Abyssalite makes exploration too easy

[Alka02]

I feel that the Abyssilite veins make exploration far too easy as you can simply tunnel through them until you find exactly what you need. I would like too see something that pushes the player towards more environmental hazards e.g. there could be "Hardened Abyssilite" clumps throughout the veins that blocks exploration and can only be mined later in the game, forcing the player to dig around them and potentially encountering more hazards

[AileTheAlien]

Another way to handle this, would be to make the abyssalite non-connected in the map-generation. If it was all separate sections, you couldn't just tunnel thorugh the safe abyssalite, bypassing the other biomes.

[Kabrute]

abys tunnels take some serious time to carve out, though I agree if they were only 2blocks thick it would do what you suggest while still keeping thermal buffers in place.

[Alka02]

5 hours ago, Kabrute said:

abys tunnels take some serious time to carve out, though I agree if they were only 2blocks thick it would do what you suggest while still keeping thermal buffers in place.

maybe only some small sections could be 2 blocks thick so you wouldn't be exposed to an extreme amount of slimelung/temperature problems for tunneling a short distance 

[trukogre]

Digging through abyssalite is certainly a viable technique, but I don't think it's currently a real problem, as brute-forcing through any biome is already so easy you're not really gaining anything by avoiding it.