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Stone pickaxes should drop less iron to incentivize making a copper pickaxe

The step from stone tools to iron tools is very small, and reduces the need for copper tools.

I propose that a stone pickaxe mining an iron ore will drop less than one raw iron. Instead it should drop 2 or 3 of a new item raw iron lumps. Nine of which create a raw iron. On the contrary a copper pickaxe does drop  a full raw iron. 

This makes the copper pickaxe useful, but keeps it possible to skip from stone to iron by mining around 10 iron ore. 

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    This would heavily change the early game progression, but I think this might be a good idea if iron was made slightly more common.

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    This does sound cool but it would make getting iron way to overcomplicated, i feel like this would be a Hardcore thing.