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[Judge Dredd]

Now the Question in the Subject makes it sound like I'm asking a really dumb question, of course metals don't change !

Well...

I've recently been having some trouble with DF (Crashing) and this crashing accurs just went summer hits.

This means my most recent save (the only save) is the embark save, so sure enough I've embarked in the same place with the same everything about 5 times now.

On this Embark theres a waterfall, and when you go down Z levels you can see the metal on the side of the cliff for the layer you're looking at.

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Before I fixed the crashing and have now actually started the fortress, I COULD HAVE SWORN, the shallow metal on my embark was hematite.

I am 99.5% sure I remember seeing, and noting in my brain that this embark had Hematite.

Now I have started the Embark for real and went back to check it was Hematite (even though I was sure it was)

It is now Malachite and Tetrahedrite, in the exact same place, and the exact same shape that was once Hematite.

My Question is this: Are shallow metals randomly chosen at Embark ? So loading the Embark save would cause for them to be rolled again?

[pisskop]

Now the Question in the Subject makes it sound like I'm asking a really dumb question, of course metals don't change !

Well...

I've recently been having some trouble with DF (Crashing) and this crashing accurs just went summer hits.

This means my most recent save (the only save) is the embark save, so sure enough I've embarked in the same place with the same everything about 5 times now.

On this Embark theres a waterfall, and when you go down Z levels you can see the metal on the side of the cliff for the layer you're looking at.

______________________

Before I fixed the crashing and have now actually started the fortress, I COULD HAVE SWORN, the shallow metal on my embark was hematite.

I am 99.5% sure I remember seeing, and noting in my brain that this embark had Hematite.

Now I have started the Embark for real and went back to check it was Hematite (even though I was sure it was)

It is now Malachite and Tetrahedrite, in the exact same place, and the exact same shape that was once Hematite.

My Question is this: Are shallow metals randomly chosen at Embark ? So loading the Embark save would cause for them to be rolled again?

no.  metals are chosen at world generation.

[Aranador]

Hmm - game crashing - did you do anything to fix it?

Specifically, modify the raws, redownload some files, or basically anything that might have changed the data files?