Gaming’s Obsession With Miners

The children yearn for the mines

Undertale takes place underground, but it's full of life and beauty. There isn't any mining, but it takes place in a cave.

Everybody knows gamers love miners

I am also obsessed with miners

14:16 I'd dump all the gravel and eat some of the excess food to free up space for more mining. I like to stay underground for a long while — if im coming back up its because im out of resources, food, or i just have so many valuables that I can afford any more inventory space. Otherwise good luck getting me out of those caves

Just you And me Miner

10/10 video

These people that like to dig holes are all a bunch of diggers!

minors

Didn’t mention Smash Bros once

@LucidMakesVideos I feel like you left out the great granddaddy of them all: Ultima Online. The mining system in that was SO cool. You COULD just walk up to the side of a mountain and mine and you'd get okay ores, but it had a skill-basis so as you leveled up your mining from 0% to 100% (and I think it can go up to 120% now with certain buffs or classes or what have you) you could get progressively better ores, but to get the best possible ores you'd have to go to certain locations to mine for them that were dangerous or way out in the wilderness where other players could gank you and take your hard work potentially.

It was always difficult to gauge how much risk to take, and what other skills you should develop to protect yourself against potential PVP chicanery. If you got the ore back safely to town you could smelt it into a ton of ingots that blacksmiths could then use to make outstanding armor that would let strong warriors face down dragons, wyverns, wyrms, liches, and balrogs.

Edit: Oh gosh and the CRAFTING system was so cool too. Sure you could just do straight up blacksmithing and make armor, shields, and weaponry, but you could add ADDITIONAL crafting skills that let you synergize the two to make add-ons for your house, decorative items that were unique to skilled crafters, special training dummies, magic artifacts, poisoned trapped boxes, the list goes on and on. Indeed, it was possible to roll a character that had nothing but crafting skills so as to be a pure-crafter that was essentially defenseless in a fight but who could create wonders. Since you could roll 5 characters on an account, the challenge was then to balance your other 5 characters so as to have one that could reliably harvest resources to feed your crafter, one that was a kick ass mage, one that was a tank, and one that was a lockpicking little shithead with maxed out fishing so you could go fish up a Message in a Bottle which would give you coordinates to a sunken ship that you could then fish up chests full of loot from, and sometimes that loot would point you to a buried treasure that your master-level miner could dig up but that you'd need a master trap disarmer to pick without setting off the deadly poison trap that would murder your character in seconds, and then even if you got through that challenge several waves of hardcore boss mobs would spawn and rip you a new one if you didn't have a good tank and a healer in your party plus some magic to melt faces. What a great time that game was!

Mindustry moment

You’d lose the gravel and the berries and keep mining

Well for every scary dungeon you needed a miner to dig it out man

I dunno, lets ask the Melee, blue archive, and Genshin players

The children yarn for the mines

your vfx are amazing

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