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So, let's say you end up as child of Eve early.  The Eve picks a spot with just one vein, or maybe two.  You make a smithing hammer.  Then you make a newcomen crude piston, a newcomen crude cylinder, and a boiler, since your family may likely want a newcomen pump eventually.  If you have another vein, you make another newcomen crude piston, another crude cylinder, another boiler, and a tank for a newcomen engine and extraction of water from the pump.

But, if such were actually to happen, a family isn't likely to get to a pump in either scenario, since they have to look for something made from steel in some place other than the mines that the family unlocked, which is even worse if this happened with child of Eve at server reset, since dead towns with iron at their veins or in town don't exist.  No shovel.  No tools to make a bucket, nor a knife, so rubber to make a newcomen engine to scrap those parts seems unlikely to get from another family.

I've never known this to happen in game, but why is this possible?  Is this a flaw of the scrapping system, the iron access system, or both?