Mining Pickaxe Rework

[Caio029]

The addition of a third way to get better tools is not what I'd call making it easier on new players, unless you plan on completely replacing the current MatSci mining tool building, in which case I'm listening.

Ignoring that, simply using material bars to swap out a head is definitely much easier, but if you end up extending it to hammers or drills it might be a little weird? Though personally I'd much prefer just slapping a drill with 5 bars to change the head versus anything related to the Nano-Fabricator.

The biggest issue with incentivizing players to upgrade their tool is that most people just stop at Bohrum and there's essentially very little reason to do anything else. (If they decide to go the MatSci route at all, which is uncommon) I'd want to see more reasons to actually modify a mining tool beyond hardness and density, but that's obviously easier said than done.

I'd say that the problem about incentivizing players to upgrade their tools beyond Bohrum is MatSci itself, where you can't really make alloys that are harder and more dense than Bohrum. The only rewarding option would be to use better materials, that are harder and/or denser than Bohrum, but that's a lot of work for something that will be better than bohrum by a very small fraction. It's a whole another can of beans that I will not dare to open.

And yeah, I plan on replacing the Mining Nano-Fab with the new pick.