Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24304663-20140217232502/@comment-24108228-20140218214129

And people can't see a blob coming in their direction, that would give away the location, and therefore the player. Considering there is about 20 veins of coal near iron (steel vein), and 3 veins of mithril, there is good reason why steel works better. All the mithril veins also have some sort of obstacle to get to them, wether it be climbing or parkour.

Sure, crossbows need fixing, but that wouldn't work too well. The arc from the projectile would also make it much harder to snipe, and at that point you think, "Well the ranged weapons are so useless now that a javelin would be better for combat.", as these problems do not apply to javelins.