Dowsing

[Ace_livion]

so, I spotted that some are wondering about the deep drilling coming before the scanner.
and since trying to drill somewhere without the scanner is kinda risky I was thinking what can be done here?

and the answer was Dowsing, what great fun it could be to have your colonists run around whit a stick hopping to find precious minerals.
(obviously Dowsing is some fake shit but this is a game whit Mecanoids and pirates, and we all know pirates don't exist) 
so the colonist run around for a random amount of time until they find a field containing minerals and likely drop their stick to indicate where to drill.

the obviously downside of this is, spending time and the uncertainty of it being a 1x1 square or a 3x3.
but in RimWorld its all fun and we never know what the reward will be.

what do you about this?

[Thyme]

I like your idea as much as I like your argumentation.

Should be a mining work type, with a lower priority than drilling so pawns only do that when all drills are in use.

PS: Pirates do exist.