6th Gen Collecting Soot

Have you guys been collecting soot in the areas around Fallarbor town? There's some nifty secret base furniture you can get with it, but I haven't bothered much with it yet in ORAS yet. What about you guys, have you made a point to farm for soot in order to get some of those items and furniture?

I've been trying but with limited piles of soot it becomes slightly overwhelming and annoying more than anything. xD

I find it way more annoying than the original games, because back in the day you only collected soot by walking through the grass. Now there's piles that give you only a small amount which means you have to keep going in and out of the route before you can even accumulate enough for an item.

Every time I'm passing through the route, I make a point of hitting each of the soot piles, and hopefully by endgame, I'll be able to afford the items. So I'm kind of doing it passively.

I love collecting soot, the background music is also one of my favorites. (:
Try hatching Eggs while collecting soot, it's fun that way. (:

Sun said:

I love collecting soot, the background music is also one of my favorites. (:
Try hatching Eggs while collecting soot, it's fun that way. (:

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Excellent idea! Kills two birds with one stone, though it'll take a bunch of repels, for sure haha.

Loved this feature so much in the original games. Made it a point to walk over every single piece of grass to make the area green again.

That damn volcano kept ruining everything though.

I got two flutes by walking through the soot. The best way for me like somebody has already mentioned is to collect loads is to multitask by waiting for an egg to hatch by generating 'steps' by riding on my bike.

I plan on doing this soon once I take my secret base seriously because I want those crystal furnishings, but right now I have a bunch of other things in the game I want to do.

I've done some soot collecting but I definitely preferred it in RSE. It was much more convenient in the originals to just walk over all the tall grass than it is with the piles in ORAS.

Yeah, I am not a huge fan of the new soot collecting meathod. The way it was in RSE wasn't awesome, but at least it had some way to visually reward the effort put in. I haven't done much with it in ORAS, and probably won't in the near future.

I did end up collecting the soot and have all available items from it. I still tend to run through the soot at times when I am around 113, mainly dexnaving.

I've never had a real interest in Secret Bases, and the whole new soot mechanic seems a bit annoying, so I haven't really done anything with it. I'd do it if I wanted those cool flutes that heal status effects, though.

I kindAa got bored after nade one item as it is too time comusing