Ravensblade

I think borax is just quite weird. The only good thing it's in sedimentary rocks so you don't need to dig to deep. I established whole base to dig tunnels in grid in area with 0,5% of it. Funny how i find no borax but i found Zinc and Tin even when it was minuscule amounts on pick. Randomly why hunting for food i fund lead ore bit, and when mining lead i checked if i mined everything and there it was - Borax around 100 of it, in chunk with minuscule amount. Limestone is actually quite easy - i just use traders for it if i see none of it when scouting. I believe Commodities Trader have them, and when they have it, it's quite a amount. As for leather i may be wrong on it but bear fur generates a lot more (2 or 3 times) scrapped hide per limestone then others.

Well i agree that is sad reality that developers waste their time (and money) as well time and convince of players for people that won't pay a dime. People are now just get used to it, that they see it as "obvious" that don't need any reason or justification. Best part - you need 2 accounts to play Vintage Story. At least mods are easy to download.

I understand that struggle. I spend few hours to search for clay in several seeds. Then after finally finding it in 4 seed i noticed like 4 more in return trip, the closest one was like 50 blocks from my camp. I think the hard part is If I'm new player I don't know what to look for, similar i couldn't find flint or most crops and need to check every stone and flower. After a while I can notice them easily. What i did on my 4th seed was just typing /time stop, check around my vicinity if i have all basic resources with no rush, then returning to spawn and typing /time resume. It's very hard at the beginning when you need to check every recipe, have no idea what you need next and you have time limit to night etc.

I did it other way. Inside one is chiseled flat with only small markings, and the outside one is the one that have full indents. There is same limit on how much voxels can be missing from side to be still considered complete and from what i seen only the surface layer is considered.So if you remove one layer from side this side is not solid even if visually it's solid wall, just thinner.