I love this!! The whole concept is awesome and the graphics are really nice, and the gameplay loop is very fun! I love the details of lots of types of ores, such as tin, rather than the typical copper/iron/gold/etc, I imagine once the game is done there'll be a whole bunch and it'll help give it a lot of depth!!
I do have some feedback, mainly about the rails!
1. It'd be way easier to be able to move in the minecart using wasd rather than holding down left click, it'd be more intuitive and help give your finger a break lol
2. Ideally you wouldn't be able to pick up rails while it's not selected in your hotbar, I misclicked a couple of times and ended up picking up rail pieces and having to replace them, imo you should only be able to edit them while you've got them selected!
3. It'd be neat if there was a way to auto-stop at rail crossways, as currently you just zip past any other routes connected, meaning if you want multiple directions connected to the same rail, you have to slow right down and awkwardly get perfectly positioned to turn, or make separate railways which wastes time in getting out of the old cart and into the new one
Ideally you wouldn't lose the speed momentum, it'd just stop, you tap a direction with wasd/arrowkeys, and then you continue at full speed!
But yeah, I really like this!! Very fun gameplay and a super nice take on minesweeper, I like that we keep a level of progress post-death in terms of upgrades (unsure if that's intentional tbh- could always be a toggle in settings for the full game!) as it means losing isn't quite as crushing as it is in base minesweeper :p There's also the absolutely incredible feature that mining takes a short while, it's actually an excellent way to prevent misclicks!! The number of times I've lost a minesweeper game cuz I clicked wrong is incredible (detogatory), so it's sosososo appreciated to have a function to prevent that!! And! It works super well in the setting too, as it makes perfect sense for our lil guy to take a moment to mine through a block!
Speaking of said lil guy, I love them!!!!! They're so cute what a creature <3<3
Gah this was already so much fun, looking at the description and seeing mentions of things like smithing ingots just makes me so excited to play the full game!!!!! :DD