Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-71.238.74.130-20200210021145/@comment-25841881-20200212005121

2607:FB90:321D:2F08:69D8:CE12:9AC0:E61E wrote: Mithril is gotten by: killing Utumno units, killing barrow wights, killing dwarf miners/wicked dwarves, killing marsh wraiths, elven ruins, all habited structures excluding orcish ones, mystery webs, dalish crackers, black Uruks, mithril ore in the mistys, Arnor ruins, creative menu, just to name SOME of the possible ways. Not all of the minerals/ores/plants (but fangon plants and athelas should not be) athelas should be more common but only give regeneration, as it is a common herb. Edhelmir and other minerals/ores should be able to be bought, in general the prices for everything should increase, and massive strip mines for minerals are ugly and deform the terrain.

What you say about mithril is basically true, but it is true in a technical sense, not a practical sense. I do not believe you have ever tried to farm mithril in any of these ways. Looting structures is the only method here which can really rival straight-up mining in speed of mithril production. This is true in pretty much all scenarios -- the only scenario when it isn't true would be on a very well established server which has had many players use x-ray to deplete the mountains. Technical renewability is not practical renewability.

Additionally, many ores already can be bought.

Many plants are already renewable, including Athelas(similar to mithril, it is renewable in a technical but not a practical sense).