Darvond: So having bested two further temples, I find myself questioning something. Am I missing something, or did I forget the tablet to find out how to craft Firestone tier items?
Don't think so. As i recall you get the recipe from the main quest, but it's a catch-22 where you need the ingots to make the crafting station, but you need the station to make ingots... Once you get a few firestone ingots from a temple and can make your own, then the problems just go away.
Although the firestone engines are by far the best, one seems to replace about 4-6 normal ones, and is 3x better than an adamantium one.
Darvond: I also feel that the crafting system is needlessly complex, and the need to attain new books to learn how to craft ingots of higher classes is just silly. One might say that just having 'ingots' might break the game
I agree with the crafting though, it's a little more complicated than it needs to be, and not having a preview you can only make something and hope it comes out good. I think 90% of the time i usually just relied on stuff i acquired rather than made myself until later, so i knew the SOC armor was good so i made those. Weapons and armor though i had to just make it and compare to see if it was worth it.
Most of the time it wasn't.
As for the ingots type for the most part you can just use, unless it's a different quality type. you can make an adamantium dagger with the original formula, but the Combat knife requires some of the higher tiers of metals.