Tough Digging

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f29d12;"><em>(thumbnail art scribbled by me)</em></span><br /><br />Have you ever felt your seraph uproots the very land a little too quickly, even with just your bare hands? Have you ever wondered how differently the game would play if that weren't necessarily the case? In the real world, digging a 6-foot pit in the ground by shovel can take up to 2-8 hours <span style="font-size: 8pt;">(this mod won't make it take THAT long, don't worry)</span>. Even if Seraphs are strong, the vanilla digging speed even with a stone shovel could genuinely compete with some of the strongest modern mining equipment in the world, given that you can terraform several yards worth of land in less than a day all by yourself.<br /><br />This is a simple mod that seeks a different, potentially more immersive alternative to that somewhat by making soil, clay, gravel and sand tougher to dig up, especially without the proper tool. Digging will take <strong>significantly</strong> longer than it does in vanilla, roughly 10x as much. Even with tools, it will take a time to dig up patches of land, and will take far longer if you try to scoop it up bare handed. Handy if you want a somewhat more immersive and slow terraforming experience. Not handy if you want to feel like a living bulldozer.<br /><br />Should work well with other mods. <span style="color: #2b3e50;">In fact, I would <strong>highly</strong> recommend playing with:</span><br /><br />- <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/24289">Soil Must Fall (vertically)</a><br />- <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/soilerosion">Soil Erosion</a><br />- <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/immersivemining">Immersive Mining</a> (MOST recommended. Though you might want to bump up tool durability a little bit.)<br /><br />This mod is sort of experimental and simple, and probably has a target audience of exactly maybe two people in the world, but I think it serves an intriguing proof of concept. I'm sure a much more in-depth soil processing mod will be made by somebody one of these days, but until then, you can have this.</p>