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[Sjotrik]

So, Hey all! New DF player here, ready to ask a question.

I have gotten my claws into a laarge heap of iron, there is like an endless load of it, but, the problem is that
i never find any coal! And my furnace operator won`t smelt any of it because he needs refined coal. fuel made by wood doesen`t work, and there is no coal to be found. what to do?

Am i just searching in the wrong areas? I don`t know much about layers and such, but coal is non the less close to nowhere to be found. :/
Any pros here that could give me som tips & tricks?

[ThrowerOfStones]

Fuel made by wood DOES work. Just burn it into charcoal at a wood burning furnace.

[agatharchides]

Most maps nowadays won't have coal. If you make a wood burner you can fuel your forges with charcoal. The best way is to dig all the way down until you hit magma since magma forges need no fuel unless you are making steel.

[Minnakht]

Pretty much.

Basically, you need charcoal or coke. Charcoal is made of wood at a Wood Furnace, and you need a Wood Burner to make it.
Coke is made out of lignite or bituminous coal at a Smelter, you need a Furnace Operator.

Seeing as you need come coke or charcoal to make coke, you have to start with charcoal or buy coke/bring it on embark.

Or just dig deeper, hit magma, and exploit it.

[Sjotrik]

Oh, okay. thanks for all the help. will certainly try this out.

[Naryar]

Another thread that can reasonably be answered by "MAGMA" as second post.

Yeah find magma really, and use magma smelters. It's way too annoying to smelt every single ore you want from coal.

[Flying Dice]

1. Use a Wood Burner to make charcoal.
2. Dig down to the magma, make magma forges.
3. Use the Prospect tool to check your map for coal.
4. Edit some reactions into the raws to make coal and flux stone, just so you don't have to go through this with your next fortress. Alternately, gen a world with 100+ volcanos and embark on one for instant access to all the magma your forging and gobbo-melting desires could need.

[Newbunkle]

The only time I've found coal since the minerals update is when I cranked the slider up to max. I've even played a few forts with it above average and haven't got any. I haven't used any programs to cheat and find it, but it seems a bit weird after playing the earlier versions. I wonder why it's always so rare? It's not like more coal would be broken since every map has magma anyway.

[Sjotrik]

Well, on my first fortress, i found more coal than i could ever use, but no iron. :/

And, if i set the slider for mineral occurance to "Everywhere!" i rarely find flux stone.

[Carrock]

I did have a fortress with the current version containing iron, flux, and lignite (bituminous coal would've been too good). Unfortunately it got wiped out by a ludicrously early ambush, before I'd got any form of defence set up. You've got to get really lucky to have all the ingredients handy.

You've got a better chance of finding shallow magma. It can be very deep but isn't always, I'm presently on the magma sea at a mere 33 z levels down.

[Krelos]

My current fortress has bituminous coal, hematite, marble and obsidian layers, plus several other ores.
I set the ore occurrence to 500, its about 50% more plentiful than it was in 40d. Works great.

(Obsidian is modded to be an ore of mithril thread strands in my game (you need a lot (plus flux and coal) to make any bars of it))

[Naryar]

I have no coal on my map, sadly.

[Minnakht]

I have lots of magnetite up there, coal and lignite, marble... no obsidian, and magma over 80 levels down.

I went there already, being done with the main 2x2 staircase in Spring. Now to mine out the whole complex...

[Sjotrik]

Made a new fortress, which now has bituminious coal and limonite. ^^ Sadly, no flux stone yet. :/ although, the location finder showed me that it was flux there, so i should look some more.

And how to you change "ore occurance" to 500? havn`t seen that before. :O

[Minnakht]

Advanced worldgen parameters let you do a lot to the world. You can set mineral occurrence, number of volcanoes, and so on, and so on...