Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

What's your point? It's called grinding.

Grind is a big problem. Why are some survival games so obsessed with this utterly monotone/boring/dumb rock hitting gameplay? Its not terrible to have this stuff in principle, but to require players to spend hours hitting rocks is terrible design.

Besides exploration, Valheim even has some ideas to make mining interesting, like requiring logistics to get ressources home. Progression is semi-locked behind bosses and stuff. So idk why they then want you to spend >10% or so of the game to hit rocks.