Boring mining ....

[Darkiger]

Mining is terribly boring, just need an auto-click system and wait for hours to get something. Did I miss something or there is really no way to improve the mining skills in the game ?

[ByVot3p]

*maybe better skill of harvesting ? maybe i really dont know, i dont use mining yet, just make mining shack and my villagers make work

[NovaTactics]

Best way is to have a house, stockpile and mining camp/hut/pit (depending on what you need) and have 1-2 villagers move to that area and make sure those buildings and villager are set to a new settlement. Have deliveries that send 2-4 food to it and whichever resource that settlement is harvesting be sent to your main base.

Try to set these up within range of a few nodes as the rocks will eventually deplenish.

If you don't want to do this, then keep mining away. Maybe make a better pickaxe (if you have access to it).
There's also a trick I found that once you've hit the rock, click your mouse again and you'll initiate the next swing quicker then of you'd hold the mouse button. Also works with woodcutting.

Edit:
You'll want to also add pickaxe to delivery and maybe a simple workbench to they can repair their own pickaxes if they have the resources available.

[Draftbeer]

"Always Drop Ores" mod on Nexus, thank me later.

[TheFrackingDane]

Mining is under harvesting skill. You raise it by mining, foraging and wood chopping.

Or - you could make a mining hut and assign a worker who will do the work for you ;)

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by TheFrackingDane:

Mining is under harvesting skill. You raise it by mining, foraging and wood chopping.

Or - you could make a mining hut and assign a worker who will do the work for you ;)

You could make a couple your companions,give them a pick axe each then, go to mining nodes and tell them to start mine. Guess it come down to what stage you in the game, and how much you need.

[RicWalker]

You are not supposed to do anything yourself. thats what your minions are for. you only chop trees or mine or gather stuff if you are really impatiant. like you really want that shiny new weapon but dont want to wait for that bronce ingot.

What you as the player are meant to do is exploring, acepting quests and be a good delivery boy for the questgivers, hirering new minions from the rewards and lastly managing your camp, so that everything is running smoothly in the background.

the minions gather and produce the stuff you need to deliver, some guard you while exploring and most if not all of them fight battles for you. its like "Mount & Blade" with realistic settings. you are not supposed to kite and fight on your own multiple enemies on your own.

[TheFrackingDane]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Originally posted by TheFrackingDane:

Mining is under harvesting skill. You raise it by mining, foraging and wood chopping.

Or - you could make a mining hut and assign a worker who will do the work for you ;)

You could make a couple your companions,give them a pick axe each then, go to mining nodes and tell them to start mine. Guess it come down to what stage you in the game, and how much you need.

Yup, that works too.