Originally posted by Often:

Double click on the map to mark it.

Also, built a cart to transport large amounts of ore around. It makes large trips easier.

I cannot build something I don't have the recipe to craft.

Originally posted by DarkSlayerofDarkness:

About the pickaxe, well, you might have a point there. But, maybe there's also a lot of wasted material, because this is your first attempt at making the tool? Also, it's a huge pickaxe. And, finally, it's a mythical world = so some things probably would not be very logical. But seriously, yes, it's kinda skewed = the price to enter the bronze age is very steep. But then to enter the iron age, the price is steep, too, as you are asked to go into a very dangerous biome. Then the price to enter the silver age is 'high' because of the wolves and such, who guard it. So, theoretically, there is some sort of balance. Although to me personally, the bronze age was a lot more grind than the subsequent metals.

For the pickaxe, the game says it takes 180 pounds of bronze to build a 2 pound pickaxe and then upgrade it to level two. In no world does that make any sense. I get where it could be for game balance, but the economy type balancing is where I'm having the biggest issues.

As for the "mythical world" or "it's just a game" type reasoning: They put in smoke physics so that you can't breathe in an area with an enclosed fire. They made it so wood rots in the rain unless you have a thatched roof over it, which I'm also just now discovering. They added in all of this unnecessary durability to things for "realism" (everything doesn't need durability guys.) The more stuff I'm having to micro manage the less enjoyment I'm getting. I loved the first 10 hours I've spent and now it's REALLY starting to wear on me. Everything doesn't have to be breaking and depleting constantly. You can't put in all that real life constant maintenance and then make it take 180 pounds of bronze to make a single hand tool.

Originally posted by Darth Invader:

You gotta be more strategic in where you build your camps and main base. I'm on my fourth playthrough (mostly on my other acct.), and my plan is to make a small base close to a forest biome with good copper and tin deposits, then make my main base close to 2 critical biomes swamp and mountain later on. You can always connect the two with a portal. GL.

No offense, but I'd really rather not have to be doing experienced strats and speed run tactics gained from multiple runs on playthrough one. I'd rather the game not be balanced toward that kind of stuff because it feels really off to me right now.