Woohoo, this release is the stuff of dreams!



Some lightning fast Science has revealed one drawback: when you designate a 1x1xN column of Up/Down staircases. The miner carves one staircase, then thinks he's got nothing to do for several steps before coming back to the next one. This delay becomes significant when a different miner gets the job and this column of stairs is exploratory mining far out from the usual areas of activity. It doesn't happen if it's 2x2xN because the miner sees the next tile to hit while he's carving out one staircase.



I believe a 1x2xN exploratory shaft of stairs will now be significantly faster to dig out than a 1x1xN.