Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

[Pommfritz]

I think the main idea of boulders is that it's a bot check so just removing them would cause botting to be a lot easier. Well there are slimes that would take care of that on the deeper levels but I have no idea how programming really works maybe it's just as easy to kill slimes and chip boulders with a bot xd

but at least with mechanics like this you get rid of 90% of randoms trying out some very basic script or something.

I btw think they are annoying too but not sure how the problem could be solved otherwise xd

[SnuggleSnail]

Anybody capable of making a mining bot prior to boulders could've updated their bot to work with boulders in less than 60 seconds. My function to chip boulders is literally *3 lines. I'm pretty sure they just thought "oh, they'd be cool" and didn't consider the fact it completely breaks area select mining.

[Nightdawg]

I think the main idea of boulders is that it's a bot check

Yeah... but it literally only breaks the mechanic that was supposed to make botting less mandatory, area selection.
Would be cool to have a toggle for it, "click this if you want to also try mining out boulders" kind of thing.

[WowGain]

I think the main idea of boulders is that it's a bot check

Yeah... but it literally only breaks the mechanic that was supposed to make botting less mandatory, area selection.
Would be cool to have a toggle for it, "click this if you want to also try mining out boulders" kind of thing.

+1 on the idea of a quarry mode toggle

[pawnchito]

+1

Please loftjarb, late game mining sucks the big one right now because of this. Make it an additional reward behind credo so once credo done you can turn if off and live life like a free man.

[pawnchito]

Necro bump. This could be a nice easy patch project while you all prep the new world. Everyone would like that. :p

[MadNomad]

Boulders while mining are extremely annoying for everyone and add very little

you can use them as decoration

but I agree that people should be able to choose whether they want to mine boulders or get more ore from the tile we're mining, there should be some ingame setting for this and they shouldn't mine boulders if that is what they want

[pawnchito]

Sure decoration ok. But when you are just trying to mine out 20 tiles and you are stopped 5 + times because of boulders it makes mining an actual pain in the ass. Now imagine when you are trying to mine several thousand tiles, its just not fun gameplay especially when adding a toggle for it as a credo reward makes sense.

[MadNomad]

adding a toggle for it as a credo reward makes sense.

yes, they should do it like this

[pawnchito]

I didnt move or touch a single one of these blessed boulders. They all spawned in as I attempted to enjoy some mining. This is crazy dudes, can we get a new cave dust that we can play minesweeper to avoid boulders?