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They Got Leader

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Metals?
« on: April 06, 2011, 03:10:39 pm »

Okay, I understand the new thing about trying to make metals scarce, but is there any way to make it so that I have metals? Or do metals only appear in places that say "shallow metal" and "deep metal"?
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Re: Metals?
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2011, 03:15:04 pm »

One of the easiest ways I've seen is just to generate a world with higher resource amounts.

Also, volcanoes tend to have tons of metals.
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Re: Metals?
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2011, 03:15:32 pm »

Yeah, change the metal scarcity to 100, and you get everything everywhere basically (layer permitting, ofc.)
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Re: Metals?
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2011, 03:17:01 pm »

Or do metals only appear in places that say "shallow metal" and "deep metal"?
Yes. If it doesn't say either, it will have no metal ever (except the stuff deeeeeeeeeeeeeep down).
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Re: Metals?
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2011, 03:18:28 pm »

Thank you all.
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