Locking progression behind specific ores just feels bad.

[Pills]

Finery Forge requires Iron Ochre, Steel Crucible requires Bloodstone.

Honestly just feels dumb that both require "Iron" but they are locked behind specific ores instead. I kinda get it, to gate progression down a couple of levels, but wouldn't it just be better to be like "visit level 5 and unlock iron" rather than specific ores?

[Fostik]

Couldn't agree more, here's my topic as well
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=76964

Stuck on L4 currently because of that, as I have minimaps of malachite but not ochre, and have to dig dozen minimaps to find it while some other groups are not limited by that with just random.

[Ganhart]

+1 just replace "Seen X ore" with "Seen X mine lvl"

[MachineLegend]

The distribution of ores in general feels pretty bad. There are pretty substantial dead zones this world that just have nothing for minimaps plus the 1 tile ore nodes. +1 though locking those two behind specific ores is silly when we have iron already.

[widelec_szatana]

I almost have steel, never mined(taught from someone who has) iron orche. A gift to factions and noone else, spruces will never get it.

[caz]

I almost have steel, never mined(taught from someone who has) iron orche. A gift to factions and noone else, spruces will never get it.

This

Unless you are lucky or have the manpower and knowledge to hunt it down, you're in for a rough time trying to get steel around the same time as factions or larger villages