building mines and mine shafts and exploring caves with rare resources from these mine shafts

Question

the ability to make/create mines in any direction with elevators/conveyor belts and vehicle access

Comments

Yes, cave once will require longer belt, but  thats part of the challenge.

Answer 1

That is not going to work as require be able modify map, area.

Comments

Being able to make your own caves wouldnt work at all.

But they could add more caves to the map that have those rare resources.  You cant simple ping a resource node and find it if its in a cave so it actually requires some amount of exploration... or you can just cheat and ruin the fun by looking at a map for caves... bleh

They could even make some of those caves underwater when they finish modifying swimming.