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[iFreshco]

As the title says, I've dug down to the caverns after getting a basic fort up and every single layer has been metamorphic (No flux or iron).

I think I've gotten a few pieces of tetrahedite for copper, and I've found a gigantic vein of gold, but I'm feeling really wary about making valuables without good materials for armor and weapons.  Should I just restart in a different embark location?  It's only been a season and a half so far.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Bear in mind that hematite is also found in igneous extrusive layers, and that gold isn't found in metamorphic layers - it's only in igneous. Also, marble is a metamorphic flux stone.

What specific layers do you have?

[iFreshco]

Top is slate, then granite for around 6 z levels, then it's gneiss and schist until I hit phyllite, granite (one of these granite z levels has gold), then diorite until I hit quartzite caverns.

Also, I found tetrahedrite, not hematite.  So I guess I dont have copper at all either.

So it's all igneous intrusive and metamorphic, nothing worth noting except gold, which is just a Fun magnet for the unprepared fort, which I have.

[acetech09]

Read up on your ores and layers, man.

All I have to say.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Also, I found tetrahedrite, not hematite.  So I guess I dont have copper at all either.

Tetrahedrite is copper and silver.

[jellsprout]

Do you have sand? Crank out as many Large, Serrated Green Glass Discs as possible and stuff your entrance with them. Since the material fix this is an effective defense.
Otherwise do the same thing, but with copper and silver instead.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Use your gold wealth to import and buy any iron or bronze items or appropriate ores/bars from caravans. My arctic fort has a full-steel military despite not having any iron on the map.