Deep Rock Galactic

Deep Rock Galactic

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How to spend your time Well
By SoraniL
A guide to do the "Time Well Spent" Achievement.
A.K.A. 5 Barrel tricks to shine during parties.
   
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Stuffing the Pod
Introductions are for leaf lovers, so lets get to it. Management said I'm not paid for this anyway.
Most of you green beards and hazard 5 vets will have tried to stuff the pod before, kicking one barrel up the ladder and treating yourself to a Oily Oaf when you get it there.
Well that won't cut it, we've got a truck load of barrels to load and every minute spent there is another gold deposit going un-exploited; we need some industrial process here not hand cranked Glyphid smudge. Industry means machinery and with that in mind we're going to requisition the only piece of working machinery we've got available, the elevator.
I've made you a nice HUD display available below.
  • How do you use the machinery, well here's a manual.

  • Now that you got the barrel up, turn towards the pod and kick it until it's in the correct position, then kick.
Now two things can happen.
  • One is as follow: the barrel lands on the catwalk, you add it to your industrially powered pod stuffing collection.
  • The other can go two different ways. One will make you want to quit, but you won't because you're a dwarf; the other will make you praise Karl in heaven.
  • If you get the GOOD END too often, you might be kicking the barrel too hard, like any true dwarf would.
    To that I suggest jumping after the barrel and block its uncontrolled descent down the catwalk with your low center of gravity.
Do Not Panic
Panic is for leaf lovers.
So you missed the cat walk and your barrel rolled somewhere that's not the pod you want to stuff, well if you got the GOOD END its fine just re-kick the barrel up the machinery and maybe slip a few extra kicks on the way back up.
If you got the BAD END, sight in relief as opposite of the correct barrel kicking position mentioned earlier lie your new best friend.
  • This guy.
  • Using this bad boy and following the manual below you'll be able to automatically - hooray for industry - get both your barrels back up and control to stop being whining about forcefields.
  • Just align your lost barrels closest to the red line without placing them on the right side of it.

A Warning
Industry is not without its dangers, and as you progress towards your goal of filling up that pod you'll become more and more likely to witness some of your precious already loaded barrels make a run for it (or a float idk) in zero G outside the pod's wide open door.
  • Just to be on the safe side, whenever you press the red savior of industry, rush to the pod and do what you do best
Hungry walls. Suicidal Barrel.
Now that I've got your attention.
Being pioneers on Hoxxes, we find ourselves battling bugs, and Glyphids.
On such bug, my bearded friend, is what happens when you can't follow instructions and don't load the barrel properly in the machinery and it gets stuck in or under it. When that happens the barrel is eaten by the walls, for real I've seen it happens.
Should that happen to you, you should disband your team. Normally the shame of being robbed of a precious barrel by an inanimate block of space dwarven concrete would just call for throwing yourself in the barrel hoop. However, with a barrel gone forever our task is at an end.
In the event that for some reason, lets assume it's Glyphid Slammers, you'd be robbed more than once, I'd recommend you take the extra time to use the elevator guarded by M.O.L.L.Y and her youngins.
  • It is also worth using when kicking (violently) the barrels that met a BAD END back up, since those tend to come up next to it her anyway.
The Barrel in the High Catwalk
Up high on the very highest catwalk is a depressed barrel. That barrel will jump into the burning inferno of the pod's engine as soon as you press the red button of industrial automation.
Repay the kindness M.O.L.L.Y.'s paid you by saving that barrel and stuffing it into the pod.
Please do not let that barrel meet a bad end, being saved by the very thing it wanted to use to end its life would make it sad.
Grab bag advice
Alternate barrel loading method
The method presented at the beginning of the guide require dwarves to throw barrels in a straight line. While seemingly the easiest, there exists another method which doesn't give two Glyphid Swarmers about straight lines. That method however requires dwarves to throw barrels at a specific distance.

Play music
Management wants us to listen to 25 full jukebox tracks, remember to regularly put one to play when using industry to stuff pods and spend your time well.
The Green King
Keep the green barrel for the end, its a more satisfying sight.
Don't pat yourself on the back with a Oily Oaf for such a feat, celebrate with a Glyphid Slammer.
11 Comments
Bluetail 24 Nov, 2022 @ 10:34am 
Strange, Im new to this game and did this and slammed every barrel I could find in the damn pod including random bits like the hammer and etc and never got the achivement..
Darwin 3 Oct, 2022 @ 4:13am 
I tried to do this achievement at octoberfest event and there weren't some of barrels that should be at the bar zone so i started to put some wood barrels that were there from the start of the event. The achievement didn't count and i dont know what to do :(
Gribbinski 10 Sep, 2022 @ 8:58pm 
the old space rig looks odd
Ekliane 11 Nov, 2021 @ 9:36am 
This guide is rock'n'stone certified, brotha
treyisabc3 10 Nov, 2021 @ 8:14pm 
dis desserve more so u kan make more guides
treyisabc3 10 Nov, 2021 @ 8:14pm 
y u hav no awards
DaThomas 19 Oct, 2019 @ 3:00pm 
well spent 35min of my life
JamesDreemurr 15 Oct, 2019 @ 11:45am 
if you do this in a lobby the barrels stop you from ever entering the pod
Ewgene 21 Jul, 2019 @ 5:39am 
You don't need to painstakingly do everything via the elevator or use gravity calibration since getting them out of the launch bay via spamming them through the ladder hole is really easy.
Death Korps of Malevelon Krieg 14 Jul, 2019 @ 3:25am 
One of the most satisfying achievements I ever achieved!
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