Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Once you've mined out 6 or so complete nodes you won't need any more copper for the rest of that game. I always just build 2 walls and a roof over a work bench so that I can repair the antler pick and then haul the copper and stone away.

"Need," no, but I do love me my copper sconces. On many roads I build, I end up lining them with stone pillars and attach sconces on two or four sides.

Or at least, used to when I actually played. I was always on my server waiting for everyone else, got lonely and bored, and ended up doing a lot of projects I wanted to wow my players with. Quite ironically, it was quite often the projects I did NOT put a lot of time and thought into that seemed to wow them the most, haha... ha...