Items with buffs for mining profession being added so I think some clarification would be helpful for players, like in hunting, what buff should stack and their limitation/cap, if they are having.
With this new item they better finally let rare mining finds stack or that’s just useless for that. I’ve asked support and all they say is no information except to wait for a future update. well this is the future update… can we get an answer/fix now please @Ludvig|MindArk and @Socrates|Mindark
When I used an [Miner’s Delight Stim] it was added on top of the blue buff icon from rucksack without showing max, just time left for the pill, so they are counting as one, not different, as item and action.
As they are, my guess is that max excavation speed is 100% (including pill) : 50% implant+15%pill + 35% perfected rucksack(when will be released).Yog horror pet comming on top of this with his different buff which makes sense.
For increased rare mining finds highest value from the items is used.
Would also like to get the official information. My experience:
I would assume that “Modifiers On Equip” doesn’t stack, only the best buff is taken, so only exc speed from Mole will kick in. If I remember correctly I tested it with backpack and prospector ring for carry capacity (and it only apply best buff, maybe the exc speed is different but I doubt it) but don’t have the ring right now to verify.
No idea about pills, never used them.
Yog buff stacks with backpack, but pets buffs are not visible on bar as “intended”.
The “Effects when equipped” for sure stacks, but no idea about rare mining finds cap. Since you shared to me that 33% is coming from ring 25%+ imp backpack 8%. I guess the first value on top is correct and the limit is 25%.
Just get my hands yesterday on the new implant.
Rare mining finds dont stack.
Still 25% strenght what come from my ring.
Total I have 43% but I belive is capped at 25%
Excavation speed is stacking with yog and backpack.
I belive so, the excavation speed is way more faster and better.
Need to make a test with the pills to see how far I can get it.
So far I love it.
50% from implant + 25% from yog and another 20 from my actual backpack.
If there is not a cap at 100% will be nice to finish the backpack also. If the perfected backpack can bring all of this to 125% only from items…damn a win-win
Price is not so important.
Is worth only the price a miner accept to pay it.
Guessing or not… i will dont spoiler anything.
Let’s wait for a response from MA.
Dont get it wrong.
Base on what people say about it can ruin the item or increase the value.
How effective is a 10% increase in rare mining finds? What even counts as a rare find? Is that like a 10% increase on whatever the baseline rate is? Because that doesn’t sound like it would do much of anything if the baseline is very low to begin with.
For example if the baseline rate for a rare find is say 1/100 drops, or 1%, then now this makes it 1.1%?
Top end gear worth more that some think.
Because of this the dream to be a ultimate uber is not for everyone.
Because of this in past people farm more and everything was ok. Like others say “carrot farming dream”.
Each item that boost my buffs to max worth from my side.
If I made a good deal or not, only time will tell this. But so far I like and love it.
I am pretty sure its for “sooto” finds, like mining stronboxes that can jump into your inventory on dropping probes. Not sure if it was ever confirmed, but kinda clear on tooltip and ring desc. You can check on the second image from Agg.
Also if you have such modifier on certains area like RT, where you can’t get sooto, there is a red message every time you drop saying something like “You can’t find sooto in this planet”. (Which is actually a partially bullshit, since on some RT land areas you can get tokens sooto :D)
No idea on math though, that’s really hard to average and track, never had the ring, only backpack, but I would say i am looting more boxes and coins on Ark.
Oh yep, didn’t catch that in the screenshot. SOOTO is very low baseline rate though, I would say even less than 1% in my experience, but I’m only a casual miner. It’s hard to imagine even 25% increase would matter, but maybe the maths behind the scenes works a bit differently.
I did test all excavation buffs and they are working together.My excavator has 27 uses/min and with buffs 60(rounded) uses/min which chat log confirmed.
This is great for miners being faster and can have greater impact if it will be combined with something new for mining like new content,resource distribution or consumption change, challeging enviroment mining areas.
I submitted a support ticket requesting rare mining finds be fixed so it stacks. They said they forwarded it to the responsible team. Hopefully that team wasn’t their trash can. I sold my mole atm cuz it won’t stack with my fat sack. Mole will tank like it’s an angelic ring if they don’t fix it
I dont think anyone ever put much value into increased rare mining finds? The only attraction point is this implant is excavation speed (for me). I am not sure price will be affected much?
