Few issues I have

1. Pick Axe erosion. Makes me sad.
When nothing else degrades, why do pick axes? I have infinite ammo for my bow. My axe never wears down. but my pick keeps getting blunt :-( It is better than minecraft, or keep-making-new-tools-craft, in that the pick never gets destroyed. but I can't see the benefit to game play having it degrade. Nor can I see a way of repairing it except by making a new one.

2. Shift-mining should be faster.
When I hold down shift to mine a single block, it should be faster than the time it takes me to mine 9. Maybe 1/6 of the time? But afaik the mining speed for a single block is the same if I am using Shift or not.

3. Food Slot.
It would be nice to have a slot where I place my food. When my character gets to 50% hunger, he eats one of the items in the slot. Minor thing, but I don't see the fun in clicking food every so often.

4. Stop, Hammer time!
How do I pause the game? Esc button brings up a menu, but the game carries on in the background. I am in single player mode and it would be nice to leave the game for 10 minutes to do X irl and not have my character starve (also see point 3 for an answer to this).

 

You can repair your pickaxes with the ore corresponding to the pickaxe by right clicking the pickaxe while having the ore selected.

About the food slot, I don't see the fun of clicking it every now and then either, but I also don't see the harm of it, you can see your food bar decreasing as it does and eating something would take only a few seconds.

I agree about the ability to pause the game in single player, the same system as terraria maybe, being able to choose in the options whether to pause it or not when you press escape

 

1. I agree that it does seem rather strange that only tools break down after a while, but it doesn't really harm anything. Also, you can repair the tools in game. If you mouse over either copper or iron ore a tooltip will pop up telling you how to do so. The devs need to make that a little clearer.

2. It would make sense for mining a single block to be faster than mining a group.

3. A slot just for food? Eh, I dunno about that, maybe just have your character eat automatically when he gets really hungry?

4. Yeah, being able to pause the game in single player would be greatly appreciated. Sometimes you do have to get up and so something right now but don't want to quit and go back to your ship.

 

You can actually repair them with any ore, except for iron, I do believe (just a bug with the iron ore).

And the best way I've found if I am leaving only temporarily and it would be inconvenient to go all the way back to the ship is just to surround one's self in dirt. Nothing can attack through it yet, so you should be fine. I'm sure they will add a pause feature in the future.

 

Cheers, didn't know that

 

Is it a bug, though? I just assumed you could only use ores that can be crafted into pickaxes in the first place.

 

I was repairing my Platinum pick with the crap loads of copper I had, before throwing the rest into the refinery for pixels. The only ore that didn't work was iron, but that was fine, because I sort of wanted my iron anyways.

Of course, you get more repair value for better ore.

 

Any ore will do.

 

1. It is really weird that pick-axe is the only item with durability, but I hope it means that it will be the first of many. I would much rather use lower tier ore on repair work, then pixel creation.

2. Completely agreed, at early stages of the game I almost don't mine single ores because it seems so time consuming.

3. Doesn't seem that necessary, hunger seems pretty irrelevant and easy to manage now in my opinion. I'm not sure if you are aware, but instead of dragging food to your hotbar to use, you can drag it out of your inventory and click anywhere on the screen to have the player eat it. Same goes for any item.

4. Pause button would be nice.

 

I think only pickaxes have durability because only pickaxes are upgradeable currently. Hoes and Axes never get beyond Stone. Maybe that will change at some point.