Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

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Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby jordancoles » Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:11 am

These stone boulders are useful for completing credos, but other than that, they are a total nuisance for every manual miner and change nothing for bots other than adding a little extra stamina and time investment.

Please remove the randomly spawning boulders that you get from mining and instead add an Adventure > Quarry option in the player menu. Rather than mining the tile, the quarry option would destroy the tile and give you 1 boulder in return. This ability could be unlocked with the quarryman credo.
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby SnuggleSnail » Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:47 am

Boulders while mining are extremely annoying for everyone and add very little, so we can never get rid of them for at least 3 years
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby abt79 » Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:58 am

+1, good idea and fascinating to see how they spell "nuisance" in trudeauland
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby jordancoles » Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:38 am

abt79 wrote:+1, good idea and fascinating to see how they spell "nuisance" in trudeauland

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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby LunarArchon » Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:53 pm

+1, botters gonna bot anyways so this would be a welcome change.

Any balancing considerations? For example, this quarry action shouldn't become the most efficient way to mine as much material as possible if you're digging a high Q rock node.
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby NeoRed9 » Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:54 am

They are indeed very annoying. But as he mentioned they are a blessing for doing the credo. This quarrying option sounds like a *nice thing*.
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby WowGain » Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:29 am

jordancoles wrote:This ability could be unlocked with the quarryman credo.

that'd be a big hamper on their use for credos, since the quarryman credo is the one where it comes in the most useful given how early in playing you go for it
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby DanteThanatos » Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:24 pm

Maybe add the "Quarry" action after you get the Tunneling Skill? Pickaxe only?
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby SnuggleSnail » Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:10 pm

The boulders making quarryman marginally easier shouldn't be a consideration when it's a credo you can do in less of a day, and the boulders make mining more tedious and unfun for the entire year+ long world.

Area select mining was copied from custom clients into the base game because /everybody/ wanted it more than the single tile select mining, to the degree even Jorbtar decided it was a good idea. Now, we're back at the beginning of the circular development progression where Jorbtar has broken area select mining, the client devs remade it, and in a year Jorbtar will have enough complaints that they will make area select mining chip the boulders and continue mining. Nullifying the entire boulder update, without technically removing it. Bloat.

It's such a boldfaced waste of everybody's time for Loftar to have to add these, then client devs have to make a hacky workaround, then the plebs cry until Loftar "fixes" it, when the initial concept is something nobody who mines would ever ask for. It's not even that big of a deal in and of itself, it's just so silly that this kind of thing happens so regularly with haven
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Re: Removing Stone Boulders, Add Quarrying

Postby wonder-ass » Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:33 am

its such a minor inconvenience that nobody asked for instead of adding something actually interesting to mining exdee
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