Hytale's elusive end-game ore, mithril, 'won't be as simple to mine as the others'

Hytale sturdy chitin: A third-person image of a character holding a torch and pickaxe inside a dark cave, with a Scarak nesting in the background.

While Hytale's early access experience is surprisingly good (in spite of the developer Hypixel's warnings), there are some clear holes. The biggest one for me is its rather linear progression based around moving through the zones to find new ores, from copper and iron to cobalt, adamantite, and mithril.

I'd forgive you for believing that your end goal right now is finding mithril ore, but that's not the case. Mithril's not actually available yet, despite it being required for several recipes listed in-game.