I recently unlocked Growling Grotto, and noticed that more than ever I'm ending up with tons of remnants when smelting. I think it would be more appropriate if each mining area only had the top 3-4 types of ore available at that point. So by Growling Grotto, copper should no longer drop, Iron no longer drop in Fluorescent Fountain, and Steel no longer drop in The Deep Deep. By that point, the lower ores are basically useless, and even if a user for some reason wants a lower tier of metal, they can just go back to earlier zones for it.

As it stands now though, it instead takes either micromanaging what ores are in your cart before you go to smelt, or coming back with half a cart of unsmelted ore because of how many different types there are by the later areas, and that's just frustrating design.

Support.

In the grotto rn and the fact copper is still available is grating. It just often takes up space until I go to the lagoon to remedy that.

Though according to a post I saw, copper at least doesn't show up at the fountain. But still, it doesn't need to be in the grotto either.

@Stellori For what it's worth, you can also click on the ore to drop it manually instead of having to go to Lagoon to complete a 5-increment. (No worries if you already knew it, but I knew when I was playing on mobile for a bit I didn't realize til getting back on PC).

In general though, I feel this is especially a problem for f2p players. With 5 ores in Grotto, it's extremely likely to finish each mining trip with either only a single smeltable bar (or even none of they get really unlucky) or have to micromanage constantly tossing ore to try and get round increments. I really don't see any reason for there to still be copper that much later in, and feel that 3 ores per zone (or 4 if absolutely necessary, but 3 would feel better IMO) would be a way better system.

Support.

What they said. Leveling mining is simply frustrating and non-rewording at this point.

If it's any consolation, copper does stop dropping by Fountain and iron is very decreased, though for some reason there's a huge increase in silver and chaosium and lorium are on equal footing despite being different rarities, so the drop rates are kinda weird there. Support, though, this is extremely frustrating and can really make you feel like you're being forced to buy upgrades for your cart (with premium currency!!!) because otherwise even with 20 slots, I was essentially getting softlocked in Grotto because your cart can easily fill up without actually being able to smelt anything. I don't think dropping ores should be required to continue mining.

In general even the higher level locations have too much different ore even when copper gets removed. Fountain, for example, has:

• Iron
• Silver
• Mithril
• Lorium
• Chaosium
• Gold (very rare, so it tends to get stuck in your cart for a long time)
• Moonstone (only 1 needed)
• Fluorescent Gemstones (only 1 needed)

Like…. I cannot imagine being able to do this without upgrades.

I will always support this. With hiw mining currently works and expansions being moonstones, its ridiculous tgat 5 types of ore are dropping in a single area

@Alestrius

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but I'd rather not drop and “waste” materials if at all possible |D Though it doesn't help I usually get stuck at 4/5 for Copper/Iron and I don't want to drop four xD

But yeah without expansions I cannot imagine how much of a pain it is. I have 25 slots rn, which thankfully thus far has kept me from getting stuck with five spaces or less after I smelt (it's the worst though when I start getting multiple Lorium, which I am not dropping since I want those bars for armour and its rarity means the ore are in there for a while). Copper should be gone after Spires at the very least, and Iron after the Grotto, or maybe both out by the Grotto/after Spires.

This also doesn't count the fact there's also moonstone shards, which can make things worse. Wish those just showed up as bonus for smelting, like how it works for Cooking/Hunting/Farming.

Support!

Massive support! It's so tedious and time consuming to have to manually drop unwanted, lower level ore, one by one. 😵