Rebs wrote:The Q of these boulders don't get soft capped by the tool FYI
Right you are. I was looking specifically for how ore was soft-capped when I added that but didn't find anything, so while it seemed strange, I didn't think a whole lot more about it and assumed that ore wasn't soft-capped, contrary to my memory. Turns out I was looking in the wrong place.
I would hope this is not a huge issue, as I suspect that top ore quality is probably not being limited by the tool anyway. It does kind of raise the question of whether the boulders should be softcapped when mined out, or if it is perhaps the rocks chipped from them that should be softcapped when chipping, though. It does perhaps not necessarily suck if a higher-q boulder could be saved for later chipping when tool quality has been improved. I'm slightly unsure.