Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥ the Bastard:

Originally posted by Tevirik:

You can find iron deposits at the foot of certain ancient trees in the swamps. I've tumbled upon one by accident, while digging a surtling pit.
So I've searched at the base of many trees and found just enough iron to make an axe.

beats the hell outta dungeon raiding for like 2 hours ill check but still to be able to stay still long enough let alone mine opens me up to a bum rush of literally all the biomes monsters at once i wish i was joking

From what I saw someone else mention a few days ago, they used to have actual iron veins a while back til the devs decided to shift to scrap iron. Only thing I can assume is they wanted to add another grind gate to slow progress til they get more content added.