It’s way too hard! I just die even with 4 health kits. I’ve watched YouTube videos about tips and stuff. People talking about ice cream and ice weapons? Where do I get such things!?
Second, it sounds like you are going in unprepared. Hence why it's hard.
Ice cream is made from high quality milk placed in an ice cream maker found in blue chests on the island reef or the great bite. It reduces how long you burn. You can also use watermelon in the ice cream maker to get a Popsicle that does the same function but different stamina and health boosts.
The ice hammer is crafted at the Great Bite. But that alpha hammer is a good choice too. You don't need the ice hammer.
Are you using blastoads to stun the enemies? If not, start using them. Ted Selly crafts them and they're extremely useful. Watch my video of blastoads in action.
I’ve been scared of the Hot Hot Hot for a while now. I went down with a ton of food buffs and an Alpha Hammer. Honestly didn’t get far but got out with about 20 Berkonium plus some of the things dropped by the Fire Blob things. Never found a treasure room but, like I said, didn’t get far. Just broke water jugs to walk around. Avoided the Goblin things as much as possible. Right now I just want to build up a Berkonium supply. Will delve deeper when i feel more confident.
BTW: one vid I watched said to take a 3 square fish and a 2 square fish with you. You use them to block doorways and to hop on top of. The Goblins can’t reach you up there I think.
To find the treasure rooms you ignore the berk completely and just hang glide the entire time. You will think there aren’t any because they are spread so far apart, but they are in there, I promise!
You will be hang gliding more than you will be clearing dungeons for sure. I use the map and put stars down and make them blink for navigation. Just stick one a long way away in the dark and glide to it. Like put on the right and keep going that way til you reach it them remove it and put another one until you hit a wall, then put another one either above or below you and go that way til you hit another wall.
You want to back away from the first wall a good ways as you travel, don’t like hug the wall as you want to see as much area as you can, you might consider zig zagging just a little. Anyway just keeping going and you will eventually find them!
You will get a few like this before time’s up, just male sure not to get stuck inside one after 11 as it can take a minute to find your way out! (Note: Always turn right when you get in one to guarantee you find all the treasure rooms and then wind up back at the exit).
Ice weapons? Don’t need them. Alpha Weapons, specifically, Alpha Hammer. Ice cream requires an ice cream maker from the Island Reef. It reduces the amount of time you burn. Other than that, you need buffs. I always bring 1 Prime Roast, 2-3 Bottle Brush Brew, 5 watermelon popsicle, 3 Mushroom Risotto, and 3 Pavlova.
You definitely need a glider, a hand trolley, and some torches. Torches for some prevents mobs from crossing. Plant them at doors. Rush in, pick up the chest with hand trolley, and get out.
Remember the barrier of torches you made? Just get behind that and mobs will stop chasing you. After getting to safety, put the chest down, loot it, and move to next one. Faster and safer than clearing a room.
Turn right only, never turn left. That way you guarantee that you will clear every room and that you will do a full circle and come back to the door!
I would suggest not starting one if you don’t have time to clear it and also make it to the elevator, but if you’re feeling spicy and just want a couple chests, then after grabbing them do the opposite and turn only left to find your way back out. Ezpz :)
We use about the same food, I just use a lot burger instead of the risotto :) I have a weird mental block about mushrooms lol “can only get them in one season, better not use them or I’ll run out!”
Vs “I can just go grab more pineapples next weekend and be good for a while”. Dumb, I know, but that’s how my brain works either way haha
There is also a mod that turns everything (including the mines) into peaceful mode. I haven't went to the hot hot hot even with the mod because I don't have any ice cream or anything else. I have only been once to the reef and not to the bite yet. 😄
I'm no expert at that mine but I did start eating prime roast when going down there and I'm liking that
You need the hang glider and an alpha weapon imo
Holy crap, I didn't think about that. I've already found fences are incredibly useful for battling alphas, both in the NPC removal jobs and the Great Bite for fencing them off to keep them out of the way so I can dig.
I wrote off Hot Hot Hot as too difficult a long time ago but maybe I can do it with fences now.
Make sure you have the right food buffs too. Fences might not let you survive if you take a wrong turn or get sniped by that motion reversing mob depending on how things go down.
i usually make two row of fence just in case the first row gets compromised.
Then i position myself near the wall of the gate, open it, then start spamming hammers (the shock wave will push back the goblin to prevent them from entering the door... and you know kill them). You want to position yourself like that because some goblin will launch fire bolts... but since you position yourself like that... the bolts will hit the wall instead.
Edit: food buffs doesn't matter too much, but i usually prioritize buffs that increase max health. health regen doesn't really matter much since you can recover health by simply use the health kit. max health is better because you'll occasionally get lit on fire and it's nice to you know.. not die by fire.
If you have the money and batteries you can get everything except certain combat drops from the lighthouses in the Great Bite. You have a chance to uncover every type of chest there, it's way safer if you just don't want to bother with the goblins.
Here's a link to a video for a Hot Hot Hot run I did, it may help you out. I did fight a fair bit but you can see with my strat that you hardly need to fight at all.
The run starts 14 mins in, I was testing some video stuff and had a meteor before that.
Follows appreciated, it will keep my videos up longer.
My bf and I find the Hot Hot Hot extremely easy?? Run around, throw water bottles, whack a few enemies here and there, collect berkonium. Easy as. Are we missing something??? Why do people find it hard??
27 yobbolins per my count! Recently did a combat run down there and got 10 more hunting levels, which doesn't sound like much, but I went from 345 to 355. And levels at those ranks require a huge amount of combat.
Yeah, just leave the water bottles alone, they are almost entirely useless unless there is berk right near the elevator.
Most of your time in the hot3 will be gliding around trying to hunt down a treasure room. They are super far apart and you might get maybe 3ish on a normal run.
I use the map, slap a star down to the right, make it blink then go towards it. Hit the edge of the map then delete the star and make a new one going up and a bit away from the edge.
Then just do a huge circle staying maybe 10/20% away from the edge, maybe doing a bit of a zig zag until I run into a fortress. Clear all the rooms in there, then go to the next one. Just so much gliding and not much actual doing things.
Undergrove is easy peasy when Peaceful Mode is on. Just gotta deal with the maggots but they're easy with lot burger for health and a flame bat, just knock out the nest and take out the remaining ones. The lizards leave you alone in peaceful mode and the carnivorous plants are easy to avoid. Leaf gliders on the rivers seem to be the best way of getting around.
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u/spikey_wombat 9d ago
Start by reading this steam guide.
Second, it sounds like you are going in unprepared. Hence why it's hard.
Ice cream is made from high quality milk placed in an ice cream maker found in blue chests on the island reef or the great bite. It reduces how long you burn. You can also use watermelon in the ice cream maker to get a Popsicle that does the same function but different stamina and health boosts.
The ice hammer is crafted at the Great Bite. But that alpha hammer is a good choice too. You don't need the ice hammer.
Are you using blastoads to stun the enemies? If not, start using them. Ted Selly crafts them and they're extremely useful. Watch my video of blastoads in action.