Arie has them too, nice and tall at 130 altatude. Could be straighter tho. Are the ones there dead straight like they were in the test server before 1.0?
I went to every planet and this was the first I found.
They are fairly vertical, i get heaps from there fast just using normal method, as for test server I wasnt actively playing of late, like since 2015 lol
Yes, with the centraforge you can forge boons onto gear to give them special characteristics, such as 3x3 area of effect centered on the block you are looking at.
Its a fairly expensive process, and requires a good bit of setup, but its worth it in the end.
Also @Lynxdragon - Personally I find hammers excellent for rock gathering, mediocre for ores (I find a good single target hammer fixes this, dual wield them!), but aoe axes and aoe shovels are extremely efficient at gathering trunks/sap, sand/clay/peat, which are usually quite valuable. I can gather like 8k sand and silty soil with a single aoe titanium shovel** in about 30 minutes. Thats a ton of glass!