Random riches from mining

[SekoETC]

I joined after the hematite change but there was still a few old projects left giving pure iron. Now they're all gone. But this kind of a small chance of getting iron quicker was nice. If it could be simulated again then we could have things like the gold rush, except with iron.

I think the lucky chance could be repeated by setting small mining for iron projects into distant locations sometimes. It could be ages before someone comes by and bothers to check the old projects to notice the treasure beneaths. The downside is the projects should be added manually and there's a chance that the information of the rich locations would be shared out of character.

or

You might randomly find small amounts of pure iron while mining for hematite. The downside is that randomness cannot create rushes into any certain area since everyone would have the same chance nevermind the location. But this option could be automated (if it's possible to program a project with several results. And besides there are projects with several results already, remember if you build a lock then you also get a key, that's two items.)

Another thing said several times in other topics is getting jewels and such from stone digging projects. I think it's a part of this subject. Or ok, if you want to mine diamonds from a diamond vein then you should get loads of stone as a side product.

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

one of the programmers would know more about this but i've been told quite a fe times that you can't get multiple resources from a gathering project. the coding for them and all other projects are different because of the 20% variable thing

[Nick]

That's like finding a forest of 2''x4''s. I don't like the idea.

[west]

Speaking of which, is there a such thing as "timber" yet?

[The Industriallist]

Speaking of which, is there a such thing as "timber" yet?

I think anthony said that it could be found in cantr...