Originally posted by hand_sanitizzzzer:

I feel like the game gets way too grindy at the iron & silver eras. It takes a lot of time to mine ores and you need so many bars to max current-grade equipment in order to be able to defeat the next boss. I have nothing against it being challenging, but it's not even challenging to mine a hundred ores. It's just repetitive and boring.

Maybe we should have a more fun way to obtain ore of these types, like finding treasure chests and killing minibosses that drop ore? That would be fun, unlike grinding ores. Even black metal was less tedious to obtain.

Any thoughts?

I kinda thought the artificial padding was the point, it certainly adds a lot to the game, they just need to fill the voids in-between.