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[G] Easy Mineral Stack Trick

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MrInocence
Profile Joined February 2010
United States172 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-14 02:02:58
January 13 2012 01:22 GMT
#1
When you want a worker to stay on a particular mineral patch, hitting S quickly and then right clicking the patch will force the worker to wait for the other worker to finish mining, instead of bouncing off.

Someone may have thought if this already, but I still see most pros use the old method on their streams.

This is much easier than spam right clicking, and frees up some time to micro your scout. Try it

EDIT: YOU ONLY HAVE TO HIT THE "S" KEY ONCE. Stop saying that you have to spam the s key.
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sYnKaotyk
Profile Joined March 2011
United States16 Posts
January 13 2012 01:27 GMT
#2
I. Love. You.

Thanks for the tip <3
Isomer
Profile Joined November 2010
United States186 Posts
January 13 2012 01:28 GMT
#3
What do you mean by quickly? Can you explain in detailed steps so I can try this out? I would love this for quick worker pairing
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DeltruS
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada2214 Posts
January 13 2012 01:28 GMT
#4
This is REALLY nice. Tyvm.
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HighLach
Profile Joined December 2011
United States132 Posts
January 13 2012 01:28 GMT
#5
Nice, Bump. Not sure if this is already documented anywhere else.
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 01:29:47
January 13 2012 01:29 GMT
#6
this is true. it also stops the worker from adjusting itself after each click, which will move it from the most efficient place to mine the patch from as it tries to leave for another patch, facilitating later worker-pair breaks without diligent babysitting.

i spent the last few days in nerd jail working out the theoretical perfect man-executed builds for a lot of pvp openers, so my probe micro is extremely improved. i can drop a few other words of advice here, if anyone has any questions
get rich or die mining
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OPnitemare
Profile Joined September 2011
United States23 Posts
January 13 2012 01:30 GMT
#7
Just tried it, I think that when you right clicked the mineral patch, the other worker was close enough to finished that your worker stayed on. Could you clarify, as I might not be doing it exactly? What I was doing was telling a worker to mine, then immediately telling another to mine that patch, hitting S then right clicking the patch again.
Latedi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden1027 Posts
January 13 2012 01:31 GMT
#8
Haha that's awesome :D Hey Alej do you stack probes on 9 or before that?
I am Latedi.
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
January 13 2012 01:31 GMT
#9
On January 13 2012 10:30 OPnitemare wrote:
Just tried it, I think that when you right clicked the mineral patch, the other worker was close enough to finished that your worker stayed on. Could you clarify, as I might not be doing it exactly? What I was doing was telling a worker to mine, then immediately telling another to mine that patch, hitting S then right clicking the patch again.

essentially you spam (s) and right click at about the same speed. be careful, though. when the probe is about ready to accept its fate, you want to hold off on the (s) spam as you might clip it's efficient mining, and then the probe that returns will try to find another patch if you don't have at least 1 worker on every other patch
get rich or die mining
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KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
January 13 2012 01:32 GMT
#10
I move my worker back and line it up in position while the first scv is mining
dont have to spam click weee
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OPnitemare
Profile Joined September 2011
United States23 Posts
January 13 2012 01:34 GMT
#11
Ah, I see. I wasn't spamming S. Thanks
mrGRAPE
Profile Joined November 2011
Singapore293 Posts
January 13 2012 01:35 GMT
#12
Heh, this works easier than spam click =) thanks!
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Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
January 13 2012 01:36 GMT
#13
On January 13 2012 10:31 Latedi wrote:
Haha that's awesome :D Hey Alej do you stack probes on 9 or before that?

always before that. your 1st probe will always be rallied to the most efficient tier of patches and the first available of this tier. you can find the first available of this tier by checking to see which of the most efficient tier probes is the first to move from the patch. as soon as you see the first probe move on the 2nd trip, the worker is to be rallied their.

once the 1st worker out of the nexus/cc is paired up, you can move a 2nd tier probe (preferably the closest one) to a second 1st tier patch. on some maps, the probe will fight you a few times, but make sure you get it locked in. the 2nd probe is to be rallied to the 2nd tier patch from which you took this probe.

also, on maps that have more than 2 efficient patches, you must reroute 2nd tier mineral patch workers to 1st tier ones after the first trip. the most efficient way to do this is waiting for the probe to finish mining (it has minerals in hand) and shift click it to a first tier mineral patch. don't shift click it to mine until the probe has finished mining, or it will return to the its old patch and then try to mine from the patch you shiftclicked to before returning the minerals and then return to the 1st tier mineral patch you so designated
get rich or die mining
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Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-13 01:41:06
January 13 2012 01:37 GMT
#14
On January 13 2012 10:32 KawaiiRice wrote:
I move my worker back and line it up in position while the first scv is mining
dont have to spam click weee

wait you are putting 2 scvs on one 1st tier patch before one of them has made the first trip? because this is inefficient.

edit: oh nvm i think i misread and assumed you meant one of the original 6 in their first wave O_O

dono why i jumped to such a terrible conclusion for the great kawaiirice!
get rich or die mining
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ClysmiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2192 Posts
January 13 2012 01:39 GMT
#15
On January 13 2012 10:32 KawaiiRice wrote:
I move my worker back and line it up in position while the first scv is mining
dont have to spam click weee

That's what I do too. Can be done pretty quickly with a shift-click so you can focus elsewhere.
Latedi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden1027 Posts
January 13 2012 01:40 GMT
#16
On January 13 2012 10:36 Alejandrisha wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2012 10:31 Latedi wrote:
Haha that's awesome :D Hey Alej do you stack probes on 9 or before that?

always before that. your 1st probe will always be rallied to the most efficient tier of patches and the first available of this tier. you can find the first available of this tier by checking to see which of the most efficient tier probes is the first to move from the patch. as soon as you see the first probe move on the 2nd trip, the worker is to be rallied their.

once the 1st worker out of the nexus/cc is paired up, you can move a 2nd tier probe (preferably the closest one) to a second 1st tier patch. on some maps, the probe will fight you a few times, but make sure you get it locked in. the 2nd probe is to be rallied to the 2nd tier patch from which you took this probe.

also, on maps that have more than 2 efficient patches, you must reroute 2nd tier mineral patch workers to 1st tier ones after the first trip. the most efficient way to do this is waiting for the probe to finish mining (it has minerals in hand) and shift click it to a first tier mineral patch. don't shift click it to mine until the probe has finished mining, or it will return to the its old patch and then try to mine from the patch you shiftclicked to before returning the minerals and then return to the 1st tier mineral patch you so designated


Ooh thanks, this is very useful to know. My laziness has led me to not stack before I have 1 probe per mineral and then stack the next 4 on the 1st tier patches. This should actually be generating significantly more minerals ^^
I am Latedi.
CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
January 13 2012 01:41 GMT
#17
I'm confused someone explain what to do explicitly? What does click s fast mean. What is fast? Just create some numbered steps of specifically what to do >.<
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
January 13 2012 01:42 GMT
#18
On January 13 2012 10:40 Latedi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 13 2012 10:36 Alejandrisha wrote:
On January 13 2012 10:31 Latedi wrote:
Haha that's awesome :D Hey Alej do you stack probes on 9 or before that?

always before that. your 1st probe will always be rallied to the most efficient tier of patches and the first available of this tier. you can find the first available of this tier by checking to see which of the most efficient tier probes is the first to move from the patch. as soon as you see the first probe move on the 2nd trip, the worker is to be rallied their.

once the 1st worker out of the nexus/cc is paired up, you can move a 2nd tier probe (preferably the closest one) to a second 1st tier patch. on some maps, the probe will fight you a few times, but make sure you get it locked in. the 2nd probe is to be rallied to the 2nd tier patch from which you took this probe.

also, on maps that have more than 2 efficient patches, you must reroute 2nd tier mineral patch workers to 1st tier ones after the first trip. the most efficient way to do this is waiting for the probe to finish mining (it has minerals in hand) and shift click it to a first tier mineral patch. don't shift click it to mine until the probe has finished mining, or it will return to the its old patch and then try to mine from the patch you shiftclicked to before returning the minerals and then return to the 1st tier mineral patch you so designated


Ooh thanks, this is very useful to know. My laziness has led me to not stack before I have 1 probe per mineral and then stack the next 4 on the 1st tier patches. This should actually be generating significantly more minerals ^^

the first 2 moves i mentioned are pretty much amazing on all maps but shakuras. workers insist on being dumbasses because the minerals there are not oriented for efficiency like they are on most maps. i have some qualms with shattered temple, as well. in the top and bottom positions, the minerals seem to be less efficiently oriented than are the left and right spawns.
get rich or die mining
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Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
January 13 2012 01:44 GMT
#19
On January 13 2012 10:41 CecilSunkure wrote:
I'm confused someone explain what to do explicitly? What does click s fast mean. What is fast? Just create some numbered steps of specifically what to do >.<

fast is like 5 times a second. spamming it as though you are trying to force the probe to have a perpetual command to "stop" and also "mine" the minerals so that it will mine it the instant the other probe has finished mining. again, you have to be careful not to clip the window where the probe will start mining with a stop command or you're just wasting your time and your minerals
get rich or die mining
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chambertin
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1704 Posts
January 13 2012 01:44 GMT
#20
Alej,
could you maybe just pop up a rep or two of you doing some nasty probe micro, so I can just study that ?
ty <3
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