So, I have a couple questions. In terms of “progression”, there are a lot of different things you can do in this game, as I’m learning. For example, I still haven’t “beaten the game” yet after 100 hours of gameplay, as every time I get a run strong enough to explore the surface by the time I’m at the Snowy Depths, I end up doing that instead of what I assume would “beat the game traditionally”, and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Because of my exploration, I’ve learned about a bunch of things like the Kantele, the Alchemy Lab, the Frozen Vault, the Experimental Wand, the Chaingun, the Pyramid (I even beat the boss there once), and much more. However, I feel like I spend a lot of time in those runs just kinda vibing and not improving as a player. So my first question I guess is would you all recommend exploring and such, progressing in a traditional sense, or option 3 (ie. the option(s) I am not currently considering)? My second question is that is there a consistent method to find more mana production and recharge time reduction? I feel like in most runs there are ways to build around the rest of the stats on a wand being awful, like stuffing shuffle wands with multicasts in an attempt to cast the whole wand every time, a lot of different tools (primarily the digging variety) and spell wrapping to kill cast delay, and other such things, but I feel like those two and capacity are the ones I’m usually gated by. I at least feel like there aren’t actually methods to build around tiny capacities, but the other two can be if I get lucky, but kinda only then? Lastly, I love messing around with wand building, but I feel like a lot of the time I don’t find much worth building with that doesn’t take at least 20 minutes within the Mines and the Collapsed Mines and because of that, I tend to struggle in the Coal Mines, Fungal Caverns feel like a death sentence, and by Snowy Depths, excluding when I get really lucky, I have to choose from the outset whether I go to the surface or the Hiisi Base, because I don’t have the life for both. I have yet to get further than the place past the base even on the runs where I get really lucky early, and I’m not sure if it’s because I’m a bad player, if I’m an unlucky player, both, or it’s another issue. I’ve made wands before that can shoot every frame for an arbitrarily large amount of time before, but I always manage to lose to something I fail to account for, something I don’t know, or just attrition as even those wands don’t hit hard enough. Any ideas?