yes. this. exactly!
i created huge chunks of stone some time ago to test out the idea of having a pickaxe that doesn't replace dynamite but still keeps the pickaxe useful.

>How to do this is the question, what would be needed to produce dynamite then? 1/4 of a chunk of sulphur + 1/4 of a chunk of coal is not possible.

simple: sulphur + coal = 4 dynamite

>So what would be cool about carry heavy resources?:

• reintegration into landscape -> terraforming

>• Less stuff lying around, single chunks are more valuable

True, less stuff lying around is definitely good. That single chunks are more valuable can be a negative point, though: we are limited in what we can use as the production cost for one building: a building that once took f.e. 2xWood, 1xRock, 1xSteel might not be feasible anymore since the smallest unit (1xrock/steel) is so much more worth now.

>• Your inventory slots are not spammed by resources, you can always carry 5 tools

Definitely good! But could also be solved by better transportation lines :)

>• While carrying the resource, the clonk is hindered in his movement which can add a challenge

Or it can be extremely annoying. That is a difficult balance and can only be a small margin away from each other.

>• Makes the lorry, elevators and other means of transporting resources more important again

I don't see that yet: you still have to walk the way once for the same amount of ressources (assuming one big chunk is about three current chunks). And carry-heavy currently does not limit you too much (which is good!)

>• Clonks look funny when carrying large chunks of something

But only when you can sit back and watch them and don't have to navigate them yourself :D

The "running around" never bothered me too much. For melees, fast-paced gameplay has always been a key factor, but for settlement it's quite the opposite. People regularly show Clonk Rage screenshots of rounds in which they played 10+ hours in some settlement that included dozens of seemingly boring, repititive tasks. People also build stuff for hundreds of hours e.g. in Minecraft or other sand box games.

Still, the concept of resources in big chunks is really cool. I could even imagine having a whole bunch of pluto's new animals trained to pick up the chunks and run after you so you can effectively carry more.

It may consider some thought concerning scenario design. E.g. for coal, it might be a bad idea because you usually need coal as supplementary material and wouldn't want to be required to run into the cave to fetch a chunk of ore, then run in again just to fetch the coal to get one bar of metal. But then, scenario designers could circumvent this by making coal easily accessible. Or we add a building to create coal from wood.

Ahem.

There's a lot of interesting concepts, some of which will require quite a bit of time to implement.

So what do you think. Should hold stuff back until resource and control system reworks are done and settlement scenarios were made a bit more interesting? Or should we just publish the current content as 3.4 (or 3.3.1)?

The current stable release content is getting a bit old, so I'd favor a faster release 3.4.