Iron pickaxe better then Steel one.

[Samui]

Yep, you need 14 chops with Steel pickaxe to harvest Iron ore and only 10 chops with Iron pickaxe.

There is no such problem with Axes (7 chops for Iron and 5 for Steel), but I can't say that there is any difference between hammers =(

p.s.

Also there is some problem with handgun animation:

[p0ki]

I can confirm this.

I always run around with a steel axe and copper pickaxe, since copper is better than steel

[Lurler]

Yup, that was a mistake in the specified values for these pickaxes.
It's fixed now and everything was also rebalanced slightly.