I think we need a mod that somehow controls the limitations by the safe zones; as it is today you cannot skin animals or mine nodes or many other things near a safe zone; that is a stupd way to stop people from killing or being killed in a safe zone there must be a better way.

I was simply trying to mine nodes when my belt became inactive and there were a lot of nodes near me but I could not touch them because I could not pull out a tool.....

Go out into the wild there should be plenty of nodes. :)

Its a "safe" zone , that is the whole point of it,