Bug in Mines

[tiny plinth]

When killing an enemy such as a slime, directly against the mine's walls, the resulting items and/or enemies will appear to not spawn. This can either result in frustration or easy cheesing of extra slime enemies, in later levels.
-# (also for some reason axes and pickaxes deal like absurd damage to slimes compared to sword, but it doesnt happen with any other enemy. Maybe it has to do with my level?)

(People say that I have a supernatural ability to discover bugs and glitches for literally no reason. I will continue to post bug reports... and I will continue to not know precisely which exact category any one bug pertains to.)

[analog wharf]

re: the tools doing lots of damage - do they have gem upgrades? if so, which ones?

[tiny plinth]

level 14 axe doing 40 damage with... lapis. one lapis. I have also gotten the cart upgrade recipes before even unlocking the cart. I do not know how to get the cart. please outline it without spoiler

[analog wharf]

some cart upgrades are gotten via quests - it's expected that this will be paced differently from unlocking the kart or its upgrades that are log rewards. the kart is acquired from reading a certain amount of mines logs (each log you read will have a reward attached; you can check the logs you've seen and collect any rewards from the journal)

resetting the mines layout will let you find more log machines

[tiny plinth]

log machines? is that what i've been missing?

[analog wharf]

maybe? there are machines you can interact with in the mines. one type has logs you can read, the other type gives you buffs

[tiny plinth]

i always hunt for the buff one

i dont even mine. i just speedrun to the buffs

[analog wharf]

from the wiki:

[tiny plinth]

oh. just thought those log terminals were decor