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Originally posted by Shockwave: I think A19 has exposed a real problem with the stamina system in general. You have limited stamina but then you got tools that used less stamina (like a steel pickaxe). I remember finding a T3 or 4 steel pick on the first blood moon in my last A18 game.Ehm, Well....Unless I'm misremembering already after a week or two away from the game, You're a little backwards here. The tools cost progressively MORE stamina per swing, Not less. You can swing the stone axe all day long almost, But the iron pickaxe takes a fair chunk more stamina per swing than that; And the steel pickaxe takes even more stamina per swing than the iron pickaxe.
So now you go mining and without the good tools you swing twice and rest, swing twice and rest. That's boring. I mean really boring.
If the tools actually gave you more ore but you had the stamina to work you'd swing all night no matter which tool you used but get more ore with better tools.
By using stamina to limit actions it's actually a more boring game even if it ends up the same.
Let's face it... swinging constantly for 5 minutes and mining 6000 ore is more fun and satisfying that swing swing rest... swing swing rest for 5 minutes even if you mine the same 6000 ore.
Ditto tree chopping, car dismemberment, shoveling concrete pallets, stripping animals, etc.
Stamina limits on running and weapon swinging don't detract in the same way.
Think like, 5, 10, 20, stamina a swing respectively. The major difference here is that by the time you normally get a steel pickaxe, it's going to be of decent quality say Q3-5, You'll have a fair amount of mods like the ergonomic grip that lower stamina use or increase block damage, And you have a bunch of skills that increase block damage or reduce stamina cost.
You basically NEED to expand your mod collection and skill set in order to use the higher level tools now; If you don't, you end up with the swing a handful of times and be out of stamina issue.
Use tools appropriate to your situation, Don't just rush to 'better' ones willy nilly. You need to properly adjust to swinging each tool in turn.. You dont just start with swinging the heaviest and most unwieldly tool around and not have a downside to it.