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[alpha]

I have played dwarf fortress a long time ago and I seem to remember that I could see layers of the location on the embark screen (like sedimentary layer, etc).

I've recently came back to df and now I see that you can't see them anymore? I have only noticed it after my first embark ended up with all layers being igneous intrusive or metamorphic ( = no iron ever ).

So I guess my real question is: how do you, without utilites/tools, pick an embark location in 0.44.07 to ensure that you'll be able to have iron?

[PatrikLundell]

You can't. You'd have to use utilities or luck, and there's a significant scarcity of tools that work with 0.44.07 until DFHack is updated...

Edit:
Well, I guess you can copy the save, embark, speed dig, and then discard the game to embark properly once you've found what you were looking for.

[alpha]

Well, this is annoying  I hope the layers view will be brought back. Not a fan of the savescum & speeddig solution.

EDIT: this wouldn't be such HUGE a problem if you could tell caravan "bring me 1000-10000 bars of iron please" but as you can't do that either, this is a real problem I think.

[PatrikLundell]

The DFHack plugin embark-assistant provides you with search functions for metals etc., but DFHack hasn't been updated yet (and the release is several hours old!) and you didn't want tools...

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169634.0

Also, you can just rob visitors, up the metal abundance, use goblinite,...

[Kametec_Housen]

I use a tip on wiki for finding a location with sedimentary layer:

To find the ores of iron, search for a location that has shallow metals, flux stone, medium elevation, and either high or low drainage.

(http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Sedimentary_layer)

I used the search function, paid attention to and made sure that all these requirements are met in a single biome and I've found an embark with Limonite on first try.

[alpha]

I use a tip on wiki for finding a location with sedimentary layer:

To find the ores of iron, search for a location that has shallow metals, flux stone, medium elevation, and either high or low drainage.

(http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Sedimentary_layer)

I used the search function, paid attention to and made sure that all these requirements are met in a single biome and I've found an embark with Limonite on first try.

Thanks for the tip, I will definitely try this!