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[Darion]

What are shallow and deep metals?

[Nameless Archon]

What are shallow and deep metals?

Ores of metals that are found, respectively, shallowly or deeply planted at your embark site.

[Darion]

I mean, what are the metals within shallow and deep metals?

Quick edit: Do i find iron ores with shallows?

[Lytha]

This is more complicated than you know.

Limonite would be a shallow metal, but Hematite can be in the depths as well as on the surface.

The shallow minerals could also be gold, galena, copper, or simply just some clusters of gypsum or gems.


What you want to do is to just embark somewhere with both shallow and deep stuff, run the DFprospector (part of the DFhack) and check out what you've got. If you only got tetrahedrite and gold, then maybe embark somewhere else.

[Darion]

Thanks

[Quietust]

Limonite would be a shallow metal, but Hematite can be in the depths as well as on the surface.

Hematite occurs within sedimentary and igneous extrusive layers, both of which appear only at the surface.

[Lytha]

Really? I was pretty sure that I once found hematite quite deep downstairs. Not above the magma sea or anything, but also nowhere near the soil layers.