Originally posted by Mad Mav:

...Until I go to FOUR different mountain ranges after searching SIX continents over the course of EIGHT days (real life) with my wishbone only to find ONE silver deposit.

... And then realize I have to A) sail my happy toucas ALL the way back with it, and B) I'm gonna have to sail ALL the way back with the rest... IF I EVER FIND ANY MORE.

Really, truly, this is the first time I've found the mechanic just UNACCEPTABLE. It's felt just FINE up 'til now, and I still think it IS fine when THIS isn't going on. Maybe not being able to magic the metal around until you've found "The DOO-DAD of Uber" or whatever, just some mid-late game mcguffin? Or maybe a boss item that addresses it somehow? Or maybe don't allow a world seed to generate quite THAT crappy of material rates?

I guess the REAL answer is that I'm just going to have to start another world on a hopefully NOT borked seed if I don't want to deal with this BS scarcity. Which is fine, I guess, not IDEAL... But FINE. Honestly, the whole mess has just really taken the wind out of my sails to play anymore. Kinda stinks.

(I know there are some topics about this already, but they all seem to be so black and white. Just one side shout/typing "ALL THE YES, F- YOU IF YOU DON'T AGREE!", and the other side shout/typing "ALL THE NO, F- YOU IF YOU DON'T AGREE!" Feels like there's some middle ground to be found that's just not getting seen for all the monster shouters.)

You contradict yourself.
On one hand you say, you were fine with it before silver, many people need to visit 5, even 10 swamps before finding any cripts.

On the other hand it took you just 4 mountains to find silver, and suddenly its bad mechanic?

I played on 3 seeds 1 had silver on the first mountain, one only had 1 vein at the 4rth, 5th had a bunch of veins though...

Or you say, its fine only as long as rngesus loves you?

Also how did it take you 8 days real life to search just 4 mountains?

You find mountains from water and it takes like 40 minutes to sail to the edge of the world in any direction...