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Core Keeper 1.2 Update Preparation Guide: Must-See Essential Tips!
Here's a detailed guide on how to prepare for the Core Keeper 1.2 update. We'll cover stocking up on resources for crafting new automation items, preparing to enter the new 'Breakers' Reach' area, monster farm construction strategies, and securing Ancient Coins for trading with the new NPC. Get the essential info to make the most of the update!
1. ⛏️ Essential Resource Stockpile for 1.2 Update: Iron, Scarlet, Octarine, Cytoplasm
- ✅ Stock up on plenty of iron, scarlet, and octarine for crafting new automation items.
- ✅ Some new items require bars and cytoplasm, so it's a good idea to prepare those as well.
00:00 - 00:47
1. ⛏️ Essential Resource Stockpile for 1.2 Update: Iron, Scarlet, Octarine, Cytoplasm
- ✅ Stock up on plenty of iron, scarlet, and octarine for crafting new automation items.
- ✅ Some new items require bars and cytoplasm, so it's a good idea to prepare those as well.
00:48 - 01:21
2. 🧭 Preparing to Enter the New 'Breakers' Reach' Area: Location and Waypoint Setting Tips
- ✅ The entrance to Breakers' Reach is located in the northern part of the passage, and unlike other areas, its location is fixed.
- ✅ Install a waypoint or portal near coordinates 0/1310, but move it 25-30 tiles east or west to prevent it from being overwritten by the scene generator.
01:22 - 02:26
3. ⚔️ Nimusa Battle and Circuit Item Preparation: Securing Corrupted Sap and Stockpiling Copper
- ✅ Bring a rift statue from the passage to craft corrupted sap, and prepare at least one Nimrosa scanner.
- ✅ The location for obtaining corrupted sap will change after the update, so it's a good idea to secure it in advance.
- ✅ Defeat Nimusa and acquire void neuron. It is required to enter Breakers' Reach.
- ✅ Stock up on plenty of copper to use the new circuit items.
02:27 - 03:43
4. 🪨 Preparing for New Mineral Mining: Drill Equipment and Pre-Building Monster Farms
- ✅ Prepare scarlet drill, wires, Fury Forge, levers, etc. for mining new types of minerals, and create additional portals or waypoints.
- ✅ Build an efficient mining environment by utilizing item collectors.
- ✅ Prepare a monster farm in advance to obtain the new materials found in Breakers' Reach: relucite bars and corrupted alloy.
03:44 - 05:22
5. Monster Farm Construction Strategy: Design and Defense Reinforcement for Safe Farming
- ✅ When building a monster farm, make it 2 tiles wide and about 150 tiles long, and place it on the edge of two spawn areas.
- ✅ Install a moat around the entire farm to prevent monsters from breaking through the walls and escaping.
- ✅ Install about 10 galasite turrets on each side, and install poison tiles under the conveyor belt to prevent monsters from healing.
- ✅ Use item collectors to create a safe collection environment so that monsters cannot destroy them.
05:23 - 06:12
6. Boss Re-challenge and Magic User Preparation: Securing Key Materials and Stockpiling Mana Potions
- ✅ Since you will need to defeat the existing Hydro bosses again after the update, secure enough glimwood, solarite, and killowatt, and prepare scanners as well.
- ✅ It is recommended to prepare at least 5 of each boss organ.
- ✅ Magic users or summoners should stockpile glow tulips and poison slime to mass-produce greater mana potions.
06:13 - 07:22
7. 💰 New NPC Trading Preparation: Securing Ancient Coins and Enhancing Equipment
- ✅ Many ancient coins are required to purchase items such as smelting table, metalworking table, Bleedra, Void Lord Scanner, blueprint parchment provided by the new NPC.
- ✅ Blueprint parchments require 5,000 coins, tables require 1,000 coins each, and scanners require 500 coins.
- ✅ The monsters in Breakers' Reach are very powerful, so prepare plenty of superior healing potions and enhance your best mining and combat equipment to level 19.
07:23 - 08:13
8. 🔥 Breakers' Reach Survival Strategy: Fire Immunity and Recommended Builds
- ✅ Since the monsters in Breakers' Reach inflict a lot of fire damage, fish in lava to obtain Verdant Dragon Fish and Elder Dragon Fish to gain fire immunity.
- ✅ High critical hit builds such as fire build, thorns build, quill rifle build, Stormbringer build are effective.
- ✅ Magic builds and summon builds are also useful, especially summon builds, which allow you to fight safely.