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Nothing but dullite? This needs to be looked at.

I'm a new glitch so forgive me if this is an old topic.  I'm trying to mine in Ilmenskie and all I see is street after street of dullite.  The beryl and sparkly all gets mined and doesn't seem to respawn very well. I imagine this was less of a problem in beta, when there were fewer glitchen in the mines but right now trying to mine is an exercise in frustration.  If I do find a sparkly rock or beryl, four or five players immediately pile on and I don't get more than a couple hits on it.  The bonus for helping doesn't make up for only getting one or two hits on a rock.

I can't craft anything with only dullite since it only gives red and green.  There is no other resource where I can shut out of what I need by other players trying to gather the same thing.  Milking a butterfly doesn't despawn it, and trees don't run out of fruit.  Why does mining work this way?

It feels like something needs to be re-tuned. Perhaps dullite could be made more useful or there could be more beryl and sparkly relative to dullite?  I think the respawn rates also need to depend on the number of players in the area.

Posted 15 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Maybe you should look outside Ilmenskie. http://zoggish.appspot.com/find-sparkly-rock-for-mining/

    A lot of rocks were added yesterday; we'll see if that's enough.
    Posted 15 months ago by Hagbard Celine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the link.  I'm happy to hear that they added rocks and are actively addressing the issue.  It would still be nice if dullite were a little more worthwhile to mine.
    Posted 15 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I think there are still a bunch of economy growing pains as things get shaken out. There shouldn't be one particular thing that's always ignored in favor of better options. It's not like there's trees that are useless.

    Maybe street projects will need dullite or some product from them?
    Posted 15 months ago by Abby Smalls Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Red and green are excellent for Diabolic Acid. You can make a ton of it!
    Posted 15 months ago by Jarhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've been having to add sparkly rocks to my mining sheet so I know they've added at least 2 in the caverns, but it still doesn't make too much difference.  I only mine in the morning now since at night the mines are way too crowded.
    Posted 15 months ago by Hameigh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a severe shortage of dullite.  Where I have been mining all I can find is Sparkly Stone and Beryl.  I want more dullite for the Green element.
    Posted 15 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink