Make Orange Gems craftable via Desert Stones

[Blue Moth]

In my personal opinion, desert stones are the worst boss drop in the entire game. For solo play, desert stones are completely worthless. When playing with other people, desert stones are more useful, but you still don't ever need the amount of desert stones you get. You will never need 30 desert stones ever. If Antlion dropped only 1-2 desert stones, that would be significantly better. Klaus also should not drop desert stones. But anyways, I'm getting a bit off track from the point of this thread.

I think an excellent way to fix Desert Stones and make them useful for everyone is to make Orange Gems attainable via Desert Stones. According to Maxwell, a Desert Stone is just "An impure orange gem." So, perhaps the Shadow Manipulator could unlock the recipe for Orange Gems in the Refine tab, costing 1 desert stone for 1 orange gem. Another possible way to make Orange Gems attainable from Desert Stones could be mining the stones, to get the gem that is buried in the stone out. (if you don't know what i'm talking about, the desert stone appears to be an orange gem that has been coated in sandrock.)

Anyways, I hope it wasn't too hard to get through my ranting about desert stones, but I really think this would be a great change to them.

[Easonade]

I don't see your particular solution solving the problem--in my experience you get too many orange gems playing solo anyways. But I agree that desert stone is mostly useless when playing solo. Maybe they can add an expensive recipe (like 5 desert stones?) that let's you teleport to a deserter without anyone activating it?

[Blue Moth]

2 minutes ago, Easonade said:

I don't see your particular solution solving the problem--in my experience you get too many orange gems playing solo anyways. But I agree that desert stone is mostly useless when playing solo. Maybe they can add an expensive recipe (like 5 desert stones?) that let's you teleport to a deserter without anyone activating it?

Orange gems at least have more uses than desert stones, plus having them in masses makes fast travel via the lazy explorer much more viable.

[Tykvesh]

@Blue Moth If you need a use for them when playing solo, consider trying Lazy Lazy Deserter. Not only it allows you to teleport while playing alone, it also lets you teleport between worlds!

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Shameless plug right there 

 

[Blue Moth]

2 minutes ago, Tykvesh said:

@Blue Moth If you need a use for them when playing solo, consider trying Lazy Lazy Deserter. Not only it allows you to teleport while playing alone, it also lets you teleport between worlds!

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Shameless plug right there 

 

I actually do have the mod installed, but I am hesitant to use it since I don't like using mods that effect gameplay, unless the whole point of the run is to use the mod, like my New Series on YouTube    using a very nice Winona rework mod.

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Hey, if you are gonna shamelessly plug stuff, I can too.

 

[DerpyButDeadly]

I'd rather make the lazy deserter more useful for solo like making it be able to be kept on and consume a desert stone when you TP or give desert stone more uses but either way I completely agree you get more desert stones than you ever really need 

[Tykvesh]

31 minutes ago, Blue Moth said:

I actually do have the mod installed, but I am hesitant to use it since I don't like using mods that effect gameplay, unless the whole point of the run is to use the mod, like my New Series on YouTube    using a very nice Winona rework mod.

Oh, I see you're also using Epic Healthbar? Nice to meet a fan of my works! Consider this mod a gift for you: Pure Desert Stone.zip

[Hornete]

Neat idea.

 

I'm not sure about 1 desert stone for each orange gem though, I think 3-5 desert stones would be a better recipe.

[Well-met]

yes please

[GelatinousCube]

I'd rather they give something else, you end up drowning in orange gems as well so long as you aren't spamming Lazy Explorers.

I would like another use or to be able to refine/change Desert Stones into something else though - they do absolutely nothing in Solo worlds.

[HellHeater]

On 12/20/2020 at 8:29 PM, Blue Moth said:

 

I think an excellent way to fix Desert Stones and make them useful for everyone is to make Orange Gems attainable via Desert Stones. According to Maxwell, a Desert Stone is just "An impure orange gem." So, perhaps the Shadow Manipulator could unlock the recipe for Orange Gems in the Refine tab, costing 1 desert stone for 1 orange gem.

then they should add something like chisel to make sense