Originally posted by Fat Cat:

For me silver is more a pain than iron... Mountains are not near shores, are they? And the slope makes it too difficult to use a cart. And silver is heavier than iron.

They can be, you just have to be lucky enough to find them.
This one even had a maypole at the top of the hill there. That made a nice base actually.
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