[CidNight1142]

No one expects anyone to spend hours and hours mining to get anywhere. It's just a starting point. That's how I started, I spent my first 100 hours of play mostly mining and making friends and getting involved with a kingdom. I kept the diamonds, put the other minerals into sacks and sold them as house kits for 15 diamonds or so, made my first couple of hundred diamonds and before I knew it I had leveled my physical to like level 10 just from mining. So 100 hours deep I had about 200 diamonds worth of gear, I was like level 15, and was already in a kingdom. That was all a helluva lot of fun. I've also never mined since (minus a few times for my kingdom)