Originally posted by jrc:

Mining silver does not take "all of 10 minutes." LOL. That's just not at all right. It's grindy. The way Ark was grindy, the way Ylands is grindy, the way Rust is grindy, the way Empyrion is grindy, the way every survival game is grindy because making a game grindy is the easiest thing to do.

We should be able to hire dwarves.

I just did it an hour or so ago. I mined a whole vein for 100ish silver ore in one day, which is 20 minutes, so 40 ore took less than 10 minutes.