Originally posted by HalfWolf:

It seems like they could accomplish the same thing by make ores unable to teleport but letting people teleport the ingots. There is a lot of grind to this game already and this seems a bit much.

It's not. It's a sandbox game, the entire point is to grind for resources to build and let you have what you need to kill the bosses, then when youve killed the bosses you just focus on building more and more and grinding more and more. This is not an RPG or an MMO.