[Buying] Steel Spikes/Ingots - Farming Opportunity!

Discussion in 'Buying' started by azoundria, Dec 19, 2024 at 2:19 PM.

  1. Hi All,

    You might have some steel ingots, charged steel spikes, steel spikes, or sparks around. They are given in the Christmas chest hunt event, or you might have got them from killing enraged mobs or enraged silverfish. There's likely another Christmas chest hunt event coming up, so maybe bookmark this to sell your stuff after the event. Current Prices:
    • Steel Ingot 20k
    • Charged Steel Spike 2k
    • Steel Spike 1.7k
    • Spark 200r
    There's also a pretty big money making opportunity here if someone is interested in mass farming. You can get sparks by killing all kinds of enraged mobs, so you might have a way of farming those mobs. The steel spikes can be farmed by killing enraged silverfish. Enraged silverfish are a custom mob spawned from mining many types of ores with the appropriate difficulty settings. One strategy you could try may be to build a small obsidian pit (2 blocks deep) in the wild. In the middle, place 2 obsidian in a tower, then on top of that build a large stack/tower of ores. When you break the ores in the tower, it should have a chance to spawn enraged silverfish. They should fall off the tower and gather in the obsidian pit for easy killing. Once the ores are gone, you should be left on the 2 blocks of obsidian with any enraged silverfish right around, already somewhat damaged from any fall. I use obsidian so you don't accidentally break them when you're mining. Hopefully this is lucrative enough that someone can get lots of spikes. You also get the resulting material from the ores (better with fortune 3+) and lots of XP depending on which kind of ore you mined, on top of what I'm paying above for the steel spikes or resulting ingots.

    Just reach out if you have produced or found any. There's no amount too small, and really, I'm looking to buy tons! (Well let's say at least 100 ingots/900 spikes worth before I may lower the price.)