I see this as unecessarily making the process of making LMGs a pain in the butt as making Redstoy Alloy Ingots requires Hardened Metal and whatnot, which are not expensive but rather is quite literally a process of craft and craft some more, like you merge dusts over and over. Like I said its not expensive as all it requires is damascus and some other ingots which originate purely from dusts, however we could make crafting LMGs less annoying by replacing the alloy ingot with the redstone repeater from vanilla