I think that auto hammer, and auto mine should be default or cheaper to get.

[Decinomic0n]

The amount of clicking in this game is ridiculous without those. especially when it comes to mining, this is the first game in a long time that makes my hand actually cramp up.

[Morilibus]

I ended up making a mouse macro for the mining.

The Auto Mining I didn't get for a while as it was gated behind 300 Skill points? Plus it cost 200 in addition to unlock. So that was 500 total to invest to get it. I would agree that that felt like a lot.

I did like that the Auto Hammer for the anvil is accessible at the beginning of the game and not gated behind anything.

I do like that we don't start off with it though. As it lends itself to us being an unskilled blacksmith at the start of the game so we are clumsily hammering away. Then after we make some weapons and gain some skill points we can invest in that skill and that represents us being more skilled at yielding the hammer and can do controlled and consistent hammering.

But I also agree that the clicking was hard on my hand, and I was eager to get the skill as quickly as possible.

So I agree having both of them available early game and fairly cheap would be nice. Maybe 50 each? We have to work a little for them, but not to the point of hurting ourselves or damaging our mouse.

[Llogeyr]

I created a macro also. Until I unlocked them.

[Didgereedank]

Originally posted by Llogeyr:

I created a macro also. Until I unlocked them.

Can i get that marco?

[Wormy]

I also made a macro. Definitely my biggest gripe of this game is that a portion of the skill tree are just "fix quality of life" instead of "make the game cooler". The game should receive fixes instead of making slow tedious mining or hammering a feature

[ButtahNips]

Even with auto mining and full mining upgrades is still takes WAY too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ long to mine anything. doing 8-10% of each little rock each full swing is SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SLOW
even using cheat engine at 5x speed still makes it take AGES
(If you do use cheat engine to speed things up, make sure to save every few minutes or so because if it autosaves while you're speeding things up the game will crash)

[issssk]

Originally posted by ButtahNips:

even using cheat engine at 5x speed still makes it take AGES

Yeah, it's annoying, but as soon as you have 50k (selling two gold tridents or halberds) you can buy a worker and have him do the gold mining. They find more than you in a day anyway.

And the other ores are not really a problem with the money that comes in then.

[ButtahNips]

Originally posted by issssk:

Originally posted by ButtahNips:

even using cheat engine at 5x speed still makes it take AGES

Yeah, it's annoying, but as soon as you have 50k (selling two gold tridents or halberds) you can buy a worker and have him do the gold mining. They find more than you in a day anyway.

And the other ores are not really a problem with the money that comes in then.

This is true, but I'm a weirdo that LIKES going mining, but the joy I get from mining (which I weirdly just like doing in any game that has it) gets quickly depleted when it takes so long.
And the slaves thing makes it worse to me, because there's no reason it SHOULDN'T be better for yourself to go mining. The only real benefit to manually mining after getting slaves is being able to find ores of the alloys.