While doing some daily digging on my lime pit's edges, I was thinking on the annoyance of dumpng all that useless dirt into the river.
And I came up with the following:
Gold nuggets.
- you can now throw soil into the ore grinder
- this will destroy the soil (beats walking to the river x1000)
- for every tick of soil destroyed, there is a chance of finding a gold nugget.
- gold has no purity
- hidden nodes over the world map determine chance of soil yielding a nugget in the crusher. Gold Rush time.
- gold nuggets can be sold at the NPC stall
- when put into an alchemy apparatus, a gold nugget will allow for alchemic alteration without chymical instability for a limited number of uses. Afterwards, the gold nugget is destroyed.