Balance

[deenw]

@olliepurkiss

• Silver and Gold tools are currently not worth the investment, and many people stick to Iron.

I’ll link a thread I made a month ago below where I said you had to improve the food UI and buff Gold damage. And you guys did both. There are some further slight tweaks I think you can still make. Specifically;

• Improve the flexibility of Silver and Gold so they are more forge friendly

I have a gold mining build where I can one shot T5 rocks vs the same Titanium hammer which would take 2 shots for a rock. But I don’t know if people would still want to use a gold hammer when the Titanium is more durable.If you improve the flexibility of both Gold and Silver then they’ll be used more often because there are certain forged Gold tools that can be used with great effectiveness. But I’d be careful not to make it as good as Titanium.

I’m only using hammers in this case but I think the same concepts can be applied to Axes and Shovels

How to buff Gold/Silver Hammers while improving mining gameplay

Here are my thoughts for the developers to chew on: As of right now, the general population goes from Iron to Titanium hammers when mining. They skip Gold/Silver hammers. We need to make Gold/Silver more attractive especially in light of recent mining changes. Summary of Suggestions to improve both hammers as well as mining Tier 1: Improve baseline stats for Gold/Silver Tier 2: Slight tweaks to brews and food as it relates to mining, axing, shoveling activities. This serves as budget minded …