Honestly, @Gorillastomp is typing right now so I’m going to shut up and defer to him on this as he’s going to have vastly more experience than me.
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.
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Good stuff. Thanks for the info, @Gorillastomp. Seems like AoE hammer is the way to go but you use bombs if you prefer in combination WITH an AoE hammer. I guess what bums me out the most is that it used to be “here are two different methods to mine” and now it’s “here’s the way you mine now but if you want to, because you enjoy it, you can incorporate some of the other way into what you’re doing to come out even”.
Anyone that doesn’t see this as an “out of balance scenario” on resource gathering really needs to reset their expectations.
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yes but i mean wihtout the range from forge this would never happen
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Well… I certainly would’t mind the bomb range increase just no be able to be used for bomb mining. Keeping bomb mining the way it was while keeping the effective AOE at its base value would be fine by me.
Personally, I’m more and more thinking that a boon that allows bombs to highlight resources within its radius so you can just hammer to them would be great.
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What makes you the expert of what in balance is?
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I think we would need 2 type of bombs one fore mining and one “combat” that do not breaks blocks, because you can’t really use them during hunt, it makes hole and kill your allies.
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I’d be all for bombs that don’t break blocks!
Edit: lots of things that could be done with bombs to give it a better role. But who knows how much rocking the boat can handle 
I am in favor of leaving unforged bombs as aoe mining tool, forging to bring better combat ability or better mass-block-clearing (no resources).
On second thought don’t bother making bombs for hunting because then when they do what they’re supposed to somebody will YouTube AoE kill 200 wildlings for a bajillion exp and we’ll be right back at noooo bombs are broken 
I wish gaming balance didn’t have to be so painful.
Regen bombs dont
No it’s not, someone just provided evidence sorry you don’t like it.
What are you on about? Aoe hammer is the only efficient way to mine now. Bomb mining isnt COMPLETELY gone but thats shy of saying you CAN find a needle in a haystack
Yep you just agreed it’s not completely dead, thanks for the support!
Maybe you need a better dictionary because we have very different versions of how the word ignorant is used. Thanks for the emotional hyperbole laden response though it is really helping the discussion!
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Your snarky responses aren’t exactly helping the dicussion. Nitpicking others posts and cherry picking to get what you want. Sounds a little emotionally driven, doesn’t it?
You’re acting like the end slice of bread is still enough to make a sandwhich.
It is. What’s your point? Just because you don’t like the end slice doesn’t make it not bread.
If expecting people to use facts and not make things up is nitpicking, then yes count me in discussions work better when you are engaging in them based on real things.
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