How to get copper in Hytale

You'll need copper in Hytale once you've started with the basic tools for gathering. The ore, and the ingots it makes, are essential for the first stage of crafting above stone so you'll need to move on from your stone weapons and tools, as well as being required for things like a Blacksmith's Anvil and Armorer's workbench, as well as many of the things they then unlock. In the early stages of the game it's a common requirement for most of the things you need to progress.

Trouble is, much like Hytale plant fiber, if you don't know what to look for, or where to go, you won't have much of a clue where to even start. So let me explain everything you need to get copper and gather all you need.

How to get copper in Hytale

It shouldn't be much of a surprise that you need to mine copper in Hytale. There's no great art to this either - just pick a spot and start digging down. Make sure you bring plenty of torches (or the materials to craft them) as it gets dark quick, and you'll need the light as you get deeper. You'll also want to think about how you're going to get back up again, so dig a stairway down, rather than a one way hole.

Once you've been digging a while you'll encounter one of two things: you'll either find a cavern, or see blocks with the knobbly angular ore protrusions sticking out. If it's orange it's copper and if it's grey it's Hytale iron, which are the most common things you'll encounter in the Emerald Wilds starter area. If you do find either ore you're on or near a cavern, as it appears in the walls of these underground spaces - so dig around to find the main area.

Whatever cavern you find, you'll have to watch out for a couple of things. Firstly, the distant glimmer of ore which you'll see in the walls and roof (as shown above). And, secondly, spiders. Loads of massive spiders. There are other monsters as well, so you'll want the best weapons and armor you can make whatever you find, but I've mostly found spiders, usually given away by the copious webs you'll see scattered around as you explore.

Depending on where the copper is you might have to build up to reach it, but by the time you reached a cavern you should have plenty of rock in your inventory to use. However you reach it, gather everything you can carry and then just head back up. Assuming you placed plenty of torches on your way down, and dug some stairs, it'll just be a case of following the light home.

You will also occasionally see copper (as well as other ores) sticking out the side of a hill or other rocky area as you explore the surface. That's definitely a handy extra to grab if you find it, but it's not much use as a viable gathering tactic. You'll also be able to find both ore and ingots in chests and other loot. Again, useful but not reliable.

When you have copper ore you'll need to build a furnace to make it into copper ingots you can use for crafting. You can build that at a workbench from any six tree trunks and six stone. You'll then need charcoal to power it, which you can get simply by running a campfire (with or without food) and burning sticks or wood. Having a furnace also important for Hytale Repair Kits as well as range of other things, so it's a useful bit of kit overall once you have one.

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