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[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

Hematite's what I always end up with since it can show up near volcanoes. Goblinite is the most useful, though, because it's available no matter your embark.

No it's not. Embark on an island and you may not get goblinite at all. And goblinite isn't always iron - in my last embark it was copper and silver (which was actually terrific because my mayor had a billon fetish).

Well, yeah, but in any fort that isn't boring .

[_DivideByZero_]

Hematite. You can't have Magnetite near a volcano unless you're lucky, whereas hematite is still much more common.

I had a bunch of magnetite on my first volcano which caused me to start this. 

Then you got lucky

You have to have a separate biome with sedimentary stone, because a volcano cannot occur in the same place as sedimentary stone.

[Rowanas]

Hematite. The colour is awesome, and it's blood rock!

[Byttingen]

Magnetite. It's everywhere and has a nice shade. (Easy on the eyes, unlike RED GODDAMN SAND)

[oneguy]

Iron oxcide is my fave, turns everything it rubs on an orangeish red color.

and is also an ingredient in Thermite.

[Koronii]

I personally favor tiger iron myself.

[antymattar]

I personally favor tiger iron myself.

LOL.

[davros]

Goblinite.

[UltraValican]

I personally favor tiger iron myself.

*Has traumatic flashback of my first fort*
My favorite type of iron is the kind that saves lives.

[Gorm]

My favorite is Thunderbolt Iron, but since that's not in the game I choose hematite, for both its color and its name. Blood stone for the Blood God!

[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

Another nice thing about hematite is that if you have enough of it that you don't need to smelt it, it has a great dark-red color and a relatively high value (for raw stone) so it's an excellent and under-utilized choice for building.

[The Master]

slade

[freeformschooler]

My real favorite type of iron has a y at the end.

[RevolutionaryDorf]

My favorite iron ore is magnetite:



I took this photo at the Rushmore Cave gift shop. A lot of gift shops have cabinets full of small polished rocks and ores that kids (or geology/DF fans) can buy, and there are also whole stores dedicated to selling rocks, ores, gems, fossils, and crafts made from all those. I bought a 2-pound chunk of Obsidian from one in Keystone, South Dakota. It's pretty cool to have something that you deal with in dwarf fortress on a regular basis.

[Urist Imiknorris]

My favorite is magnetite hematite magnetite anything but limonite. If I wanted yellow, I'd use orthoclase, and if I wanted non-magma-safe, I'd use one of the non-magma-safe layer stones that I'm almost certain to have.