All cool then. And yes, if i ever made a game like this i would make it all visual. No free information given, one would have to figure out themselves if there happens to be a needle in that haystack.
One thing concerns me though, you say you only really need one block of iron for all your tools.
Does this mean that once you mine an iron ore you are essentially given 0.25m³ of pure iron amongst many blocks of stone?
Because again, my idea here was that you don’t really know how much is stone and how much is iron in a cube. You collect the cube and analyze it or simply melt it to see just how much iron seeps out of the ore.