Mining Pickaxe Rework

[Caio029]

I liked these changes until you said you plan on replacing the mining nano-fab entirely with just the custom picks. I don't think mining needs a nerf that severe.

Also scaling damage with tool strength is a bad idea. Miners really don't need another way to make weapons. They already have spears, bows, power hammers, and easy access to erebite, which can all be very powerful in the right hands.

Yeah, in the design docs I mentioned how making new picks having a scalling damage would require some balancing around the other mining tools (power hammers are pretty broken imho, so my first target would be that.) Spears, yeah, the balancing factor about spears are how those don't fit belts, and making the pick as strong as it would completely destroy that balancing factor. Bows? Haven't seen a powerful miner attack including those. And erebite, yeah, you're right. It'd require to balance a lot of Mining to actually be able to make theses picks do some decent damage against humans, based on it's mining power.


And yeah, I'd remove the nano-fab IF there was a way to make all of those items it has in this new style I mentioned. For now, it will be in the "maybe I'll do it one day" list.