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[tonnot98]

I embarked in a location with flux stone, shallow, and deep metals, but have only been finding a wide variety of stone.

Any tips as to probing techniques or candy grabbing? I don't see any metal in the first cavern layer either.

[tonnot98]

Oops. Realized there's a board for this. Moving.

[Blue_Dwarf]

Have you tried digging long corridors on various layers? That usually let's you strike some veins. "Deep" metals are not really deep. there should be plenty of them a few layers under the surface.

[Brewster]

Maybe screen shot to show how much you've dug? Could be a area with the metals was maybe in a corner or something?

[Linkxsc]

Is it that the deep metals are only on 1 biome thats in the corner of your map or something?

[Uggh]

You know that metals are not found in pure form but contained in ore, e.g. in magnetite, galena, etc.? Sorry for the banal hint, but I have the impression that many new players started recently.

[Spectre Incarnate]

You know that metals are not found in pure form but contained in ore, e.g. in magnetite, galena, etc.? Sorry for the banal hint, but I have the impression that many new players started recently.

You make a good point, actually. If a new player is used to playing Terraria or Minecraft and the like, they may not realize metals need to be smelted from various ore, first. I didnt even think about that and will add it to my notes. 

[PatrikLundell]

And to build on Uggh's comment: When you find some kind of stone you don't know, use the Wiki's (http://dwarffortresswiki.org) search function to find out what it is.
And, by the way, metal DOES occasionally appear in the raw form (native gold, silver, etc), but that's limited to a few metals, and isn't the "standard" metal form, which is ore).

[Uggh]

But even those "natives" behave as ores and must be smelted to be used as regular metals, i.e. as bars.

[tonnot98]

I know about metals and such, it's just that I haven't even found any galena, cassiterite, magnetite, anything that could be smelted down into bars, just lots of gems and different kinds of stones.

[Spectre Incarnate]

I know about metals and such, it's just that I haven't even found any galena, cassiterite, magnetite, anything that could be smelted down into bars, just lots of gems and different kinds of stones.

And like others have mentioned, it could only be sitting in a remote corner somewhere. When you embarked, did you make note of what biomes these metals were in. That biome might only be a small piece of your map. Do some more exploratory digging in many different directions, right near the edges of the map.

You could also make a copy of your DF directory, abandon the fort in the copy, and then go back and check out the embark spot again and see what biome sections you should be digging under.