Buying Resources with Snoutlings?

If you are just burning Snouts, and don’t craft, then it is marginally better (pay 2.33x for 2.5x result) to buy 50 Corals / Bamboo / Ore for 1750.

However, if you have the Golden Anvil and are willing to craft, it is definitely best to buy the cheap materials and craft to the top:

1. Buy base 4% items:
* Log
* Seashell
* Cobalt Stone

2. Craft up to 10% items:
* Corals
* Bamboo
* Ore

3. Re-craft up to 25% items:
* Rainbow Shell
* Square Wood
* Metal Bar

4. Use the 25% items.

The Golden Anvil will pay out over 60% of resources consumed, so 50 Logs should produce 30+ Bamboo. The enchantment value increases faster than the consumption, which is why you should further craft all of the way up to Squarewood.
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Edited 5/6 based on test data.

Oh, I totally missed that he was crafting them into materials to upgrade with… :D

@smwforever45 – I do not know the odds for each of the anvils, but my personal experience with the GA is that two stars comes up more often that one or three, which have a roughly equal occurrence rate.

Is one big roll better than many small rolls? This is more about your personal risk tolerance. Many small rolls will come closer to average expectancy, but one large roll has the highest potential for reward, along with a roughly equal potential to come up short. If you are crafting 100 logs into square wood, I would go ahead and use small rolls, if the number is 1,000, by all means go with the bigger ones to save time.

@smwforever45 I have the Diamond Anvil and sometimes I’ve had streaks of 2 stars for about 5 times where I had to re-roll using FE. 1 star, however, never happens for me but when the Diamond Anvil rolls, I always see that there is a spot (only 1 spot) for 1 star. So, I think you can still get that even though it has never happened to me.

@smwforever45

Speaking of Diamond Anvil/Cauldron, I hear people say it’s a total waste of LC’s… Why did ya buy it anyway? :o

It’s because I’m an idiot and buy everything the game offers me just for the sake of collection. Yeah, I am kinda stupid that way.

As a rare owner of both the Diamond Cauldron and Anvil, I can say this though. The Diamond Cauldron is a waste of Lucky Coins, no doubt about that BUT the Diamond Anvil offers a very large boost during your enchantment and considering how much Rovio increased the material cost, it feels worth it to me.

@smwforever45 We’ll all be dead carcasses by then. Insert that skeleton “waiting forever” meme here. XD

@datguygamer I loved and Lol’d over your honesty re: Diamond Anvil/Cauldron.

Are there any other benefits to owning the diamond/gold anvil? Does it just give you the added payout on rolls for up-converting resources?

@jamairoqui @smwforever45 I can confirm that it does indeed fill up part of the enchantment bar and yes, it does it for Set Items too.

Thanks. I see the other thread now where people are discussing this same issue. So it’s a 10% boost for the golden anvil, and a 30% boost for the diamond. That’s not nothing. Though I’m guessing that mining either of those two sites 3x squarewood reward wheels in squarewood forest are faster at generating high-end resources.

I do remember reading that, but not necessarily the 30% (again, I may just not remember…). That is across the board, I’m assuming? Every item in your inventory gets a boost immediately?

@partshade you could go my way- scour the island for the resources you need, which is very time consuming and can get boring, so if you dislike my method I totally understand- but it saves you TONS of Snoutlings (I have over 5,000 using this method, and I continue to use it to this day)

You could also pack in on Snoutlings from defeating Wealthy Rouges, completing Dungeons (Regular and Golden Pig), through Events, in treasure chests, or slowly throughout overall gameplay so you have enough to buy the resources you need for crafting