LadyV wrote:Using heat to fracture stone is an old one. However it has limitations. Some stones andmetals would be immune to it unless it was at a point to litterally melt it. And that would defeat your purpose.
shubla wrote:Lighting tons of campfires in small cave might not be the best idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wqxWC4OAK0
The reasoning behind adding such an implementation is simple, walls on the first level can go as high as 100+ in strength requirements, on the second level it's possible you will require upwards of 200 in certain places and I have no doubt this only goes higher the lower you go.
In addition to this, unless you've been quite lucky in your mining and have managed to retrieve some quality ore in order to create a decent quality pick, gear progress is also very slow in this regard which is a rather large hindrance.
If the strength requirements remain how they are currently without any possibility to ease the process even a little bit you will soon find that players will be doing all their mining on alts.