Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25981649-20180502090215/@comment-33185350-20180502163802

While I do think bronze should be collected earlier than iron, and this would work quite well on most servers, it would make it very difficult (though not impossible) to get to Middle-earth from the Overworld. Since copper and tin do not spawn there, iron ore would be unobtainable and thus it would be very hard to scrounge up enough iron for an iron pickaxe to mine the gold for the ring portal, or collect enough gold from loot chests. It would be possible but a serious pain.