Originally posted by Cooperal:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Why? IRL bronze was too valuable to make a such a large sword. That's why the Romans used the bronze spears and a gladius. Iron was plentiful and cheap that's why 2 handed swords started appearing in the late iron age.

The 2 handed bronze weapon in the game is the thematically appropriate bronze aetgir.

That makes sense, in a world where money mattered and copper/tin/bronze was not the safest and most accessible of the metals. OP was talking about Valheim unless I am mistaken.

All the ores are easy to get. Bronze is the most time consuming because you need both copper and tin and when you make the bronze you use 2 copper ingots and 1 tin ingot to make 1 bronze ingot. All the other ore are 1 for 1. The choke point in each biome is getting the upgraded foods you need to survive the new biome long enough to get the ore that you need to make the gear that makes the biome easy and depending on your gaming skill how long it takes you to kill the boss to progress to the next biome.

It always takes longer to find those first turnip seeds in the swamp and plant, harvest, and replant to get enough to make the upgrades and then expand your stocks for sufficient foods. I've always located several crypts by the time I have enough turnips.

Same with onion seeds in the mountains. I always have several silver deposits located before I get enough onions to make the foods required to survive mining the silver.

Plains is a bit easier to get the foods. You can sneak into a fuling village and steal the seeds and sprint out. But you have to build a plains base to set up farming those seeds and black metal scrap comes 1 fuling at a time. The iron you need to get padded armor you might still have left over from the swamps and using silver gear in the swamp makes getting more easy.