hiimmix

It's my first playthrough of the mod and I finally found a tetrahedrite deposit after hours of walking (finally able to progress!). I've just made myself a crucible with some graphite and koalinite I found on my tripsand figured out how it works. However, mining takes a lot (I've been mining with tin bronze pickaxes, 5 blocks distance between support beams) of time and resources so I was wondering if you got any tips for mining (I feel I'm not being efficient, at all).I have some silver nugs and gold which I could use to make black bronze (which looks awesome by the way) but I'm not sure, are the black bronze tools better than bismuth/tin bronze ones? I also have some rose gold which I made thinking I could use it, I have no idea what it does. I'm in early winter right now, and luckily have a lot of fresh food even though I hadn't found any fruit trees to be able to experience with the barrels (although I made myself some leather stuff, adept at butchering baby). I suppose my next goal would be to exhaust the area I found tetrahedrite in and try to make a copper anvil, on which I'll make a bronze anvil (again, which bronze is easiest to make this out of?), on which I'll make a.. bloomery? I have no idea how the anvils work to be honest and the wiki isn't telling me much (or I'm just really dumb). Is this the right way to progress? I have lots of magnetite and limonite that I can't touch, so I assume this is the only logical thing to do right now. What's your favorite way to progress? Also general noob questions thread. This is my working area. I made my "house" in a boulder.