Feone wrote:ImpalerWrG wrote:How do people think Iron could be made harder to get? Simply upping the time on a smelter would be easy to do but I think people will just run more smelters to compensate. The Mine->Crush->Smelt loop is just so amenable to optimization when you have Iron and lime very close together and use an ore crusher and you can just walk away during a most of the process. If you had to be present more during these processes it would be more demanding of time, but also really boring.
I don't think iron should be made harder. Too much basic stuff that needs it.
I'm all for adding more types of metal though. Steel and other refined alloys seem like a good possibility. These could be made requiring more time, resources and infrastructure.
Only if the uses for them are fleshed out, currently the only thing I can do with copper is spam the hell out of nails and thats only because its closer than my iron mine is.
