There's always so much cope in these threads...
For one, Keep Inventory should be standard and death runs should be the option, in my less-than-humble opinion.
The issue with 2 isn't the amount of resources found. It's the amount of resources needed. 100 ingots for one sword is completely unreasonable. 30 seconds per ingot of smelt time is too much time. Having to ship my ore/ingots to get them home is garbage. All easily fixable. All won't be fixed.