Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25684944-20150510175717/@comment-26298013-20150512193300

Anybody but dwarves making Mithril into a metal? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! No! It is specifically stated (In the Hobbit, I believe) that "the Dwarves could make of [Mithril] a metal". As in, nobody else could smelt Mithril into a metal.

But, for balance' sake, I have a different idea: Dwarven forges alone can make Mithril ingots. Dwarf-aligned players get 2 ingots per ore, and evil-aligned players get 1 ingot per ore, but the forge requires no alignment to use. Dwarven pickaxes are required to mine Mithril, which could spawn at 80% of its current rate to give a bit of debuff, in effect, to dwarven players getting huge amounts of Mithril. Also makes it harder to find for evil players, as suggested by other people above.

There does, however, need to be a way for evil players to mine Mithril without raiding absurd numbers of dwarven buildings before finding a pickaxe, given that they can't craft a dwarven pick without dwarven alignment. Perhaps the top-tier evil pickaxe could be used to mine Mithril ore.