Would it be possible to add an option that would allow manually mining deposits(Such as using your pick to mine coal) could give a small amount of XP? Seems odd that mining rocks does and mining a deposit doesn't. I get that part of it is probably that the rocks/trees are much more difficult to farm for experience than deposits, of course, since they're more spread out and aren't as repeatable. Something like getting 1 XP for even just every x number of times you've mined an ore from it would be nice though.

Doing a manual labor-heavy playthrough with some friends right now thanks to a crap ton of biter bases nearby we don't want to piss off, and I just found it a little strange that you got no XP for what is fundamentally nearly the same action as digging up a rock. Plus, having a slow trickle of XP from the manual labor would be great this way.

Due to the difficulty of balancing it, it would probably need to be an opt-in deal via the startup settings, of course. I'd just love to see it as an option. Especially if we could set how many mining actions it would take per XP and set how much XP per interval.

At any rate, love the mod! Thanks for your time!