All that is wrong with mining.

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[*] Useful production ores are scattered around, it takes a lot of flying to find all that you need. There should be more, they are the main target for miners.

Well that is kinda the point, the producton ores are supposed to be really useful, so they have to be somewhat hard to find.

[*] Let's just get rid of erebite and have something else used for concussion gauntlets. It's impossible to find.

Why not just make Eribite a rare spawning ore again? its near impossible to find now that it is a gem. Make it so you need a special tool for the eribite ores, or die an explosive death.

Other than those two things, im 100% with you.