Magubba wrote:1. M&M increase Aether of rubble, decrease a little only difficulty.
2. Lower lvl of mines and distance to ladder increase carats for gems.
That what i found for myself since patch i lvl'd M&M +140 points and
: gives less difficulty at rubble
: higher Aether (1st floor 10 sqm from lader 10% aether)
: don't inrease amount of black sands/gold/ gems - random a lot sometimes from 10 boulders that i'm sieve i get 4 BS some other times around 50
well, doesn't matter if i cut pre patch boulder, deep mined one or one from lvl 3, with 220 mines i get average 25 decrease on hardness, up to 33 that i have seen, therefore mines do affect hardness. also aether but since RNG is in there, i still get 0% and 8% on two rocks mined right next to eachother.
your carats point seems to be invalid, also i remember JC saying that carats are mostly luck based. with my experience, 0.03 and 1.82 can come from same spot(few boulders apart), however deep down i still hope that going deeper will yeld higher carats.
on my hauls of roughly 200 rubble each, i mostly get about 17-18 black sand, have got as low as 5 and as high as 30-35ish