Lets talk about mining

[WESKERBOY]

I agree we need more mobs diferent stronger and less annoying D:, I was thinking on proposing to reduce a little spawn rate plus some mobs (boreworm and slime) can drop Gems from time to time, Gems are not that valuable anymore and at least Will give joy killing them, btw a rate of 1/30 maybe even less

It would make sense for a mob made of stone to drop gems (and maybe a unique type of stone). Boreworms and slimes should keep their normal loot I think.

The stone mob could look like this but made of rock instead of gems only:

They could be easily mistaken for normal rocks and would become aggressive when hit with a pickaxe. They could also spawn randomly when mining.

Agree but also think of boreworm digging they Way on ore and gem nodes make sense IT to have one gem or 2 on the stomach that can be found While cleaning, on the side of Slime some ore or gem can be trapped inside its gelatinous body, I Like the idea of a rock mob mimetizing that can drop gem too

[Enjoyment_2]

Isn't mining on the deepest level supposed to be annoying?

no, because of reasons (112 pages of them), and.... why? did you ever said (or heard some said (or heard some said that he heard that someone said)) "Oh, man this is so annoying!!! I want to participate in it!"???

[Headchef]

Isn't mining on the deepest level supposed to be annoying?

no, because of reasons (112 pages of them), and.... why? did you ever said (or heard some said (or heard some said that he heard that someone said)) "Oh, man this is so annoying!!! I want to participate in it!"???

Unfortunately Jorb seems to think difficult=annoying=difficult as long as people are uncomfortable it's task accomplished.

That may be the case to some degree but the reason for this does matter a lot.
Currently many miners are bullied out of the game just by the developer raping their mechanics and they don't find it a nice activity anymore and drop the game.

Would be better to have a really dangerous opponent like troll but different instead of constantly having these pointless spams.

Myself I just wanted to build something on lvl 9, started mining 5 tiles and spawned so many slimes after killing them had 13.8 liter.


Maybe some credo quest being ridiculous is "fine".
This is not the same case for entire mining mechanics.

[TheUltimateC]

Was mining myself on level 5, so not even that deep. Suddenly i heared boreworms spawn and the sounds of combat. Ran to the ladder since its closeby, and even with weapons ready on the hotbar to swap to, better than the nearly ~10 seconds of cooldown for equiping them. One of the boreworms decides to go throug a full stockpile of black ore instead of easly going around. Within a second of climbing up a level, a horde of cave louse decided to aggro, immediatly blocking me off of going up another level forcing me to run into a too small hallway where they to decide to crunch on something instead of going around, but this time its a minesupport which cause a cavein on them and giving me a concussion, all because i was equiped to mine with masonry or str gilds, not with my armor to fight groups of mobs.

[Colin500]

I came back to the game this world after so much time away from it, later after the mine support nerf "fix" I tried mining myself, just to get first KO'ed because I forgot to turn on CUSTOM CLIENT object health bar (it's really hard to notice mine support health by the color itself).
Then I got beaten up by a bunch of slimes because I didn't know how much they hurt a low ua character (especially since these goo balls are so damn fast...) and then I got KO'ed again because of a mine support, cause I forgot to look at the CUSTOM CLIENT object health bar.

So yea...mining is fun!
Let's add more bullshit to it!

[Gorakil]

One of the boreworms decides to go throug a full stockpile of black ore instead of easly going around

Is even more ridiculous with slimes. Yesterday i lost hours of progress when 17 slimes got blocked on eachother and decided to go through my 20 stocks of silver.

[WESKERBOY]

One of the boreworms decides to go throug a full stockpile of black ore instead of easly going around

Is even more ridiculous with slimes. Yesterday i lost hours of progress when 17 slimes got blocked on eachother and decided to go through my 20 stocks of silver.

So u lost ore?

[Gorakil]

One of the boreworms decides to go throug a full stockpile of black ore instead of easly going around

Is even more ridiculous with slimes. Yesterday i lost hours of progress when 17 slimes got blocked on eachother and decided to go through my 20 stocks of silver.

So u lost ore?

yeah, lost like half of it, they destroy stockpile in like 3-4 hits.