Alloys need to be expanded on

[BitBite112]

Either I'm stupid or it really is barebones, but the best thing I can seem to make is a bohrum/molitz pickaxe. Coating a regular pickaxe with uqill doesn't seem to make it harder.
I'd just like to see more love put into alloying since it seemed very unique and interesting to me until I found out I could do nothing with it.