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Finding veins is somewhat uncommon (but quite often you see a bunch together, right after the iron nerfs i've found two and got like 50 iron from them), and I don't think it matters too much that you'd have to work a bit to find one.
I still think the grind for the first 8 iron is doable, but probably too much. I still have spawned in a few cities that were good on iron though, so maybe it's fineish as long as you get lucky/don't care for the grind.
Would still be better if there was a mid tier between vein and current mines, maybe when you strike vein with pickaxe it drops some iron.
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To get a saddle, you need sheep and shears.
You don't need shears for saddle. You need sheep skin for saddle, not wool, and for that you're going to need knife.
If there is to be another change, I recommend a new metal.
I want my copper.
I want copper, tin, bronze, iron, steel, silver, gold and platinum.
For tools I want wood, stone, copper, iron, bronze and steel.
Give me platinum and tungsten carbide tools while you are at it.
Of course we're not going to be forging tungsten carbide, but you may as well add it while you're in the editor. Throw some cobalt around the map too.
You know what, we already have alum, give me a aluminum tools as well.
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Sometimes I feel bad for Iceland; getting taken advantage of for having all that excess energy, to make the world's aluminum, then getting fucked over by the banks and corporations to the point of economic collapse, and as a country, they were 'bailed out' by the IMF. It was a real mess. But then I'm reminded of times when aluminum was more valuable than gold, even though it makes up 8% of the Earth's crust, only surpassed in weight by the oxygen (~50%) and silicon(~30%). Then there is iron at a measly 5%.
We need to get this right. IRL, of course, maybe the message from the game, to the world, can be one that echoes these sentiments, but that ultimately lights the way, for aluminum's, aluminium's, future.
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I really want glass, and a chemistry set/station, to liberate elements from their molecular prisons.
Speaking of which, how about scattering some rubies and sapphires across some biomes so we can get aluminum from them when we surpass present day technology?
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It saddens me that no game has yet to get the reality of matter, of the composition of every cubic meter of space in the universe, correct yet. Let me dissolve the Earth. Let me dissolve the Solar system, the galaxy. But first, let me do it, one cubic meter at a time, on the surface of the Earth. I want a machine, a factory, where I toss in, anything, and it's broken down into it's percentage of chemical elements. Then other machines recombine them, taking or giving over the energy required for the, endo and exo, thermic reactions in the process.
Sure, ultimately the game would end with the heat death of the universe, but isn't that the greatest lesson of all?
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I'm sorry? You guys were talking about iron?
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