Getting and spending iron on defense to save cobalt. I think you used 4-5 cobalt just on dome repairs.

[@LugiDergX]

Using defensive gadgets like saws, spire, auto cannon or stun laser would probably help a lot too if we are talking about upgrading defense, but you need luck to get them.

[@arveersson]

I'd say it was more like 7-9 cobalt

[@dvdtrgg1891]

The shield so you don't lose health and upgrade artillery more so you don't need 5 min to kill the ones that jump on the Dome. Think you would have had a better chance if you didn't want to try something new, as you said, sadly. Love the video no matter how much I scream at my phone and I hope you keep choosing your/(the fun) way. Keep up the good work.

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

Not being critical, just some observations as I've used the mushrooms several times and the drones a lot: - every time you see a mushroom sprout in the basement, go plant it. do so on the vertical shaft going down. space them out. Their buffs don't stack, unless you get the upgrade. Just keep planting them. They buff your speed, so you can use it as a speed boost when running back to the base because you waited too long. I never do that, nope not me. My housemate has never heard me going "CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!" as I'm making a mad dash to the surface. - the condenser is awesome with the combat drones. give them the water/gadget buff. for 8 iron ( 2 for the initial 30% extra combat drones, and 6 for 30% more, plus a 40% boost) you get more drones that do more damage. I buff them all the way, and take the water buff up as well. I use the long term ones. 26 dones, with 40 shots each at a 40% higher damage stacks up. Also, the Cobalt Contribution is my least favorite one. Took me like 12 runs on regular difficulty. I'd hit 17, and run out of time.

[@DabidJims]

In the past, Blitz went for the monster buster tree when the map were mostly swarms. Now with tanky enemies, he went for the double shot. Good ol' Blitz

[@prosekytpl885]

Scrap repair removes max health from the dome and restoration gives it back

[@BH-rx3ue]

well if it counts, I dont criticise you.....most of the time! haha, nah, youre better than a lot of other gaming tubers. Sometimes when i watch Drae play i have to close the tab because it makes me so ANGRY

[@invisiblenutmeg]

Blitz SUCKS and because he didn't do one thing right i will leave a scathing comment, threaten his family and start an entire youtube channel dedicated to HATING HIM FOREVER (This is a joke please don't hate me blitz I love you) (Also when I say "I love you" it's more in a platonic, parasocial kind of way, not a romantic way)

[@RadiantCataclysm]

Just don’t let a KZbinr make you that mad and you’ll be fine.

[@BH-rx3ue]

@@RadiantCataclysm haha im only joking about. Sometimes some youtubers can be frustrating to watch but id never get angry over it, but obviously the neggy comments are getting to blitz a little bit so just wanted him to know he's fine, hes better than a lot of other tubers

[@priyanshugoel3030]

​@@BH-rx3uewatching dangerously funny will trigger you then, though the editing always makes it entertaining he has knack for doing things the less efficient way.

[@LugiDergX]

@@RadiantCataclysm I never understood why people get all angry over KZbinrs playing games anyway. It's about having fun. Min maxing games for strategies SUCKS.

[@MichaelJones-rg3hv]

Since you have no shield, it might have been better to start strong on damage upgrades. Scrap healing seemed like a great choice for this one. Because of how big the map is, the remote control upgrade might have saved you enough time to get to the rest of the cobalt nodes, just return to base when you have enough for the relevant upgrades. Good try. Maybe next time.

[@nihilis3288]

If you grab that underground station, you don't have to return to the surface for the waves. Also, no more being late to combat.

[@Dman_the_second]

I remember watching your videos when I was little and it really makes me happy to see that your still posting content for other people to enjoy

[@alexanderzihr6291]

don't attack the things that grow because they only grow when you attack them. if you leave them alone they will vanish after sometime, but also if it takes too long for them to go away another wave of enemies comes so its best to damage them as little as possible

[@q267scott]

I had no idea about this! So shoot them in passing basically?

[@alexanderzihr6291]

no you just have to not attack it, then it will become smaller up to the point where it just goes away by itself but if you shoot it too much then it might Cause another wave to spawn

[@IronDino]

Suggestion: Artillery Dome with either the Drones or the Furnace. As the additional gadget have either the Blast Mines or the Suit Blaster as the starting gadget. The Drones are good for collecting resources, but require at least quantity and speed upgrades to be useful (best paired with the Suit Blaster and the Underground Station if you can find it so you don't have to go back). The Furnace is good for immediately extending your mining time but requires returning to the dome to reset (best paired with the Blast Mines since you have to go back).

[@reighzhor1058]

I would've shredded the mushroom farm and scrap repair and gone for stronger artillery instead of bigger blast. In my experience, the monster buster has a good enough blast radius for most situations and the shockwave hammers cover for the ones that it doesn't.

[@RadiantVirtue_]

Love seeing some dome keeper

[@michaelbarrington2806]

I tried this on regular mode, got the prospecting meter (quickly upgraded to find cobalt) with my first gadget and shredded all the other gadgets/supplements for cobalt to finish in only 13 cycles.

[@pitbullgamer8116]

The thing you'd called a weird pulsating creature you don't have to kill them you just let them go they'll die off themselves But if you shoot it in explodes then you'd have to kill all the monsters that come out of it so don't shoot it just leave the dome and it'll die

[@dreaddead4562]

i love when bro post this game, me and my daughter sit and watch this together. she cant even talk yet but she loves it more than me

[@ignis488]

do you ever read what the additional carrier drone upgrade does? it only adds 1 on the first upgrade, after that it's 2 -> 4 drones, 4-> 7, 7->11, which is much better than dumping more than needed into speed

[@abdelkaderahmed496]

I think not picking monster buster for your gun was bad idead with this challange because it took you so much to kill any thing, but i like that you try new things for fun, keep the good work going like your videos man.

[@That_One_T-95]

Dear blitz i have watched hundreds of your videos and you are a lage part of my child hood with your funny comments and indy games i am greatful to watch your old video like the vr cave minet and fishing game and the slime rancher saga also the io games you played you never change blitz again thank you

[@spacialdimension]

I've thought about ways to get more cobalt and i've come up with a few: Firstly I think the dome shield is the play, so that you end up healing less, and while scrap repair can heal you without using cobalt, it just leaves you with too little iron to upgrade your weapon AND leaves your dome with less health. The prospecting meter would be good because unlike the probe one of it's upgrades helps it find cobalt, so if you keep your eyes on the meter and see it go up then you know that there's cobalt nearby. Lastly, the resource converter seems to be a must have, as, while very pricey, it can turn iron into cobalt i believe. Also I would agree on shredding gadgets and supplements you don't think you need. If theres a really good one like power drill or its the beginning of the run and you need some support for your weapon then its ok to get it Minimizing damage taken is definitely an important aspect of this run as to not spend cobalt on repairs, so mitigating it whenever possible (such as with the shield) should help. Wishing you luck Blitz!

[@jabcmw1]

Shield and resource conversion probably would make this challenge easier

[@LugiDergX]

Defensive/Offensive gadgets too, there's plenty of those in the game. Hammers wasn't the best choice for this - At least it didn't seem too effective.

[@chrishubbard64]

Id say, be VERY picky with what you unlock, otherwise shred relics and supplements to cobalt. If im counting right you would have had at least 8 more cobalt if you hadnt gotten anything from it. I think drones were a good idea, but aside from that, focus on movement speed and drill strength to drill as fast as possible only personally carrying the cobalt you find so the drones can concentrate on iron and water. Other than that, drill drill drill.

[@TheRookie-0]

You should try the assessor keeper, its very powerful.

[@TheRookie-0]

also, with assessor, you cannot upgrade carry cap, its bc its unlimited and it makes a gravity bubble that you can fire. Also you get kenetic speres too (you will know what i mean when you try it) so remember 26 iron = power compressed mining

[@TheRookie-0]

i will be watching This will be my only comment string goodbye

[@minhhoang4029]

I really enjoy this series. Thank you for making video

[@BloodSnakesChaos]

You may want to plant more mashrooms if you use the mashrooms gadget. I guess you missed it as the mushrooms you find in the mine are only one at the time.

[@swenn.4038]

Really easy challenge. Start with sword dome, droneyard and iron worms. Then while in game get the resource converter.

[@DETHdressedInRED]

I feel like you sounded so defeated in spirit at the end of this Mr Blootz. A worthy attempt though friend!

[@studyninad]

You are not supposed to kill that weird growing creature it dies on its own if we do not damage it

[@houssembenamor7127]

Man you should do them on challege difficulti fr

[@asherrae2938]

He did, didn’t he ?

[@angelomeneses859]

Do blast mining that's the one I got when I did this challenge. Love your videos, Blitz!

[@q267scott]

When I run with drones (they're actually my favorite) I always get condenser when I can it, and always manually bring water back up. See if your drones are coming and grabbing in bulk and their speed compared to yours to choose numbers vs speed. Lastly in my personal experience I really don't like the artillery domb but that's just me. And I hate the probe. Hasn't helped once other than when I got iron lucky has just way to many.

[@evlwraithe1]

No criticizing, gotta max drone speed, drag resources to the central shaft to maximize drone usage , grab power drill asap. That's the best. Also drilling rig expanded is helpful.

[@Technetium4395]

I love when you play these games! I would not be able to do better.

[@droidekaone3536]

Fyi blitz: the probe slander is painful. It is one of my favorite gadgets. Upgrade its range and give it long memory. Its not expensive, and by the time youve upgraded the range a couple times itll be revealing stuff off the screen, its super strong!

[@BurningBassesInStyle]

Hey Blitz, did you know if you ignore the floating growin blimp things, they keep shrinking until they fall apart, meaning attacking them is worse that ignoring them.

[@macam4179]

amazing video

[@transientzultar1291]

I beat this using drones and resource converter. But you can't ignore them until late game. Spend the 3 colbalt to max out the battle drones and get the damage and drone boosters on the bottom

[@goblinpyromancer5434]

personal thoughts, shield dome might help with the damage taken, as for main weapon, idk. but i definitely think shield dome plus recourse converter could be a good idea.

[@darenabryant9100]

I think what you did wrong was leaving most of the hauling work to the drones without upgrading them to be faster or able to carry more. With all the iron you were digging out, they got stuck mostly bringing just that back.

[@OG_Casual_Tryhard]

Use a good weapon system, don't use combat drones, and prioritize mining drill, movement speed, and main weapon upgrades. You shouldn't need to use any cobalt at all in this run. The mega drill is pretty much the only relic/supplement you'll want, everything else gets shredded. Also, choosing your starting gadget / weapon, to be one you actually want might help. Hope you're doing well. 👍

[@DarcyMcD-q7z]

I noticed that the game was automatically healing the dome with cobalt when your health got low enough

[@swiftdraw]

Oof, that's a rough challenge. I think you might of had enough if the repairs and the drones didn't eat the 8 or so cobalt you ended up spending. I have to watch the video again to be sure though.

[@Hunter-m2c]

Love your content

[@Hunter-m2c]

Your the first KZbinr to heart my comment

[@Hunter-m2c]

Thank you

[@thejester-king4135]

Blast mining with max range upgrade will definitely help

[@LugiDergX]

Upgrading attack strength (offense) and defense sounds like it could have had worked. That and just doing the general route of taking as much as you can with carrying strength too. Defensive and/or offensive upgrades like Spire, Auto Cannon, Stun Laser or Saws would have had been better here than hammers. I don't play this game myself so it's just based on my observations for what I maybe would have had done differently.

[@briantroy7376]

The answer is WAY MORE IRON. You had all you needed with the repair with iron perk. You just didn't invest in enough drones and didn't bring back enough resources manually. If you had more iron, you wouldn't have spent cobalt repairing. Plus more iron gets you more iron, cause you move faster and mine faster. Although the run is about bringing back 20 cobalt, the real answer is max out your iron ASAP, to even be fast enough to get all the cobalt.

[@texasdreadnought9831]

I like this video series. Keep it up ❤

[@thenobledarkshinobi5457]

what you missed out on was the weapon upgrades and drone upgrades. they weren't bringing up enough resources

[@ladlab]

the big sac in the air... don't shoot at them and they will deflate and dissapear...

[@ElizabethAftontheicecreamgirl]

Ah good old done keeper and it was enjoyable and the video was so interesting 😊😊😊

[@Lucas-jc9px]

Recource converter can make cobalt with the right upgrade you Will make it easy that way

[@InternetGravedigger]

Mineshaft would probably help, though I think drones would've been good if you upgrade them faster. I think the artillery dome is not a good idea for this one...

[@alexgamingforfun6453]

Artillery dome was not a good choice for this run. Resource converter is needed though. Or you need to dig ALOT faster, either drillbert or drill rig.

[@TheDeadCobraTheDeadCobra]

Stun and lift is needed

[@Boxtin1]

Can you play the slime game you played not too long ago? I also love your content. ❤

[@Duck3d-i8x]

I remember years ago when you searched up blitz, chess would come up instead of his channel

[@bad_boy_021]

U need teleporting and use that ball guy to dig with hammer

[@samirraed2737]

need a Coble tree for the first Coble on top

[@child_of_madnessgaming667]

The suit bomb, and the droppable bomb combined would be an excellent way of going way deep way fast, getting Drillbert would also help massively.

[@AbuHuraira-pf6ms]

58 SECOND just in time

[@nunyabisnass1141]

Underground station would have been better for this, with the bombs and drones.

[@jaybowman9292]

You have to take the resource up yourself, not the drones

[@LugiDergX]

Yeahh, I felt that pain. Would be very effective to do that with carrying strength instead of drones.

[@QuinnOppai-ud3vd]

your drone look like a jellyfish

[@AtticusG3]

This one is the only one I haven't cleared yet too, I just keep making bad decisions

[@virgilmcmath6363]

turn on the high contrast monsters in options

[@Mezaplays]

Hay blitz I would use the resource converter, to convert iron to cobalt.

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

oh no, you made small miner errors! (jk) But now seriously, you'd make your repairs WAY more efficient if you upgraded health BEFORE wasting cobalt on it. Even more so if you get an upgrade to use iron for repairs, and you still waste cobalt for some reason :P

[@thenobledarkshinobi5457]

#1 rule of the artilery dome: DO NOT SKIMP OUT ON WEAPON UPGRADES. they are vital and when you actually upgrade it, it becomes a god dome. and please do more drone upgrades. there was not nearly enough to bring up all the resources and also maybe a bit more speed on em. also speed is vital if you have the drill supplement but drill strength and speed if not. and actually upgrade the speed more than once or twice please. this is just a strategy I think would work better with this set up. maybe a bit of a different gadget but I dunno about that

[@xedoken]

11:39 thats what she said 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@combak2712]

Oof, tough luck!

[@alexghebenei5850]

The drones were too slow. Id go with elevator.

[@HomoThug1869]

Blitz can you do a vid with the underground station the gadget is overpowered it lets you see underground

[@someone8007]

How does he keep “reviving”?

[@combak2712]

The Inventory upgrade will allow your dome to auto-repair itself, so long as you have Cobalt (and maybe iron with Scrap Repair?) to repair it with. You’ll see the dome “shimmer” when it happens.

[@titnicmclaible8183]

MORE!

[@faisalislam2777]

Hey blitz, just wondering what engineering did you do before KZbin I’m a college sophomore still undecided on what I want kinda leaning toward mech and civ what did you do

[@Blitz]

Civil, with a focus on water resources

[@jondoty-cd3kr]

Why doesn't he play the wall mining game more?

[@arianedutta5288]

Someone tell me what that peaceful music he uses at 8:06

[@charlie15627]

I think a lot of it is sheer luck on what and where the cobalt is placed and what and where the upgrades are.

[@russelljacob7955]

Isnt there that thing that lets you convert one resource into another? Can that make cobalt?

[@cking3411]

Idk much about this game at all. But i thought the mined stuff floated to the top? What happened to that feature?

[@dragn423]

scrap all of the relics and supplements to cobalt

[@LugiDergX]

That would be a waste of many great additions and improvements. You can get big time help and extra defense/offense for gadgets.

[@ermerhgerd]

Spends Cobalt on repairs after getting Scrap (Iron) Repair upgrade...........

[@justarandomguyonnews]

The cobalt there is exactly 22 pcs every run so if you even touch more than two cobalt you're gonna fail

[@CarlGorn]

I wouldn't do the challenge mode. My life's challenging enough.

[@ronni2664]

I did it with resource converter and hammer

[@davidmaccann8041]

Take less damage have resource converter and the delay thing Profit

[@JustOverride]

You used 9 cobalt on repairs.

[@Mr._N.]

Is this modded? Or is this from the new update? Sorry for this question I haven't played dome keeper in a long time and my version is in 3.2.1 and I am redownloading it at the moment.

[@Im_an_Observer.]

Hi

[@mohannadmahmoud2690]

i want u to try upside down in challenge mode

[@nohal6197]

What makes u think shield is not viable 🤧

[@HarvestStudios_38]

Hey blitz, I'm looking to be an engineer but I'm in highschool right now and i just don't know what classes to take! Can you help?

[@MAX_DJM]

any info on multiplayer guys?

[@tffbig1140]

Hmmm

[@Wolf-E-Romeo]

I'll start by saying this, Ive never played this game, just have watched you play it, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt. But I can see either drillbert, iron worms, (does the resource converter only convert iron? I forget,) or the drilling shaft helping. also WHY the artillery dome? Isnt that like the worse dome?? idk, it just seems crappy. It's a toss up for hammer or saws. hammer can at least do the long range stuns and such, but i feel like you had an issue with a lot of things actually touching your dome, so maybe the close range of the saws would be better. I feel like if you have the center drill, you might not need drillbert, so maybe the center drill and worms, cause if you get more iron, you can do more things. and I think that was the major issue this video faced. you were poor. thus not even being able to dig down further. With iron, you can upgrade yourself be it speed, drill, or carrying capacity. I feel like you need to almost play as if you are trying to get rich, and the cobalt being a side mission. also at the very tip top of the upgrade panel was the cobalt donation thing. are you able to send in all the cobalts you have even if you loose? or were you trying to save them incase you needed dome repairs?

[@davidaward82]

push for an early win by shredding everything and taking the resource converter?

[@Wolf3685]

Ignore hater. Continue as you wish. I watch for the memes, and also to see possible strategies to use (you gave me several ideas for efficiency) or "improve" on for myself

[@briandoe5746]

If I was doing the challenge I would have tried to win. Have you considered that?. 😂

[@katakimikusan]

Can you please play core keeper?