Suggestion #13779

Improve Shards Obtained From Manual Mining

I’d like to suggest a small increase to the shard rewards from mining stone and dirt. Right now, stone gives 2.84 shards per block and dirt gives 2.28 shards per block; I think increasing them to 3.5 shards for stone and 3.0 shards for dirt would make mining a more worthwhile alternative without making it overpowered. At the moment, bamboo chunks are usually the most efficient way to earn shards, which pushes players toward building massive bamboo farms from bedrock to sky limit. Those huge farms can contribute to lag and make shard farming feel repetitive. A modest buff to stone and dirt would encourage active gameplay—actually mining and gathering resources—instead of relying on giant mega farms just to obtain shards, while still keeping bamboo farming useful and preserving economy balance. Thanks for considering it. :)
Now that survival season is close to it's end, it would be worth adding these modifications either now or the next season. bamboo never rotates anyway so what's the point of having full chunks of it ? only shards ? it only causes lag to be honest. that can be fixed without the chunks from bedrock to skylimit by increasing shards obtained from mining materials.