River mining/prospecting

[LordJorge]

An alternative way of getting common ores or searching for ore nodes underground would be river mining, the old style

I could be implemented in several ways, a few examples

a) Using a plate in the shallow of a river you have a small chance of getting some of the most common ores, for the good ones you need to mine normally

b) Using the plate works as prospecting helping you to find underground veins, the downside of this is that the vein must be close to a river

[Kaios]

Cool! I always wanted two different versions Prospecting that essentially do the same thing except one is more useless than the other.

[LordJorge]

Yay! And I need less variety with no alternatives
why don't we take out the clay cauldron when the metal one does the same and it's better?
because you can make it before you start mining, and you need a cauldron but later in the game you improve and make a metal one

this is a new way to get ores before having your own mine hole, or the rare event of finding an unclaimed natural cave and have to protect it to death
of course it wont be as good as having your mine but that adds flavor to the game

[fallout]

This has been suggested before, however its a decent idea. Maybe there could be centain areas that have metal in them, however id rather see you dig up nuggets, because ore turns into a whole bar, but these areas could be small and similar to fishing spots but random. The things to give these spots away would be to just search everywhere, or have some sort of twinkle in the water every now and then that happens less often then the fish jumping animation. anyways, doubt i would ever see this in game

[bmjclark]

If they add this, we totally need to be able to fish up things other people have dropped in rivers as well =)

[LordJorge]

yeah nuggets would be better

[SacreDoom]

Jorb has mentioned that they've wanted to implement this at some point IIRC.

[Grable]

yeah nuggets would be better

[ramones]

another buggy prospecting ftw

[MagicManICT]

Panning (and other forms of collecting metals off river bottoms) only works for dense metals, such as gold. (And only gold as far as I know.)