How to win at diggyhole everytime guaranteed or your money back

yodased

D0PAMINE

@yodased I enjoyed that read.

yodased

hey thanks man

bodge2372

I find the whole thing bollocks. Tried it, no idea where to start digging coz nothings explained except you can apparently tell the different layers, found some gold, ran out of time, abandoned everything and went to do something constructive. And if you don't have the 20 whatever skill points needed, it's even more bollocks. That's my view and why I'm not doing it, plus there's no rewards to convince me to do it. I might have considered it for actually new motifs, but there's none of those. So.....

Twilanthe

Use the auger at every corner first, it will turn dark orange and when hovered over highlight in white the area where the treasure is NOT.

One corner will be smaller or yellow because the treasure is nearby. If you're unlucky you've used 4 moves of the auger to do this. With the remaining ones try to find the green.

Note where yellow ones overlap. If you scry a square note where it overlaps with other ones. When two yellow overlap in area the green is there somewhere. Hunt in the area until you find a green.

On the rare cases you use up all moves, you may still be able to see where it based on where you've already looked. uncover a big 9x9 area with the shovel and hope you get a bit of it.

yodased

bodge2372 wrote: »

I find the whole thing bollocks. Tried it, no idea where to start digging coz nothings explained except you can apparently tell the different layers, found some gold, ran out of time, abandoned everything and went to do something constructive. And if you don't have the 20 whatever skill points needed, it's even more bollocks. That's my view and why I'm not doing it, plus there's no rewards to convince me to do it. I might have considered it for actually new motifs, but there's none of those. So.....

@bodge2372;c-6817104

There's three new motifs from the system. Ancient elf, nord, orc.

Here's a brief run down of the onboarding for the digging tool. The in game one sucks I would have done it so much better.

You learn where to dig by using the R tool. You click on a square and the color will tell you if you are on top of it (green) or way off (red)

so it goes red (no where near it) -> orange (4+ squares away) -> yellow (1+ squares away) -> green (on top of it)

There are 7 layers total to the dig which can be taken away by the brush, the mini shovel and the big shovel.

There is a "time limit" which is not really time, its just a click count. You have X clicks to uncover the item before the "time" runs out.

Small shovel will take 2 or 4 layers away in a single click, but can damage the item if you go through the last layer with stacks remaining. So if you have 2 layers left and you 4 layer shovel, you will hit the item for 2 damage.

Large shovel takes out 1 complete layer of a 9x9 and is the workhorse of this system. You will damage the item if you clear the last level with the large shovel though, so its key to use it beginning with the small rocks layer.

It's a fun game that they explained horribly, if you have any more questions let me know i've guided dozens of people through it who couldn't understand the fundamentals.

I had a mini-meltdown over this the second day it came out because it was broken and I never went on the PTS and the onboarding is so horrible, so I understand wanting to walk away.

Magdalina

The green on the 'here's what you need to dig' picture is slightly off. The shinies are as as follows:

(ignore the top right green square, that's just me hitting the bottom, but the 8 uneven squares I sorta drew there show it. It's 2 on the chest itself and then 3 bit above and 3 bit below diagonally.

That aside, pretty neat:)

CMDR_Un1k0rn

It works. I used this ONE weird trick by OP and get loot every time.

Other Antiquarians HATE me!

Jaraal

Diggy Diggy Diggy, can't you see
Sometimes your fissures just aggravate me

mikikatze

This sparkle bug has been fixed, I always get the item where it shows the item - don't you? Also, to get all loot you have to combine all the smoking parts and have them explode in one long line.

SidraWillowsky

10/10 would read again, bonus points for introducing the term "diggyhole"

Sylvermynx

Isn't there some strange song with dwarves and diggyholes? Anyway, bookmarked this to keep around until next year when I start on this.

ShawnLaRock

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Isn't there some strange song with dwarves and diggyholes? Anyway, bookmarked this to keep around until next year when I start on this.

Yes there is a song - @Jaraal nailed the Slick Rick via Notorious D.I.G. reference above perfectly!

S.

Sylvermynx

Oh - I remember now. @SantieClaws and guild did a song vid using the tune from that a while back!

Hamish999

yodased wrote: »

I have to disagree, for me they tend to be scattered or all at the opposite corner from the antiquity




Edit: Though I agree with going for the antiquity first, that should be your priority

Jaraal

mikikatze wrote: »

This sparkle bug has been fixed, I always get the item where it shows the item - don't you? Also, to get all loot you have to combine all the smoking parts and have them explode in one long line.

Sure would be nice if they gave us the option to have smaller green outlines. That bright, swirly, and obstructing crap makes it really hard to tell the difference in soil layers underneath them at times.

Tsar_Gekkou

mikikatze wrote: »

This sparkle bug has been fixed, I always get the item where it shows the item - don't you? Also, to get all loot you have to combine all the smoking parts and have them explode in one long line.

Fixed on PC at least. It's still janky on console.

yodased

Tsar_Gekkou wrote: »

mikikatze wrote: »

This sparkle bug has been fixed, I always get the item where it shows the item - don't you? Also, to get all loot you have to combine all the smoking parts and have them explode in one long line.

Fixed on PC at least. It's still janky on console.

Yeah i made this cause i figured with it dropping on console there would be an influx of questions

MashmalloMan

You should explained that the R tool not only shows a colour, but the area where the item must be within with a white highlighted area when you hover over the identified spots. This makes it extremely easy to find, it took me until level 6 or so to realize this was happening. It's not just a "Hot/Cold" type of clue, it straight up tells you the spaces where the item must be.

PizzaCat82

Any tips for console? What is W?

SantieClaws

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Oh - I remember now. @SantieClaws and guild did a song vid using the tune from that a while back!

Ah not so long back as it might seem.

There is also a link to the original in the description.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

https://youtu.be/dTVUEO-C2LA

bmnoble

Or you know they could just fix it so digging up the treasure chest gives you the item instead of needing to look for the sparkly bits.

MasterSpatula

Unless your 9X9 includes a fissure.

And by 9X9 you mean 3X3.

LuxLunae

I think I played this minigame with my bro in pokemon Diamond and Pearl. We use to farm hartscales underground.