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Iosyn

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Lack of Sedimentary / Flux?
« on: August 06, 2012, 04:04:24 am »
Hello again folks, longtime player here but is it me or is it damn near impossible to find any flux stone in 34.11? not to mention iron ores.

Seriously, I've had to reinstall DFhack because it's literally nigh impossible to find any-- bar the seemingly omnipresent Z -50 marble layers. I've genned many, many worlds up to now and sometimes it seems that my worlds just aren't genned with chalk or limestone.
I've messed with the volcanism as well, but even with incredibly low volcanicity and/or altering volcanism mesh it seems that I just can't find those juicy sedimentary layers anymore. Anyone else finding this a problem? Also any advice would be greatly appreciated. :)
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Xob Ludosmbax

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Re: Lack of Sedimentary / Flux?
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2012, 05:02:16 am »
Lower the mineral amount, otherwise minerals crowd out the flux.
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Re: Lack of Sedimentary / Flux?
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2012, 06:56:38 am »
hm, holy HFS I think that might have actually fixed it. Upped Scarcity and I've already located two passable sedimentary embarks.

Been ages since I've seen good old chalk.
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Re: Lack of Sedimentary / Flux?
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2012, 07:43:24 am »
nope, no problem at all

advanced worldgen, scarcity at 200 (which is even below the settings in a standard worldgen), slightly lower volcanism mix.

tried 4 embark spots, all 4 had flux and iron
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Re: Lack of Sedimentary / Flux?
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2012, 08:48:55 am »
Quote from: Xob Ludosmbax on August 06, 2012, 05:02:16 am
Lower the mineral amount, otherwise minerals crowd out the flux.
You are completely wrong - all flux stones occur in layers, and minerals are placed after layer stones.

The only bug here is in the Site Finder - when there are a lot of minerals, it reports locations as not having flux even though they do.
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Re: Lack of Sedimentary / Flux?
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2012, 08:54:15 am »
Yeah, for some reason the finder NEVER shows flux stone on abundant, even though every single embark I've done has had flux. 
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Re: Lack of Sedimentary / Flux?
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2012, 12:44:22 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on August 06, 2012, 08:48:55 am
Quote from: Xob Ludosmbax on August 06, 2012, 05:02:16 am
Lower the mineral amount, otherwise minerals crowd out the flux.
You are completely wrong - all flux stones occur in layers, and minerals are placed after layer stones.

The only bug here is in the Site Finder - when there are a lot of minerals, it reports locations as not having flux even though they do.
So it's the site finder then? didn't realise it was this bad.
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