Ludan

Its a known bug, Crates are not buildable in rc5 due to a change in planks.

With the map change it is much harder to spot the rock changes...

I had one world the was Limestone, Limestone and more Limestone.  it wasn't until day 4 before I found Granite and my first copper bits.  I deleted that world when I fell down a cave, died and realized I had to run almost 10k blocks to get back to my corpse.

hehe, ok.  Yeah.  I did say I was new!  I got a few items from panning boney soil.  I was trying to use those items to get my first copper tools.  Now with a weekend under my belt and the replies here I understand you need metal tools to "reclaim" metal.

I have to laugh at myself a little now, trying to jam a piece of armor or a bracelet into a Crucible to melt it down... 

New to game, was panning boney soil and got copper chains.  Info on the item says it can be made into 1 ingot but I have been unable to figure out how to do this.  Could some one let me know please.