Forge—tips For Beginner Miners, Crafting Recipes, And Picking Your...

Because pickaxe upgrades get pricey, and some recipes call for a calculator.

The Forge—a Roblox RPG meets mining sim—throws a ton at you just within those first few minutes of questing, cave exploration, and crafting. It's a little more serious about the RPG part of the formula than I anticipated, so when the tutorials turned me loose, I'll admit it, I floundered.

Fortunately, after countless trial-and-error crafts and plenty of mistakes, I've finally gotten the hang of it and feel ready to share a little forging wisdom. So if you're looking to climb the levels and become a master miner, I've got some tips for The Forge first-timers that'll carry you into the late game.

Tons of quests in The Forge share overlapping objectives, and if there's a limit on how many you can have at once, I've yet to encounter it. Make your life easier by speaking to every NPC you can and accept whatever tasks they have for you.

Most are easy and a nice introduction to the basics—like learning how to mine Stone—while others require quite a bit of grinding. Even as I write this, I have three active quests demanding I slay a bunch of Rogue Skeletons, but every skelly I crush with my katana puts me one step closer to finishing them all.

I'm sure it's no surprise to Roblox vets, but the cash shop here is loaded up with all sorts of mining bonuses, inventory upgrades, etc. Fortunately, there's a pretty regular supply of new codes in The Forge, giving you free items like Luck Totems (which increases your mining Luck by 25%) and Rerolls (used for random spins to swap your fantasy character race).

There's one piece of universal wisdom I keep seeing passed around, and it's don't buy every pickaxe upgrade available at the shop. Seriously. I know it's tempting, I made this exact mistake and upgraded one-too-many times, but it's a waste.

You'll naturally upgrade to the Iron Pickaxe through Sensei Moro's quests, then upgrade to the Cobalt Pickaxe for $10,000 in Miner Fred's Forgotten Kingdom shop. After that, I suggest waiting until you can buy the Mythril Pickaxe for $67,500, and forget the others. You can buy the Arcane Pickaxe after completing another quest, and it's better than everything in the shop.

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It's a bit tedious, but I like using this site's calculator for ore recipes in The Forge. To use it, select one of the resource goals from the top bar (like planning, DPS, optimizing

Source: PC Gamer