gems?

marupon · Post Posted: Sep 23, 2011 2:59 pm

Does anyone know what the gems are for? Do we need them for anything or can we just sell them?

YouTube · Post Posted: Sep 23, 2011 4:08 pm

You will want to keep a Diamond, three Mithril, three Adamantite, a Moonstone, and an Amethyst for tool upgrades. One Stone Tablet and one Mythic Ore will be used for the Oracle's horse carts. Everything else can be shipped.

I have seen Rahi ask for a Ruby for a request before, but that is optional if you want to complete it.

Defender1 · Post Posted: Sep 23, 2011 5:36 pm

I don't know because i have no idea how to mine for the gems or other stuff

marupon · Post Posted: Sep 23, 2011 8:20 pm

Thanks Cherubae!

And Defender1 so far I've gotten mine from the mayor as prizes and ore from the cracks in the wall underneath the waterfall.

ducky pants · Post Posted: Sep 23, 2011 9:04 pm

Can you mine in the tunnel once its opened back up?

KalonKiki · Post Posted: Sep 26, 2011 1:09 am

You'll also want to save 7 ore stones for upgrades, so don't smash every ore stone that you find!

Thanks for the advise, Cherubae, that makes it a lot easier!

ducky pants wrote:Can you mine in the tunnel once its opened back up?

Yes, you can, but until you do the only way to mine is by finding ore stones in the crevice by the waterfall and smashing them with your hammer to get whatever is inside.

ducky pants · Post Posted: Sep 26, 2011 12:41 pm

all I find in the crevice by the waterfall is scrap ore or something like that. Do I smash those?

Post Posted: Sep 26, 2011 12:42 pm

Nope, not those. You want the round black stones with the colored specks in them. Those are ore stones, and those are the ones you want to smash. I save them until the morning, then smash them and reload if I get scrap.

-BlueTrillium

ducky pants · Post Posted: Sep 26, 2011 12:48 pm

do you only find those after you open up the tunnel?

Post Posted: Sep 26, 2011 12:54 pm

Nah, you can find ore stones in a bunch of places, they're just fairly rare in all of them.

Here's what I can think of off the top of my head:

1) search spot by the waterfall
2) jumping in deep water
3) extremely rare, but sometimes you'll just find them laying on the ground in the forage spots on the mountain.
4) after you've gotten a tunnel expansion or two you might find them laying on the ground in the tunnel, too. (tunnel does not have to be complete)
5) I think you might occasionally find one when you throw a snowball you find in winter too.

-BlueTrillium

ducky pants · Post Posted: Sep 26, 2011 1:05 pm

You have been very helpful, Blue Trillium! Thank you!

Lucaspontes · Post Posted: Sep 28, 2011 1:46 pm

BlueTrillium wrote:Nah, you can find ore stones in a bunch of places, they're just fairly rare in all of them.

Here's what I can think of off the top of my head:

1) search spot by the waterfall
2) jumping in deep water
3) extremely rare, but sometimes you'll just find them laying on the ground in the forage spots on the mountain.
4) after you've gotten a tunnel expansion or two you might find them laying on the ground in the tunnel, too. (tunnel does not have to be complete)
5) I think you might occasionally find one when you throw a snowball you find in winter too.

-BlueTrillium

What? Ore stones in snowballs? How the hell do they fit inside? Anyway, thanks for this!

Zoro the Gallade · Post Posted: Sep 28, 2011 2:44 pm

I got an Amethyst from falling into the town's river.Sold it for well over 3000 G, quite a boon since it was Summer Year 1.

Post Posted: Oct 17, 2011 7:55 pm

Lucaspontes wrote: What? Ore stones in snowballs? How the hell do they fit inside? Anyway, thanks for this!

I actually found a curry dumpling in a snowball before, that was pretty weird..
Also, I found two wonderfuls in the wall tree stump bluebell mid mountain one after another (red and orange I believe) during a typhoon, pretty lucky! :D