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6/5/2025, 3:58:39 PM
>>1783406
>What is the problem with copper?
Mining those 3-4 nodes; each one has 138 parts, each with 50hp.
An avg. pickaxe swing will do 7-11 dmg, but let's just say it does 10 to make things simple.
>138 x 50 = 6900
>6900 / 10 = 690
You have to hit a copper deposit almost 700 times to fully destroy it, and then do that 3-4 more times, so roughly 2070-2760 swings.
This isn't even taking into account the time spent excavating the deposit itself out of the ground. Now, I hear you saying
>"You can just mine out the ground around the copper deposit and break it all in one piece"
This is still very time consuming, and it assumes the ore is going to cooperate in the first place by
>A. Spawning high enough to not be embedded below the minimum world height
>B. There isn't some invisible collision with the surrounding terrain you have to spent additional time troubleshooting
Even assuming that all this is twice as fast, that's still 345 swings per deposit, times 3-4, so 1035-1380 swings. All that without also taking into account time spent repairing picks, resting, fending off greydwarves, rain, etc.
tl;dr mining copper SUCKS
>What is the problem with copper?
Mining those 3-4 nodes; each one has 138 parts, each with 50hp.
An avg. pickaxe swing will do 7-11 dmg, but let's just say it does 10 to make things simple.
>138 x 50 = 6900
>6900 / 10 = 690
You have to hit a copper deposit almost 700 times to fully destroy it, and then do that 3-4 more times, so roughly 2070-2760 swings.
This isn't even taking into account the time spent excavating the deposit itself out of the ground. Now, I hear you saying
>"You can just mine out the ground around the copper deposit and break it all in one piece"
This is still very time consuming, and it assumes the ore is going to cooperate in the first place by
>A. Spawning high enough to not be embedded below the minimum world height
>B. There isn't some invisible collision with the surrounding terrain you have to spent additional time troubleshooting
Even assuming that all this is twice as fast, that's still 345 swings per deposit, times 3-4, so 1035-1380 swings. All that without also taking into account time spent repairing picks, resting, fending off greydwarves, rain, etc.
tl;dr mining copper SUCKS
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