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[Ianflow]

It is a common problem, not being able to find flux. However, this is usually people just having their settings for minerals 250 or under.
I'm curious what settings you use, do you put them super high to challenge yourself?
Do you put them at insanely low?
What do you think is the best mix?

[Sutremaine]

I either set it really high, or fairly low. In between means that you get a bunch of different stone types knocking about the fortress, but not necessarily useful ones.

[Grey Goo]

Medium one. I want to find minerals but also I want be able to mine them all away. Unmined veils gives me mental hives...

[klefenz]

I put the minerals setting to "everywhere". I dont use the advanced parameters

[Nyxalinth]

I usually go with the very frequent setting, whatever it is.  Recently, since I was sick of the dearth of iron ore in my big fort, I did everywhere...now I have iron coming out of my ears, and there's no damn flux anywhere on the map.  Yet, the Mountainhomes manage to bring some some.  Hmmm...

[FrankMcFuzz]

I LIKE to put it on frequent so I have more choices for embark, but I have been putting it on sparse recently to challenge.

[Button]

I set it to 400-500 if I'm playing normally, or 1000 if I'm playing an "import your metals" challenge.

Higher than that just means that the traders won't have a lot of metals available, which isn't very fun.

(Keeping in mind that I tend to create very savage worlds, which tends to limit non-elves' expansion due to all of the giant [LARGE_PREDATOR]s.)

[Raphite1]

I leave it at the default "sparse." It adds some fun variety to forts to start your military around different metals.

Copper armor with a few bronze pieces, and maybe a steel weapon or two once the first caravan arrives?

Iron armor and weapons with gradual upgrade to steel?

Hammerdwarves with silver weapons clad in leather, gradually upgrading armor as trade progresses?

Really helps each fort be memorable.

[KroganElite]

I'm currently playing on frequent to get into the game again. Next game I will most likely set it to scarce.

[WoobMonkey]

I usually set scarcity to around 300 - generally, I'm not even underground until the first winter, and by then I need the metals.  (I prefer no-point embarks)

I find the challenge doesn't change much with scarcity, anyways; if minerals are scarce for you, they're also scarce for every other civ in the world; same goes if they're frequent.

[KroganElite]

I usually set scarcity to around 300 - generally, I'm not even underground until the first winter, and by then I need the metals.  (I prefer no-point embarks)

I find the challenge doesn't change much with scarcity, anyways; if minerals are scarce for you, they're also scarce for every other civ in the world; same goes if they're frequent.

Does it actually work that way? Like if there is no copper in the world, goblins will never come with copper weapons/armor?

[Abadayos]

I've been playing around with advanced settings set at 100 (lowest possible) and had some pretty funny results (20,000 Adamantine on a single 5x5 embark in one case for example and many times having 180k+ gold on the same embarks).

Makes it a bit too easy to make stuff to sell to caravans at the start, just go nuts with iron trap components (spiked balls) and buy out even the first dwarf one quite easily with iron stuff...even easier with steel. However there is always the bottleneck of fuel and/or flux.

[PaleBlueHammer]

I set it around 500 in the init.  But honestly, I'd be fine leaving it the way it is at default if only it were a little easier to find some stinking IRON.  I'm really okay with gold and native silver and platinum all being super rare, but honestly I think I find gold 200% easier to find than basic, plain old iron.

[mobucks]

If you are finding Iron to be too rare on your worlds set "z levels above ground" to 1 in the adv. world gen.

Apparently there is a bug or something. Any empty space above your fort is the space that the iron would have been or something. You can manually re-add those missing z-levels above ground using DFHack or something.

Or something.

[PaleBlueHammer]

If you are finding Iron to be too rare on your worlds set "z levels above ground" to 1 in the adv. world gen.

Apparently there is a bug or something. Any empty space above your fort is the space that the iron would have been or something. You can manually re-add those missing z-levels above ground using DFHack or something.

Or something.

Whoa, really?  BRB, genning a new world