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[Eavan]

Hi, I've been playing Dwarven Fortress for a while and have been looking around on the forums and I just decided to start on a mod. Only problem is that my stone (bentonite shale) just won't appear!

Here's the matgloss...

[MATGLOSS_STONE:BENTONITE]
[NAME:bentonite shale][COLOR:4:7:0][TILE:156]
[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:VEIN:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:CLUSTER:100]
[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:CLUSTER_SMALL:100]
[ITEM_SYMBOL:'*']
[METAL_ORE:PLASTIC:100]
[SOLID_DENSITY:5100]
[VALUE:8]

I made a new world after I put this in the matgloss file, and had my miners dig out tons of rock to explore for it, but I couldn't find it. Help?

EDIT: Crud, I just found it. Oh well, I still want to make it MUCH more common, any way to do that?

[Yanlin]

I'm no DF modder but I think the problem lies with the metal being a plastic.

[Eavan]

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case, because it's just a metal called plastic.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Random mining is a poor way to check if the new stone is being generated.  Embark in an area with massive cliffs (and the correct rock type) and you can just scan the walls to see if their is an outcropping of the stone.  Or for even more power use map reveal.

[Yanlin]

I might be wrong but I think you also need to specify a biome.

[Kagus]

I actually am a modder.


Remove the values for veins and small clusters, they will take up space that could be used for major clusters.  It won't change frequency, but it will change amount.

Secondly, put it into more layer types than just sedimentary.  Locations with good sedimentary layers are actually relatively difficult to find.


If you feel like really going overboard, make the Bentonite itself into a layer.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Kagus:  Could you elaborate a bit more, are you saying that having three types (Vein, Large Cluster, Small Cluster) means that the map will have a roughly a third of each but if only Large Cluster was used then the same number of instances will be generated but now ALL will be large clusters providing a much larger amount of ore?

Do you know how the number of veins and clusters is determined on a map, if we flood the raws with stone types that can appear only in Large clusters would every available 48x48 block contain a cluster?