With the addition of copper tools and armor, copper really should be able to be used to craft shears and buckets. A caveat might be that copper canβt be used to carry lava because of its low melting point, but it should be able to carry water and would significantly help with moving water early game as iron is difficult to get day one but copper is much more plentiful.
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