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[Dunamisdeos]

I have seen like.... 50 threads about this, but I didn't pay any attention. Now I am having this problem.

What do I have to do to get flux and iron in the same embark. Multiple Metals = Gold and Galena. Or just tetrahedrite. Whichever.

I have my minerals set to 1000 in worldgen, I figured that would let flux and iron ore spawn, but no dice. <--procedural pun

[sGdYy409L]

You can check sites for minerals pre-embark on the world map with dfhacks "prospect" command. With the standard world-gen settings, it should be easy to find a site with iron + marble (or another flux stone, but marble is the most common one, since it doesn't only appear in sedimentary layers).
Without dfhack: If you try out a few sites and just dig you should eventually find one with iron + flux. This will take more time though.

[AutomataKittay]

Being away from mountain and closer to ocean could help too, iron ores' usually found in the layer where mud ends up compressed into rock. DF don't stimulate river laying it down, from what I could find.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Sedimentary
So you can find and match if you prefer to do it the manual way

Otherwise you'll have to up the mineral gen more, flux tend to be layer stones, and seems to be more likely to be sedimentary, so flux shouldn't be too much of a trouble to find, even if DF's built-in finders don't recognize it ( it don't seems to recognize layer stones, or too many minerals at once ).

[Dunamisdeos]

Oh my God, I had no idea you could use that from pre-embark.

Good God. Thank you.