The mining tutorial makes me think of a line from O Brother Where Art Thou. 'Well this place is just a geographical oddity! Two weeks from everywhere!" Go down to 50 elevation. Check. Switch from long range to short range. Check.
Go North. South. East. West. Why, it's at least 30 away in every direction! I know! I'm a smart guy, this is 3D. Maybe it's not right at that elevation. Dig up. You're further away! Dig down. You're STILL further away.
I forget where I tunneled down from. I forget life before I started this tutorial. I forget everything I knew before trying to work out this obtuse rubik's cube of an interface. I only remember the endless monotony of brown tunnels, and an ore deposit that's always at least 30 feet away. My will to live slowly draining, I will never see that ore...
Hah! the Way point! I'd never have found this @#$! without the waypoint. Gee, can't wait to go past the tutorials and actually play the game...
