I actually don't mind the far range prospecting as it encourages exploration and it auto marks your map with your findings, but once it gets to the close range (Node Search) its a whole different story. I'm sorry but its simply not fun wasting a pickaxe or two digging trenches chasing an ore vein just to replenish your tools and then some. Not to mention the food you're wasting while doing it too. I've been playing on a server that has most settings on default and it becomes very tedious and I think the reason for it is the shape and size of these ore veins. Im literally getting a headache searching for tin as I chase a medium reading back and forth, up and down and finding it is barely rewarding because now I do have some extra after remaking my tools but not by much. I wish they would make the ore veins much larger and change the shape of it to make it easier to hit/find. There's a few things in the game that make the early game very punishing to simply play such as making leather and maintaining food supply because your character can literally eat an entire deer and a months worth of turnips in a single day and still be hungry by default. They need to take it down a notch to not push people away, and I'm not saying making it casual, but make it make sense and bearable. Im really dreading getting back into the game after my last prospecting and it makes me want to play something else. Figured I'd share my thoughts and honest opinion because I really like the game but I feel like it can be better. Not everyone wants to mess around with game settings because some of us like to play on servers and these servers use default settings.
