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[betamax]

I dig around 7x7 squares. If i ever need room for something random, these can be dug out into 5x5 rooms.

[Greenbane]

Brute Square Mass Mining. The true dwarvenly way.

Whatever time you gain with the other methods, you lose it when laying out all those flimsy lines. BSMM's good to train your miners, and if they're Legendary already, then they'll be done pretty quick.

[Katsuun]

Brute Square Mass Mining. The true dwarvenly way.

Whatever time you gain with the other methods, you lose it when laying out all those flimsy lines. BSMM's good to train your miners, and if they're Legendary already, then they'll be done pretty quick.

That sounds vaguely wrong somehow... (escapes)

[Hectonkhyres]

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###### = Up/down stairs. Whereupon I remove the stairs level by level 'till I have massive caves.

 Sure it takes forever and most of the stone is forbidden, but I always embark with a sedimentary layer for ores and such rocks are always somewhat valuable.

Up/down stairs? Your dwarves will fall to their horribly gruesome deaths with the few survivors trying to claw their way back to the surface on jagged, protruding shards of bone from a dozen compound fractures. And, when they get there, their countrymen will gather together the microscopic amount of pity possessed by those of the dwarven race and will provide the only sort of pity they know how: an axe of mining pick applied directly to the forehead.
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Awesome.

[Hyndis]

I had modded reactions where I can prospect ordinary stone for metal bars. Its far less efficient than using the actual ore, but at least its a source of metal, and it uses up all of those rocks laying around

Thus, I tend not to do very much exploratory mining. Usually just digging out my fort provides enough metal ore and stone to prospect. A good sized fort will produce around 7,000 rocks, and even at an inefficient ratio its still a very ample supply of metal.

If given enough time that is. Prospecting ain't quick! But it keeps the soap makers busy.

[shadow_archmagi]

I like to pick a Z level and designate the entire thing.

[SolarShado]

I use a mix, depending on what i'm looking for. Lately, i've found plenty of ore just digging out my fort. But i tend to use:

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rDrrDrAlthough I rarely use the gems that method turns up, I always hoard them for some reason...

[Taritus]

A while ago someone posted a theoretical 'perfect' method that revolved around exploiting the fact that you'll only find 1 large cluster in each 48x48 tile area.  The basic idea consisted of poking the center of each 48x48 and then mining away the goods you discover.  You barely mine anything exploring that way.

[Skorpion]

Brute Square Mass Mining. The true dwarvenly way.

Whatever time you gain with the other methods, you lose it when laying out all those flimsy lines. BSMM's good to train your miners, and if they're Legendary already, then they'll be done pretty quick.

Maybe in an early fort, but when you've got screw pumps going constantly, water flow, lots of dorfs, piles of junk everywhere and a big map, it's quicker to not mine half the map.

[Duke 2.0]

Brute Square Mass Mining. The true dwarvenly way.

Whatever time you gain with the other methods, you lose it when laying out all those flimsy lines. BSMM's good to train your miners, and if they're Legendary already, then they'll be done pretty quick.

Maybe in an early fort, but when you've got screw pumps going constantly, water flow, lots of dorfs, piles of junk everywhere and a big map, it's quicker to not mine half the map.

Dear sir, you must be misunderstanding us. We intend to mine the whole map.

[Gork]

15x15 grid, good enough to find odd features and those huge iron clusters - who needs chrysoprase or rock crap?

[Martin]

Orc mod. Invite caravans into the trade depot. Allow orcs in behind them. Pull up drawbridge behind the orcs. Wait for the orcs to finish their business. Kill the orcs.

Steady flow of gems/bars from the caravan, steady flow of iron from the orcs. Map doesn't get messy from extraneous digging. Trade depot marinates in blood a few times a year.

[Porpoisepower]

I just figured out a way to mine 2 levels at once, rather efficiently(although you'll spend quite a bit of time in the designation screen, your first Z level But it's a great way to find everything without mining every other stone out



So the Blue/purple(Porpoises are colorblind, or atleast this one is) squares are normal mined out sections. White is not mined, and the black bits are up/down stairs. I originally thought about channeling, but if your use an updown stair, and another on the level below,  It's considerably easier to get the goodies below, plus on every level subsiquent all you need toneed to do is dig another updown stair.

I anycase everything will be revealed.

[Jim Groovester]

Since the game map's size is 48x48 times the embark dimensions, I just dig long shafts through the center of each 48x48 square. Since veins do not cross between 48x48 squares, I can likely find any vein within and get a good grasp of what sort of gems are there as well. It also means I don't have to spend forever revealing every tile in an alunite cluster with needlessly complicated exploratory mining systems.

[ThtblovesDF]

Straight lines all over the place, 2 lazy to go into detail....