Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Jeoshua]

So has anyone had the time to play with the new Mineral Scarcity feature in world gen 31.20?  I'm curious how it works.  Is it a straight up multiplier, that makes minerals just more abundant?  Does high or low give me more minerals (as low scarcity might mean high amounts - lack of scarcity)?  And does it affect the chances of getting more than one kind of mineral? Not much use if making minerals less scarce means I get a mountain loaded with 2 million tons of gold instead of just the one million... and nothing else.

[Krinogen]

a 100 metal scarcity make a lot of metal, look at this embark I made : http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3907

[Sutremaine]

I am so happy.

[Warlord255]

I'm hoping to see the return of the colored minerals with this tweak. I'm embarking to a world with it set to 1000, down (i.e. more minerals) from the base 2500. Let's see how it pans out.

[Tatterdemalian]

Set mineral scarcity to maximum (100000), and ended up with no dwarf cultures that I could buy iron ore from. After embarking in a 6x6 area, I took a look with dhprospector.

MILK OPAL : 14
QUARTZ_ROSE : 106
MOSS OPAL : 127
LAPIS LAZULI : 149
OPAL_HARLEQUIN : 167
PYROLUSITE : 170
RED PYROPE : 178
RHODOLITE : 265
PYRITE : 279
TETRAHEDRITE : 884
SPINEL_PURPLE : 1136
VIOLET SPESSARTINE : 2937
PRASE OPAL : 4484
CLEAR ZIRCON : 5778
MOSS AGATE : 6133
HELIODOR : 7791
RAW_ADAMANTINE : 8430
OPAL_LEVIN : 8941
HORNBLENDE : 19858
WOOD OPAL : 30655
SPHALERITE : 43763
CINNABAR : 52784
SLADE : 213924

Yes, that's 884 tetrahedrite in an entire 6x6 region, and it doesn't seem particularly unique. Obviously higher settings make minerals more scarce. Strangely, quantities of slade and adamantine seem about the same as usual, so I guess they're generated using a different algorithm.

[Jay]

quantities of slade and adamantine seem about the same as usual, so I guess they're generated using a different algorithm.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The deep isn't generated as veins or layers but as a static region at the bottom, as such will not be affected by scarcity of veins.

[sockless]

There's also 279 Pyrite.

[Lekegolo Khanid]

...Doesn't it say right on it...

Mineral Scarcity (lower = more metals)

I'm thinking 2500 is .19 levels, 1000 sounds to me like it would be good.

[Warlord255]

...Doesn't it say right on it...

Mineral Scarcity (lower = more metals)

I'm thinking 2500 is .19 levels, 1000 sounds to me like it would be good.

I can confirm that 1000 is pretty comfortable. Digging down, I've encountered tons of Cobaltite and Microcline in the Caverns, a healthy amount of Galena down there, and great Magnetite and Coal distribution on the surface.

[BulMaster]

...Doesn't it say right on it...

Mineral Scarcity (lower = more metals)

I'm thinking 2500 is .19 levels, 1000 sounds to me like it would be good.

I can confirm that 1000 is pretty comfortable. Digging down, I've encountered tons of Cobaltite and Microcline in the Caverns, a healthy amount of Galena down there, and great Magnetite and Coal distribution on the surface.

Right but which setting equals 1000? Scarce? Frequent? Will be at least 8h before I can try it

[Girlinhat]

Check the Fort Mode forums.  We got someone to do Science!!! for us (not !!Science!! since this was a controlled experiment).

[BulMaster]

Funny I was just reading the thread you speak off. Coincidence?

[Girlinhat]

I'm sure many people view both forums.  Not so much "coincidence" as "highly likely".