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