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Author Topic: Wheres all the ore!  (Read 3848 times)

caddybear

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Re: Wheres all the ore!
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2012, 11:06:48 am »

Best iron ore is magnetite.
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quarague

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Re: Wheres all the ore!
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2012, 12:50:04 pm »

I wanted to start a new thread but this one seems to fit well. I just started a new embark and put mineral scarcity to everywhere in world gen, and indeed this does mean everywhere (did anything change here since the last one or two updates?) Just visible on the outside prior do any digging this 4x4 embark has:
Cassiterite, Galena, Garnierite, Gold, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Malachite, Platinum, Sphalerite and Tetrahedrite ore
Lignite and Bitumous Coal and  plenty of Limestone
I wonder what else I will find when I start digging :-)
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darkrider2

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Re: Wheres all the ore!
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2012, 12:53:29 pm »

Holy crap. Did you embark on a mountain range or something? Cause I didn't know those things could all show up in a single layer.
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Re: Wheres all the ore!
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2012, 06:06:18 pm »

My miners have been searching for a long time and not a single ore has been pulled out of the ground, ive somewhat thoroughly searched the siltstone layer on the top and now im starting on the marble and granite down in the deepness but theres not much before you hit a warm stone. My military is quite underpowered as a result!

The all important ore hematite appears in igneous stone layers while siltstone appears in
sedimentary layers and marble is metamorphic.
I'm guessing you only embark on volcanoes?
No I barely ever embark on volcanos and when I do I never get hematite
I was just being a idoit.
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