wife put up 18 wood bars and went from full to 30%......mining is totalally a pain in the @%$*#!.....yes the warning is annoying at times however and yes it is not immediately deaddly but the simple fact that you have stop everything you are doing because your stamina delpetes after breaking 3...
IKR.......and dont get me started on the near impossible task of mining and gathering basic rescourses to start a base or add simple defenses to a POI without needing a weeks worth of supplies ....really the equivelent of food for 2 people for a week used up just making blunderbuss ammo for 2...