Farming Spots

Start with the bottleneck you actually have: ore runs for early industry, rare crystal routes for progression, or oil and World Tree loops when your endgame factories come online. Each resource card pairs a ranked route with a crew shortlist for the matching work suitability. Below the mining routes, crop cards cover grow times, yields, seed sources, and what each harvest feeds.

8Resources

6,300Mapped placements

2Regions

1.0Game files

How to use this index. Routes are ranked from static 1.0 node placements in the extracted world data. A dense cluster is a convenient starting point, not a respawn-rate promise; use the map deep link to check the terrain and the resource layer before you build a base around it. Crop grow times and work amounts come from the planting tables; seed vendors, ranch drops, and enemy drops come from the item acquisition tables.

Ores

5 resources

These routes cover the materials that keep early and mid-game industry moving. Start with the resource your next unlock actually consumes, then bring the matching mining crew from its guide.

Paldium Crystal

Mining · Main

Paldium Fragments are the early capture-and-equipment bottleneck: craft Pal Spheres first, then keep a reserve for Pal Gear, shields, saddles, and exploration tools.

2,080Nodes

Top cluster 15
Main

Ore

Mining · Main

Ore is the universal smelting input: turn it into Ingots, Refined Ingots, Pal Metal Ingots, and Plasteel as your production tier climbs.

1,634Nodes

Top cluster 11
Main

Coal

Mining · Main

Coal is a mid-game bottleneck: it combines with Ore for Refined Ingots, then keeps Carbon Fiber and the Coal Mine on your progression path.

827Nodes

Top cluster 8
Main

Sulfur

Mining · Main

Sulfur is the ammunition gate: it feeds Gunpowder for firearms and explosives, so run a dense volcanic or desert cluster for a refill or switch to the Sulfur Mine once that Ancient technology is unlocked.

663Nodes

Top cluster 10
Main

Pure Quartz

Mining · Main

Pure Quartz is the electronics gate: it feeds Circuit Boards, then higher-end Pal Metal and Soralite ingot lines, so its runs usually follow your next machine or weapon unlock.

605Nodes

Top cluster 10
Main

Endgame & oil

3 resources

These are progression-gated routes: Crude Oil needs a powered extractor on an oil field, while Paloxite and Soralite belong to the World Tree and Sunreach endgame loop.

Paloxite

World Tree

Mining · World Tree

Paloxite is the World Tree endgame gate: bring protection that keeps nodes from vanishing, then mine the densest cluster for Corrosive Mist Masks and Paloxite Ingots.

80Nodes

Top cluster 5
World Tree

Soralite

Mining · Main

Soralite is Sunreach's endgame ore: bring the Plasma Multicutter, then stock the densest sky-island cluster for Soralite Ingots and the Paloxite Ingot chain.

226Nodes

Top cluster 8
Main

Crude Oil

Oil Extraction · Main

Crude Oil is a powered-base bottleneck: place an Extractor on an oil field, then route the output into Plasteel and Flamethrower Fuel before late-game ammo and flight gear.

185Nodes

Top cluster 3
Main