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PastaCrusade

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designate economic mining
« on: April 23, 2013, 08:58:04 pm »
This suggestion is purely for the people that are so anal that when mining a vain of ore, they(we) will designate only the ore that is visible, wait for more ore to be reveled, then designate more ore for mining.

Add an economic mining designation.  You could designate a large area and any non-economic stone would become undesignated and therefor not mined.
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weenog

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Re: designate economic mining
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2013, 09:11:50 pm »
People have been asking for this for at least five years.  Next time, please search around a little bit before you post in the Suggestions forum.
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Matoro

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Re: designate economic mining
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2013, 08:59:18 am »
DFhack has veindig, so we can use it for now. But automated vein-digging should be in-game option at some day.
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Knight Otu

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Re: designate economic mining
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2013, 10:04:12 am »
Vein auto mining is on the dev page, as one of the top Eternal Suggestions Voting items at the time the dev page. It's the sixth out of the eight that made it onto the page, though, so it'll be a while until we get there.
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