Core Keeper tin ore is a vital step towards crafting weapons and instruments stronger than copper, together with your first ranged weapon, the slingshot, and extra sturdy bronze armor. If you happen to’ve began exploring the beginning biome in Core Keeper, you have found loads of copper deposits, and utilizing a smelter, workbench, and anvil, you have been capable of craft some first rate weapons, armor, and instruments. However if you happen to’re trying to improve your Core Keeper arsenal with tin, you are going to need to do some main tunneling into a wholly new biome to seek out it.
Tin weapons and instruments may not sound like a significant improve, however I like to recommend at the very least having a tin sword earlier than you tackle Core Keeper’s first boss, Glurch the Abominous Mass. Spike traps additionally develop into obtainable as soon as you have began tin crafting, which could be helpful towards the sport’s second boss, Ghorm the Devourer.
Whereas you will have discovered a small quantity of tin ore someplace within the beginning biome, in all probability in a picket crate or two, you may want much more earlier than you’ll be able to actually begin crafting tin weapons and kit. Here is the place you may discover it:
The place to seek out tin
Core Keeper tin ore: The place to seek out it
Tin ore seems in a brand new biome, The Clay Caves. Since Core Keeper’s maps are procedurally generated, there are not any exact instructions I may give you, so simply decide a path out of your place to begin (the Filth Biome) and begin tunneling outward. If you happen to attain a wall that your copper pickaxe cannot break, flip round and head again to the Core, then decide one other path.
Be sure you have the next with you in your seek for the Clay Caves:
- At the least 2 copper pickaxes
- 30-40 bridge items
- 8-10 empty stock slots
You may know you have discovered The Clay Caves when an announcement message seems in your display screen, and you may additionally hear a change within the soundtrack. In your minimap the biome is proven in a peach coloration, indicating that you simply’re tunneling by way of clay as a substitute of grime. Here is an image of my map shortly after I discovered The Clay Caves, to provide you an concept of how far out I needed to go.
You may see the Core, the tunneling I did to the east, and a chasm I needed to cross utilizing bridge items. Once more, you might not discover it in the identical path I did however the distance to succeed in it (I very roughly estimate it’s about 150 blocks) will hopefully be about the identical.
As soon as you have discovered The Clay Caves, tin ore deposits work so much like copper deposits do within the Filth Biome: you’ll see the metallic glint within the darkness while you’re shut sufficient. While you spot a glint, tunnel towards it. Tin ore will seem like shiny silver and grey nuggets within the clay.
You may be selecting up a whole lot of clay and different new supplies whilst you tunnel, which is why it is good to have some empty stock slots. Clay is harder to dig by way of than grime, so having further copper pickaxes available is helpful so that you needn’t backtrack to the Core for repairs when one wears out.
How one can use tin ore
Tin workbenches
Put tin ore in your smelter to make tin bars. One lump of ore makes one bar. Here is what you should use tin bars for:
Crafting benches:
- Tin workbench: tin bar x15, copper bar x6, wooden x1
- Tin anvil: tin bar x8
- Alchemy desk: tin bar x5, slime x8, wooden x8
- Painter’s desk: tin bar x5, slime x8, wooden x8
- Railway Forge: tin bar x8, wooden x8
- Carpenter desk: tin bar x8, wooden x8
Tin weapons/traps
Weapons/shields/traps:
- Tin sword: tin bar x7
- Tin dagger: tin bar x7
- Slingshot: tin bar x3, wooden x10
- Spike entice: tin bar x1
- Wood defend: tin bar x5, wooden x10
Tin instruments
Instruments/backpacks:
- Explorer backpack: tin bar x5, fiber x10
- Tin pickaxe: tin bar x3, wooden x4
- Tin shovel: tin bar x3, wooden x4
- Tin hoe: tin bar x3, wooden x4
- Tin fishing rod: tin bar x4, wooden x5
Bronze armor
For bronze armor, mix tin bars with copper bars and fiber:
- Bronze helm: tin bar x4, copper bar x4, fiber x3
- Bronze breastplate: tin bar x6, copper bar x6, fiber x4
- Bronze pants: tin bar x5, copper bar x5, fiber x5
