Game Update: Mining & Smithing Changes

We kick off February with a clank and a hiss this week as we introduce a round of changes to Mining and Smithing.
Source: Game Update: Mining & Smithing Changes

bad bad update

Agreed Lyon, with this new Mining update, you're basically being punished for not intensively spamming a rock to keep your stamina up, can't even grab a drink without dropping down exp/h rates below 20k/h.

It's great in the sense that all mining bots are disappearing with the update, and metal supplies will rise back to normal prices. However I really do feel there are ways this could've been done more smoothly, without affecting the actual players who enjoyed this reworked mining from last year. 

Jagex, 2019:
We want to make mining and smithing great again.

Jagex, 2020:
We have decided that you're all enjoying mining too much and we cannot have this. Oh, also, we need a way to make stone spirits valuable...sooooooo...

Have stone spirits gone up in price?

Have stone spirits gone up in price?

Hardly. It is getting somewhat hotfix but there's no "rush" so could be a few weeks. They are reverting it all to the same rates unless ur at 0 stamina. Might be enough to afk some of the ores with spirits

I never got to experience the mining/smithing rework before this update, but I'm really just... not terribly bothered by the way mining works?

I don't know.