Panning for those first 40 native copper nuggets, is a hard sell. Early game tool to get your first copper block?

[gromit190]

I do love this game, but that panning for those 40 (or whatever less since perhaps you were lucky to find some copper pieces on the surface) is a hard sell.

It is too monotonous.

Not that I know exactly how it could be altered though. But I feel like something should be done with that hurdle. If you're on a MP server and everyone works togheter on panning for the 40 it goes fast but SP or low-player MP runs it's kinda excruciatingly boring to pan for the two copper tools.

Perhaps there could be some special early game tool (made out of clay + flint or something) that lets you mine and crush a single native copper block? IDK.

Sorry for the complaint, VS is truly one of the most captivating games I've played in literal decades.

Peace

[Shoom]

From my experience, fastest way to get to copper is by running around and looking for bits on the ground and then maybe supplementing a few missing bits through panning.

[coolAlias]

My first world, there were copper bits everywhere I looked.

Current world, not a single one within a half day's travel in any direction.

Sometimes, RNG is gonna RNG.

[Thorfinn]

Panning is not for everyone. Not me, for sure. I just take the lack of copper as a sign I'm not in the right place to settle down yet.

There used to be a mod that added some flint tools -- pick, saw, chisel, maybe some other stuff. Better than Heresy, IIRC. No idea if it still works.