HasseKebab wrote:I think tunnel should have a lot longer range because currently the cost of 5 blocks and 1 nugget for 5 tiles of tile is absolute ass in terms of how much effort you have to put in to tunnel one minimap grid start to end compared to just keeping bars on you and building wooden supports. Upsides of low cost is hugely outweighed by the effort and low range. Wooden supports provide larger area, cost slightly more while using less effort.
Or maybe it can be extended with either nuggets or blocks alone(like a palisade), cause as it is rn it really is just a larpy tunnel, the only time it would scout more for ore compared to what it offers is when you have miner credo, but at that point you have so much metal that u can just make a world of mine beams.
Even early game where you don't have a lot of metal, mine supports stil cover way more area compared to what they offer.
The only time i can see this being useful is by checking many different walls on caves by making a single tunnel and then moving on, but even then the hassle of carrying around a bunch of blocks might not make it worth it, and you would end up with a bunch of random short tunnels all over the place, ugly af.