There's a very simple fix that I can't believe hasn't been added to the game yet: Panning for shellfish and mollusks so you can grind their shells into Lime. I feel like it's absolutely required, because there's a meter that looks something like this <---------> where on the left you have spawn RNG and on the right you have "I found it because I looked for it" and honestly, lime is currently way too far on the left side of that meter. Had an 11 hour livestream today and found no borax, despite the fact that I spent 6 hours walking in every direction long enough to find new stone layers. Found slate in one direction. Found Peridotite in another. Granite everywhere else. Then I finally find some sandstone, and I use the prospecting pick for an hour and find nothing. It's stupid, it's annoying, it's demoralizing, and we need an alternative to be added to the game. Panning for shellfish and mollusks is the absolute easiest way to solve this glaring issue with the game's progression. I don't want to hear a bunch of people say "HUFF PUFF, WELL, I LIKE IT THE WAY IT IS, SO THERE." It is painfully objectively obvious to literally everybody with two brain cells to rub together that we need an alternative means of creating lime because some spawns just have flat-out none. I'm playing without a map, so I can't just go on long ten year excursions to find a rock. I need to travel in straight lines, build waypoints, and always remember where my home - or at least the road back to my home - is. Panning for shellfish and mollusks is literally a no-brainer, and they should be common enough to the point where it's a lot like finding copper nuggets. 1 in 6. Perfect. You want to pan for 25 shellfish? Go for it, that's a barrel of Lime. It's perfect. The ultimate solution for those who lack the spawn RNG currently required to find it in the present state of the game. I don't even need to plead my case, the simple fact that I know how to find lime and I spent 11 hours failing to find it during a livestream is proof enough of my claim. It's beyond refute, and I'm too frustrated to hear anybody complain about how correct I am, or worse, about how wrong they falsely believe me to be.
