Black Bronze looks awesome and I've always wanted to forge a set of armor out of it for the style points but I've never actually taken the time to for a few reasons, mainly:
Gold and Silver are painfully difficult to acquire in any reasonable amount. Gold is the main bottleneck here since silver is more abundant in my experience.
The benefits of Black Bronze over the other variants just kind of aren't worth it. It's far easier to find copper and tin for bronze for mostly similar stats
Being a variant of bronze, iron is better than Black Bronze in every way and even with the increased effort to manufacture it, I've always gotten to iron long before I considered putting in the effort to make the stuff
So as much as I can appreciate that the devs included it, I really don't see what the point of it is aside from for the sake of realism and similar, which is a good reason to be fair. Nonetheless, I'd love to know if I'm missing something to do with Black Bronze since I'll take any excuse to use the stuff. Maybe my gold prospecting skills just suck or something. Picture of Neuro Sama unrelated