I wish they'd add a steam shovel or some sort of equipment to bridge the gap between a pick/shovel and a skid steer.
It can even be awkward to use like the hand plow, I just want that revolutionary leap forward for mining like the steam truck gives for everything else
Update 11 added the scoop to the Steam tractor?
Yeah, it just doesn't work on rock
But the explosives in Update 11.1 will do, which are supposed to fill that gap.
Maybe I've played the game too much, but I'm really enjoying a mod for shovels that allows you to hold down E to rapidly pick up dirt, so that it "explodes" when dug in a manner like using an efficiency enchanted shovel in minecraft!
The devs have a direction for the game that makes tasks technical presumably to make the game more social and difficult, but personally I feel it generally doesn't respect your time enough. It's hard to believe that wooden shovels still move 1 dirt at a time in vanilla, on top of having to constantly replace them due to the maximum durability loss with the new repair system.
Edit: I didn't realise I was actually replying to SLG staff at the top of the thread. I didn't mean any offense to be talking about you instead of to you 😅
Eco is a multiplayer economy game, so it is pretty important that other players can and have to contribute at all stages and that not everything is doable on your own. Items of any kind regularly requiring replacement parts is necesary to keep economy flowing as well.
User "turtlesprettycool" below did note correctly why the change for ore generation was made - certainly not to disrespect your time. You're just not supposed to fill a role alone for a sizable server, which was easily possible before.
I guess once Update 11.1 is out in a few weeks things will look better in regard to your concerns - the addition for earthworks has already been added and explosives are meant for mining at that stage.
Shovels also did get higher carry capacity based on tier back. We still don't want stone age to be something where you can do a lot of terraforming, though, you're simply not supposed to, especially not alone. (And if you really want, you can easily modify the stack size for shovels)
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