Workspeed in ore/coal mining and tree cutting

[JustAway]

does workspeed actually matter for ore mining? i been reading reddit post and such but many of it contradiction one from other.

minus workspeed does affect animation speed but i feel that it doesnt matter much in ore mining to aim for artisan,serious and stuff

[Slatepaws]

To an extent yes. Depends on the pal and if they decide to sit on top of the node like digitoise which ends up halting mining.

[smokauweeds]

they dont move faster. the internal timers just go quicker. just like on the work benches. when more pals hop on to work the timer goes down.

its the same for the mining stuff (well just in number of hits, not a timer) it calculates the bonus of the pal and applies it to the timer.

I noticed with bonuses to to work speed on the player that it was taking less hits, and obviuosly to tool upgrades. it was the same with a pal I bred. it had a work speed bonus, and I added spirits to it to upgrade all stats there to. it clearly was mining faster.