I think mining's system where the wolf will complete half a journey and you have to make it return manually is not necessary. Mining already has something to micromanage, the wheels, picks etc, and different levels have longer waiting periods while the wolf goes deeper- having to check on the wolf to make it complete the action feels very out of place when no other professions do this. It's a wait, and then another wait, for one simple result. I'd even prefer it if it took longer but was one click. I dislike that I can send my wolf off to gather ore at night, wake up, and still have to wait again because my wolf doesn't return without me telling it to.

No support, though I do agree the current system is bulky. Right now I can only really make use of copper ore, so I always drop any iron ore I get before I have my wolf return so that I can get a full inventory of copper. If it did that automatically, I wouldn't be able to do that.

Perhaps it could be a setting. There are situations in which I would find it useful if the wolf returned on its own (for examle when I can't be online often. I also wouldn't have time to drop the ores I don't want, wait for new ores to be found and then move back manually). So if you want to make the wolf return automatically you could flip a switch and it'd do so.

In regards to not wanting certain ores- this could still be tweaked and just add a setting where your wolf will automatically discard what you don't want- it could still pull them, spending up the same time it usually would, it would just auto remove and dig for something else.

A kind of blacklist, so to speak. If an unwanted ore is pulled the digging just starts again until it gets what you want!

I would VERY much like this, especially with how stamina works. Even if I can't use much iron, yet I still smelt it because it'll have use in the future for me.

Expanding the mine cart is… expensive, and it'll be a lot harder to manage when higher tools are involved if they don't automatically return.

Supporting. With ore filtering.

I like the idea to have ore management. And maybe there could be a toggle to auto run the mining return if you are wanting to do that.