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Why do other games have backgrounds displaying objects that you can not do anything with?
While rocks themselves don't add a great deal to the game, they do help make the environment more interactive (which many people actually like), and can probably be thrown at monsters (since I have seen posts where people have thrown barrels or vases at monsters to do damage).