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[Brewster]

Within the Designate Menu add a new option Mine Vein: (V) - Mark tile to be mined out, all adjacent tiles of exact mineral likeness will be marked for Mine Vein.

Pretty much, pick one tile (example: Rough-hewn Galena), a dwarf will mine that tile, and if a new Galena wall is exposed, it and all other connecting galena walls will be marked for mining and to check for Galena after the new marked tile has been mined. An auto-mine a vein command.

[NW_Kohaku]

Before posting a new suggestion, you should check for previous suggestions of the same sort, and especially check the devpages to see what the next upcoming game features will be.

Vein Auto-Mining is #7 on the Eternal Suggestion Voting board, and has already been announced as part of the Devpages to be put into one of the upcoming versions of DF.  This suggestion is redundant - it's already planned to happen.

[Rowanas]

I'm not really here to add anything except that your suggestion was 400 different kinds of redundant, just like this one.

[Aspgren]

I am also not contributing.

[Fourdots]

Currently, a program to do that is included with DFHack. It is immensely useful, and an acceptable stand-in until the capability shows up in DF itself (which, do not misunderstand me, I eagerly anticipate. It's a lot easier to run an external program than to hover over a dwarf, designating squares as they are revealed, though).

[Bersken]

From someone who was searching the forum before making the same suggestion: It's nice to know that such a feature is already planned. I hate having to micro-manage my miners while neglecting to keep my other dwarves busy.

[Vercingetorix]

Yes, the DFHack vein digging tool is great; I use it all the time myself.  You do have to be careful, though...some of those veins are gigantic and might wind through the earth until they open up on a cavern or give enemies an unexpected path in to the fort.

[Astramancer]

I thought of a great way to implement Mine Vein, and I haven't spotted anything this before, so here goes:

Use the manager.  Add a series of Tasks such as:
Mine X stone
Mine Gems
Mine Economic Stones
Mine Flux
Mine Ores
Mine Any Stone

And the manager would mark exposed tiles for mining if they fit the criteria.  The downside would, of course, is that you have no control over which specific tiles get marked for mining (of course, you could do that manually if it's that important).  The manager (in it's own inscrutable way) might decide that the metal ore on the far side of the untamed cavern is the best stuff.

[Draco18s]

I am also not contributing.

Me too.