Mining the Color

[hopdevil]

The last update changed the metal resource to gray rocks instead of the yellow ribbon.  However, the ore veins are still yellow.

That got me thinking that the veins should be gray now right?  How does metal go from yellow to gray?

Which made me wonder why silver isn't also something you could mine.  I understand that might seem too easy.  To increase the effort of mining silver there could be a refining process with a bench.

This also opens up the possibility of other resources being available to mine as the game develops.  Like a resource that can be turned into energy.   Coal, for instance.

Also, I think gold, instead of silver, makes more sense as a currency.

[bobucles]

I think the important thing is to not pick the same color for BOTH. Yellow metal works well with silver. Silver metal works good with gold. Two silvers or two yellows are bad.

[Somz]

Metal should be renamed, silver is a kind of metal too.
But if by "metal" Tynan thinks about iron, then raw iron is, yes, close to yellow. Grey-ish, yellow-ish, brown-ish (oxidation + other elements),
while refined (pure) iron is mostly black-ish/gray-ish
(don't exactly remember, was long time ago since I've seen it ^^).

Aside from that, raw silver for trade? Why is it ball/coin shaped then? It should be in my opinion mine-able + craft-able, I even made my little metal-to-silver recipe and added it to the slag refinery, because why not?