All That Glitters

[dageir]

Make rubies and diamonds and such extremely rare to hinder everyone from praning around wih diamond slotted gear.

[Etherdrifter]

I like the idea of getting rare random curios while doing manual labour like chipping rocks, but why does it have to be upper-range jewels like diamonds and rubies, like in so many other games. Those are extremely rare, and while New England with surroundings is a big place, I have never heard of any famous diamond mines there. Why not go the more puritan way of amethysts, petrified wood, rose quartz or similar (not up to date on Salem geology).

Not a bad idea actually, if people make suggestions for objects and skill values I'll put them up under the original post.

[Gauteamus]

Well my suggestion would be to keep the rough inspirational values, but replace the (in RL) extremely rare gemstones with more common stones.
1% chance to get one of those when chipping rocks sounds abit high, and I think something more exciting could be done with them as well (polishing, fitting them in neccklaces , collecting them in full sets, etc.)
Most of all, I want blander gems, though.

[Ravi]

I love this. I need this. gimme.

but at the same time there is already so much crafting and skills, and the devs seem to be working more on game mechanics then crafting recipes.