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I would recommend reading the handbook at least. It should definitely be possible if you do that, if a bit harder than using other resources like the wiki. I believe this is what I did for most of my first playthrough, but that was cooperative so I don't know how much other people looked up. I know it exists on the latest stable release, but I can't guarantee it still exists if you're playing past that. Some places will have more copper than others, though. To my understanding ore spawns (read spoiler for more information if you want it) Depends on what you consider a cheese tactic. An easy enough stone age tactic would be to throw spears and get them in an open space. It'll be easier to run circles around them while you repeatedly throw projectiles that way. Easiest way for this to fail is if you run into something solid like a bush. They wade through shallow water faster than you, but you're a better swimmer, so you can also enter lakes. If you consider fighting them in the water to be cheese, you can still swim to the other side and throw spears before they catch up. The same strategies work on bears, but you need to do a lot more running around and picking back up your spears. And things get much worse much quicker if they catch up.

I suppose I should've mentioned that. I want to be able able to dye other armours. Or at least Brigandine.There's a mod that makes that enables that, though. But having it in the base game would be nice.

It'd be nice to dye armour, either available to everyone or as a special tailor thing. (Maybe with benefits if restricted to tailors.) Mostly brigandine. There's a lot of dyeable surface on that. But being able to dye the sash on gold chainmail, or being able to make and dye our own, would be nice.

The ability to cover or decorate your armour with gold or silver, so you can wear your treasury without losing the protective value of not-gold. Armour decorated in this way should probably cost a small amount of the appropriate precious metal to repair, though.