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[Findulidas]

Well I consider iron more useful since cassiterite is annoyingly rare. Also iron is used for steel which is just better.

As for fuel... digging down to the magma and making magma smelters and forges is a piece of cake if you know how to do it, so coal is only an issue if you want to make steel.

These are the arguments overshadowing the all the others in my mind, considering the both materials are much alike. It comes down to how easy it is to get them, use them and if they can be upgraded.

Bronze bismuth is way cool, but even more annoying to find and make in large quantities, which is always what I want to do.

[Lich180]

Bronze bismuth is way cool, but even more annoying to find and make in large quantities, which is always what I want to do.

A few points at embark and you can get enough bismuthinite, cassiterite and malachite/tetrahedrite/native copper to make a few hundred bismuth bronze bars, which should be enough to outfit a large militia with some to spare.

2 copper bars + 1 tin bar + 1 bismuth bar = 4 bismuth bronze bars, so you take double the amount of copper, and smelt the ores first. Takes a little while longer, and is more resource intensive, but its quite useful.