what made bomb mining out of control is the range you get from the forge, prior that when i was using titanium bombs with no range upgrade i could get around 400 gems for 2-3 hrs mining session on t5 worlds.
Then when i could get the range from the forge, my mining session blew up like crazy. my best session i did on alcyon in 5 hours. 3k ruby, 18k iron, 10k copper, 6k gold etc…
They thought it was a good idea to make bombs break the resources to slow it down instead starting by nerfing the range of it. This is kinda bugging me that i have to lose resources to find resources.
But they did pretty good job with it now, i gain same amount of resources by using crazy forged hammer, or bomb and hammer mixed together because i probably blew more than half the resources. (This is kinda breaking my heart to see a single gem blocks thinking it had more)
When we first start getting diamonds, we were smashing the rocks at lvl 13-14 with irons. and took us around 1h30 to get the minimal amount to make a bulk of basic power coils (we were like 3-4 players mining for it). We had some knowledge to do so. New players can’t do that and should progress a little bit more around lower tier planets.
And i don’t get why Iron is mid game for you, iron is early game. titanium, gems is mid games then blink etc will be end games.