as we all know there is alot of autos in the mining guild and its just as hard to get coal there as anywere else so what i suggest is that you put some chaos dowarves in there whitch should stop most autoers there
i like everything but degrading but i would like it if you can just melt it down down and remake it and make it you can also get blunt weapons and dented armor when smithing it so u have to melt it down again and try again
all we realy have to do to get ride of some autos is put like lvl 30 agresive monsters near resources and make it that if u get attacked u stop collecting resource