LogFAQs > #968269841

I'm thinking, I love what they did with the gorons here.

They eat rocks, right? Right.

Well, turns out, the most valuable ores (rubies, diamonds, etc) taste like shit to them

So what do they do? Sell them, of course.

And over time, the gorons have become a mining civilization. You approach the city and you start seeing gorons with helmets and pickaxes, doing day and night shifts. They probably have workplace safety rules and unions and stuff

And gorons are the race you see the most outside of their "territory", besides hylians. Because they are out there, selling their shiny rocks, and buying everything else they need. So the gorons in this game get to live more comfortably, and have a city with multiple houses and shops that sell more things than a heart and a red shirt.

Heck, there's probably a goron union or cartel controlling the ore prices, since ores are so valuable here. Finding rupees in chests is usually a consolation price to finding valuable ores. And if you buy them from a goron, the price is even more absurd. And they control the mineral industry because they are stronger so they work faster, doing so also gives them free food, they can survive in extreme conditions and they own Death Mountain, aka the biggest pile of rocks in the map.

So Mecha Lizard destroying their mines is a pretty big deal. it may not kill them, but could kick their living standard back to Ocarina of Time levels, where the biggest structure in their town was a freaking rotating pot, and they had a Bomb Flower based economy.