Couple other thoughts
This may be well known and just I didn’t understand it. But I was assuming I could not do anything Steel-related until level 30. I had the ability to build the ‘potion’ cauldron so I did and I am making steelfire in it no problem. I took the steelfire and some iron bars to my forge and was able to make steel just fine. I’m level 28 so that was news to me. Obviously I cannot myself craft things from Steel as I need to be 30 to learn their recipes but still; I can start hoarding it in advance which is nice.
Related to this; points toward recipes. Has anyone played with the Yellow Lotus potion? Supposed to refund all your skill points back? (I’ve seen where users are warned not to do it if they currently have any unassigned points…) Because obviously I’ve learned a lot of stuff (sandstone building pieces) that I’m not going to use anymore (since learned bricks and 2nd tier building stuff). So is this the right play? Get points back to have lots to put into different suff?