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Issue:
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glad bay
elfin eagle
Platform: Xbox series X
Issue: can't pick up item after mining.
jagged meadow
Can’t move to access item /scarab from either side of rock
formal wind
PC
The dreamlight duties ask me to mine 4 rocks in different areas and ALL areas complete after mining only 2 or 3. Just an fyi.
junior glen
`Platform: PS5
Issue: It isn't just during mining but appears more often in mining, but nearly every time I mine my character freezes for a few seconds after the first or second mining action. Sometimes after waiting it will continue normally, others I need to start action over. Same with gardening and fishing. Especially painful when it prevents acting on any bonuses 😟
novel hatch
only able to mine old gms like garnets in sand area of eternity isle. pc platform
true forum
PC
The dreamlight duties ask me to mine 4 rocks in different areas and ALL areas...
This is happening to me on Xbox as well
vast pagoda
Platform: Switch
Used potions/elixir to boost up mining but I only get coal and without elixir normal spinel from the mining spots in the promenade and "hain". language german ingame
worldly fiber
PS4: including this here since you use your axe on them. The large glass stalagmites are really hard to break, they can only be hit from the one exact spot in the photo, which makes them almost impossible to break sometimes.
empty vapor
Platform: XBOX
Issue: Mining Elixirs do nothing. I love spending materials on crafting an elixir for it to not give me anything except coal and ore. /s
polar tinsel
SWITCH
Got trapped in a corner while mining with Gaston
muted cobalt
Platform: Steam PC
Issue: Can´t use path down
I break the big glass things and want to go down the path in the dessert. Can´t go any further than this in the screenshot.
elder flower
Platform: Steam
Issue: Invisible rock for mining in Plaza. it's the middle rock formation on the sunlit plateau side
ebon granite
Platform: Xbox
Issue: mining nodes in the promenade changing gem type when it gets hit and spinel not spawning as much as other gems
gleaming latch
Increase the interaction hitbox when destroying the Large Glass Stalagmites in Glittering Dunes, right now I gotta get really close to them to remove them and have to find the perfect angle for them to light up and be able to be broken 
last pagoda
Platform: Steam/PC
Issue: As a habit, I often mine stone nodes slowly, and if gems appear, I stop. Hours or days later I would return with Scrooge (Mining skill) and an enchanted Royal Pickaxe to harvest gems. However, on Eternity Isle I noticed in some cases rather than gems, mining the stone node, which is showing gems, instead produces coal. Very odd.
jovial magnet
Switch:
Time to time the characters tend to freak out and rock back and forth. Doesn't happen every time. But these are the two I happened to record.
gaunt walrus
Platform: Switch
Issue: Even More Miraculous Pickaxe Polish did not work. It applied to my pickaxe but i mined mostly stone and coal while the enchantment was on
polar vigil
Platform:PC pickaxe polish not working. After a trip around all the areas with spinels, using miraculous pickaxe polish and a mining buddy, only got 2 spinels, 1 onyx, zinc and some coal. I've wasted several of these now trying to get spinels and have run out my onyx stash now too.
raw wagon
Platform: switch. blue zircon does not spawn. I have only been able to collect shiny blue zircon since the rift in time update and it is missing in my collection.
autumn crypt
Platform: Steam
Issue: OG Valley gems appear in the EI region. This should not be the case - only EI gems should be there.
Also, the mining potion isn't working, at least in EI. It should be mostly gems but I don't get mostly gems, I get whatever metal, stone, and coal is there.
As well, mining nodes that show gems aren't always giving gems, which is extremely frustrating and irritating.
hollow merlin
platform: switch
issue: rocks wont spawn
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runic pebble
platform: Nintendo Switch
issue: The same thing happening to the person above is happening to me as well. Rocks are not reappearing in my game.
next sun
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Issue: Places that should be giving me Spinel or Shiny Spinel in Eternity Isle is giving me Peridot instead..
autumn crypt
Platform: Steam (but I don't think it's gonna matter)
Issue: I suspect that the Shiny Evergem RNG might be broken. I've been doing a lot of mining testing, seeing drop rates and stuff for one of our player guides. I did 20 rounds of testing in the Ruins. I ended up with 19 regular evergems across those rounds (not one every, some had more than one) but not one single shiny evergem.
autumn crypt
Platform: Steam
Issue: Shiny Garnet, Shiny Citrine not dropping
Mining testing: 120 nodes in meadow (6 nodes, 20 rounds of testing) and Sunlit, zero shiny gems dropped. Drop rate WAY too low.
Issue: Memory orb spawn rate
**Main Valley: ** (6 nodes/biome, 20 rounds)
Plaza: 1
Meadow: 3
Dazzle: 5
Glade: 6
Forest: 2
Sunlit: 4
Vitalys: 7
Frosted: 3
Forgotten: 3
**Eternity Isle: ** (4 nodes/biome, 20 rounds)
Docks: 5
Overlook: 1
Ruins: 2
Courtyard: 2
Grasslands: 2
Grove: 2
Lagoon: 0
Promenade: 0
Plains: 1
Oasis: 0
Wates: 1
Borderlands: 7
I know we aren't supposed to get a lot of orbs, because it should apparently take YEARS to get all the memory shards (no, it really shouldn't...) but aside from Dazzle/Glade/Vitalys and Docks/Borderlands, those drop rates are low. I would be more than happy to share my spreadsheet, although it will be linked in #1060657611546042458 once I'm done with my digging testing and the like.