JamesB Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 Is there some trick to finding resin in decent quantities? I've been going dizzy spinning around pine trees looking for enough to get my mechanics started. Is there a way to make pine trees create resin by cutting them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica O. Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 Not that I know of, I got lucky and have 4 seeping trees pretty close together near my spawn. I would try going to a pine forest, walking up to one tree and carefull looking at each block of the trunk one by one, if none are leaking then chop down the tree and move on; eventually you should be able to clear-cut an area and just have a few resin producers left. My 4 were clustered enough that I suspect they aren't so rare, just really hard to spot through all the foliage and it's very hard to stay oriented and search forests in a truly organized manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted May 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 13 minutes ago, Jessica O. said: Not that I know of, I got lucky and have 4 seeping trees pretty close together near my spawn. I would try going to a pine forest, walking up to one tree and carefull looking at each block of the trunk one by one, if none are leaking then chop down the tree and move on; eventually you should be able to clear-cut an area and just have a few resin producers left. My 4 were clustered enough that I suspect they aren't so rare, just really hard to spot through all the foliage and it's very hard to stay oriented and search forests in a truly organized manner. Thanks. I was hoping that there was some unknown game mechanic for finding/generating resin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica O. Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 (edited) Alas, I think the big "Challenge" is foraging. From what I see everyone can usually find 9 out of the 10 things they really need, and one thing just ends up being very rare for them, or really far from spawn, but it's different for everyone. Lime is a common stickler, for my world so far Lime has been pretty scarce, but Bauxite has been straight up non-existent. Not that I haven't gone farther than a few thousand blocks yet... But it frustrates me that this game's default world settings seems to expect travel / exploration in the tens-of-thousands of blocks, and yet you have to settle down to eat reliably or have better than flint tools. Edited May 16, 2021 by Jessica O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted May 16, 2021 Report Share Posted May 16, 2021 7 hours ago, James Berkheimer said: Is there some trick to finding resin in decent quantities? Covering more ground is the trick - much as it is to all questions of "I am having trouble finding X". Roam far enough from your base, and you'll find so many resin trees, wild bee hives, copper deposits, ruins, and so on and so forth that you'll eventually just stop marking them on your map because you have more than enough already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted May 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 On 5/16/2021 at 2:21 AM, Streetwind said: Covering more ground is the trick - much as it is to all questions of "I am having trouble finding X". Roam far enough from your base, and you'll find so many resin trees, wild bee hives, copper deposits, ruins, and so on and so forth that you'll eventually just stop marking them on your map because you have more than enough already. For me resin is just too damn hard to find. I've spent days wandering the forests and only come back with maybe 4-5 pieces of resin. It's a real bottleneck. I'm actually considering trying to mod the resin rates up but I haven't found where to mod that yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l33tmaan Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 There are a couple of mods that let you get around that: one by letting you make resin out of pine trees, and one that lets you crush soybeans in a quern for oil that you can use in the recipes instead of resin. Which would you prefer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted May 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 1 hour ago, l33tmaan said: There are a couple of mods that let you get around that: one by letting you make resin out of pine trees, and one that lets you crush soybeans in a quern for oil that you can use in the recipes instead of resin. Which would you prefer? Resin Renaissance is one of them right? What's the other one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l33tmaan Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 Craftables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesB Posted May 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 4 minutes ago, l33tmaan said: Craftables. Thanks. I still want to look into increasing the rate of resin spawning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l33tmaan Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 Go for it. I'll see if I can get the Expanded Foods spile to spit out resin if you stick it in a pine tree, too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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