The Silver to Diamond path (both the block recipe, and the upgrade recipe) seem too cheap for being able to completely skip the need for gold.

I would like to discuss changing the recipes to either

• A) Include 3 gold ingots in both recipes (replacing glass blocks)
• B) Require 4 diamonds instead of 3

For the sake of discussion, here are the CURRENT recipes for the silver to diamond path:

I ran some numbers this morning on the silver to diamond thing... it doesn't feel balanced at first glance but it actually is pretty good.

To go from normal to diamond using copper and silver takes 4 copper, 4 silver, 3 diamond and 21 glass. From normal to diamond with iron and gold is 4 iron, 4 gold, 2 diamond and 22 glass.

So they're almost identical just different ores, and the slightly more common copper and silver ultimately take one more diamond to get to that level.

I'm going to leave this issue open for a while longer to invite more discussion if anybody has any but I don't plan to make any changes before the 1.0 release.