well we stocked up food for winter and figured we would mine during the winter but beyond the first cave we found with a bunch of copper we have found a bunch of nothing and no there is only 1 option on the prospecting pick. so i guess the fact that we go out day after day and find nothing has kind of put us off, and again i tried using the prospecting pick and only found one result where it was decent and dug down and found nothing. even tried a few spots within a couple blocks and nothing. we probably got enough copper to make 15 or so picks plus swords and a few hammers and now our copper is almost gone those picks are mostly gone and we have found nothing for using al those picks. its pretty discouraging.
Basically it feels like 1 step forward and 2 back. like we havent progressed at all for our efforts.