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Name Lips

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I WILL find the flux!
« on: February 11, 2012, 01:40:19 pm »

Site finder said there was flux on this map. I WILL find it! And I won't cheat.

So far I've dug my grand staircase all the way down to the SMR. No sign of an obvious flux-containing rock layer. No sign of any kind of marble in any of the cavern levels.

Found some candy but not gonna mine it.

No I'm exploring every z-level. From the bottom up.

I have so much iron and coke! Just need flux!!!!1
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ancistrus

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2012, 02:14:34 pm »

Actually, site finder has been known to make mistakes.
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gomwon

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2012, 02:23:31 pm »

If you dig a hole down on each of the corners and not find any, then it is unlikely there is any on the map.

If you want to make SURE there is none,

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Name Lips

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2012, 03:23:39 pm »

Haha, I have a one-armed bowdwarf! He doesn't seem to mind firing and reloading his crossbow with just his left hand though.
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Szkeptik

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2012, 05:41:54 pm »

I embarked in a place that had no flux on the embark finder and started next to a mountain made of limestone. Don't trust that tool too much.
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Exlo

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2012, 01:14:03 am »

You could always buy some from caravans... In very tiny amounts.  :-\
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Vehudur

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2012, 01:20:46 am »

The map I just embarked on would have enough iron and coal for over 50,000 steel bars...   if it had any flux at all.  I totally feel your pain.
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NinjaBoot

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2012, 05:26:51 am »

Site finder is a load of balls, even if you just limit the finder to "flux" it'll still give you lots of areas without flux.

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Broseph Stalin

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2012, 07:46:19 am »

Use DFhack's prospect tool. It'll tell you definitively if there's any flux and exactly how much of it there is.

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2012, 08:17:37 am »

Haha, I have a one-armed bowdwarf! He doesn't seem to mind firing and reloading his crossbow with just his left hand though.

Boomstick.

dragginmaster

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Re: I WILL find the flux!
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2012, 08:20:31 am »

Use DFhack's prospect tool. It'll tell you definitively if there's any flux and exactly how much of it there is.

Without saying where, so u can still have fun digging for it.
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