For some reason, coal is abundant and there are at least 2 veins in every cave i see. Iron is also far too common for the benefits it gets you. Gold is common as well, in fact the only mineral I have a hard time finding is DIAMOND. Notch should decrease the spawn rates of these ores, to make the game slightly more challenging.
in fact the only mineral I have a hard time finding is DIAMOND.
That's the point.
Notch should decrease the spawn rates of these ores, to make the game slightly more challenging.
That would actually just make the game more annoying. Players can get very frustated from hours of scrounging around in mines and never finding one diamond ore, so adding to the rarity of these other ores only fuels that frustration and annoyance.
That would actually just make the game more annoying. Players can get very frustated from hours of scrounging around in mines and never finding one diamond ore, so adding to the rarity of these other ores only fuels that frustration and annoyance.
Zippy has a great point, lowering ore rarity will annoy even more than it can now, seeing as coal seems to be getting rarer. Imagine this: Everything gets even rarer, people get annoyed, they stop playing, they tell their friends to stop playing or not to buy. Then Mojang loses money from a shortage of players and Minecraft dies. Think of everything before you suggest. You may suggest the end of of MC without knowing it. But there could be a mode or difficulty for this to happen. Support for this to become a mode or difficulty, not happen to the whole game.
That's the point.
That would actually just make the game more annoying. Players can get very frustated from hours of scrounging around in mines and never finding one diamond ore, so adding to the rarity of these other ores only fuels that frustration and annoyance.
Zippy has a great point, lowering ore rarity will annoy even more than it can now, seeing as coal seems to be getting rarer. Imagine this: Everything gets even rarer, people get annoyed, they stop playing, they tell their friends to stop playing or not to buy. Then Mojang loses money from a shortage of players and Minecraft dies. Think of everything before you suggest. You may suggest the end of of MC without knowing it. But there could be a mode or difficulty for this to happen. Support for this to become a mode or difficulty, not happen to the whole game.