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[Hurkyl]

Try building large parts of your fort mainly in veins and clusters of ore.

This is a great idea. Would make it much more "organic". I fear with very rare mineral occurrence I might lack sufficient amounts of ore for building, my current embark has deep metal + flux on 1 tile and deep metals on the 3 other tiles - or does it only affect the world map but the veins that exist have the same size? Probably will try to make my fortress directly above the magma sea + in the ore veins - just need a bit of preparation to get water and agriculture down there.

I confess I've never planned to do this. I recall the first time I did:

• Okay, dug out a small square up top for my farms
• Okay, dig a 10 Z stair to figure out what level I want to carve out my initial space
• Oh look, gold. I should build my first bedrooms here. I wonder how far this vein and the next go.
• Gah, there's enough room here to fit my stockpiles... and my workshops too with a little tweaking....
• Ack I have no stone for blocks. That's okay, I'll build my Depot and my above ground walls out of solid gold bars....
• An ambush! An ambush! An ambush! It's okay since I just installed bridges with levers and cut out the ramps, so I can seal myself in.
• Oh wait, I missed a ramp.

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Try building large parts of your fort mainly in veins and clusters of ore.

This is a great idea. Would make it much more "organic". I fear with very rare mineral occurrence I might lack sufficient amounts of ore for building, my current embark has deep metal + flux on 1 tile and deep metals on the 3 other tiles - or does it only affect the world map but the veins that exist have the same size? Probably will try to make my fortress directly above the magma sea + in the ore veins - just need a bit of preparation to get water and agriculture down there.

I confess I've never planned to do this. I recall the first time I did:

Well, I dug a first exploratory shaft down to the magma and the only ore I found was sphalerite... I guess I need a backup plan I may not find enough ore here to put a fortress into it.