Apr 3
Locator for ores
I know that the rock drill is a feature, but I find locating iron ore to be massive bottleneck. In order for the rock drill to be useful, you already need enough iron to make it and iron for the workbenches to make it. I know iron ore spawns in sandstone, but it can be a pain to find it, and especially a pain to find a lot of it. Admittedly, I play Eco with just one or two friends with some difficulty tweaks, but the roadblock that finding iron presents severely limits the fun, and I imagine this is felt in official servers as well. I know that locating ore needs to be balanced, but it's very unfun to search for iron ore for many hours just so that we can move forward in the game. What I want is some way to locate it easier- I don't care if it's a profession, an easier to get tool, a map layer feature, or otherwise. Please- iron ore, and other ores, need to be at least slightly easier to find because of the progression bottlenecks they present. The rock drill just isn't sufficient.
Pending
i think the early iron finding is just fine. its a bit harder with copper but also okay, sometime you just need to invest a hour to find a ore claim, which definetly belongs to the miner job