Mining now gives a good deal more of the coloured metals. All but copper come up more often, at iron's cost, and their veins are half as big again: the same time mining gathers nearly twice the Shadow, Blood Rock, Silver, Golden or Valorite ingots, and a little over twice the rarest, from Mytheril and Black Rock up to Elfic. Copper comes up as before, and iron somewhat less (smiths still sell it). The order of rarity stays: Elfic is still the hardest to find.
A vein already in the mine keeps what it held until it regrows, so the change shows in full within a few hours.
Large orders
A large smithing order asks for a whole set of one metal, 300 to 2,000 ingots. It now asks only for iron, Copper, Shadow, Blood Rock or Silver. Small orders still ask for Golden, Valorite, Black Rock and Mytheril too, and the large orders you already have stay as they are.
More in the bulk orders and blacksmithing guides.