Miner Wagon

[verbal garnet]

Please write all feedback related to the Miner Wagon here.

[fiery wing]

With half a decent team I found it underwhelming, even upgraded two times. (three times?)
Was it better in the base game?
The cartridges for other players just make this weagon nearly useless.

[verbal garnet]

Did you apply any Extensions at all?

[fiery wing]

No, only upgrades

But we already mine 1 path around the tracks by default, so it barely got to mine anything before it got upgraded :3 and then also little. Maybe we had a too good team so we didnt get any use out of it?

[unkempt loom]

usually the miner wagon is "too late". We already have mined all of the useful resources and the way is cleared. Except for the start after a station, it wasn't really useful for me

[neat imp]

The big problem of the Miner Wagon, is that it is inherently unable to mine in a useful place. The most important place to mine is in front of the train, and the second most important place is next to the train. But it doesn't mine forward, and next to it already (mostly) has to be mined to even get the wagon there. Ultimately, it's a luxury wagon, that can never contribute to the main goal.

[fiery wing]

Perfect summary the last 2 commenters 🙂

I have only played 20 hours of the first game, but I remember that wagon more useful

[neat imp]

Mostly commenting to give weight to the feedback, but also felt that actually naming the problem instead of just the symptoms was worthwile.

[silk stump]

I can't get it to work instead, I upgraded it twice but it mines nothing while burning stones

[verbal garnet]

How close are you to the stones? It has a range/radius.

[silk stump]

I made a path to test it by going next to rocks and didn't dig anything. I also used a delete action at the blacksmith to remove all effects and it's a plain lvl 3 wagon, but nothing

[verbal garnet]

Hmm, do you have a screenshot by chance?

[fiery wing]

I feel the cartridges just make you so versatile that you don't need a miner anymore. Esp. Seeing the limited wagon slots and there is sentry or dynamite instead. Or torpedo

[true hollow]

Yeah, the miner wagon isn’t really that useful. Maybe it would be better if the train’s speed was reduced while mining or if it offered something more valuable than just the mined resources, like a high chance of obtaining compressed resources )

Because otherwise, we already have more versatile options for clearing paths and gathering resources than what this wagon offers.

[plucky prairie]

I think the miner wagon is mainly weak due to the direction of mining and also the fact that dashing changes the direction (get tedious and can sometimes just be plain annoying). What i propose to fix this issue is that the miners range is circular around the cart itself. Similar to the dynamite but maybe larger range than dynamite but takes longer to mine? I’m just of the opinion that it has very little use/need when other wagons do what it does but much better (dynamite, water turret)

Maybe it could also help with mining walls in the desert biome (giving it a locational advantage compared to other ones ) ?

[loud finch]

Here’s an idea: each upgrade adds another saw that mines in a different direction, so like the first upgrade would look like: + after the next few upgrades, would look like * or maybe even # etc…

[slender furnace]

This is the problem of miner and all other wagons

[true hollow]

Make the miner wagon more useful by allowing it to function similarly to the Brake wagon when mining resources, slowing down the train while the wagon is in operation

[slender furnace]

[long grail]

The bot dashing into the miner wagon shouldn’t affect what direction it’s mining

The bot doesn’t know what direction the player wants the cart to be facing, and there’s nothing the player can do to stop the bot from dashing into the train

[haughty elm]

It would be more useful if the minecart, when activated, simply granted a buff to tools, allowing us to chop down 2 or 3 trees at once, but faster.