Thread:DarkestCorner/@comment-24108228-20160211001447

As you may have noticed, I'm interested into speedrunning elements of this game. In fact, it's always been part of how I play, back when I just started playing and found this wiki, I used to beeline for merchant frigates (war sloops didn't exist, frigates cost level 9 shipbuilding) because the game seemed so huge and shipbuilding seemed like one of the only parts that wasn't intricately linked with another section of the game. More recently, I've formalised the process, and now do more complicated runs with a larger variety of strategies, such as poison (and possibly mithril/bluesteel once I get more time on my hands).

However, you seem to be a lot better at this than me. In one game I played, I had finished making steel before I had to go, and I decided to give it to you (since you'd joined after I did and I figured you might appreciate the help). You already had full mithril and bluesteel tools, and I'd essentially done everything in my power to get steel as fast as I could. In an even more impressive case, I had created a new server to do a poison speedrun in. You joined 5-10 minutes after it was made, and before I'd even finished making poison (which was when the server was about 15-20 minutes old), you once again had your full mithril/bluesteel battlegear and tools, along with enough spare to give both me and my friend a set without going out for more supplies. When I asked, you mentioned "a lot of iron" to bolster your skill level, although since then I've been thinking more about mithril or bluesteel speedruns and I figured that before I started, I'd want some tips.

While you seem to be completely inactive by this point, perhaps I'll be lucky and you'll pay a visit. How on earth are you getting the Shiny-Ore-Required-In-Bulk-For-Bluesteel so fast, and how do you manage to do all this as well as making a catamaran, and getting enough architecture to make a smeltery? I figure there's probably a trick to it (my guess would be that you're tricking an ore vein into respawning or something), but I can't figure out what it is. 