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[Hayden]

Before 1.19, there was a much wider variety of items you could get from a given node. An obnoxious amount even, it makes the current variation seem incredibly small. If you know what you're doing and where to place your attempts, you can almost guarantee yourself one of two or three items at most. If I want to gather logs, I can get logs well above 70% of the time. There is some slight variation but it's very little compared to what it used to be.

I'm not sure if you are pro or con a smaller variation of items...but personally as somebody who has taken Miner from 1-50 over the course of all its various incarnations...I am very pleased with this. No need for 20 different items to NPC. I like having a smaller selection. If I want Mythril, Cobalt, Electrum, Iron, Silver, copper, Alumen, Raw Gem's, Brimstone, I know where to go. I didn't need THREE different incarnations of IRON (Iron Ore, Iron Sand, Limonite), I didn't need two types of copper, gold sand, dust and ore, silver sand.

I'm glad they trimmed the fat, so to speak.