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I think the giant stone rocks ought to be minable, as in, use a pickaxe on it rather than a gun. And then on breaking drop around a stack of stones. Or drop them gradually. Generally I don't think you should have to use a weapon to kill it.

As a side note, if I knew how to make a mod that would let you use a melee tool as a weapon, or set it to be minable/collectable, that would work just as well.

Yeah, I agree. It's very unintuitive not to be able to mine them, when I was a beginner I thought they couldn't be destroyed and built my factories away from them. Making them mineable is as easy as adding one line to the prototype definition, there's no real reason for not changing this.

By the way, iron and steel axes can already be used as melee weapons on biters. They are just completely useless.

Mining these seem to be a better idea than shooting them.

One thing I was thinking is that boulders is a form of stone so why not create a stone deposit after the boulders are destroyed?

NeoForce wrote:One thing I was thinking is that boulders is a form of stone so why not create a stone deposit after the boulders are destroyed?

Now here's a thought... We have explosives, yes? Well... What about being able to destroy stones to create a stone deposit using explosives?