I agree that they take to long to mine. While I'm mining Iron and coal(for half blocks) I'm constatly getting my ASS raped by spiders that keep walking in on me and spawning behind me.
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Zombies in the area will have the skin melt away and only their SKELETONS will remain, and they'll shoot ARROWS from their STERNUMS. Creepers will still explode as usual, but their suicide will also release a LAVA SPRING from their REMAINS.
I think they should keep the ore mining as long as it is now, but then when crafting is introduced, there could be a craftable pickaxe item that allows you to mine through ore and rock twice as fast.
Mining ores is supposed to be difficult. Ores give the most "valuable" resources. It really doesn't take that long to mine 99 ores. Because mining ores is difficult, you get a much better sense of success when you build a giant stairway or a gold and iron castle. Challenge is enjoyable, just be more careful and don't complain so much.
Atm stone is better but im sure ores will be more useful when crafting comes out. Also some other useless blocks will have a use.. Flowers, poison mushrooms ect.
I say that ore should take less time to mine than the substance. Iron ore would take less time to break than a block of iron. And I assume that once crafting is here Ore will yield ore and you will have to smelt it down to blocks.
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams
I think its fine that ore takes long to mine by hand, as it does in real life. Later on though it would be cool to be able to obtain explosives to break through rock and ore. Something more powerful than TNT like Nitro or something.
Mining is not a FAST process. Specially since your digging with your (sorta) digging with your bare hands. If you have problems with mobs then you need to use dirt or something to BLOCK the entrance you came from so they don't surprize you in mid-digging.
Far as i'm concerned the digging is fine as it is. It doesnt take an obscene amount of time to dig a single block..it takes a few seconds to break ores. Be grateful it doesnt take a minute or HOURS to break one single brick. =/
Ore, nothing - I loaded up an obsidian structure from a sandbox map in Survival and it took three times as long to get through it than through iron/coal/gold.
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Too bad I can't participate in this discussion. Monsters are a rarity on my maps since I suck too hard to use large maps. :tongue.gif:
Far as i'm concerned the digging is fine as it is. It doesnt take an obscene amount of time to dig a single block..it takes a few seconds to break ores. Be grateful it doesnt take a minute or HOURS to break one single brick. =/