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Ripolix

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No iron ores
« on: January 06, 2012, 11:15:27 pm »

I've dug out half of my maps limestone layer which should yield to atleast a few veins of iron ore if i recall the wiki correctly but i simply didn't find any.

What is a good approach to get one of the three iron ores? Digging out the sedimentary layers didn't really work for me.

I don't want my dwarfs to run around in copper armor like dirty goblins nor do i have any tin to smelt bronze.
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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2012, 11:22:54 pm »

I've dug out half of my maps limestone layer which should yield to atleast a few veins of iron ore if i recall the wiki correctly but i simply didn't find any.

What is a good approach to get one of the three iron ores? Digging out the sedimentary layers didn't really work for me.

I don't want my dwarfs to run around in copper armor like dirty goblins nor do i have any tin to smelt bronze.

I would suggest that you embark near a volcano. And you don't need to dig out the ENTIRE layer. Just dig simple tunnels in a grid.

You can also smelt any goblin iron stuff to get goblinite.
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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2012, 11:30:58 pm »

I've dug out half of my maps limestone layer which should yield to atleast a few veins of iron ore if i recall the wiki correctly but i simply didn't find any.

What is a good approach to get one of the three iron ores? Digging out the sedimentary layers didn't really work for me.

I don't want my dwarfs to run around in copper armor like dirty goblins nor do i have any tin to smelt bronze.
And you don't need to dig out the ENTIRE layer.


I did the grid thing 7x7
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Ripolix

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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2012, 12:09:48 am »

How good is leather armor compared to copper?
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ayoriceball

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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2012, 12:11:53 am »

How good is leather armor compared to copper?

Copper is better.
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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2012, 04:36:06 am »

I don't want my dwarfs to run around in copper armor like dirty goblins nor do i have any tin to smelt bronze.

Damn straight! It's all about nekked time.

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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2012, 02:16:24 pm »

trade and kill goblins for your iron.  it's not that hard to get that way, flux is more of a pain since you only get it if you request it from dwarves and they only bring a few lumps at a time.
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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2012, 06:15:56 pm »

trade and kill goblins for your iron.  it's not that hard to get that way, flux is more of a pain since you only get it if you request it from dwarves and they only bring a few lumps at a time.

Nice joke, for a moment I thought you were serious about trading with goblins for iron... Right?

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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2012, 02:26:05 pm »

trade and kill goblins for your iron.  it's not that hard to get that way, flux is more of a pain since you only get it if you request it from dwarves and they only bring a few lumps at a time.

Nice joke, for a moment I thought you were serious about trading with goblins for iron... Right?

*chuckle* I should probably have phrased that better.  I meant trade, with humans and dwarves, and kill goblins.
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Re: No iron ores
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2012, 05:18:21 pm »

trade and kill goblins for your iron.  it's not that hard to get that way, flux is more of a pain since you only get it if you request it from dwarves and they only bring a few lumps at a time.

Nice joke, for a moment I thought you were serious about trading with goblins for iron... Right?
Heh, I thought he meant trading caged goblins for iron. XD
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