2) at 600 gold per light, yea, gold is still good. The armor stand/lamppost is going to make the vendor really important for some people for a while.

That said the mtn caves were pretty cool until you were saturated. Curtains, carpets, a new color (red) for that stuff, the claw weapons (fun, if not top tier), loads of fine wood, coal, bone, armor set ... they are jam packed loot runs full of new things and you can barely carry it all out. I thought it was solid, regardless of what is in the 'treasure chests'. And, big winner, lots of glass without finding and killing 400 golems anymore.