Dear Terraria Forum, I have been recently playing Terraria, and while collecting Mythril for a drill, I realized something. Drills suck. Now, don't get me wrong, they are objectively better, but the way they work just beats the point of having them. The drills are much like pickaxes, you point and click to mine a block, but would the game not be more fluent if the drill mined the block the actual tip of it is touching, instead of the block the mouse is on? While thinking on how this should be fixed, I started forming a general idea of a complete mining override. Why not make blocks have actual health? First of all, that would mean the drills wouldn't need their code rewritten, but simply made into a weapon with fast attack rate. It gets extremely tedious to wave the mouse around while mining a "Hellevator", so if the drill used it's attack damage to mine, instead of pickaxe power, it would mean blocks could be drilled in a direction, instead of a coordinate, a la Mothelode, which is a classic flash game I play and enjoy to this day. Now, with health on all the blocks, you could also shoot out blocks with muskets. Which makes sense, when you think about it. If you shoot at a rock, the bullet (or a musketball, in this case) would make it crumble. This would make firearms much more fun, and the game more enjoyable. Just imagine the firefights! Now, to address the balancing: Shooting out or destroying blocks with explosions gives you the ore/mineral in question. Destroying it by any other means sans Pickaxe-Type (Pickaxes and Drills) weapons would not drop anything. You can destroy a bunch of rocks with Wooden Arrows, but, naturally, that wouldn't give you any stone blocks. If you do that via Musket-Type (All Gun class weapons sans Sandgun, Flamethrower, Star Cannon and Blowpipe), however, you will receive the blocks in question (that feature is still open to debate, as a drop chance could be introduced), but the weapons that were used for the act would do slightly reduced damage to blocks, because most Musket-Type weapons are much more powerful and efficient than Pickaxe-type ones. Melee and Magic weapons (with the exception of Laser Rifle and Space Gun, which classify as magic weapons, because they use Mana as ammunition), however would do extremely reduced damage to blocks, so they don't become the weapon of choice for this sort of destruction, for their large swing arc and fast attack speed, coupled with extremely high damage output. I believe this idea would change Terraria for the better, and would be enjoyed by many. I hope you agree with my opinion and hopefully it is implemented into the game. Thank you for reading.