Drop Rates
Is anyone else frustrated with how unbalanced the drop & spawn rates for items in the caves are?
When you are providing rooms with 100+ stone nodes and there is only 4-5 ore nodes, that's crazy. As well, if you go through the entire floor you often only come out with 5-7 more of the applicable ore. Sometimes you go down a floor and there isn't a single ore node in a GIANT room!
The monster item drop rate feels so off to me as well. I had to go multiple days and kill over 20 creatures that drop bat wings just for the last one I needed for the offering to drop. Also the fact that you can kill any of these creatures consistently and get no drops at all is bizarre to me -- almost every other game in this genre have enemies at least drop a generic item (slime, bone, etc) so that fighting monsters isn't done completely in vain.
There is SO much that is amazing about Coral Island; don't get me wrong, I've been here since the very start and it's absolutely in my top 3 in the genre for my tastes! But the cave drop rates for items you often need to craft with frequently, or for important events, is so abysmal that to me the caves become a joyless grind worse than most other games I can think of, instead of a fun adventure.
To clarify: again, I adore this game. I have 160 hours played on steam! It just seems like such a glaring issue for a section of the game that is often essential to player QoL.
I am BEGGING the Devs to overhaul the cave system 's spawn and drop rates. It would be a literal game changer!
**Edit:** I think something I forgot to clarify here is that I understand there is a handful of mechanics achieved through Giant upgrades, equipped items, buying bombs etc that make this more tolerable, but I personally feel that games like this shouldn't need you to get into mid-game content / gameplay for a starting/base game element to become passably bearable. Also, these things are what turn off people who are trying a game like this for the first time -- if they aren't experienced in the genre they won't even know to seek out elements like that.