I like survival, but there are a few activities in survival games that almost instantly become mindless chores. I'm talking about smashing open rocks and boulders for ore, and that endless task we also practice in real life every day: keeping ourselves hydrated.
Breaking boulders and drinking water. It's not that I dread these activities, but they usually wind up being the tasks that get in the way of the stuff I actually want to be doing. I'll be hunting deer and run out of flint arrowheads: welp, time to murder another rock with my pickaxe. Or I'll be happily climbing a mountain and realize, whoops, I need to drink or I'll start losing health… where's the nearest river?
