reinvigorate mining

[Frank_Stein]

Lastly, I'd like to see an ore storage/sorting machine. As a miner, I want to be able to dump off a satchel full of ore, see clearly through the interface the ore/resource totals and eject an amount of ore I want. No more mucking about click-dragging stacks around on the floor of mining.

Something like this would be great.

More automation would be great. I miss those conveyer tracks that you could just dump your ore onto as you worked that would send it to mining

Bring those back, have it dump into this new sorter. Then from the sorting machine you can see what you have. From there, pick what you want to eject, how much of it, and where you want it sent to. Then it'll pop it out onto more conveyors that will send it to QM, Robotics, The Smelting room, or directly into the manufacturers

No dragging, no sorting, no loading needed

Alternatively, replace the conveyers with tracks and hopper carts