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[Juason]

Howdy again guys.  So, in .25 I hardly ever see Flux listed in the embark window.  Furthermore, when I search for Flux using the finder, it highlights areas with no flux visible.  My last 10 embarks on those tiles have had no flux on the map (verified using propsector).  Is this a bug or am I missing something?  Also, is there a way to increase Flux occurance using the advanced worldgen options?

Thanks!

[IT 000]

Could you give us an example with the prospector? You may be overlooking something.

[zerin]

Yup, same thing happens to me. No flux listed, but crazy amounts of marble were present at my last fort.

[Juason]

Embark sites will list :

Some Soil
Shallow Metals
Deep Metals

A search with Flux:Yes will highlight it in Green, as though it has flux.  REVEAL and PROSPECTOR show no Flux present in the embark location at all.

I just scoured the last world I generated, and saw less than three spaces (of the hundreds present) showing Flux in the list of resources present.  Something seems broken.

[Juason]

Something else I am noticing, the FLUX finder search never green-highlights areas of a mountainous nature.  Maybe it is backwards?

Just to add some info - I am using an advanced embark mineral scarcity of 230, and removed the aquifer tag from a few of the soil types in the RAWs (since I had 95% aquifer coverage and I prefer to avoid them).  Otherwise it is a vanilla world with nothing special added or removed.

[zerin]

Something else I am noticing, the FLUX finder search never green-highlights areas of a mountainous nature.  Maybe it is backwards?

Just to add some info - I am using an advanced embark mineral scarcity of 230, and removed the aquifer tag from a few of the soil types in the RAWs (since I had 95% aquifer coverage and I prefer to avoid them).  Otherwise it is a vanilla world with nothing special added or removed.

I, too, removed the aquifer tags and set a custom mineral scarcity tag. I'll gen up a vanilla world and see if the problem persists.

[EDIT] Setting the mineral scarcity higher and higher seems to make flux still appear in the world for me but not in the embark windows. Search returned a huge list of places containing flux, but none were listed.

[Juason]

After setting the mineral scarcity back up over 1000 I am seeing FLUX displayed in the embark screen again.  Anything below that and its very rare to see it in the embark window. 

My theory is that low mineral scarcity breaks the embark screen's display of flux in areas.  The finder correctly identifies locations capable of carrying flux, but since each screen has multiple embark spots (of which I can only cover a 6x6 area max), its pure luck to actually embark on a biome containing flux. 

Any more insight into this problem would be appreciated!

[devek]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think prospector only shows ore/gems so flux won't show up on it.

[Juason]

If you use the -ab extension it seems to show flux stone.   Before trying prospector I always do a visual search using reveal.  Prospector is just a final check to see if I missed anything.

[HammerTime]

I have this same issue with a fresh install of .25 (Phoebus set).  Many locations showing up
in the finder, but only a few of them actually containing flux according to the minerals
indicator.  I didn't use prospector though.

Seems like a bug to me.

[barconis]

Something else I am noticing, the FLUX finder search never green-highlights areas of a mountainous nature.  Maybe it is backwards?

AFAIK, it doesn't highlight areas that you can't embark in, like deep inside mountain ranges. Plus, it highlights it if there's at least one embark location in the square that matches the search, but not necessarily the default site for that square. Sometimes (often) you have to hunt around to find the right biome. I haven't noticed any problems with flux specifically, but I haven't really been looking at that.

[Juason]

You seem correct about the mountains not being highlighted because they are not embarkable - however, I make sure to scan the entire embark site and none display FLUX in the list of substances present at that location.  It really looks like flux gets swapped with minerals when you set the scarcity lower.

[EveryZig]

When I embarked to a site that had no 'flux' label but was found through site finder, I found several layers of dolomite (a flux)

[Sjotrik]

Flux is extremely rare to me. And even if i find a location with flux, there is no metals there.

[Kessadir]

And even if i find a location with flux, there is no metals there.

I second that.

I had about 4 different fortresses on .24.
Even tho I had "flux" and "deep metals", the only thing I could find was cobaltite.

But I sure got a lot of adamantine :O