Although the mod added tool used to safely remove landmines, naturally generated landmines are still annoying for players. The anti-personnel mines are small, thus careless players could easily trigger them, especially in the dark. If there could be a tool which can detect the position of nearby landmines for players, this problem can be solved.

Besides, other landmines can be easily identified in most environments, which made them almost useless in wars against other players. If you could make them harder to be identified, they will be more useful in wars against other players, then the participants may acquire more fun.

What about step even further, by allowing player to hide mines totally using shovels and dirt

What about step even further, by allowing player to hide mines totally using shovels and dirt

Then the landmine will be covered by dirt? Still could be easily identified in desert.

There's this idea floating around which would remove random mine spawns and instead replace them instead with marked mine fields, including some sort of early warning, which means a metal detector is likely not really necessary.

allowing player to hide mines totally

dear god no

dear god no

it wouldn't be that bad if it was only possible in designated areas or still be partially visible (bury in dirt/sand). There could also be special tools for removing different types of mines or buried mines since at the moment you defuse an ap mine with the same tool you defuse a fatman mine. I agree that totally hiding mines would be too op, but i think mines need a big update.

totally hiding mines would be too op

Not a problem if not hidden from mine detectors.

it wouldn't be that bad if it was only possible in designated areas or still be partially visible (bury in dirt/sand)

That would pretty much defeat the point, AP mines are already mostly buried, and for AT mines there isn't much point to that in the first place.

There could also be special tools for removing different types of mines

What for? That's just the process we already have, but more annoying. The point of needing a defuser is that you can't just break mines with your hand immediately after you spawn in, after you reach oil (and thus plastic for the defuser) there isn't much point in making things more complicated than that, so long as you actually notice the mine, you can defuse it.

for AT mines there isn't much point to that in the first place.

Could you tell that what does shrapnel mines designed to do? The method of properly using it is more similar to AP mine or AT mine? Or neither?