Seriously.
Not only do you need 20+ pickaxes because of constant "Your pickaxe breaks. Your pickaxe breaks. Your pickaxe breaks. You find nothing. You find nothing.", but also the fact you have to walk clear around the freaking mine just to get back and forth between the machine's upper and lower end (you can drop off to go from the top to the bottom, but then you gotta walk CLEAR AROUND to get back up to do it all over again).
I know Vana'versary is supposed to bring back memories of old times, but uh.
I don't think THESE are the memories you really want players re-living. These are parts of the game we despised.
It would have been much nicer if it were I don't know, 2-3 repetitions instead of 10.