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I have been harvesting on new players island. I have small question, can someone explain this to me?

I use basic prospect and basic extraction. I get one material without any risk, works fine. So I go and buy extra time for my prospection, because I'm so close to get two material. Works, fine I get two material now with very easy and safe way.

I got my harvesting to level 10, I go and buy some q20 extraction possibilities, _but I don't use them_ . I just keep digging like I use to, but now it does not work anymore like it use to. My material sources blow up or die before time is out, all the time. Now, the different how fast the bars drop is huge. What is happening, I'm ding same ways and use same icons, basic prospect and basic extraction (q10's).

So my skills are better, but I become worst as getting materials. How come better can be worst?

Did you accidentally switch from gentle to harmful? This happened to me once.

Until lvl 10 in Harvesting, you are not subject to gas, explosions and source degradation. After lvl 10 you are supposed (hah!) to have learned to go Gentle on your sources or face the consequences.

Learning the Care actions to protect your source is one way to avoid it. Until then, watch the Heart (red) and Cloud (orange) bars and RUN!!! when they go zero.

riveit wrote:Did you accidentally switch from gentle to harmful? This happened to me once.

No, I have been using harmfull q10 from start. Basic extraction has harmfull q10. I now use gentle, because it's only way I can dig now.

Basically new players are protected from the effects of source explosions and gas clouds. Only once you reach level 10 do you become subject to these. Even if you are using the same action as before, you had immunity till lvl 10 and its turned off when you reach lvl 10.

Interesting, so the protection is build so that material sources Heart (red) and Cloud (orange) bars don't usualually reached the bottom, before level 10. Short of slowing down the rate of those bars. Okey. Thanks.

sofiaoak wrote:Interesting, so the protection is build so that material sources Heart (red) and Cloud (orange) bars don't usualually reached the bottom, before level 10. Short of slowing down the rate of those bars. Okey. Thanks.

exactly

as a beginning harvester, your source MODES are something like 10 to 15.
these are the harvesting equivalent of suckling yubos... you may be able to kill yourself against them, but it would be very difficult
I am not sure what stage the modes change to normal ( 0 to 5 ), but the consensus appears to be lvl 10.

Modes need a better explanation for new players

iwojimmy wrote:Modes need a better explanation for new players

lol and older ones! i dont even look, i'm vaguely aware that some of them allow me to use agressive actions and get loads of mats, while others will set off a chain reaction of any sources around me if i let it gas me.. but tbh its too much trouble to think about when looking out for kp's and the like.

After level 10, there is risk that your sources blow up

Before that, none at all.

You'll need to invest in some care planning staza's to look after your own sources (or someone elses)