The Comprehensive Guide to Mining

[@krafuae]

Holy hell, 57 whole minutes of pure expert's knowledge. Sorbet's guides are treasure.

[@0Lvs1]

I broke the 666 likes curse np

[@r4gn4r0k56]

new response just dropped

[@samerininja8447]

Thank you 🙏

[@GummybearOverLord]

@@r4gn4r0k56 actual zombie

[@ObservationofLimits]

@@krafuae i haven't played vanilla terraria in YEARS and I only recently played a modded game 3 years ago. This game has so much tech now. Almost feels like a job to learn it again

[@gassug2]

20:53 i was expecting you to say "this strategy also works in minecraft" which isn't wrong, but it's so irrelevant that it's hilarious

[@Fluxuation]

same lol

[@undeniablySomeGuy]

it's weird that it does though

[@vax.8491]

boards of canada mentioned

[@mythmakroxymore1670]

Congratz on 420 likes my friend

[@saimGX]

@@vax.8491olson holds a special place in my heart

[@Crux___]

It baffles me that I can’t sit through like 30 minutes worth of instructional content for school, but I’ll gladly watch and take notes on mining in Terraria for a whole hour

[@Deceit-hx7ey]

huge difference when you have to do something and when you want to do something.

[@tristanridley1601]

@@Deceit-hx7ey I think you just described why unschooling-type homeschooling can work.

[@eagjdhx9d282]

It is because schools suck at teaching things we want to learn

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

Because Sorbet is a great teacher.

[@birb9799]

ADHD moment

[@Shyguymask]

1:04 I regularly rush the Ancient Chisel and I never knew this. I'll make use of this in future playthroughs, thanks!

[@mustachioisbae]

Bit of a random reply, but thank you for introducing me to crosscode, it's one of my all time favourite games and I probably wouldn't have ever found it if it weren't for you.

[@fur_avery]

exactly the same for me, ancien chisel is one of the first accessories I try to get yet I somehow never knew that, will help a lot in the future

[@damnthisisabadname]

​@@mustachioisbaeagree

[@jake_from_statefarm7209]

I'm playing starlight river right now and have found like three conch shells but no other desert loot and I'm beginning to wonder if it's the mod or the seed 😂 I just want my chisel!

[@andrewnapolitano8565]

​@@jake_from_statefarm7209Just use Cheat Sheet or HERO's mod to get it if it's not in your world because, as AdamChromeE says, "Don't fish." I mean, you're playing modded Terraria anyway, right?

[@lahiruerangafile]

Didn't expect a 57 min video when you said you're making a mining guide, gonna watch the whole thing

[@sorbetcafe]

it was originally like 30 minutes but I didn’t like that version

[@imperialorder2417]

do moar guides i beseech thee@@sorbetcafe

[@Chewythebigblackdog]

Another thing to add about herb farming: you actually can still get the staff/axe of regrowth's effect when using planter boxes, you just need actuators. As long as you are holding the staff/axe when flipping the lever (or other activation mechanism) to actuate the boxes, seeds will drop even if the herbs are not blooming. Just like when using blocks, you still need to wait until the herbs are fully grown, so only flip the lever when a majority of your herbs are ready for harvest.

[@HumanoidDerpling]

I absolutely adore that there are people nerdy and dedicated enough about video games to make such long and in-depth videos about this type of thing. Reminds me of Voduke's "Ranking every Kingdom Rush hero from worst to best" in that regard. It's a rather slim chance you'll recognize that though, haha.

[@patheticbread6861]

I do!

[@novinovi-]

I know what kingdom rush is and now I need this video thank you internet friend for showing me that this exists

[@HumanoidDerpling]

@@novinovi- I did not expect that, you're very welcome.

[@JustTombstone]

Holy shit I love kingdom rush

[@HumanoidDerpling]

@@JustTombstone Same.

[@Drie_Kleuren]

15:30 maybe you mention it later, but you can also use the housing '' ? '' and spam that in a dessert. This will give a message in chat for when you hit a cave or a pyramid because it will say '' this room needs a light source '' or something. very usefull for finding pyramids....

[@Ayrevaa]

one thing about sand traps. if you're too stubborn to recall and you can't tank the sand, break the sand from the top down and you wont take damage from extra sand. thanks for highlighting the importance of the underground desert. i always thought the underground desert experience was overtuned, but now i can see how it's useful ^^

[@Ben_Guy]

I was about to make this exact recommendation lmao. Beat me to it!

[@teckworks]

Huh...this randomly appeared in my recommended, and it actually taught me that drills are borked. I knew I wasn't crazy preferring picks over drills, even if my friends say otherwise. Nice vid~ 👌

[@jacobgalinski2948]

The only non clickbait, in depth, thorough and fully thought out investigation into the science of mining in Terraria Amazing video

[@maynardburger]

So much attention to detail as well. So many of the visualizations were done with Terraria blocks rather than out-of-game graphics, which is just an incredible touch.

[@abdeSaves]

pro tip : use a gravedigger shovel to explore the jungle early game, as the jungle is mainly composed of mud blocks (soft blocks), getting around will feel like cutting butter with a hot knife.

[@TheHaboo]

The funnier part about drills is that they are even more bugged or exploitable than just that. Mining buffs apply to drills if you use block replacement with it, unpractical but has niche uses in speedruns as we do craft drills for hardmode ores. Also on top of that from how I understand it because drills have a super low use time unlike pickaxes if you spam click (I'm talking +10cps) you can make them mine faster than normal. If you want to see an example go to Afroman's recent ML WR and around the 25m mark he does it to get some mythril ore. Does any of this matter in a non-speedrun context, no it doesn't. But it's funny to know!

[@sorbetcafe]

yeah, I had played around with the blockswapping platforms thing, it was just so incredibly niche that I didn’t feel like it made the cut. It gets bottlenecked by placement speed, so it’s pretty much only applicable for things you don’t break in one hit.

[@darkshot2019]

seeing haboo just being normal outside of stardew is so weird for me

[@leonardowesselka4124]

"An enchanted boomerang or a flaming mace and 200 health should be enough" Me descending into the underground desert 5 minutes in the gameplay with a cactus sword, wood armor and bow, 17 arrows and a dream

[@FadeScratch]

24:18 for hellstone mining, there is a pretty effective way to mine for it when you are lazy and don't have obsidian skin potions - just go around the walls of fortresses and mine for veins of hellstone that generate near them.

[@B1esky]

after playing for who knows how long i just find this extremely annoying and slow when it's really not that hard to get obsidian skin potions especially if you've gotten the shadow key

[@Winasaurus]

Back in the day before hellstone made lava and it glowed through walls, this was the obvious way of doing it. I've just stuck to it ever since. I'm sure obsidian skin is easier but it's like tradition at this point. Just like using gravitation potions and crystal bullets on the twins because it used to be the best way of doing it. And making hell bridges with alternating gaps because Lava Slimes used to drop lava so your wall of flesh bridge would constantly be flooded with a thin layer of lava otherwise.

[@damnthisisabadname]

Real ones knew this was gonna be an hour long Can't wait to spend 1 hour watching this

[@savannaha5038]

I have 1.1k hours in this game and your guides have shown me new things and strategies i had no idea about! I can tell they'd also be very helpful for beginners too since you cover the basics as well, so i guess what i'm saying is you're pretty awesome, thanks for making these :P

[@deroplat]

Your videos are so well made! Even though I'm a veteran of Terraria, I still find myself watching your videos all the way through. Keep it up!

[@peanutbutterbean1738]

these tutorials are a godsend, so well made and just an hour of non stop information. was definitely worth the watch

[@damnthisisabadname]

"but you don't understand, casually no one gets mining gear or reforges" - svings probably

[@ricardoribeiro9779]

yeah he say that he do community pools to discovering, but that just look like ''dude trust me'' argument

[@Madalovin]

Sorbet, I wanna thank you for this high-effort long form highly edited content. This is a joy. This is my favorite kind of video to watch and hyper fixate on. Keep doin' what makes you happy.

[@MonomaDidNothingWrong]

This is legitimately the most well done Terraria video i’ve ever watched

[@Werewolf_32]

Best. Guide. Ever. Gonna be sending this to all my friends!

[@soulmare333]

Maybe I've seen the defense video before, I can't tell, but seeing that and this video back to back not only makes me want to play terraria again, but makes me wonder why the fuck you don't have more subs and why I haven't seen your stuff before. These videos are glorious and filled with knowledge

[@Marshbouy]

You have such a great way of tying information to each other! Some of the best content I have seen on youtube, let alone in the terraria community!

[@monosodium-glutamate]

11/10 video, I've played this game for more than 10 years and a lot of this info was stuff I never knew. Also scugs!!!!

[@lazysod3]

As someone who’s been playing for years and watched about every vid on yt, this is the Terraria content creator I’ve been waiting for. Every video is incredible and better than everything that’s been out there for years. There’s really not much reason to watch other channels now.

[@Froggsroxx]

Who else HAS to grab every gem even though you dont even need them?

[@lazysod3]

lol I’ll do you one better. I built a massive gemtree farm. It does look cool even if I really don’t need this crazy hoard of gems I’m sitting on now. They are nice for making different colored glass.

[@biosaur8510]

Wow, this guide was super in-depth! One niche thing I think was missing was the Digging Molecart, which can mine 22 blocks per second, or ~29 with the minecart upgrade kit, which can be a lot considering you don't need any mining speed buffs!

[@TechnoFreak1015]

I've played this game years and there is a lot of information I had no idea about in here. Fantastic job with your thorough explanation and attention to details!

[@puddlejumper3259]

This isn't just 57 and a half minutes of an expert's knowledge... it's an expert player's deep thorough analysis of the game, it's mechanics, and every weapons stats.

[@fredygallegos1679]

I'll be honest, I probably won't see this thing but got it in my feed. If bro made a 1h video on mining, he def deserves like and comment.

[@goodpeanut8401]

How did i watch 57 minutes of pure knowledge about Mining and Had fun while doing so. Love your vids

[@quailland1982]

Even as a player with 3000+ hours in terraria, I learned a little bit from this video, such as the information that desert loot differentiates depending on depth. Extremely useful tip due to how amazing the underground deserts' loot is. Very well done video, I wish I had this when I was a beginner

[@MrAfrojoe89]

Outstanding job, thank you. Jolly good show. You,sir. Deserve way more peeps peeping your content!

[@rickn6923]

Thank you so much for your guides. I had this game installed for years and just finally started and omg it’s amazing but I would be so lost without all your hard work. Seriously thank you.

[@Psuedonym-go9jj]

13:45 It's worth noting that you can do this for every other plant in the game. Doesn't matter if it's blooming, as long as it's mature you can hit it with the rod and get seeds back.

[@sorbetcafe]

you can, yeah, it's just only really useful for deathweed and blinkroot since other herbs bloom consistently

[@Psuedonym-go9jj]

@@sorbetcafe Definitely also good for shiverthorn and definitely worth mentioning in the video. But that's kind of nitpicky.

[@dominikkorbely5809]

i love how post moon lord is when the most common ore becomes useful

[@purplehaze2358]

The thunder zapper is actually pretty decent. It out-DPS-es the diamond staff in a lot of situations.

[@EmiWi]

I've played this game for several years and never knew about lava traps, it's crazy how there's still things to discover even after this long.

[@XxguaxinimxX.]

This was amazing! I have no doubt you made a big research to make this video, but it was really worth it!

[@timetravelerbysec]

U got a sub from me.. hands down one of the most detailed video of a niche but often overlooked part of the game... appreciate the effort time and dedication man...❤

[@mango_lover2017]

i cant believe i'm still learning more about the game after 1000+ hours. Great guide. 👍

[@PeydaPete]

23:58 Hellstone can also be detected using Dangersense Potions, which is useful when you don't have many Obsidian Skin Potions and need to make the most of it.

[@alexandratsankova5825]

for 24:20 that is an incredible information to know, i did not know that the random corruption and hallow spread were removed, so i have been under that assumption for a while and since finding that out i had mostly been fishing for my hard mode ores as i was really not a fan of that mechanic 😅

[@irkdidkd6486]

Is Crimson spread also removed?

[@maxuwl]

​@@irkdidkd6486is supossed too i think it makes a random block in world evil ,so you know a nightmare for a pure world doenst make sense too make corruption safe while crismon not

[@andrewnapolitano8565]

​@@irkdidkd6486Yeah, iirc random crimsonification upon breaking Crimson Altars was removed alongside its corruption equivalent.

[@wiresnstuff]

Hype hype, Sorbet cafe mining guide. Your videos are always very badass, excited to watch!!

[@di-ova]

Sorbets guides explain EVERY detail which is very useful for new players or players who never bothered to use any buffs

[@lordgravity5668]

man when this guy says comprehensive he means it

[@dragonomicon1788]

I love the tiny little slugcat doodles throughout the video!

[@MasterVili]

Even as a veteran i still found this very interesting. I was captivated to watch almost like a documentary!

[@FadeScratch]

32:25 hardmode underground desert contains one item I always farm for in my playthroughs - Ancient Horn that summons a rideable basilisk. I love this thing, it gives you the speed better than hermes boots, and very good turning control, something that the Unicorn mount can't provide. If I use the basilisk, I don't need a slot for hermes boots, therefore I can get more damage or defense. I can't stress enough how amazing the basilisk mount is.

[@sorbetcafe]

I think a lot of people prefer getting the wolf mount in 1.4.4, the two have similar functions

[@inorexablechaos1139]

@@sorbetcafe but lizard :)

[@andrewnapolitano8565]

​@@sorbetcafeWith the rideable Miraidon resource pack, the Basilisk is worth it for sure!

[@andrewnapolitano8565]

Because you get a freakin' legendary future paradox Pokemon in Terraria!

[@karlspel]

your guides are actually really good and well done!

[@Vic2point0]

As someone who's "OCD" about controlling where the water, honey and lava go in my world, the lava trap is actually the most terrifying one for me, lol.

[@gafoneo3727]

It's always a GREAT day when sorbet cafe uploads a long video on a terraria topic! Absolutely love your content

[@zapduckcake5354]

I knew so much more than I thought, barely learned anything. Still great to get my knowlege confirmed. Great debth, great explenation, great vid.

[@SpiderJAAM]

Thanks for doing this great explanation videos. Please explain fishing next.

[@CloutmasterPhluphyy]

Now that one will be like 2 hrs long frr

[@b1oodzy]

"There's no way I'm watching a 57 minute video on mining" Already halfway done

[@sicksixgamer2694]

Same.

[@BodieB]

To this day i thought melee speed had an effect. So this video helped me already. Will leave a like

[@tarragon112]

this guide is so good what the hell

[@BlueTheSquid]

In all my hours of playing I never knew explosive traps existed. I had only ever seen explosives hooked up to dead man's chests and to detonators. Thank you for this info

[@johncenajohnce4649]

just as I was about to start mining on a new playthrough this video comes out, thank you sorbet

[@Havid213]

these guides are so good I wish there was one for fishing, good work man

[@sortacoolmaybe]

these videos are so lovely and well researched. im tapped out on terraria at the moment but i still love learning quirks of the game.

[@saturday_soldier]

I feel like I attended a college lecture. Thank you Professor Sorbet.

[@DeleriousOdyssey]

This justifies the fact that I'm mostly clueless while playing this game. I just wanted a better pickaxe, bro... I appreciate your knowledge.

[@cdvoices]

New to the game, and it's amazing how much is in this game for how small it is. Hyped to play with my buddies and show off some of this learned knowledge.

[@TorresTheDevourer]

Comprehensive is right! This is an awesome guide. always happy to see a new sorbet cafe video

[@derpydudee]

a tip about life crystals: mushroom biomes will almost always have a life crystal. Theres only been like 1 out of 10 times that I've not seen one in it, and a lot of the time there's actually 2 or even 3+ in one biome

[@me_is_alex]

@derpydudee might be wrong but I'm pretty sure it is

[@purplehaze2358]

I wouldn't say that exquisitely stuffed should be completely out of the question when discussing mining buffs. You can get a basically unlimited supply of it by abusing pigronatas and the bacon that drops from them.

[@fur_avery]

one thing I would like to mention for the desert is that you can do the same edge of the screen trick (or edging if you want to be fancy) as you do with the metal detector but for the bast statues, the buff distance is (i think) the same as the metal detector range and it allows you to find cabins easily without needing either the detector or spelunker potion (note that not every cabin has a bast statue)

[@ow_shark9629]

I love edging

[@ihatemondays33]

If I ever need iron, I usually just shimmer anvils that you can buy from the merchant. Really useful if you're making a giant railway

[@hexamine666]

holy shit this is actually so fucking smart

[@ihatemondays33]

@@hexamine666 it's the easiest way to cheese the moonlord at the easier difficulties probably won't work on legendary though haven't tried it yet 100% works on expert

[@Frogghh]

The statue trap section reminded me of one of my favorite memories of this game, I was playing with my cousin on the switch version and I had made a unicorn trap in our house and it was completely full of unicorns, it was so funny

[@Shyguymask]

31:20 Hey, Storm Spear in particular is a very good weapon.

[@elijahwaggoner545]

A hour long video on mining with hidden Easter eggs. Pog chanp

[@icedt513]

okay it wasn't mentioned in the video, but Bone Torches also create larger light particles upon breaking than any other torch does, making it useful for a quick and easy way to see what's beneath you when mining underground (plus they're useful in general to have as they do not negatively affect torch luck, which is especially useful in biomes that have their own torch as regular torches will negate possible luck increases from biome torches but NOT from torch luck itself, which used to be the case when torch luck was first introduced)

[@gears4993]

when detailing the hardmode ore armour sets you had the spectre mask placed on the mannequin meant to display titanium armour, this was either you going by eye in the menus or you did it on purpose, anyway have a comment, great video, learned a lot

[@brandonbernard1570]

The underground enchanted sword spawn is crazy. I have hundreds of hours in Terraria and have never seen one spawn like that. Something strange about lava traps I only recently discovered is that they can spawn in the dungeon. I had 2 spawn in a recent world, and they seem like more of a hazard than spawning in caverns because navigation in the dungeon is a lot more limited, at least early in the game.

[@ridleydaemonia1134]

I'm so happy this is verbal. Just imagining the wall of text, even broken up by pictures, is horrifying 😨

[@Grubnar]

This is good ... like, REALLY good. For a lot more than just mining. Great job!

[@dramaticaloverload]

Never thought i would find scugs in a terraria mining video!

[@cloritic]

This is an extremely useful guide. Very well thorough, and incredibly helpful for me! ^_^

[@Renitky]

49:39 you can also break the sand from the top which makes it so that no sand falls on you and all the damage you take is the suffocation damage

[@CloutmasterPhluphyy]

Meanwhile me: hit block, get thing, be happy

[@SeanStClair-cr9jl]

Damn. I was expecting some unnecessary, kind of... "Hypixel-Skyblock-Esque" sorta thing, just outlining a basic progression without much help. This is awesome and gonna be transformative for the community

[@maxuwl]

about weapons on 15:00 the dearclops sentry also produce light when placed(and when it attacks) like the explosive setry, but it is way smaller and for a sort period another thing is that magma stone (the acessory of the inferno) makes melee weapons produce light so something like nightedge (a weapons that can produce a little bit of light) can produce ALOT of light while keeping you safe and dont even use touch those helped alot but thanks for the explosive sentry tip that one i didnt know

[@MTH6969]

57 minutes of pure gold.

[@pop_ulation]

"they aren't the best ore but they are usually good enough" same

[@tkienjoyer]

15:32 If you want to pyramid hunt just use the housing query on the bottom of your screen in the desert until it says "this room is too big"

[@Frogghh]

This guy uses the weirdest vocabulary I have ever heard but I love it

[@Vorael]

I don't really have anything to add, but there was so much work put into this that I want to do my part with the algo.

[@Neoduem]

this was a really good video, i listened to it while playing

[@oak3ns]

1:04 me hearing this remembering back to that time i excavated nearly my entire underground desert without finding an ancient chisel

[@wygy10]

so im watching this, so far pretty good video, but i must ask, was the red thing that wen across the screen a slugcat? particularly hunter? that, and at 7:05, is that gourmand? just asking because i am just genuinely curious! either way, love the cute lil drawings :P

[@sorbetcafe]

slorgcayt

[@wygy10]

@@sorbetcafe sulgtcar :D currently about 30 mins in, and so far, really interesting video! never knew that there was much of a difference between the main/alternative ores! well, with exception to HM ores, but yeah, so far, so good! edit: one thing that i kinda wanna note is at 36:20, you talk about chlorophyte, you should leave a couple of pieces of chlorophyte so that it can grow lol edit 2: just finished the video, and really good! now, this is just a guess, but was the "mice" you were talking about at the end the cute an funi slugcar cameos?

[@portablejea7014]

Also spearmaster is crawling across the screen at 24:51 :^-

[@maynardburger]

Redigit could legit watch these and learn a fair bit. I'm not even kidding. There's so much here that goes well beyond what Redigit likely ever actually thought out and are more 'consequences of my programming that I hadn't considered' situations.

[@fur_avery]

one thing i would like to mention is that you can do a trick similar to the metal detector trick but with bast statues in the desert, if you see that you have the bast defense buff that means theres a cabin nearby and you can find it with the edge trick

[@kelly4187]

Dude this isnt a video... This is a video thesis in support of a PhD in analysis. I've never hit sub so fast.

[@RZBAKA]

7:40 another reason to pick crimson

[@thorvaldspear]

what about the worm scarf tho

[@RZBAKA]

@@thorvaldspear the worm scarf is good if you get hit often but against bosses that deal have a really strong attack for example moon lord with his deathray the brain of counfusion dodge can save you from dying while with the worm scarf you would still take a lot of damage and you could die, thats why i think the brain of confusion is better than the worm scarf plus if you are playing terraria on one hp it helps a lot

[@thorvaldspear]

@@RZBAKA Interesting, I haven't considered that aspect before. Maybe it's finally time to try out Crimson.

[@andrewnapolitano8565]

​@@RZBAKA...Or play on the drunk seed & get both!

[@PoliTickk]

This is amazing. Thank you for posting.

[@angiovanni7356]

I love comprehending swing tool at block=block break via a video format guide

[@quantum6637]

Great video! Just one small question, do chainsaws/jackhammers suffer from the same coding issue as the drills?

[@sorbetcafe]

I'm not sure

[@quantum6637]

@@sorbetcafe I have an update! I did a simple test where I cut down 10 trees in my tree farm with a Light Axe of Regrowth vs a Sawtooth Shark. If the chainsaws had the same issue as drills, then these two would have equivalent speeds. However, it took ~4.923 seconds for the axe and ~4.158 seconds for the chainsaw. For the test I used smart cursor and I was always in range of the next tree due to the density of my tree farm. This wasn't super precise or frame by frame, but I did measure the times in recording software and the difference is big enough for me to conclude that the issue doesn't affect chainsaws. Quick Tree Math: Axe of Regrowth - Tool speed 12, light modifer 12 * .85 = 10.2, round down to 10. Axe power 150%, trees have 500% health, takes 4 hits. Should take 40 ticks to break. Sawtooth Shark - Tool speed 4. Axe power 70%, trees have 500% health, takes 8 hits. If the issue does exist, it should take 40 ticks, same as the axe. If the issue doesn't exist, it should take 32 ticks.