Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25246516-20140731004507/@comment-25178962-20140731174434

Copper tools could be between stone and iron instead of iron and steel. Bronze tools could require a forge, and be between iron and steel.

To make Bronze tools more viable than steel tools, the ores required for it would have to be near iron veins that are not near coal veins, and BOTH of them would have to be in spitting distance from eachother (so people don't just skip to steel, as anyone who is able to craft a forge obviously has access to iron).

To make this possible, we could delete a few coal veins and replace them with copper and tin. Since steel would be rarer from the loss of coal, we could also give it's tools a small bump up that would also give the Bronze tier more breathing room. I am always in favor of steel getting a boost.

Perhaps we could even make bronze-working a REQUIREMENT, by making it's respective unrefined item the first tier of smithing, and pushing steel mix in with the ironworking tools requirements.