deep-dive-discussion

[vague lantern]

an elite bulk sprinting his way towards the crew on the way down a drillevator is true horror

[zenith pulsar]

I had 5 detonators at this EDD, and among them there was one elite.

[lime hollow]

I have still never seen an elite bulk 😔

I might just send this EDD a couple times this week to see if I can catch a glimpse of one. I know they're rare on top of rare but I also feel like I've just been profoundly unlucky

[little jay]

uh

doing the elite deep dive with 2 other drillers as driller

we were successfull

[junior lion]

there is also one in the first hell-room on stage 2

[clever raft]

I sadly didn't see that one

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for explaining it to me and mentioning where to find it.

[ashen estuary]

nah its petty chill

hollow bough is actually nice for once since it has big caves

so its easier to dodge

[plain furnace]

*insert that one deep dive 1st stage cave size*

[ashen estuary]

not getting scanner hud was

not nice

[slow magnet]

some kind strangers carried me and another greenbeard to completing this EDD

the other guy and me both had 43 combined downs

[solid mortar]

Finally unlocked deep dives

[weary walrus]

Welcome to the jungle

[primal nexus]

I saw one on the third stage of an edd it was fast af but i was running the colette wave cooker slowdown so it didnt murder my whole team

[sly eagle]

me watching as the barrage infector opens the dread egg

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[naive tide]

for some reason mission control got dementia and kept repeating that pumpjack and tanker arrived, even after drop pod was called

[mellow cradle]

yeah, he's been doing that for some time now

once, there was an EDD with escort and mini refinery, and he really spammed those pumpjack voicelines

it was his revenge for all the times we pinged gold and mushrooms

[lunar terrace]

i think we had total 5 bulks this EDD

[half glen]

Had that happen as well.

[raven carbon]

Elite bulk in normal DD this week

I didn't see elite bulk in edd

[slow magnet]

same happened with me

[slow magnet]

that's crazy, we had only 1 thankfully

maybe i just didn't see the other ones cuz i wasn't around them

[rugged plume]

weird, i just finished the DD and only say elite slashers, guards and praetorians

[mellow cradle]

enemy spawn pools are the same, but the specific spawns differ between games

you could've gotten and elite bulk, but you cleared quickly enough so that it didn't have much chances to spawn

[exotic pewter]

so i'm doing the normal deep dive and i connected all the crystals but the drillevator didn't show up
am i missing something?

[rugged plume]

you have to finish both objectives for progressing through the mission

[exotic pewter]

oh i see

[torpid terrace]

want to attempt to do my first deep dive today. better solo or random lobby?

[restive thunder]

where to find people who want to do elite deep dives

[manic pivot]

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[heavy rock]

I'm relatively new and did the regular one pretty comfortably solo, works for completion, but solo isn't as fun as coop
Also joined random lobbies today with hosts aborting the runs 3 times in a row
Tldr better find a party on discord

[torpid terrace]

alright thanks!!

[bright walrus]

whats the highest haz you're comfortable with

cause in my experience, if you're comfortable with hazard 5 then even EDD solo is a breeze

[torpid terrace]

haven't done haz 5 yet, but im fairly comfortable with 4

[bright walrus]

standard deep dive should be not-hard for you then so its a matter of whether you find solo or coop more fun

discord lfg > randos ofc

[mellow cradle]

EDD should be doable too if they are comfortable on haz 4

[bright walrus]

just not solo methinks

[mellow cradle]

nitra carry over + no events makes an EDD easier than a normal haz 5

[bright walrus]

hmm never thought about it that way

after my first few deep dives it felt like more of a mental endurance thing

i clocked like 1h45m on last week's edd solo 💀

[mellow cradle]

oof

but yeah, such was the nature of that dive

[torpid terrace]

just did the first dd, and we got 44.59 as the time lol

got that 45 min achievement right on the dot

[lean yoke]

EDD is easy

[spice island]

I've hated this rafinerry mission of EDD

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[bright walrus]

i was gonna solo this edd but the pumpjack layout as non-driller made me give up

[rugged plume]

i did this EDD as gunner and honestly ive had WAY worse cave layouts for refinery

this one was like "ok sure"

[lime hollow]

I have like infinite patience for refinery if I'm solo just because once the pipe is down it can be Bosco's problem

pipe needs to go 40 meters up a sheer cliff face? I'm coiling that bad boy up there and making Bosco build it while I grab another drink

[manic pivot]

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[bright walrus]

personally i wasnt about to start mining out the cliff wall with my pickaxe

clearly a lack of creativity on my part

[drifting tinsel]

when your ammo is gone and the nitra has been depleted, you will always have a pickaxe and a dream
never forget what's there for you

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

give me 2 mins for dreadnoughts

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 July 10 to 2025 July 17 (Week 303)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1752750000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Hard Shelf
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Twins) + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | No Mutator
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Blood Sugar Low Oxygen

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Rippled Darkness
Stage 1: 225 Morkite + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: On-Site Refining + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Elite Threat

[bright walrus]

low oxygen blood sugar? interesting

[drifting tinsel]

we've been getting sent to radioactive zone for ever other DD since week 297, funny

[rugged plume]

and hollow bough EDD again too

[spice island]

Dreadnoughts first then industrial sabotage. Hopefully it's the normal DD

[ember sapphire]

fatboy PGL trivializes industrial sabotage, especially at that lower haz level, and its good on hiveguard if you know what youre doing

[cold kindle]

Looks alright

Biomes are disgusting

But warnings aren't that bad

DAMN 3 BLACK BOXES

[mellow cradle]

the map on the EDD is disgusting too

[rugged plume]

😨

[stoic bane]

last week's duck and cover is this week's cave leech cluster it seems

[mystic horizon]

probably one of the more rough elite dives i've experienced

swarm density is abysmal

especially 2nd stage uplink that wasn't any fun

bring crowd control stuff you're gonna need it

[chilly shore]

im starting second stage now lets see

[chilly shore]

hate to say it but it felt completely normal

[mystic horizon]

probably was due to my team severely lacking crowd control

we were being jumped from all directions while doin the uplink

lost one match had to bring smthing like cluster charges next time around

[old widget]

Jumped from all directions during a stationary defense usually means engi needs to step up the repellant game a little

[chilly shore]

uplinks are one of those things where if they start going bad the difficulty tends to skyrocket, so it could have been that too

[vagrant tulip]

i lost connection at the end of edd stage 2 😭 (1 hour of sleep wasted)

[kind marlin]

People are saying that this is one of the harder elite dives, but it is the first one (of the 3 I've tried so far) that I was able to beat as a solo sludge pump driller

[raven carbon]

Not too bad this week

Fairly quick

Little bit of platforming and drilling makes it much easier

At black box and egg swarm defence points

[kind marlin]

BET-C absolutely soloed the hacking pod defense on the sabotage mission in the regular deep dive

between BET-C, Bosco, and a hacked patrol bot the second one required a whole 2 shots from me

[raven carbon]

betc and Bosco are very strong for hazard 3 enemies

[humble reef]

welp i did an oopsie assuming we'd have enough fodder clear

EDD Week 203 attempt #1 (fail) pubs

• 400S/450E (me)/50G/150D

Stage 1

• Good; Scout and me took a lot of early initiative and setup black box area
• 240 nitra, we used 2 resupplies

Stage 2

• Refinery requires either engi/driller to do speedily (elevated oil wells)
• Failed on black box, lack of fodder clear and CC apparently
  • see next attempt, suggesting to lower to next level, clear area with c4 and seal ceiling
  • Driller for whatever reason kept putting a c4 on top of black box---twice

Personal Conclusions

• VIR < roll control
• Encourage driller to run sticky flame duration+slow next time / gunner stun

[humble reef]

oops realized i posted twice

[humble reef]

EDD Week 203 attempt #2 (win) pubs

• 450D (me) / 150S /50E/50G
• Mission: 43:53
• Asked gunner to go tier 3 stun on minigun
• Very communicative team

Overall

• Driller good choice to carry, you're always doing something
  • FSD OC worked with sticky flame + slow;
  • Freeze + range good too; don't recommend sludge due to stage 3 terrain
• For stage 2 black box (strongly rec): tunnel to next lower level, clear, seal ceiling; much easier handling waves

Stage 3

• Very wave-focused, make sure to hold in good "holds" with good sightlines
• Group praetorian spawns with elites and oppressors are difficult
• Have a way to stun group macteras (please)

[chilly shore]

stage 3 seems entirely composed of tight tunnels and small rooms

with substantial vertical elevation changes too

[humble reef]

yeah that's accurate

should be really easy if you don't force weird holds with bad sightlines honestly

well aside from stage 3...

[chilly shore]

in stage 3 there are like 2 ok places to hold and one of those is the spawn room
(unless you make more with carve c4)

[pine vessel]

I've done solo deep dives before but as a driller the dreadnought mission has always given me pause, I feel like it's the only scenario in which he just can't compete (in all other mission types I truly believe he at worst tied for best in the game) - any thoughts or tips?

I run sticky flames / wave cooker

[slow magnet]

c4, ig?

[vestal sapphire]

the nefarious 40% explosive resistance

[slow magnet]

hm... maybe try freeze instead of burn?

you can freeze things reasonably fast with some OCs and then pull out the wave cooker for a chunk of damage

[vestal sapphire]

I don't usually do driller for elim stuff but afaik sludge blast is your best bet

[slow magnet]

yeah that's fair

driller's weapons are pretty good, I feel like you could make do with any of them if you really wanted to

If I'm gonna be totally honest, I've used the subata for killing big targets before and it's worked surprisingly well

I only ever see people shitting on it, and perhaps rightfully so, but as far as single target damage is concerned, that's the best secondary and the main weapon I've used for high dps on dreads

maybe not on elite deep dives, but for normal ones, it's good enough

+75% weakpoint damage, +50% damage on burning enemies, it stacks up pretty quick

[raven carbon]

Hard to do anything to dreads with either weapon

Sludge pump and subata are the only options for solo in this case

Freeze isn't really an option because you can't take advantage of that window solo

[pine vessel]

I have some nice OCs for sludge pump but I never really use it

Time to make a new build I suppose, thx all

[humble reef]

i kinda just don't bother ig, just on two points:

1. teammates bring single-target dps anyways
2. ammo efficiency on waves driller gets through dd/edd far-far make up for it

sludge could do both, 4s puddles+slow is my working minimum
(edit: checked my build; do see tanamr's comment)

[chilly shore]

some people recommend volatile impact sludge as a jack of all trades including elim but I prefer the teammate option

[raven carbon]

Driller is really good to solo everything except elim and sabotage

Sabotage has good builds for driller but it's a pain to do it solo

[chilly shore]

I have more sabotages completed as driller than every other class combined

[raven carbon]

Solo?

[chilly shore]

it gets old tho

sabotage moment

[raven carbon]

Sabotage gets old solo with any class

Tbf

[tulip perch]

is certainly deep

[split marten]

just attepted my first deep dive

NO PRIMARY AMMO NO SECONDARY AMMO ONE DREADNOUGHT REMAINING AND NOBODY BUT BOSCO ON MY SIDE

i did not beat stage one suffice to say

[sterile field]

The true Deep Dive solo experience.

[slow magnet]

this weeks DD time: 50:32
EDD time: 50:26

[soft ivy]

Hi! Any tips for better movement? I am dying more that other players, and when spectating it looks like they're moving very erratically, I am not sure what's the logic there

[rough marten]

you gotta become a bug to avoid the bugs

[soft ivy]

I am afraid I can't walk upside down

and neither can my driller

[languid stone]

A lot of players run the dash active perk, helps get you out of trouble in a pinch. But if its more often than the perk recharges, I'd say it's mostly needing to improve awareness (where bugs are/coming from, cave shape). Generally comes from just playing the game more.

[soft ivy]

it's not dash, I have it as well
they're jumping around wen walking back and shooting, I don't understand the logic behind that

or they literally just jump randomly hoping fewer bugs will hit them

[languid stone]

though I'm not certain if it helps (pretty sure though) jumping can help disrupt an enemies melee attack. I used to play a lot of COD Zombies (black ops 1,2,3) and generally jumping can help disrupt the animation. I assume its a similar event in this game. I do the same, often jumping while also moving makes it generally harder for enemies to hit you

This is usually because they tend to stop moving or slow down when they go to swing at you, so jumping creates distance

[soft ivy]

so there's no specific logic
you just jump and hope

[languid stone]

well, it's because of the little bit I added on. Anecdotally it has helped me avoid getting hit on many occasions. I know because i can see the enemy swing and hear the sound effect but not take any damage

[soft ivy]

Okay, thank you

[radiant cove]

Something that helped me a lot is reminding myself to walk back. When I started playing I very often forgot that I can just keep walking backwards.
Having an easily accessible fighting platform at all times will also help you with your movement probably more than you think. Make sure to always know where you will be fighting the next batch of enemies. Knowing your environment is almost more important than actually having good movement. It makes you more confident, more aware of where bugs can come from, and which way can you run in case you get into too much trouble. Less panic while moving = better movement

I'm not exactly sure why people jump so much, but I do as well. Many platformer games give you a small speed boost when you jump from a standstill, and that might be true in this game as well. That would obviously help avoiding bugs.
If you think about it in 2D, jumping also puts you slightly further from the bugs while you're in the air, which makes them less likely to reach you.

[mellow cradle]

people jump because you can straight up jump over meele attacks of medium sized bugs

[soft ivy]

ty guys

[rugged plume]

pretty much just, use pythagoras theorem for dodging bugs' attacks

[vague lantern]

it's likely the pythagorian stuff that causes jumping to make dodging easier

[mossy patio]

pretty low nitra on this first mission

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[lime hollow]

Jumping and moving becomes important as bugs get faster. Shooting slows you down if you do it on the ground but if you jump you get to keep your sprint speed as you shoot. It's basically just a way to get more out of the trade off of "run or shoot" and ensure you stay faster than the bugs while also firing back

[gray gulch]

Pretty much this lol, keeping momentum and always looking for ledges/ escape routes while fighting bugs is mainly the reason i jump around too

[hushed sequoia]

that's pretty exactly what the idea behind jumping often is

bugs have a harder time hitting you mid air, gunner specifically benefits a lot from doing that since the primaries have movement penalties

[wintry knot]

Whats the difference between a derp dive and derp dive elete

Deep dive*

Elite*

[mellow cradle]

the hazard level for the stages of a DD are haz 3, 3.5, 3.5, and there are 2 warnings present
for the EDD, the haz levels are 4.5, 5, 5.5, and there are either 2 or 3 warnings

[wintry knot]

Ok

Ill just stick to the regular deep dives then bexuase im not that food at video games

My god i keep typing things wrong sorry im on a new phone

[humble reef]

it's pretty much kiting and blocking LoS

even against enemies that move faster when not on scout, there's value to it

[faint isle]

What the hell is that hazard, Blood Sugar + O2

[chilly shore]

i love decreasing resource bar management simulator

[sterile field]

I love simulated anxiety!

[white wing]

Whats LoS

[radiant cove]

probably line of sight

[white wing]

Aaa

[wraith sparrow]

hi guys, anyone wanna do deep dive?

[opal tartan]

Honestly it went smooth for me because of how many enemies there were

Never ran out of sugar, not even my dealer has that much

[hollow wedge]

wow the edd is stressful

[tranquil gulch]

seconded, the two brood nexuses help with initial sugar supply so long as you don't freeze them to death

hell, i was able to survive suffocating for 15 seconds while my resupply fell

also shoutout to my team that agreed to do both power stations simultaneously in stage 2 that was fun

[opal tartan]

Not even brood nexuses

Just thorns perk with lots of swarmers

And bosco killing grunts with extreme prejudice

Oh and grenade launcher

[opal tartan]

How is it? What warnings?

[hollow wedge]

1 is cave leech cluster, 3 was elite threat

2 was fine, so is 1

but I found the third stage to be really enclosed at times

[rugged plume]

yeah the cave layout of stage 3 is, weird

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[magic tusk]

whats the missions for today's EDD

[rugged plume]

225 morkite, black box with cave leech cluster
||refinery, black box||
||4 alien eggs, 2 mini mules with elite threat||

[weary walrus]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[stone elbow]

Hey y'all, decently new greenbeard here who is looking to do my first deep dive. Apologies if this is the incorrect channel to post this, but just wondering if anyone is open to doing a deep dive with me! I play engineer, and would be open to any specific build recommendations to help with the dive.

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[night raft]

is someone willing to join a 2 dward team for a deep dive?

[honest flame]

This might be the most evil deep dive I've ever played

Wasn't even the elite

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[cold kindle]

Fun fact

Mobile tanker pod (secondary objective on deep dive) doesn't give you air during low oxygen missions (i tested it on myself: regular deep dive stage 3 has mobile tanker pod + low oxygen)

Which is weird

Why it doesn't give you fresh air

DRG are greedy as heck and didn't attached air tanks on tanker pod because yes?

[slow magnet]

maybe they missed it

[slow magnet]

move normal to the line of sight to enemies if they're ranged against ranged attackers

run away to kite the enemies, they bunch up together and become easier to kill

also never stop moving, even when shooting

I'm no greybeard but I always see the very new players take a stand and fight the bugs when they should run away and get some distance

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

give me 5 mins for dreadnoughts thanks

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 July 17 to 2025 July 24 (Week 304)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1753354800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Mammoth Hold
Stage 1: Escort Duty + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Volatile Guts
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Classic & Twins) + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Fragile Cell
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 2: On-Site Refining + Twins | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + 150 Morkite | Parasites

back to hollow bough, everyone celebrate

[cold kindle]

Suspiciously high amount of leeches last few weeks

Previous week had two CLC

Current week has two CLC

Previous week had CLC on 1st stage of dd and edd

This week has CLC on 2nd stage of dd and edd

Next week should have CLC on 3rd stage of dd and edd

[little hazel]

no duck and cover though

[drifting tinsel]

CLC is currently tied with parasites for 3rd most frequently appearing warning since the start of season 5

[thorny moon]

First stage of the EDD is so fucked

Me and my team searched the cave for 30 minutes trying to find the last 18 pieces of Morkite

have anybody else completed the stage?

[slow magnet]

DD: 1:01:38
EDD: 1:02:34

I'm nothing if not consistent

EDD scout had 700+ mined minerals even with everyone else having at least 300+ each. bro MINED.

[slow magnet]

wait a whole week for weekly assignments and deep dives. already done with it in 5 hours. now we wait another week

[pine vessel]

Where do people do DD and EDD LFG? Ingame lobbies or servers?

[rugged plume]

usually ask in #lfg-steam (or whatever your platform is) since its kinda hard to get into an in-game lobby

[pine vessel]

Ty

[old marsh]

just got kicked from last stage edd when (during which I clutched up multiple times as all 3 of my teammates repeatedly died in the corner using their ironwill) I killed the scout on accident and then revived him

[humble reef]

Agenda and Suggestions for others - EDD Pubs Week 304

Attempt # 1 (Win)
Comp: 470 Scout (scout, me) / 300 Engi / 130 Gunner / 1150 Driller
Mission time: 43:35

Stage 1 (10m)

• mostly trailblazed, skipped boots for the sake of speed
• ive read people finding too low morkite; i've found there's about an excess of 100 morkite if you're thorough as Scout
  • tunnel entrance to last room is elevated and exits in the ceiling

Stage 2 (20m)

• our boss dps sucked, we ended up taking 3 mins? on twins; bring armor breaking
• default boss area sucks, go to area adjacent to refinery or spawn

Stage 3 (10)

• it's extraction, you should always be doing something
• emphasized i'll mine morkite and aquarqs out; let others carry

other tips

• had 280-ish nitra by stage 3? emptying flare gun wasn't really a concern
• m1000 good for HVT's; cryobolt+pheromones+pheromone grenades sped mineral mining
• bring stun and armor breaking (please god, if i see a teammate die by a mactera again)
  edit: markdown fail

[pine vessel]

Solo deep dive driller loadout? Cryo is best for CC & elimination right?

[chilly shore]

the problem with solo cryo elimination is it's hard to take advantage when the dread is frozen

ice spear or ice storm are the best cryo options for that
otherwise sludge is solid

[vague kernel]

got a really odd molly voidwalk on the stage 2 return of the DD

I put it in #drg-gallery

oh it got deleted

[little halo]

no molly upskirt

[slow magnet]

I sit with an open public lobby on the space rig and wait till people join

if I'm lucky, some fun people join who are okay with chilling till we get 4

drink beer, play hide and seek, womhole into the drop pod with flintlock, some days during active hours, you get people within seconds, other times you wait 30 minutes

elite deep dives aren't as popular

[pine vessel]

I run sludge w volatile impact mixture and it melts but I worry abt ammo and CC

[severe halo]

I’m so curious. How do you get all the info so quickly?

[mellow cradle]

most info is gotten via a programme

except the dreads

[digital briar]

on the dreads, I like to think she's mildly insane and visually confirms the dreadnoughts in-game on the hour

[drifting tinsel]

i have a script that fetches info for me every week
i still go through the dives in-game just to (1) double check my info, (2) fetch seeded dreadnoughts if applicable, and (3) get some more details for my personal data collection

sometimes rotations will take a little longer to fetch because i can't use modding to "easily" skip through salvage primaries when there's dreadnoughts in a later stage 💔

[nocturne rampart]

So you can only play deep dives for rewards once a week?

[lime hollow]

You can play them as many times as you like but you only get rewards for the active dives once until a new set appears, yes

[pine vessel]

Unreal RNG on my DD, drop pod was near inaccessible, had to drill up to the ceiling and drop onto it

Wasted my iron will 😦

let's see how the rest goes

[slow magnet]

doesn't it always spawn in the same place?

[pine vessel]

It caught on a cliff

The ramp was fully extended and super far off the ground

Don't matter

[slow magnet]

Ohh, yeah that happened for me too, i think

I was a gunner so managed to get a zipline in place

driller made a path pretty directly to the pod so it wasn't too steep an angle for the zipline

[nocturne rampart]

Dang so i am only able to get 4 blank cores a week?

[burnt sandal]

3 blank cores and 3 weapon OCs, as well as 3 cosmetic cores: 1 of each for the two deep dives and the weekly assignment.

Plus promotions that award you a random overclock. As well as those you might get from forging other OCs.

[nocturne rampart]

Auuuughhhh

Time lock in my singleplayer game, wonderful

Wouldnt mind doing machine events if i could amass cores

[digital briar]

you still get returns from time invested, the weeklies are more of an incentive to at least play a bit every week

I think you can get 2-3 promotions a week with a 9-5 and taking advantage of double XP wherever possible

[lime hollow]

It is still worth it to do them even without cores. They give 1000 flat xp + haz bonus iirc and you get it just for trying, you don't have to win it

[nocturne rampart]

I miss out on resources

[lime hollow]

nah, you don't lose anything if the timer runs out. The only thing required to keep resources is a mission success.

now that you mention it, I wonder if you could activate a machine event on the run back to the pod and still get the payout 🤔

I assume you either have to win, lose or have the timer run out to get the xp reward but I never thought about just bailing with the pod

[nocturne rampart]

Did many under the countdown

[lime hollow]

yeah but I'm thinking if you just want the xp, turn on the omen tower, grinder, whatever and then just get in the drop pod. I don't think I've ever done that and I wonder if you still get the event xp

I'll have to test that myself later

[chilly lotus]

You cant do that, you need to finished a triggered machine event

[lime hollow]

RIP

that makes sense though

[chilly lotus]

Yea, also same rule to another events
But if you finished a machine event and trade a blank core on it, but you lose the main mission, you still get the OCs or skin cores

[vague lantern]

absolutely, but of course the payout requires you to use the matrix core infuser. luckily all machine events take less time than the 5 mins you're given to extract of course, unless it goes poorly or the cave is really long winded you should make it.

[pine vessel]

I've been trying to farm machine events but have been doing so many 8 egg hunts w no luck

[vague lantern]

in fact i think you can just abort the mision after having infused your matrix core to get to finding another one sooner

[chilly shore]

and abort if there isnt an event
miserable way to play the game long term but yes that is a strategy that could be used

[charred juniper]

s'no fun tho

plus u miss out on xp

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[radiant cove]

quick question. Are there any differences between normal haz 5 and EDD haz 5? Cuz the wiki has separate columns for the two on every enemy.

[chilly shore]

No, the duplicated columns are just for convenience

[radiant cove]

ty.

[nocturne rampart]

wheres the nitra on this weeks elite dive man

first lvl

[hexed marsh]

You'll get the XP if you let the timer run dry, at least it did last I played which was like 9 months ago

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[magic tusk]

whats the missions for this week normal DD and EDD

[mellow cradle]

check pins

[magic tusk]

my bad never knew they post it like that
thanks

[magic tusk]

how does the hazards scale on EDD

[ancient pewter]

4.5, to 5, to 5.5, iirc?

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[real blaze]

Oh the difficulty changes between levels? Wild

[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[radiant cove]

we attempted to finish the DD quickly with my friend, but got so bored, that we decided to pop both dreads and the egg on the third stage. It didn't go very well

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 July 24 to 2025 July 31 (Week 305)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1753959600:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Meek Patrol
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Classic & Twins) + Liquid Morkite Well | Ebonite Outbreak
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Lethal Enemies
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Blue Raid
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 2: On-Site Refining + Black Box | Duck and Cover
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon

bruh get me out of the hollow bough 😭

[radiant cove]

EGGS

[little hazel]

wow edd looks like fun this week

[thorny moon]

Hollow bough for, what?

The third time this month?

[cold kindle]

GOO SAC!

Disgusting once again

Disgusting biome & disgusting warnings

At least objectives aren't that bad

[lime hollow]

I'm starting to miss the bogs now

Been in this tree for three weeks, feeling like a coconut

The bough ain't hollow anymore, we live here

[slow magnet]

that EDD was fucked up

the second stage

[prime shore]

I've sprung a leak!

Get us out the bough

[slow magnet]

was anyone unlucky enough to step out of the drop pod into 5-6 infectors and an army of spreaders and spitters?

or did we get extremely unlucky

barely managed to survive even the firtst 5 minutes lol

not bad tho, all things considered

DD: 35:19, EDD: 37:20

[cold kindle]

Same

Bogs are disgusting too thanks to goo and poison clouds

But

Bogs at least have pingable MUSHROOM!s

And goo works affects both dwarves and bugs so it can be used to your advantage in theory

Btw why spiky vines do not damage bugs

[acoustic comet]

Where the fuck is the liquid morkite well on DD stage 1? I have been roaming the map for 30 minutes with no luck 😭😭

[hidden dew]

in the ceiling somewhere

[acoustic comet]

Rip

[hidden dew]

just the bottom is sticking out and doesnt go anywhere if i remember correctly 😂

[acoustic comet]

That's so bad 😭😂

Found it

Holy fuck

[drifting tinsel]

this is the funniest fucking refinery well spot i've ever seen
i laughed so hard seeing it for the first time

[slow magnet]

it's all the way in the ceiling, you're fucked without a driller

like not even just close to the ceiling, it's literally stuck and buried in there

this week's DD/EDD was so funny and unique compared to the last couple weeks lmfao

[acoustic comet]

solo engi was not the way 😂

my time was 1:07 for the DD this week, and 40 of that was on stage 1 trying to find the well 😂

legit found it only by audio cues in the end haha

[hidden dew]

I just happened to spot it while checking the map

[mellow cradle]

that's seeded, yeah

second stage rolled the maximum stationary strength

[static lichen]

ah yes, i'll walk out from the pod at edd stage 2

clueless

[nocturne rampart]

do all elite dives happen in hollow bough?

[burnt sandal]

yes, they can

[open lance]

stage 2 landing is terrifying

[nocturne rampart]

btw stage 2 elite dive has a teeeth plant blocking ur entrance to escape drop pod

clear it out before doing any of the objectives

🥲

[mellow cradle]

escape drop pod locations may vary, depending on where the team is currrently, even on refinery, afaik

[nocturne rampart]

the game played me extra dirty

[junior lion]

Broooo 4 hollow boughs in a row for epic deep dive?

[sterile field]

That was my first EDD, and that second stage was the most terrifying thing I experienced.

[chilly shore]

welcome to the best thing about refinery missions (other than eurobeat neon pipes)

[molten solar]

I'm late to this convo, but Duck and Cover on Blackbox Extraction was insane.

[minor slate]

Seen from above, the first DD map is a triangle, and the spawn point is on one of the sides of that triangle (let's call it "a"). The liquid morkite well is on the roof of the opposite vertex (vertex "A"). A driller is required to reach the well and to excavate the tunnel through which the pipeline will be built.

. A
. /
. /
. c b
. /
. B/----a----\C

[sterile field]

Oh yeah, that well was pretty annoying to find during my dive. I pity anyone doing a solo dive as Gunner.

I am glad my teammates found it, because I would’ve never guessed it was anywhere but on the ground.

[real blaze]

I’m pretty sure the only reason I was able to complete the EDD was because my team included some mates who had already attempted it and knew what they were getting into

2 barrage infectors, 3 spitball infectors and a scramble bramble with duck and cover is insane

All right outside the drop pod

[patent zenith]

This week EDD was Australia simulator.
Did it high as usual (extra challenge 😅). Fortunately my team were great and we completed it. Might go again tonight for the lols.

[urban mantle]

solo EDD was not a good idea that blackbox was horrific

[glass basalt]

second stage EDD was brutal, duck & cover + refinery

equals to more fun

[slow magnet]

our driller clutched up on EDD stage 2 by making trenches and bunkers

the black box was a piece of cake. dig under it, then c4 a large room, block the hole in the roof. lead a tunnel out from one side. easiest hold of my life

[kind marlin]

I’m definitely not completing this weeks EDD solo. Being revived by Bosco only to instantly go down again to 5 septic spreaders is not fun.

[craggy plank]

Although a driller makes it a lot easier, ebonite outbreak makes power attacks avaliable often enough for any class to be able to dig fairly well

[nocturne rampart]

Engineer bunker is pretty effective

Proximity mines are king

[chilly shore]

based proxy user

[nocturne rampart]

As shown in risk of rain 2

Turrets and mines, bread and butter

[crude kestrel]

And cheese

[faint isle]

Is the second stage of Elite DD even possible?

[rugged plume]

the nefarious bunker:

[chilly shore]

Yes, here are some tips with the most cheesy ones at the end:

• use gunner shields like crazy. Be smart with what you do in gunner shields: kill infectors, revive teammates, look for places that have some cover from remaining infectors.
• constantly move and jump, especially move sideways to dodge things shooting at you. Do not ever stop moving unless to press E on something.
• remember shooting slows you down, practice shooting weapons in mid-air which doesn't slow you down
• bring a full team to have the most chances to revive
• equip the Resupplier perk and use resupplies as health packs. don't be afraid to "waste" a resupply on just health, you will probably be more limited on health than on nitra. Combine this with gunner shields
• equip some kind of lingering ranged effect on driller that can stick to walls and ceilings. so either sticky flames or sticky ice. Use against spitters, especially if you are out in the open
• hunt down septic spreaders/menaces as scout
• if whoever is currently alive will not be able to handle things, don't be afraid to iron will and do something productive (revive, resupply for health, whatever)
• equip driller's c4 with stun upgrade and use it to defend against mactera groups
• try the mole coilgun to kill infectors from cover
• build platform ceilings with engineer, not so low that spitters can crawl over the edge into your face, but low enough to block a lot of shooting angles
• use gunner's leadbursters against barrage infectors. throw it directly at/next to the barrager
• use speed drills like crazy, dig cover, dig underground zigzags filled with fire to escape from spitters, dig dead teammates into the ground to somewhat act as cover while reviving
• drill straight down for cover after leaving the drop pod or when things get too spicy
• equip neurotoxin payload autocannon on gunner, with fear
• bunker

[pine vessel]

Bro

This week's DD was obnoxious

The placing of the objectives

[lime hollow]

cheese roof heavily recommended. EM discharge is usually my D&C go-to when you have to hang out in it for a long time. Very ammo efficient and will make very short work of the worst of the wave if they come anywhere close to your Kraft house. Don't be afraid to stack cheese to make walls if you're solo too

decoy grenades also do huge numbers to keep the team alive. Anything not shooting at a real dwarf is a blessing

[ancient pewter]

People weren't kidding, that morkite well sure was in the roof

[lime hollow]

it happens every summer

Morkite prices through the roof rn

[mystic horizon]

quite the hellish elite dive this was

had it not been for my engie setting up several roofs on 2nd stage i dont believe that would've gone so well

was basically working overtime as scout flying around taking out septic spreaders for my team

though nitra's very plentiful so we didn't shy away from spamming resups for heals

pheromones works surprisingly well on 2nd stage if you catch a mactera swarm or a large horde of spitters spawning in

though ice nades would do plenty better

[nocturne rampart]

again, bunkering down is pretty good strategy

[pine vessel]

What is this engineer roof meta

I don't play engie

[humble reef]

do you mean the LOS-celing one or, the more strategic, platform-repellant mod one that routes enemies?

[pine vessel]

Either/both

[humble reef]

the main principle of the latter is routing. if you control enemies to enter through one or two directions, it's deliberately much easier, safer and ammo efficient to deal with waves.

it's not a ceiling thing only tbh

maybe see: https://youtu.be/MXgD_GIMxlc

you also need to equip the mod for it (tier 2?)

skip to 5:36 if you don't care for nuance

[chilly shore]

full ceilings rarely coincide with good repellent

in fact it's pretty much just duck and cover

[pine vessel]

I see thx for the info c

Btw do EDD and DD give identical rewards? Is there a point to doing both?

[chilly shore]

yes same rewards, the point of doing both is to get the rewards from both

[tranquil gulch]

they both give a blank core, a weapon overclock, and a cosmetic core

the contents of each core will be different as they're fully randomized for what dwarf they're for but yes, the point of doing both is to get two sets of cores

[vague kernel]

very interesting morkite "well" on the DD this week

not only is it encased in terrain, it's straight up in the cieling

which is interesting because that means you can see the bottom of this supposed well lmao

[sterile field]

Nature is truly amazing…and nonsensical.

[torn shale]

how rough is the elite this week?

haven’t done one before just did my first regular

[vague kernel]

second stage is a duck and cover refining

doesn't seem too bad, tried it with a pretty uncoordinated team tho i got DCd in stage 2

@torn shale if you'd like I'd be down to run it with ya

just finishing up the DD rn

[torn shale]

perhaps

i wouldn’t mind it

only really played with my friend group

[vague kernel]

alr finished the DD

[cerulean harness]

man most most ppl have no idea how to deal with duck and cover

[wraith shard]

You'd think dwarves wouldn't have to duck but here we are

[wanton cedar]

Di someone complete Elit DD yet?

I cant deal with the second level.

[cerulean harness]

Yeah

Is mostly about cleaning the mess of spitballers at spawn and then having a build capable of managing duck and cover

[wanton cedar]

Idon't know any builds that can handle that many spitters

[hidden dew]

Never played duck and cover?

[wanton cedar]

I played a few duck and cower missions but I still don't know what to bring.

[hidden dew]

Good range

[wanton cedar]

I'm thinkin about Lok 1 smart rifle

And shard diffractor maybe

I don't have fatboy btw

[hidden dew]

As engineer you can also put up roofs as shelter

[wanton cedar]

I know that

Yeah ofc

WTF man?

😄

[burnt sandal]

hacked account

[wanton cedar]

Oh

[cerulean harness]

Yeah that’s pretty much the best answer

[manic pivot]

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We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[torpid vigil]

Thank you mission control

[vague kernel]

diffractor vir does decently against duck and cover, the lok is decent, the shotgun is decent with turret whip, breach is ok, prob want plas trail at the least and maybe roll control or spinning death for the area coverage, the pgl with dmg+aoe or ammo+burn would clear well

for scout, having flares is immensely helpful, aise is solid and the m1k is good with most OCs, plas is ok but i dont have much experience with it. Shotgun is decent if you can get close to the packs as they spawn, otherwise cryominelets or phero bolts

for driller i’m not entirely sure but i would suspect the epc with tcf would be good if you can use it, and the microwave beam is always good

for gunner, neurotox or carpet bomber is good, most of the secondaries with some spec for accuracy are good, missile launcher is good, minigun is good with accuracy or ricochet

honestly even without an engie/driller bunker, just finding a natural choke is a good idea, somewhere where the bugs can only come from one or two angles (and ideally not above) and not too cramped, tunnels work decently and sometimes areas by the edge of the cave can be good

scout is mobile enough to stay alive without

there are many solutions to duck and cover, I would also generally suggest the perks Unstoppable (reduces webber web slowdown from 50% to 25%), and Elemental Insulation (reduces acid spitter DoT, among many other things)

[vague kernel]

fatboy is good for waves with d&c, honestly kinda mid for prolonged defense as they don’t all spawn clustered together as much and if the ceiling isn’t even it just isn’t that good

my preferred loadout is engie with MPA shotgun (turret whip), VIR diffractor, defender gemini turrets, and elemental insulation (it stacks with the armor's 50% tox resist additively), and LURE (spitters seem to be much more likely to agro onto LURE, tho I don't know why honestly, i think it has to do with them reselecting targets much more frequently)

[ancient pewter]

I also got through relatively painlessly with incend rj250 and shredders

[ancient pewter]

And plat roofs, of course

[lime hollow]

pgl highly underrated for hellish Duck and Cover or Mactera Plague caves

[silk flare]

Pain

I drilled for them on EDD stage 2

Nobody followed me

I drilled under their bodies to revive

And they rushed back up to get killed again on the surface

[molten atlas]

does anyone have a screenshot of the morkite well location this week?
im about to spend more time on this one stage than i did on the entire EDD this week 😭

[mellow cradle]

it's in the ceiling

in one of the rooms

don't have a screenshot, but hopefully this will help

[molten atlas]

found it a couple minutes ago, scrolled up and found the triangle graph someone sent then searched all 3 corners before finding it...

[weary walrus]

I'd really love a group for an EDD speedrun. Shooting for 25

[pine vessel]

I'm around later if you need a driller

I usually do solo

[vague lantern]

stage two of the edd is a nightmare

the team is toast if too many people run out right away and the black box is nearly impossible without creating some level of cover or using a bunker

having a good driller that knows how to make a bunker can be a life saver

[radiant cove]

I just played the EDD with my brother today (two fat boy engis) and we had an easy time. Though engis are the goats of D&C

[real blaze]

I second this. All the spitters spawn in a clump together and you can kill half of an entire wave of you find them before they get too spread out

[vague kernel]

#deep-dive-speedrunning message

[vague kernel]

somehow we managed it with a really uncoordinated team on my first attempt at it with a hastily made and rather poor bunker, and the box being started with almost noone ready, but yea you need stageprep for sure

[vague kernel]

I think I once killed like 40 acid spitters at once on a D&C h5ME2 with a single scout's double barrel, peak but hard to get close enough fast enough often. PGL incend def does it more reliably

turret whip can do the trick too if it locks on

[vague lantern]

my team consisted of two greenbeards, one of which had never done an edd before. thankfully they actually played quite well.

[vague kernel]

yea the team was me and 3 bronze 1stars

[vague lantern]

oh the third guy was just a guy

middle of the road, platinum engi or smth

[vague kernel]

we did okay tho I got DCed basically right after the box which was unfortunate

as such gonna be trying the edd again tonight lol

[vague lantern]

good luck

if you play driller, i recommend ag pellet sludge pump

makes it like a carnival shooting game

[vague kernel]

gonna play engie or scout prob

[vague kernel]

lmfao

i can see it that's pretty epic

can prob go like 50m straight up huh?

[vague lantern]

idk

[vague kernel]

prob higher, 0.25x grav should mean 4x height

[vague lantern]

i havent found a real limit to the range yet on ag pellets... but at a certain point it's about whether you can hit the target

[vague kernel]

yea true

[vague lantern]

taking high velocity in t1 rather than the ag pellet overclock makes it fly faster but the max range is a lot lower

[vague kernel]

makes sense

[vague lantern]

(also you lose out on like 20 extra shots)

[vague kernel]

well gonna give it a shot solo since doesn't seem anyone's on

[chilly shore]

I was the driller who refused to bunker (we won)

engi also didn’t make a ceiling
same wavelength I guess

[vague kernel]

it can def work if you have a good spot

iirc the base spot was decent

honestly whenever I play solo I always make extensive prep for any defense

I'll spend like 5m prepping a box

also which is worse for SD, hollow bough or magma core?

or is there a third even worse option

[vague kernel]

speaking of 5m prepping the box, 47m stage 2 lmao

[vague kernel]

solo engie EDD complete

is magdumping a quarter of your ammo into a hoarder on stage 3 EDD a good idea? debatable
is it worth it? undeniably

[compact mural]

Oh my god. First time Eliter here. What the actual fuck. 🤣

First level: "oh man no shields in spiky hollow bough, thats a tough one, dont get poked heehee! :D

Second level: "we have replaced every grunt in the cave with an acid spitter, go pump morkite bozo"

[slow magnet]

don't forget a literal infestation of infectors

[compact mural]

I died IN the drop pod second attempt 💀

[slow magnet]

did you manage to do it?

it's definitely easier with a team.

sort of like how you don't have to be faster than a bear, just faster than your friends

[compact mural]

Lmao, real. Nah i just did solo and no I havent beaten 2nd stage lmao

[slow magnet]

isn't that the stage with a black box?

[compact mural]

Ye

[slow magnet]

not jealous of you trying it solo let me just say that

[vague lantern]

Solo engi or gunner might be able to do it

Scout... Probably not. Driller would have to get past the start of stage 2 but maybe

[lime hollow]

scout and driller have a huge advantage at the start of stage 2 with their access to cryo

scout can struggle with the black box but it can be done

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[pine vessel]

Can anyone give me a good recommendation for a cryo-driller solo build

I was thinking ice spear for single target damage and ammo efficiency but I wasn't sure if I wanted to pair it with PP TCF for mining or CWC for blowing things up

[hushed quarry]

ill send you a sc in a sec

[pine vessel]

Appreciate u

[hushed quarry]

ill send you pv

@pine vessel i sent you pv

[forest tendon]

I hadn't played Deep Rock since February so jumping straight into the EDD this week was ROUGH. Definitely one of the hardest Deep Dives I've played - but it was definitely also one of the funnest.

We had a combined 68 deaths on our team of 4, 800 hours of combined playtime among all 4 players.

56 minutes in total

Stage 2 was ROUUGGGHHH

[forest tendon]

Personally I think this specific Deep Dive (I might just have been rusty) was definitely harder than the average

[hidden dew]

I'm most impressed you managed to get so many successful revives lol

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[forest tendon]

Yeah I honestly don't know how. Combination of digging people into the ground, shields, cryo grenade and shredders must've done the trick

[manic pivot]

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[drifting tinsel]

let's dance

[mystic horizon]

lets get it

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 July 31 to 2025 August 07 (Week 306)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1754564400:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Natural Boneyard
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Dreadnought (Hiveguard) | Low Oxygen
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + 150 Morkite | Parasites

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Shattered Drop
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + Dreadnought (Twins) | Haunted Cave
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 150 Morkite | Ebonite Outbreak

[mystic horizon]

edd stage 2 seems fun

not looking forward to stage 3 though

ebonites are such a pain with dotty

[drifting tinsel]

i have some news about that morkite well

it might be related to last week's morkite well

[mellow cradle]

[mystic horizon]

the morkite well indeed is quite a pain

[cold kindle]

This is gonna be tough edd

Three high complexety missions

Three warnings

[cold kindle]

Morkite well placed incredible bad?

[mystic horizon]

stage 2 is

rough

very rough

have someone manage the unknown horror or things wont go so well

[mellow cradle]

sludge pump it is

[ivory marten]

I bring to you all, Derpguy's DD basics.

So, you want to do a Deep Dive (DD) or Elite Deep Dive (EDD) but have no clue what you're getting into. Let me help clear some things up.

Each week, a new seed is chosen for the DD and EDD, meaning the caves for that week are always the same each run.

DDs and EDDs are triple length missions. You have to do three missions, which I will now be referring to as stages, in a row without fail in order to complete it. Each stage will also increase in difficulty, starting at 3 for DDs and 4.5 for EDDs and capping out at 3.5 for DDs and 5.5 for EDDs.

These stages have two primary objectives instead of a primary and secondary, both of which must be completed in order to progress.

There are no crafting minerals, cargo crates, lost packs or machine events, only gold and nitra.

Collected minerals, as well as health and ammo, will be retained through each stage of the dive. All perks will also be refreshed.

Completing each of these stages gives you a Blank Core, Weapon Core and Cosmetic Core respectively.

You can try the DDs and EDDs as many times as you want, but only the first completion of each stage will give you a core.

[long bough]

This deep dive was a whole lot more stressful than I thought.

I couldn't find the last morkite vein in the last stage and spent so long running around and nearly dying every swarm.

Skill issue on my part.

[compact mural]

Yea it was nuts, beat it last night. Solo gunner, mortar shells my beloved 🫡

[plain furnace]

no petbug emoji, unreadable gibberish

-# thank you still,

[hidden dew]

are the enemy spawn pools also the same or can they differ?

[ivory marten]

I'm... not sure.

[hidden dew]

just got a nemesis on the last stage of dd

[ivory marten]

Oh-

[hidden dew]

though i did happen to have a completely inappropriate build with conductive thermals so he did light up rather quickly

[ivory marten]

You know... I DID have some runs where Huulis spawned a few times.

[hidden dew]

had a betc in my first edd

[nocturne rampart]

the terrain in this elite is dog

omg

[cerulean harness]

not escort on stage 3

[drifting tinsel]

i forgor 💀

[plain furnace]

no worries, its the thought that matters

tf is this edd?

only preatorians spawn

but with normal rate

[inland bramble]

superbly placed morkite well

[gleaming spindle]

a bulk spawned last second ON THE FUCKING WALL during omoran

literally had no choice but to kill it and rain bomblets onto the dozer

fuck these spawns so much of the time

[flint urchin]

just completed my first deep dive

took like, 1 hour 20 minutes

[night sphinx]

Would anyone like to help me out on the Elite Deep Dive? I’m on PlayStation.

[pure tartan]

Ok so what is a deep dive?

[burnt sandal]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[mellow cradle]

erm, we already had a pin as to what is a deep dive #deep-dive-discussion message

unless you like that one better I guess

[burnt sandal]

pinned it before seeing the other one

[cerulean harness]

now do the edd

[worn compass]

God damn

that stage two edd was a pain in the ass

as engi

and molly hit the classic spider man move at the end

[mental rampart]

Isn't it haz 4.5 for DDs? I think you typoed 3.5

[mental rampart]

I think they are the same

[worn compass]

Yo

why were this week's edd so much harder than usual

bad rng?

[digital briar]

I was lucky enough to get carried this week

[drifting tinsel]

thank you for the carry <3

[digital briar]

no u

[ancient pewter]

Damn, gotta read the pins before you post

[hidden dew]

So did everyone get a nemesis?

[mental rampart]

Haven't done the normal Deep Dive yet. This week's EDD was fun, though the second stage was a little bit painful

I was the only one up with 0 health somehow, as gunner, then I walked to the scout and insta-revved with field medic

(think I had 0.5 health or somesuch)

[ivory marten]

Nope! Only goes up to 3.5

[trail depot]

edd is hellish

[soft ivy]

I gave up on edd this week
the 1st map was annoying (peak morkite spawn), and got really bad teammates ;c

[flint urchin]

are deep dive rewards the same for everyone

and if so what are the elite deep dive rewards

[lime hollow]

the reward tiers are the same for both dives but the actual Overclocks you get are randomized so you and your squad will all get different ones

[flint urchin]

its 1 empty slot 1 overclock and 1 skin bundle right?

[lime hollow]

yes

[flint urchin]

i should probably do my elite run.... how hard are they? i could pretty easily solo the regular deep dives

[lime hollow]

Elite dives are doable solo but some can be very tough. I'd rate this week on the tougher end personally.

[flint urchin]

i hope i can find a squad to do it with me, thanks

[lime hollow]

👌

if worse comes to worse, you get to keep the cores you get for each stage even if you fail the dive so as long as you can beat stage 2 you'll still be able to clean up on the blank cores and weapon overclocks at least

[flint urchin]

just gotta beat stage 2, no problem!!!

[echo moss]

Hey, could any drillers here recommend a build for this EDD?

Not sure if crystal nucleation is worth it, but I'm not used to the sticky flames oc, I don't have much experience using it.

I do have disperser compound, but I'm worried about the ammo (160).

[mental rampart]

TIL

[sterile leaf]

This EDD is hard, I can’t pass the 2nd one

[rugged plume]

sticky fuel just do the same thing as crystal nucleation but with less ammo usage, and without losing too much damage either
and for disperser compound, thats just sludge pump ammo after all, it will work very well no matter what though

[swift wasp]

Why is there a limit of 50 mods in deep dive when you open deep dive in the lobby and anyone with over 50 mods gets kicked (quality of life mods for sounds and cosmetics, VERIFIED)????
Did the developers already know this, and will it be fixed? If you join a lobby that has already pressed the deep dive button, everything works normally.

[mellow cradle]

are you sure it was because of that?
I doubt it

[chilly shore]

I believe it
there used to be a 50 mod limit, which they tried to remove with the last update
but the modding system is buggy enough that it would be easy to miss part of the 50 mod check

[quaint mason]

mfs who did edd this week
how did you do the morkite pump bs
its spawning areas are so weird

[little halo]

Our driller just drill up & along the wall to connect it. The hard part was surviving after entering the room

[quaint mason]

crying in lvl10 driller

i was gonna doit with randoms but i accidently played solo and now iam stubborn to doit solo

its pissing me

[oblique acorn]

We had a gunner zipline up then platformed the pipe across. But yeah it's annoying.

[kind marlin]

For some reason every time people are complaining about terrible morkite well locations I get a completely normal one playing solo. The funny part is I play driller so I could handle the weird placements.

[mighty wind]

Was on the elite deep dive and the drilldozer ran through bet-c. Will that happen every time?

[digital briar]

it didn't for us, we had the luxury of ignoring it until the end of the mission where we triggered it for fun

[mighty wind]

OK that's reassuring. It pretty much wiped us out as we couldn't fight the swarm, protect dorreta and deal with bet c as a 3 man team. Might try again

[quaint mason]

chat is dead today

is cryo canon better than flamethromer with no oc

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
_ _

[quaint mason]

should i get damage or sticky flames for flamethromer

[rugged plume]

sticky flames

[chilly lotus]

both good, and both has 2 ways of plays (shooting ground for effects and direct shots)
things that make them different, flames is for strong aoe dmg dots, cryo is for mass "temperature" stuns / single target

[grizzled briar]

has anyone here soloed this edd with gunner or scout?

cause the morkite well seems impossible without an engi or driller

[lime hollow]

posted my pumpjack in #modded-gallery

I solo'd it with Gunner this week

easier than it looks, just gotta let Bosco earn his paycheck

same strat obviously works with Scout. I guess you could also just wait for a Rocky Mountain to be on tap and make a little tunnel through but the Tower of Power is way funnier

[visual jungle]

Why is there a oxygen meter

[hidden dew]

Low O2 modifier

[visual jungle]

This my first deep dive

It’s kinda hard

Im one egg away from finishing and I die to fall damage

[visual jungle]

Again

One egg away and I die to fall damage

[hidden dew]

No revives?

[visual jungle]

Hmm?

[hidden dew]

From bosco

[visual jungle]

Yes

I use them uo

And I’m just about done

And I die

😞

Apparently I can get over clocks

From deep dives

I’ve had the game for a year

But I’ve only started to play in the last 2 weeks

Ish

It’s hard to explain

[white wing]

Deep dives are easier with a team :)

Especially if its your first one

DD is hazard 3-3.5, so thats also a factor to take into account

[visual jungle]

Tf

[spiral glade]

Anyone still needing to do this weeks EDD. Tried with randoms and they had 60x downs between them...

[humble reef]

if you're okay with speeding it for a 40minute one, idm joining as engi/scout

[quaint mason]

what t5 flamethromer upgrade shouldi get

i have 2312

[daring sandal]

is it bad i have 360 hours in this game and still never completed an elite deep dive

[chilly lotus]

Its not, not yours to blame, this game just has very high skill ceiling (together with non-sense gamble OCs grinds, since each OC need different builds + skills to use)
Most ppl reach greybeard at blue lvl 600-ish, while they reach whitebeard at blue lvl 1200-ish
Exceptional ppl might can reach grey/whitebeards earlier, but all irl ppl born with different unique gifts
Its fine

[chilly shore]

i suspect the factor that is more important than "gifts" is just how soon a player is willing to increase the difficulty

improvement happens a lot faster when playing high difficulty than low, but it also means losing more often. which some people just dont like, and thats ok

[daring sandal]

it's about as bearable as halo 2 legendary

[chilly lotus]

Mine actually the reverse of that
I actually getting good by playing from easy to hard
I dont mind losing, but keep dying in my opinion doesnt teach you much than figuring out stuff

DRG haz 5 above is just "dont get hit" "glyphid teeth is lava" things

From there, you can figure out how to not get hit
Except driller c4 vitamin and engi's green fatboy

[chilly shore]

i think there is an amount of dying that gives the highest rate of learning, it's not dying all the time that is best, but it also isn't never dying

[chilly lotus]

Correct, and the only diff that isnt forced greenbeards to contantly dying is haz 3 - 4
Also the spawn pools in haz 4 giving them enough idea, what they gonna encounter at haz 5+ above upto haz 11x2

The only DRG stuff i complained is the amount of grinds, which make greens scared
Already played 2.5k hours, but myself personally because the game fun
While l4d2 has 0 grinds

[daring sandal]

i wonder if a survival mode like l4d would work in drg, only reason why i didn't get bored. The survival mode is intense

[daring sandal]

i embarrasingly played too much haz 3, i think 4 is the sweet spot

5 is alright but those modifiers are a nightmare (basically haz 6?)

mostly play haz 4/5 now

[burnt sandal]

we kinda do have that already

[daring sandal]

you mean the infinite aquarq horde? 🤣

[rugged plume]

yeah that would be the closest thing to an "endless" mode

[burnt sandal]

salvage operation, too

and in a lesser fashion: Deep Scan and Escort Duty

[daring sandal]

an idea for survival, keep fighting and get more rewards, occasional supply drop

[burnt sandal]

and thus removing 2 third of the gameplay with exploration and mining ? not the most interesting thing IMO

[tepid hamlet]

survival but it's just drilldozer forever without the heartstone

[silk plinth]

Man this EDD sucks

8 tries, haven't been able to clear it

first EDD that takes me this long, urgh

[languid stone]

It's definitely a doozy. Kind of EDD that comes along every once in a while to ruin your time lol

[mental rampart]

You in North America? I can run it with you if you want

I've done it already

[chilly lotus]

Its fine, not something to be shamed
The way i learnt the game is separate the hazards between farming hazard (relax on you) or challenge hazard

• Farming hazard is where you farms all events and all hidden loots (crates, lost equips, huuli), min is haz 2, but recommended haz 3, i seen haz 1 has more rare minerals than haz 5 just because i loot both crate and equips. Then pots o gold + large caves + gold rush + crassus if lucky, recommended with other players w/ pots who also help fast deposit the golds and mine too
• Then a challenge hazard where things that are necessary is complete the main obj (or secondary obj if you can), usually 1 above your farm/relax hazard, after your challenge hazard become feels too easy and relaxing, that hazard become a farm hazard, then move the challenge haz above again, repeat (3/4, 4/5, 5/5+ or 6, 6/7, and soon)
  Its super good to also train your reflexes and getting used to harder hazards
  If you finally make haz 5 as farm/relax haz, DD/EDD will be super easy

[mental rampart]

Haz 5 with no modifiers is pretty chill for me, as long as it's not point extraction at least. You'll get there

[daring sandal]

i died on the first stage and was like nope

yeah hazard 5 is ok but sometimes there's swarms of enemies that never end for some reason

even without modifiers

but still easier than +modifier or EDD

[mental rampart]

I'm willing to help someone with the EDD if they want. I've already done it

[chilly lotus]

Its okay, i and many ppl have been there before
Just enjoy the progression

[chilly lotus]

Yeaa, usually because of swarm comp and wrong builds
Which meta builds can do most stuff better and increase your chance of winning any missions
But depend on your taste about meta stuff... your decision

[silk plinth]

South America, would love a team, I always get to stage two then lose

I had a solid strat but the swarms got to us, and I've had terrible detonator rng

sometimes 3 spawning in the same map

[mental rampart]

Deep Dives and Elite Deep Dives always have the same terrain and enemy spawn pool, for the whole week until it resets of course

[silk plinth]

I mean... Yes and no, the enemies can vary in quantity, and that's a lot

had a stage 1 with 1 detonator before uplinking, 1 during uplink and another during fueling.

And yes, we lost that one.

Also had these scramblebrambles thingies appear once in stage 1, but in one instance, 3 of them appeared stage 1

the mobile tanker pod can be either fairly easy to dig out or be put in a completely f-ed up position too.

same with stage 2, sometimes detonators spawn one after another, other times they don't

I haven't even gotten to stage 3 so idk what lies beyond. But this EDD Is certainly harder than most

[mental rampart]

Note I meant spawn pool, as in kinds of enemies

[silk plinth]

I feel like a coordinated team shouldn't have much issue, but everything devolves into chaos way too easy with a team of randoms, not even mentioning how the enemies come one after another

[silk plinth]

yes yes but this can be exceedingly vague

for example I thought brood nexuses wouldn't appear in stage 1, until they did

[mental rampart]

I think the static enemies are always in the same spot

[silk plinth]

and since stage 1 is swarmaggedon and swarmaggedon on hazard 5... those do make a difference

[silk plinth]

Nope... sadly they aren't...

they must have preset positions, but it's up to luck if they spawn where you think they will

[mental rampart]

Well anyways I can host if you want

[silk plinth]

Now? Sure

will log in, see if we get a run going

aight, I am in

[mental rampart]

I couldn't figure out how to invite in #lfg-steam

[mental rampart]

You're in mine?

[silk plinth]

I don't see your lobby

is it public?

[mental rampart]

oof

oh I know what it was

[silk plinth]

still can't see it

[mental rampart]

go to #lfg-steam

[silk plinth]

can't join. I am on linux so make it public until I join

can't join from discord**

[mental rampart]

ok host is up

join quick

[silk plinth]

can't see it

sigh

add me on steam

it's the same name as the one I use on ehre

[mental rampart]

sent request

[chilly lotus]

Pfftt 🤭

[silk plinth]

Managed to clear the EDD

phew, that was tough

[little halo]

About mastering DRG, i'm lv 420 and i think my mastery is learning a specific build enough to survive in most situations. Like, I'm comfortable enough with Hoverclock that i can do pub EDD with it, and i'd probably fail Hazz 5 without it.

[chilly lotus]

Agreed, each OC need different sets of hand skills, reflexes, "how to use", compatible wep mods
Together with the OC grind, i understand it will be way too much for greens + casuals, that i against OC grinds
Even DRG statistic said, most new ppl only played up to 40h+
I hope we can buy OCs like from OC shop or something
DRG replability already excellent *and fun, that it dont need another mystery box mechanic

Also, im blue lvl 1.5k, now i believe blue level is just cosmetic, because i hv meet someone who just lvl 80, using non-meta build, but still do well at haz 5
And theres someone lvl 3k+, but play like lvl 100+, lol

[flint finch]

does someone want to join a deepdive in pod 3, we need a 4e

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[cold kindle]

Hah, tough EDD. Every stage have bulk detonator in one way or another (stage 1 & 3 have bulk detonator in spawn pool, stage 2 have haunted cave as warning), stage stage 1 & 2 have annoying shellbacks in spawn pool, stage 1 (salvage) has no abandoned supply pods. On top of that, it's glacial strata, one of the most disgusting biomes in the game.
It was indeed difficult but more than possible if your team is competent enough. Our scoutty supplied us with nitra so we had no issues with ammo

Oh and yeah, liquid morkite well on stage 1

Amazing spot

10 roof placed wells out of 10

[mellow cradle]

stage 2 had bulks in the pool as well

because we got one

[cold kindle]

Explosive EDD

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[radiant temple]

someone of latam here to do deep dive elite?

[little oyster]

Did this week's elite deep dive seem kind of especially nutty to anyone else or just me

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
_ _

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 August 07 to 2025 August 14 (Week 307)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1755169200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Noble Bedrock
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Critical Weakness
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Eggs | Swarmageddon
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Regenerative Bugs

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Driller's Tongue
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 150 Morkite | No Mutator
Stage 2: 2 Dreadnoughts (Classic & Hiveguard) + 150 Morkite | Parasites
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Classic | Haunted Cave

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
_ _

[drifting tinsel]

thanks mission control

[outer bloom]

[radiant cove]

I found an

also lots of

[outer bloom]

good now find 13 more

[mellow cradle]

This is a simple mining mission. Deposit your quota of morkite into the mule, and we'll send the drop pod to get you out

[static lichen]

Egg-collection time, team. Alien eggs. The company wants them - don't ask why. Find them, stow them in Molly, and return. Simple.

[ancient pewter]

Uuuuuuuughhh, haunted mining

[mellow cradle]

I don't mind haunted mining much
it only catches up to you if you spend a while in one place, but otherwise it's easier to lose it's pursuit than in other mission types

and you might get a free shortcut to the drop pod as a bonus

[odd sparrow]

anyone wanna join us for a deep dive?

they just rolled over

[ancient pewter]

I guess, but

• My heart rate will be going at 200% the entire time
• Also gotta fight a dread at some point

[hidden dew]

my back is starting to ache what with all the eggs and aquarqs the last few weeks....

[ancient pewter]

Scooty, sorry, I was replying to Debbie

[odd sparrow]

oop

[plain furnace]

eggs

lots of stacking

elite has morkite on all 3
normal has eggs on all 3

[burnt sandal]

DD is eggs
EDD is morkite

[plain furnace]

dd has crystals aswell

im gonna do dives while i keep another game open in background afk'ing for rewards

Deep Dive Galactic

[slow magnet]

doesn't seem too difficult

[weary walrus]

Haunted Cave is rough with the Dread. Last week was worse tho. Driller sludge is a godsend

[humble reef]

EDD Week 307

Attempt #1 (Won)
1000E/400S (me)/100G/100D

Stage 2 and 3

• Three dreads; fight in spawn for stage 2
• suggest driller go wave clear and everyone else single-target dps
• scout should go ifg and taser; it helps a lot with dreads from moving

time 40:06 ig

[soft ivy]

isn't this week way easier on edd?

[nocturne rampart]

Dark morkite is a must have this week

for edd lol

[mellow cradle]

yes

we did it in 35 minutes

[cold kindle]

I FOUND SOME MORKITE!

4 solid morkite objectives

Dark Morkite beer gonna be pretty handy here

[north shuttle]

How dare you drg spawn a bulk right in the way during the last stage of the elite deep dive.

[lament valley]

its fated to happen at least once every EDD

[north shuttle]

Honestly whoever that scout was on that elite deep dive I'd give them 3 thumbs out of two hands if I had that many thumbs. That dwarf almost handled two swarms, a ghost and a bulk all by himself while everyone else was down.

But like always hoxxes decides the miner's fate.

[plain furnace]

didnt happend to me except the horror

[quaint mason]

kinda easy ngl

exept maybe the haunted one

[bright heath]

mine glitched and just didnt move at all at the end of the cave

[dawn otter]

this is a good option to go deep dive with gunner? (the normal not the elite)
Thunderhead with mortar rounds (33221)
Coil gun with hellfire (22122)

[mellow cradle]

sounds to me like too much clear, too little single target

but it's the normal dive, so who cares

[dawn otter]

okay, thks M8

so better i change the coil gun for the bulldog with the elephant rounds

[mellow cradle]

sure, that works

[dawn otter]

do you know a good gear modification for they?

[mellow cradle]

as far as I know, ER doesn't meet any new breakpoints with damage modifications, so you could go 23311

[dawn otter]

okay ty so much

[tulip lintel]

This weeks dives are free

[little viper]

How rough is the last stage haunting?

For the edd

[hidden dew]

not too bad

[little viper]

Fuck me that was a disaster

[cunning niche]

ill keep my dash perk ability close to me for this

like usual

aswell as a tall mug of dark morkite

[raven kernel]

does anyone know if you do a dd a second time, do you get overclocks and matrixs cores the same as the first time?

[burnt sandal]

you don't get more by redoing it the same week

it's a once-a-week reward

[raven kernel]

fuuucckk'

[mellow cradle]

time to do the elite

[sterile field]

EDD wasn’t too bad, though the Haunted Cave section went awry for my group. Our Driller ended up leaving halfway through the dive (likely because they were getting annoyed with our Engineer trying to do the “Carpool” achievement in the middle of a dive).

Still, I got my blank and Aggressive Venting for Scout, so I’m satisfied.

[daring sandal]

am i the only one who doesn't check what the dives are for the suspense?

[sterile field]

For regular dives, yeah. EDDs, though? I rather not the suspense surprise me with Duck and Cover.

[lime hollow]

I've started just sending EDDs to puzzle out good builds for them. The actual warnings are helpful but cave generation is what really kills me when I lose.

Regular dives I like to chug a Randoweisser to make it extra fun

also fun for the elites but not so much solo. I like a reliable build for those

[gilded marlin]

helo

[chilly lotus]

Sry for ping, just want to help you know
That leveling up nowadays is better sources of cores
Since promo missions always give all 3 cores now

Dd edd thankfully is just endgame challenge now
Which also give great credits exp compared to normal missions, but its competitive mode

[tame mauve]

how do i queue for a deep dive

like

i'm trying to go solo but i guess it won't let me

but nobody is joining my lobby either when i host public

[hidden dew]

Did you select solo? Are you playing a promoted class?

[tame mauve]

yes and yes also i'm just gonna go multiplayer

[hidden dew]

Weird

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
_ _

[forest tendon]

yeah the EDD this week was super easy. Two weeks ago we had 68 deaths in our party of four, this week we had 3

we might just have gotten less rusty

but regardless

[raw vine]

Haunted One on EDD is the scariest gaming experience I have ever had.

[tulip lintel]

Two weeks ago was the hollow bough one right? With duck and cover

That one took my squad like 3 attempts, given it was with a level 14 player lmao

But good for them, theyve been thrown into very cold water now

[tulip lintel]

Haunted isnt that scary
Ive noticed its always on radioactive biozone...

[raven kernel]

do you think ill be able to do it solo with nearly 200 h of expirence?

[forest tendon]

This weeks? Almost definitely as long as you don't get caught by the Haunted Cave monster on stage 3

play it safe and you'll be fine

[raven kernel]

BROOO THERE ARE TWO BIG BOOOMMSSS

[forest tendon]

oh yeah

I forgot

I play engineer with a very high damage output build so they just sorta die

[raven kernel]

unfortunately i died to them

but i don't want the cosmetic

[tame mauve]

we only got 6 morkite seeds on level 1 each time

[mellow cradle]

check near the base of the drillevator

sometimes it digs them out, and they fall under it

check the terrain scanner too

[tame mauve]

we checked both

there was no 7th

we blew up all the terrain underneath it

i think it clipped into the drillevator

or just didnt spawn

[hidden dew]

Sounds like someone on your team wants to take one home

[vague lantern]

odb and emrefire for the win

[tame mauve]

no we checked the time after that it clipped into the drillevator as it was going down

[weak grail]

Tried to and it still ended up 1-Tapping me

[gaunt loom]

whats the EDD like this week? Is it terrible?

[plain furnace]

morkite omlette

[ancient pewter]

The humble haunted dreadnought

[pure tapir]

Anyone in Oceania wanna DD?

[lime hollow]

Short and pretty simple. extremely short if you get a Dark Morkite on tap. This is definitely what I would personally say is a beginner friendly elite deep dive. If any greenbeards were on the fence on whether they can handle one, this is a great dive to test your chops. Just don't forget your elemental resistance perk, it's always top tier in the exclusion zone.

[ancient pewter]

Oh, that covers radiation, huh

[tulip lintel]

Got darkite this edd and yeah it makes it very short

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[vague kernel]

i mean

mining + dread + ghost haz5.5 is pretty rough

imo that's one of the worst mission/modifier combos

besides that aspect tho it's pretty easy for an EDD tho yea

[vague kernel]

it also covers parasites, since they deal entirely poison damage

engie + elemental resist is just funny against pure poison damage, he just don't care

parasites, praet breath attack and death cloud, spreader puddles

[plain furnace]

+can causally stay in nuclear fart

[vague kernel]

ehh

[plain furnace]

[vague kernel]

engie has 80% resist to acid type with elem resist, only 30% to rad

elem resist is also the difference between surviving an acid spitter hit and not as engie with 30 shields and 12 hp

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
_ _

[little hazel]

pray for more ghosts

[tepid hamlet]

oops all duck & cover

[drifting tinsel]

rotations are gonna be like 5 mins late
my pc decided it needed to update right now 💀 thanks for the patience

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
_ _

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 August 14 to 2025 August 21 (Week 308)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1755774000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Desperate Wilderness
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Elite Threat
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 2 Resonance Crystals | Duck and Cover

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Clean Gap
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Low Oxygen
Stage 2: Hiveguard & Classic + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Black Box | Volatile Guts

[ancient pewter]

EDD with a green, huh

[drifting tinsel]

two weeks of doubled-up three-hit-terrain biomes </3

[ancient pewter]

Meanwhile regular dd is crystal gaming

[static lichen]

Management is sending you in for precious Morkite Seeds. Uncover and tune Resonance Crystals to find them. It couldn't be easier - make it so, Miners!

[mellow cradle]

um, akshually, you only get the seeds 1 time in the DD

[static lichen]

but you uncover and tune a total of 7 resonance crystals

[unique perch]

What are the stages and missions of todays deep dive and elite ?

[burnt sandal]

read above

or the pinned message, works too

[unique perch]

oh mb didnt knew these update with each deep dive

[devout peak]

I like them personally as it means eavry power attack gets more value and stuff gets shaken up.

[plain furnace]

this week we learning triangulations

[paper kettle]

how in tf is the elite more doable than the normal

[slow magnet]

were about the same for me

missions were easier but hazard was higher

[cold kindle]

There you are, you hidey crystal!

Well doesn't seem that bad

Btw hello duck and cover

We missed that warning so much!

❤️ 🦆

[soft ivy]

please explain how can you triangulate with two xD

[tepid hamlet]

A lucky bulk detonator explosion alerted our scanners to a resonance crystal so we already know the location of one

[plain furnace]

we dont question drg mathmetics

it just is

[next blaze]

☝️🤓 ackshually, triangulating with two references still gives you only two spots to check, the third just narrows it down to one

cause two circles would intersect only twice unless they're identical

[soft ivy]

or once

[next blaze]

ah true yeah

[soft ivy]

• you're triangulating stuff so that you can drop in a big and expensive machine you probably can't recover anyway
  so you shouldn't be doing a coin toss on that

[crimson drift]

I think I'm going crazy. The Deep Dive caves are supposed to be randomly and procedurally generated, so they're never the same, but the first stage of the EDD is literally the same cave I had when I played Mining Expedition in the Radioactive Zone. Hehe, I find it a bit odd, but I guess this happens more often than I think. At least I can take advantage of this to rush the first stage without any problems

[burnt sandal]

it's not particularly weird given how caves are generated

you're bound to see some repeat

you can see it more easily depending on the mission type

[plain furnace]

generation uses randomness yes, but parts are pre-defined. like the size/shape/etc. minerals are randomized

you prob see some parts that are similar if not identical on most other missions

for me its the half stair looking thing

and i hate the 3 pancake cave the most

[humble reef]

Deep Dive Week 308 (2025 August 14 to 2025 August 21)

• Attempt #1: 37:49
• Comp [PUBS]: 475E (me), 118G 95D, 390S

Overview

• Mostly normal
• 5+ stationaries and ||4? leeches on stage 2||
• No nitra issues, had 200-ish extra nitra at the end
• Stage 3, when popping eggs, consider avoiding playing in the bottom level of t-shaped ravine rooms (low line of sight and cramped)
• Driller cryo and engi stubby basically carried run

Build Recommendations

• Any Cryo for stationaries
• Scout IFG for dreads

[vague kernel]

also short mining missions are pretty similar usually

unless there's intersecting tunnels in the biomes that usually happens in (like dense or fungus)

the layout is gonna be a spirally tunnel with 3 caves dotted along it generally

[humble reef]

yeah edd's are pre-seeded

[crimson drift]

I see, well it's certainly an interesting fact, that explains why in some missions the connection between the main room and the cave tends to repeat sometimes

[crimson drift]

I could bet the jewels in my beard that it's the same cave, absolutely nothing has changed, maybe one or two radioactive crystals, but from then on, it's the same

But I dont have problems with that, I love edd

[opal tartan]

Holy fuck I hate the duck and cover + escort duty on the final stage

I just finished it with me being on last bosco revive with no Iron will left and the dozer having 10% hp left on the final health bar