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Make iron harder to smelt

Early game progression is way too fast in my opinion. I wish there was a little more to it, a little more metal working vibes (I mean it's called Minecraft right) I suggest in order to smelt iron (and ancient debris) you need to place a billows in front of a furnace and stroke it. Then after you get iron you can craft an automatic fan from iron and redstone. Maybe if you could mine gold with copper, people might craft a gold axe in the meantime. Iron should rust. Iron found in shipwrecks should be rusted and rusted iron should not be able to craft redstone components. Might need a copper bucket.

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    Along with this, maybe add bronze as an early/mid game iron that's better but rarer and make the blast furnace crafted with this? Irl you need a blast furnace to smelt iron for tools and more so it would be cool if iron and netherite required a blast furnace instead of a normal one giving it more use and making iron a little harder to get in early game, also making copper, bronze and even gold more useful.

    Also the copper bucket should not be able to hold lava making it impossible to create a nether portal with just lava and water before getting iron.

    For the rusty iron, Idk how it could work but not really a bad idea. Maybe there's no rusty variants of tools since copper doesn't have oxidized variant neither but some decorative blocks could be cool like rusty chains, bars, doors and trapdoors or even blocks.

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    I disagree. Assume a kid give is given 15 minutes of game-time each day. They would never find iron. The game is designed so you can progress at whatever speed you want.