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Darion

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Finding a good embark.
« on: May 15, 2011, 03:10:48 pm »
It's been a while since i could find a good embark (With iron, flux and coal).
What should i search to find a good embark? I tried flux + shallow metals, shallow + deep... but nothing.
Can anyone help meh? :|
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Stil

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Re: Finding a good embark.
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2011, 03:25:49 pm »
Maybe fiddle with the metal scarcity in world creation?

Coal? What's coal? :(
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Re: Finding a good embark.
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2011, 05:46:43 pm »
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Stil

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Re: Finding a good embark.
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2011, 10:40:46 pm »
Quote from: gtmattz on May 15, 2011, 05:46:43 pm
Quote from: Stil on May 15, 2011, 03:25:49 pm
Coal? What's coal? :(

Lignite, bituminous coal, burned wood...
Oh I know that. But 50 played out embarks and I've only found 2 sites with bituminous. It's all burned wood for me usually.
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Re: Finding a good embark.
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 10:55:19 pm »
Yeah, Toady kinda killed the amount of iron available.

I gen with frequent, now. It's pretty much everywhere.
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Mr. Svinlesha

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Re: Finding a good embark.
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2011, 12:24:24 pm »
I've been using advanced settings to generate worlds, and dropped the metal frequency number to less than half it's default, but I'm having the same problem finding iron.
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Kestrel

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Re: Finding a good embark.
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2011, 12:31:19 pm »
I don't worry about iron so much anymore.  Melt goblinite or trade for what you don't have.  Problem solved.  I'll trade for anything I can melt.

I've been super fortunate with coal embarks lately, but otherwise I'd just shoot straight down to the magma and work with that. 
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