Where to find flint as a new player in the multiplayer official server?

[heyjon]

I bought the game and joined the server yesterday after playing the tutorial in single player. It turns out that is winter time (I don't know if it matters to find flint) but have to walk very far from the spawn before I can even dig any block and I haven't been able to find any loose flint in the surface at all (and snow does doesn't make it any easier haha)

Taking into consideration that flint seems to be the basic to start crafting things. What can a new player do in this instance? Am I missing something?

Edited April 14, 2025 by heyjon

[gilt-kutabe]

@heyjon

Break speleothems/boulders in shallow caves to get stones (assuming they’re a hard enough stone type to knap), then you can make a knife and axe, make a pan with a log and knife, then pan sand/gravel for flint. If you see flint deposits in cliffs/caves, you can use your bare hands to mine it. It can also spawn in water, so try breaking up the snow on top of the ice for a look.

Edited April 14, 2025 by gilt-kutabe

[Thorfinn]

Welcome to the forums, @heyjon

That is indeed a problem on multiplayer games, especially now with the reworked fire clay. Everything near spawn tends to get picked clean pretty fast.

Like @gilt-kutabe said, hard rocks are almost as good. A little less durable, for the most part, so you end up having to knap a few more knives and axes to do the same job. The ground has likely been picked clean of crops and berry bushes, too. At least that's my experience. Though berry bushes don't matter much in the winter. Your best bet is to find whatever passes for a  settlement on that server and figure out how you can be of assistance. Most likely they have food coming out their ears, so won't have a problem with an additional mouth to feed, so long as you don't scarf up the, I don't remember, the chantarelle stew with puffballs and onions...

Edited April 14, 2025 by Thorfinn

[idiomcritter]

Welcome to the forum @heyjon

I too play on TOPS, and the biggest tip imho is to use the map, find a translocator (or a sequence of TL's) to hop a further distance away from spawn, where resources are a bit more plentiful

Map The Offical Public Server