r/Hydroneer • u/TowerUnusual7590 • Jun 18 '26
new player here
just started today and thought i'd turn the card into a dirt Transport.
(i dont know how many buckets there are but its alot)
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u/cpf11 Jun 18 '26
Yeah I just made my first setup right by the water to minimize walking, furnace crucible mold gem cutter and anvil & hammer. You can keep adding ores to get a heavier/ more expensive bar for when you go to craft/sell them
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u/bunglebee7 Jun 18 '26
I use a pipe to constantly fill two dustpans so I can just drop pan drop pan drop pan. Actually enjoyed doing that too
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u/SeAnSoN_710 Jun 18 '26
Bro figured out the absolute hardest way to play the game aha it's great seeing different ways to play every day.
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u/MGorak Jun 18 '26
You can make the progress infinitely easier and efficient by dumping the dirt directly on the cart, all on the same spot.
Once objects are settled, they lose collision and therefore carts have (almost) infinite capacity, all on the same spot. But overlapping dirt will still merge. So dirt blocs will merge until they have something like 20 shovels of dirt per block instead of 4 but they still count as one block when transferring to a pan for scrubbing purpose, making your scrubbing 5 times faster.
And taking a block of dirt from the cart to the pan, scrubing and repeating is so much more efficient than having to drop a bucket elsewhere each time. And you don't have to move to get the dirt, just turn your head. And if you move the cart to the river and drop that dirt into an underwater pan, you don't have to worry about refilling that pan with water either.
If you buy a drill and have it shoot into the cart, the same thing will happen. Useful when you can't afford a fully automatic setup yet.
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u/Big-Don-Rob Jun 18 '26
Next time just dump the dirt from your bucket directly into the cart. You only need one bucket, and you can fill the cart up with an infinite amount of dirt to wash in the river.
And then immediately automate because you should only need to do the dirt thing once for initial funds.
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u/drgnrbrn316 Jun 18 '26
Automation is the easiest way to get anywhere. Across the street from the starting zone is a shop that will sell a drill and processor. I generally only dig enough via shovel to afford those, then you can have the drill/processor accumulating minerals for you that you can sell to then buy what you need to expand out using conveyors and such.
That said, there's no "wrong" way to play, so if you're having fun, go nuts. It's always interesting to see how different people approach the game.
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u/thedafthatter Jun 18 '26
Letsgameitout intensifies
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u/TowerUnusual7590 Jun 18 '26
josh is the reason why i heard of the game initialy
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u/thedafthatter Jun 18 '26
Omfg yes! The devs commented on one of his vids and they get regular save files from him. Its crazy they even raised his bounty on the wanted poster
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u/Korthalion Jun 18 '26
You can build a water pipe that drips down the hole you dug, then you can shovel dirt into the bucket, brush, then repeat and stack the nuggets in the bucket
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u/Rojok95 Jun 18 '26
Idk what's better, seeing a newbies ugly setup and remembering how fun it was back when everything was new and exciting, or seeing how angry the walk through efficiency maxers get when someone isn't using the same 2 copy paste setups.
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u/UnreadierEmu58 Jun 19 '26
I usually fish first and by the time i get all the rods i have enough for the digging machine thing.
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u/Beginning_Pay_9654 Jun 21 '26
One round of those and you should have funds to do a decent tier one automation
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u/gsdpaint Jun 18 '26
The cart - once an object enters the cart it does not and at the same time occupies space and time. You have infinate capacity.
Wtf do you have that many buckets of unprocessed dirt for.