More like change Flint to explode on Hit2()

>Okay, I wasn't certain as making several posts is frowned upon on most forums.

Because most forums are inferior to us because they don't use the marvelous tree structure!

Mining is a dangerous business. Don't have your last clonks standing around where you blow up stuff ;)
But I see how this might end in frustation when it happens because of fiddly controls.

>something like a boolean "tool" value?

But when is a tool a tool?
Let's say you want to quickly throw away all the useless stuff you brought from your mine (some rocks, coal, maybe a mushroom?).
Would you want to throw away the loam too? Is loam a tool?
Is a mushroom a tool - or a wire roll?
Is everything a tool that reacts on mouse click?
Introducing too detailed behaviour to every object might lead to it only becoming confusing for the player (when is something a tool? Why could I throw my valuable mushroom but not my stupid shovel? Is a flint a tool?).

One idea would be saying: "You can auto-throw all in-earth materials" (rocks, coal, flints(?), loam(?)) - but I am not quite sure how I feel about that.

Another approach would be that you always only auto-switch to another objects of the same type - that is: when you are throwing away your rocks, you can do it in succession. When you are throwing away your flints, you can throw them all after each other.
But when you throw away your ten swords, you can do the same.

In the original clonks, using a flint was a fairly cheap, slightly slow solution to mining. It took away chunks of 2-5 gold at a time for you to bring back, and usually players (I) took 5 or so into the mine at a time. However, sometimes the small flints blasted odd shapes in the gold that were very difficult to maneuver and especially, pull a lorry over. This made using super flints a better alternative, once you have built a chemical plant. It blasted a large, clean circle, and knocked loose anywhere from 6-20 gold chunks. It was easier to maneuver with both clonks and a lorry alike, but required another building and a bit more time to dig up sulphur to make them - but in the end was worth it.

With teraflints, it was another story. Not only did they have a much larger sulphur:explosion ratio (Instead of 1>1>1, it was 1>1>3 for progression) but they made a very, very huge explosion. It usually took no more than 3 of them to clear a semi-decent sized vein of gold if well placed. The thing is, they were much, much more dangerous if thrown by hand, because of the massive radius. If using a catapult, it was easier to mine but still a bit unpredictable, and I found myself running "test throws" with a rock before wasting my more valuable teraflint for fear I just might blast a hole in the dirt. I typically settled on the more expensive cannons to fire my teraflints because of how controlled it was (and because it felt epic to do. Blasting a massive explode-on-contact object at a wall, knocking loose 30+ gold was an amazing feeling)

That wasn't saying anything in particular, just hoping to inspire myself or others as to what the game is lacking from my perspective. I still am not quite sure though.

Oh yes, and right now I believe the size of the ore/gold veins is SEVERELY lacking. Honestly, that's what I loved about the old clonks! The veins were large enough to make setting up a tent base or even a wooden cabin actually worth it sometimes. If you came across oil with your elevator, making a base by a large ore vein was even better because you could sell the oil as you mined.

So I propose gold and ore veins are much larger, maybe 2-3 times their current size. I'm just not getting a good mining experience when the gold is so limited; I hate having to possibly make a whole new elevator, flag, and windmill just to move to a different area of gold. I know I don't have to do that, but to efficiently mine it's necessary.