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Bokkie3

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Slower Mining
« on: December 07, 2008, 03:16:13 am »

Is there anyway to slow down mining/digging?
Like make a shovel or something.

I'm trying to make a mod with lizard people and they need to mine to get
metal but I don't want them to be so good at mining that they begin to live
underground.
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Warlord255

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Re: Slower Mining
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2008, 03:20:23 am »

Adding the [SLOW_LEARNER] tag in the creature entry will slow down their skill gains, keeping them at a lower, slower level of mining for longer.

That said, it affects everything else as well; you'll need to embark with Proficient crafters in all the important fields if you want to get anything done with any modicum of quality.
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Re: Slower Mining
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2008, 03:22:31 am »

[SLOW_LEARNER] considerably slows down the late the miner (and all professions) will level up at and hence slow down mining and with slower mining theirs less experience so it compounds, I find I tend to employ more miners instead of relying on 2 legendary miners to vaporize rock like it was cotton candy.

As far as I know their are no other ways to affect mining speed.
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Bokkie3

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Re: Slower Mining
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2008, 03:28:32 am »

[SLOW_LEARNER] considerably slows down the late the miner (and all professions) will level up at and hence slow down mining and with slower mining theirs less experience so it compounds, I find I tend to employ more miners instead of relying on 2 legendary miners to vaporize rock like it was cotton candy.

Is there a way to only slow mining down? Because I don't want them to become stupid.
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Warlord255

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Re: Slower Mining
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2008, 03:43:54 am »

[SLOW_LEARNER] considerably slows down the late the miner (and all professions) will level up at and hence slow down mining and with slower mining theirs less experience so it compounds, I find I tend to employ more miners instead of relying on 2 legendary miners to vaporize rock like it was cotton candy.

Is there a way to only slow mining down? Because I don't want them to become stupid.

Deliberate use of unskilled miners, maybe?
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Re: Slower Mining
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2008, 04:23:09 am »

Well, if you don't want them to be too good at mining, just for metals, maybe consider possiblity of getting it off traders and/or invaders and forget mining?
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Bokkie3

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Re: Slower Mining
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2008, 04:04:05 pm »

Well, if you don't want them to be too good at mining, just for metals, maybe consider possiblity of getting it off traders and/or invaders and forget mining?

Yeah. Thats what I'm gonna do now. Maybe in later versions we can slow down mining.
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