The current choice for metal blocks and equipment is 2 base metal (copper and Iron) and 3 Alloy (Silver, Gold, Titanium), the equipment choices are either swift, heavy and balanced but the base metal tools don’t have a balanced option.
What i propose is adding steel as that balanced version for the base metal equipment and as a 3rd base metal block.
The metal would not be mined but created in a furnace by using 2 iron bars and 1 charcoal since steel in RL is an alloy of iron and carbon, this would also give players an early and cheap introduction to alloys and hopefully sparks an addition of other non-mined alloys
The steel blocks would have that shiny silvery appearance (but don’t add that ridiculous stamp in the corner of the refined blocks pls) and would be available in compacted, refined and machined, the equipment would also have the same colour.