Absolutely awesome game! I will say though that I have not come across a single diamond to mine yet, and I'm at nearly 15k blocks mined. It's making it quite hard to get the lvl 4 gold pickaxe. All the diamonds I've gotren so far have been through the merchant. Not sure if thats a bug or a patience issue though :P Still a really fun and captivating game, love to see where this goes next!
We hotfixed as you played the game B), jk
Balancing the game is still something we very much struggle with. But as we plan to add more features and means to get resources in the game, we didn't want to make the foundation too "sped up".
The merchant should only be a little bonus of resources and not the main source, so we will try to tweak that.
Thank you for the feedback!