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[Misterstone]

OK, so I understand that each mountain tile on the world map has adamantine in it somewhere, although your fortress may not be sited on top of it.  Here are some questions I have:

1)  Can you only find it in the mountain BIOME of the mountain square?  Say you site on a mountain tile in an area that has a mountain biome neighbored by desert... could the adamantium be under the desert somewhere?

2)  Is adamantine totally anomalous as far as geological phenomenon go, or can you predict where it might be from the surrounding rock layers?

3)  If I build a fortress on a red ^ tile in the world map, but there is no mountain biome there (just a forest, say, and a magma vent) is it possible to find adamantine there?

4)  If I see a mountain biome in a world-map tile that is not a mountain (for instance, a lake tile bordering high mountains) can I find adamantine there?

5)  Is it more likely to be found in an area deeper into the mountain biome, or is this not important?

So I guess the question is- is the blue stuff found in mountain world map tiles, or specifically in mountain biome areas in those world maps?

[ November 25, 2007: Message edited by: Misterstone ]

[RPB]

quote:Originally posted by Misterstone:
<STRONG>1)  Can you only find it in the mountain BIOME of the mountain square?  Say you site on a mountain tile in an area that has a mountain biome neighbored by desert... could the adamantium be under the desert somewhere?

2)  Is adamantine totally anomalous as far as geological phenomenon go, or can you predict where it might be from the surrounding rock layers?

3)  If I build a fortress on a red ^ tile in the world map, but there is no mountain biome there (just a forest, say, and a magma vent) is it possible to find adamantine there?

4)  If I see a mountain biome in a world-map tile that is not a mountain (for instance, a lake tile bordering high mountains) can I find adamantine there?

5)  Is it more likely to be found in an area deeper into the mountain biome, or is this not important?

So I guess the question is- is the blue stuff found in mountain world map tiles, or specifically in mountain biome areas in those world maps?

[ November 25, 2007: Message edited by: Misterstone ]</STRONG>

1) It's limited to the parts of the local map actually covered by mountain biome tiles.

2) Totally anomalous.

3) Pretty sure it isn't.

4) Don't know

5) Does not appear to matter

[Karlito]

quote:Originally posted by Misterstone:
<STRONG>OK, so I understand that each mountain tile on the world map has adamantine in it somewhere, although your fortress may not be sited on top of it.  Here are some questions I have:</STRONG>

from what I understand its each mountain tile in the region map.

[Misterstone]

Er.. right, that's what I meant!

[palin88]

What I did was declare a huge area as my embark selection in the mountain area I was interested in. Then I ran reveal and did some guesswork to figure out where each feature was located on the local map. Then it was just the task of figuring out the smallest embark area I could define that still included the pit, chasm, and magma. The waterfall and underground river got the axe, since I would have had to expand my selected area too much to include them.

[Akael]

I believe that adamantine and other cave features are much more common in "large" mountains, the ones that are further into the mountain range. Peaks especially.

Otherwise, I don't really know. Cave rivers and lakes seem almost harder to find than adamantine right now.