I have finally made it far enough in mining to utilize the drop ore feature aaaand it's getting quite tedious. There are a couple suggestions out there on how to fix this issue (and I'm hoping I'm not repeating someone else's ideas here on accident), but I thought I would throw my ideas out there as well. They're basically the same concept for a mechanic, but with some kinda significant differences in practice so I'm splitting them apart for clarity.

1. Auto-Drop: Let us automate which ore get dropped. It will still be mined and degrade your pickaxe, but will save wrists from clicking so much.
   (note: I think I would like an overall improvement on how dropping ore works, like suggested here. That said, I like automation, it's so silly.)
   
2. Ignore: Let us straight up ignore specific ore. This would probably not degrade your pickaxe, but that comes off as pretty unbalanced alone, so maybe it could:
   • still take the amount of time it would to mine the ignored ore (your wolf stares at the ore before moving on)
   • be a feature you have to unlock either through currency (preferably pebbles) or once you reach a certain level
   • maybe limit how many ores can be ignored to prevent people from attempting to just farm Moonstone shards or something

Can't remember if I'm forgetting something, so I'll leave it at that.

If it's any consolation, copper (finally) stops dropping at Fluorescent Fountain. However, full support for being able to ignore/autodrop ores.

Support; if devs want it to be something you earn, maybe another advanced recipe could be given to make an nPc auto-toss a selected ore type fot a certain duration?

yeah maybe it could be a nice pebble sink with significantly increasing costs each time you add new ore [so if you wanted to ignore all but the most expensive it'd cost you a pretty pebble to do]

The auto-drop sounds lovely, or alternative just let players click multiple ores to drop in one go... instead of going one by one :')

Support, I'm at the fountain and am tired of Iron xD