Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25246516-20140731004507/@comment-25178962-20140801225850

We already have enough complicated alloys. If we are going to be mining 5 ores per bronze, no-one's going to use it, because with the same effort and one more use of the 'Craft Item' button, I could make gunpowder. We CANNOT make it more powerful than Mithril, and all those ores are not worth the small boost you could get from any tier between Steel and Mithril without shoving one or the other tiers out of the way. We CANNOT boost Mithril, and we CANNOT debuff Steel.

Cut the steel from the recipie, and most likely the iron too. Bronze could make it if we boosted steel, and put Bronze between iron and the new steel. Mithril doesn't need to be able to cut down three fully decked steelers, anyway.

And even THEN! Coal and Iron deposits often spawn not too far from eachother, and for these two easily accessed minerals, I am already ahead of bronze-users.