This is such a great and complete experience. I loved exploring all of the caves even if the repetitive music was kinda driving me mad a bit ahah. I would have loved for different possible approaches but I guess the ores not respawning isn't compatible with that. Congratz on the great game!
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Originally the ores did respawn, but I was worried it would've just led to people doing the same route to farm them and not explore more of the areas. And I decided making them not respawn was a better solution than making more unique ores.
The music may be partly my fault, since I did slow down the original song to not be as fast paced, which likely made it feel more repetitive.