Stamp Mill

[Toorimakun]

is their any use for a stamp mill these days?

ore boulders now only have like 10 ore in them...
and the stamp mill is SUPER slow...
it also sets everything to 0% purity...
and you miss out on spawned items....

[Procne]

I use stamp mills for lime. I just put the bigger boulders into the mill and mnually chip the small ones.
I also used to use them for rubble. However, since then I dug deeper into the mine, so carrying rubble boulders to the mills near the mine entrance takes too much time so now I chip them manually on the spot. Unfortunatelly devs didn't like the idea of amphibious stamp mills on wheels

[Toorimakun]

so pretty much not worth the resources to build one.... because for the most part it is useless.

[M13tz]

It should be worth it with introduction of mining cart, time will tell

[alloin]

Totally useless !

[Rifmaster]

It gives 100 difficulty rubble too so its useless for that too.

[Procne]

It gives 100 difficulty rubble too so its useless for that too.

not if you need only gold and glass

[alloin]

It gives 100 difficulty rubble too so its useless for that too.

not if you need only gold and glass

Chipping it is still waay faster

[Procne]

It gives 100 difficulty rubble too so its useless for that too.

not if you need only gold and glass

Chipping it is still waay faster

Chipping + 5 stamp mills is even faster ^^
Of course, assuming you have your boulders right near the mills

[rustles]

Yup stamp mills are one of the many things that have been both nerfed and WAAAAY over priced.

It should NOT cost steel for something that isn't all that useful... The only way you can really benefit from it is if you have 5+ of the running at the same time like someone else said, and that's like 4k worth of silver for such a small improvement.

I think JC needs to rebalanced a lot of the things. I appreciate the added complexity/difficulty so we dont reach developmental end game a week after we make a smelter, but this has gone too far.

At the very least make stamp mills either:

1: cheaper to make(wrought at the max)
2: better, as in faster/more inventory space/higher purity of items/lower hardness, perhaps have the stamp mill's purity increase over time like with turkey coops
3: both 1 & 2
4: have mine cart transport system like mentioned before me(and for the love of god dont make it cost 1 steel per tile )
5: have the ability to put multiple boulders in at once