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Make Copper Tools The Minimum To Mine Iron Rather Than Stone

You can keep copper as only mineable by using stone pickaxe, but make iron ores and other iron-related items be mineable using materials starting from copper, not stone. This way, you will avoid issues with the new copper tools like the players not using them because iron is found common enough to skip copper entirely. This way, copper will be an essential part of progression and every new world will have at least a single copper pickaxe crafted. 

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    I don't love it, but I do understand it, and I think it might be an appropriate inclusion. The progression tree should be consistent across all pickaxes, otherwise the gold sucks for no good reason. I'm still not voting because I'll need some incentive - copper would need to be as convenient as stone OR have something really cool going for it, I mean "oxidization level gives single use Unbreaking level" type of cool. 

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    I like this! Mojang has been trying hard to add to the survival gameplay loop lately, and this is a sure-fire way to do it.