Talk:Orange Gem/@comment-28621946-20161212181513/@comment-73.210.202.115-20171125144116

It's quite useful actually. The Lazy Forager (and iirc the Lazy Explorer's poof as well) lets you reach the items in "cave holes" that are normally impossible to get to; and often contain other gems, Thluecite etc.. and it makes picking up things like Tooth Traps when you need to move them a lot easier and such.

\The Lazy Explorer is just an upgraded version of the Walking Cane, having the speed boost + also letting you poof across distances. If you get the Explorer early on by rushing the ruins in the first 10 days-ish (there's guides out there to show how to make it much easier), finding it in one of the Ornate Chests or the Guardian Chest (or finding a regular Cane which also has a quite decent chance of spawning down there in chests, and combining it with an Orange gem which again, also has high spawn chance down there.) then you can save an insane amount of time exploring the world (especially if you also snag a yellow gem to craft a Magiluminescence and a few nightmare fuel to keep it running a few days.)

The extra speed of the Explorer makes up for 25% of the time you spent in the ruins so in my day 10 scenario it saves 2.5 days. If you also snag a Magi Amulet it's 4.5 days saved, so you're only 5 days behind schedule at that point; then factor in that you can use the Explorer to "Poof" ACROSS BIOMES instead of having to walk all the way around that last 100 feet of space to cross the gap, go around, cross another 100 feet of space, just to end up "on the other side" of where you initially approached the edge. Since there's rarely anything of value in that connecting-biome-space, it's better to just poof across, saving easily 1/4-1/3rd of a day each time you use it. So you end up still fast enough to prepare for winter, but with a bunch of Ruins Loot on top of that.

Oh and the new Lazy Deserter lets two players in Together teleport to each other instantly without using up expensive Purple Gems on a Telelocator. That could easily be THE most useful feature i suppose, in a 2 player+ game.