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In the current version of the rift, MassiveRestore is enabled. Now this in itself is not a problem, and I fully support this. However, this has one unfortunate side effect: Quartz ore does not spawn on the surface of the nether. I asked on the tech Q&A thread, and was told this was an anti-xray feature. However, this also makes mining incredibly inefficient. The other day, I spent around half an hour mining quartz with a fortune 3 pick and maxed out mcmmo mining. In this time, I managed to get a grand total of 2 stacks of quartz blocks. In the old rift, I could get 4 or 5 times that amount in that time, by caving towards the world border of the rift. Since, at least as far as I know, the new rift was added in order to make quartz easier to get, I highly suggest that this feature be removed for the rift. In all honesty, I don't think many people would bother to xray for nether quartz (considering it's ridiculously easy to get normally), and it pretty much kills the quartz supply the way it currently is.
For example, my current building project will require around 6 double chests of quartz blocks all in all, and that's a conservative estimate. In the old rift, I probably couldn't have gotten this over a week or so. The way it currently is, using a rate of about 4 stacks of blocks an hour, it would take 78 hours of mining, by myself, to get this amount. With the amount I currently play, 3 or 4 hours a day, it would take me about 20 days of doing nothing but mining in my spare time. So essentially, that project is completely on hold, and I can't really do anything that involves any large amount of quartz like I normally do.
It is of course necessary to keep cheaters off the server, however, I really don't think this should be done so at the expense of the availability of basic building materials.
For example, my current building project will require around 6 double chests of quartz blocks all in all, and that's a conservative estimate. In the old rift, I probably couldn't have gotten this over a week or so. The way it currently is, using a rate of about 4 stacks of blocks an hour, it would take 78 hours of mining, by myself, to get this amount. With the amount I currently play, 3 or 4 hours a day, it would take me about 20 days of doing nothing but mining in my spare time. So essentially, that project is completely on hold, and I can't really do anything that involves any large amount of quartz like I normally do.
It is of course necessary to keep cheaters off the server, however, I really don't think this should be done so at the expense of the availability of basic building materials.
