ObsidianDust

i do believe something needs to be done on my recent world i spawned in with malchite literaly on the ground infront of me gathered 9 pieces and found a casserite within 20 minutes i had a bronze pickaxe it really does seem like copper just can get put by the wayside if you find the right things. My suggestions is having somekind of research or something that youed have to work on to make gaps between the metels it woudlent be something hard to do where youed spend hours working toward bronze, itd be more like oh iv found copper and tin now if i put my new copper and tin ingots on a table and have paper or something id be able to figure out some multiblock structures that would allow for bronze alloy and once those are built which would require copper tools then id be able to move to bronze tools. It would remove the right off the bat bronze tools chance and make it nessisary to stay and work on copper along with shelter and food.

i figure ill put my own cents in this what if the rot we cut off food would be placeable like how charcoal forms in the pits and over time the "rot" would turn into compost if it was large enough stack and sat in a pit for long enough, it would give more reason to cut the parts of your food and make it not seem magical that the junk just stops existing. Maybe im just being too realistic with it but itd be a way of making fertalizer without needing to go searching across the continent for a single ore that makes it. Along with this i figured the food sploshions would cause alot of excess rot meaning that massive amount of meat isnt really a problem yah you lose it but it makes your gardens grow better/larger yield. With thati find the food sploshions alittle silly watching a cow turn into a cloud of meat and bones just feels..well not gratifying, would it be possible to have a corpse be places as a block and youed need a knife to gather the meat from the corpse and if left long enough the corpse would rot away quicker then the individual meat portions. itd also be useable as bait for the carniviorius creatures.