When it comes to stone spirits, I'm in favor of a simple and drastic fix.
The idea behind the stone spirits is: monsters used to drop ores, this is a replacement that is "just as good" as an ore, but still requires you to actually mine to get the ore.
Well, here's how to live up to that goal:
The main work, in many cases, in mining isn't the time spent hitting your pick at a rock. It's putting the ores in your ore box when your backpack fills up, and then running to the metal bank.
So, if the extra ore you got from the stone spirit went straight to your metal bank... now it would really feel like a "free" ore, rather than seeming almost useless in many cases.
24-Sep-2020 18:01:43