One thing you must have as a basic complaint in this post, is the crystals that exists in the silver mine and they are only lights. They are as big as you ask, but you cannot harvest them. So if they just give us the option to harvest this crystals, i believe that everyone will be happy here. However, your first post gives to the reader the thought that you still harvest crystals by hand, so you will have to excuse the members @drachenfeles and @CodeMage for the answer that they give you. Because they were right and helpful. I agree, Crystal farming is frustrating, so i would like to see crystals shaped like the silver mine that you can actually farm easier and faster. But i believe that farming brimstone from the depths of the jungle is worse 
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