i think we should take a look at mining on this server. It seems we've already dried out all the mines which has made lots of things impossible to get. Seriously I only have 1 ingot of iron, and there's no stores selling that i can find.
You just need to head out further, I can still find iron and whatnot. But I do agree that something should be done, I liked the mining worlds that we had in Anthos.