Fully Automated Dungeon Ectoplasm + Money Grinder (6000 ectoplasm/hr + a MASSIVE 55 Platinum/hr)
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Jammer2.0
Skeletron Prime
I made my own recently, and I did the math, and it comes out to around 300 ecto an hour. It is made with 2 chest statues, around the same amount of spiky ball traps as used in yours, and I'm working on the hoik mechanism even though I'm on the left side instead of the right(not sure if left hoiks work). I would upload a picture, but I don't know how. I'm looking for ways to make it better, and I'd appreciate any advice given. I'm using 1.2 on Xbox one, and can't seem to find any shark statues on any of the worlds I've harvested.
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
No, you need consecutive teeth with all (size 2 or below) item hoiks (which is virtually all of them), including the ectoplasm hoik shown in the video.
Not from mob statue spawned mobs, no. As of 1.3 on PC. Still possible on console, mobile, I believe.
You could try taking a photo of your screen with mobile, at worst, and embedding that. Or hosting it on the internet externally (if that's possible via Xbone (?) and embedding it via the image button (in the post editor) and inserting the URL.
The mimics are significantly slower to kill than skarks, so that makes sense. Did you manage to hoik the mimics ok, and do you have natural dungeon spawns being ground up too?
Jammer2.0
Skeletron Prime
First off, I didn't expect anyone to respond this quickly, much less the hoik master, so thank you for that. I haven't been able to set up any hoiks unfortunately, and I have the actual dungeon spawns staying on top of the trap(need to fix this), but I'll post a picture of the trap in the next three hours so I'll check if you or anyone replied in the morning. But yeah, thank you, in the meantime I will be setting up a hoik mechanism, and looking for shark statues.
[doublepost=1461625427,1461624940][/doublepost]This is a small video(24seconds), only half of the trap, I'll post a full picture in a little bit
[doublepost=1461625427,1461624940][/doublepost]This is a small video(24seconds), only half of the trap, I'll post a full picture in a little bit
ED209
Plantera
I've got a far more compact version; it doesn't break any records, but it gets you ~60 ectoplasm every fives minutes or so. That figure is in a dungeon test where I haven't altered the layout of the dungeon to prevent spawns. It basically consists of a chamber you teleport yourself into and then get hoiked back & forth over two pressure plates. These plates activate two chest statues in a chamber above your head. This "mimic chamber" has a ceiling made of spiky ball traps that kill the mimics pretty quickly. I then sumon 2 ravens into the mimic chamber to speed it up even more. I summon a third raven into the hoik chamber with me, while wearing turtle armour, to dispatch the dungeon spirit nice and quick.
Also, I've placed some spikes on the floor of the hoik chamber to stop damage from enemy projectiles.
I've added some photos for you; most of them are not in the dungeon, as it was easier to see what was what in the "daylight" with some white gemspark walls.
Also, I've placed some spikes on the floor of the hoik chamber to stop damage from enemy projectiles.
I've added some photos for you; most of them are not in the dungeon, as it was easier to see what was what in the "daylight" with some white gemspark walls.
Jammer2.0
Skeletron Prime
Yeah, that looks pretty good, I'm not sure if the mimic statues would stop at 3 because of the close proximity, but overall if you're getting 720/hour, that's pretty good. I'm not the one to ask about advice, but to me, if you're able to have it that compact and functional, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
ED209
Plantera
I'm happy with it; I just thought other people might find it useful. Although this has got me wondering whether dungeon spirits count as a "spawn", as it happens on screen. And if, by blocking all other spawns in the dungeon, I'd get more dungeon spirits out of the mimics.
If I ever find a shark statue (not convinced they're on console yet) then I'll alter the chambers accordingly.
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
Cool. An easy alternative might be to suspend the statues above, using the teleporter pad float trick, to just drop the mimics/sharks into place (in future). To get the 13 tile distance for 6 mobs (or 37.5 tiles for 10 mobs at a time, even).
No, sorry. You can see from @DicemanX's original video that it doesn't get hoiked all the way along in one step, which means it's size 1, requiring alternating actuation. Also meaning that the ecto-hoik has to go left to right, unfortunately.
If it's too much trouble reversing things, then I quite like the look of @ED209's simple setup (above):
The spike based damage blocking is great if you can still get it (doesn't work on PC now). If his player based hoik engine is too jarring (shaking the screen) then stick with a skeleton hoik engine, or your bird engine, etc.
Should be able to drop your mimics/sharks into this chamber from above, as I suggest (with floating statues). Also, have regular dungeon spawns walk in and get trapped too (e.g. using the 'ghost wall' trick - e.g. sloped platforms against the side of the wall you want to be able to walk through from).
I don't think so. There might be a chance that the spirits would slow down other dungeon spawns a little, but not vice-versa. Should be a straight probability, as with regular kill drops.
ED209
Plantera
It doesn't; it only happens when the game auto-saves, otherwise it's fine.
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
You don't get hoik based screen shake on consoles? Is that because the camera control is intrinsically different there?
Jammer2.0
Skeletron Prime
Alright, thank you, I'm still working on it, and maybe I should post this in his video on his frost moon record farm, but I made a pumpkin moon/frost moon farm almost the same as his, but I only get to around wave 4 because of the spawn rate being diminished by the constant harpies and wyverns/arch wyverns. I guess I built it too high, but I don't know if I can block off their spawns by blocking up 84 by 47( spawn rectangle), or if I just need to relocate the farm to somewhere lower. I'll post a picture of the farm later, with its coordinates in the gps, but I'm more concerned with this farm than the ecto farm. Any advice would be useful
ED209
Plantera
I'm only getting hoiked one tile either way, so it doesn't appear to move. I've got a farm where I'm hoiked back and forth every minute or so through a collection tunnel, and that shakes the camera.
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You'll need to build lower, as the sky mobs don't need blocks to spawn on. I made the same mistake; I wanted to avoid digging the space needed below me to stop spawns, so I went up too high.
ZeroGravitas
The Destroyer
Didn't realise this could be an issue. Yes, definitely too high. I guess you might be able to block the Harpies, etc, but they spawn in a little differently than most all other mobs, since the don't require a valid surface to spawn on.
Definitely always post in the most relevant thread, yes. Be it in the guides section or T-MEC. (I watch pretty much all the technical threads.)
Hah, that is different to PC then. Cool.
ED209
Plantera
I've heard it does, but try it with a few blocks first, just in case.Does hoiking work in terraria mobile? (before i go out of my way to build it when it doesnt work
Miku Hatsune
Pixel Privateer
anyone have ideas for lesser version of this farm?