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Author Topic: Best way to find metal now?  (Read 3447 times)

Jeoshua

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Re: Best way to find metal now?
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2011, 12:01:04 pm »

Yeah, when I found this out I facepalmed so hard:

Every biome border counts as a re-roll for the distribution of minerals.  So every biome that says "shallow metals" in an embark represents multiple hits that aren't necessarilly the same as the ones in the other biomes.

So 4 biomes of "metals" is at minimum (2*4)=8 different rolls on the random mineral table.

Also, you could always hack your raws in your save folder, remove [FLUX] from all metals and only put it back on to the metal you want.  Site finder will find those sites with the mineral you want, then you can embark on the site and save it, switch the inorganic files back, and then load up the game.

Assuming you're in the data\save\region\raw\object folder, and don't add or delete anything, you can mess with those tags and not require a regen.
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