Minor mining mechanic manipulations

[Rhydic]

I think it sounds kinda silly to send out automated drones to do all of the digging. That just makes mining even more pointless if bots do all the work.

well it's supposedly hundreds of years into the future so drones would be an obvious choice, i always saw miners like more of human overseers than hard laborers

i suppose you could resolve this by setting off an area on the other end of the map that has the rarer more valuable ores and gems in higher concentrations that the drones can't get to or something so that human input is required but not the endless grind to get base minerals that are required in large amounts for manufacturing