A17.1
With fully moded steel tools, coffee, lv 3 miner 69 perk, I spend 7 in game days(default setting) looking for coal ore in burnt forest. I couldn't found any. So I decided to cheat by editing the xml file as detailed here:
https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?60519-Ore-visible
Then I realize the ores are there, but the way it is generated makes it impossible for me to locate them, at least not with the way I mine.
1) There are way too many iron ores. It takes forever to find the gravels that actually has coal in it, even in burnt forest.
2) The size of veins are too small. So from the beginning you have a lower chance of hitting it.
3) The veins are actually not directly underneath the gravels cluster. You would think if you dig vertically toward bedrock from any coal-rich-gravel, you will hit coal vine. Except that is not how it is generated. Yes it worked for me in the pass three A17 games. However in this A17.1 game it never worked. And it doesn't work because the ore veins are much smaller and is off by 3 to 5 blocks from the gravel cluster.
TBH I think it is too harsh. I very much followed what the journal told me to do. After 7 days of digging I got nothing out of it. I know people are gona tell me to mod the game or buy ammo from trader. While that I can do I feel like such will take away mining from the game.
With fully moded steel tools, coffee, lv 3 miner 69 perk, I spend 7 in game days(default setting) looking for coal ore in burnt forest. I couldn't found any. So I decided to cheat by editing the xml file as detailed here:
https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?60519-Ore-visible
Then I realize the ores are there, but the way it is generated makes it impossible for me to locate them, at least not with the way I mine.
1) There are way too many iron ores. It takes forever to find the gravels that actually has coal in it, even in burnt forest.
2) The size of veins are too small. So from the beginning you have a lower chance of hitting it.
3) The veins are actually not directly underneath the gravels cluster. You would think if you dig vertically toward bedrock from any coal-rich-gravel, you will hit coal vine. Except that is not how it is generated. Yes it worked for me in the pass three A17 games. However in this A17.1 game it never worked. And it doesn't work because the ore veins are much smaller and is off by 3 to 5 blocks from the gravel cluster.
TBH I think it is too harsh. I very much followed what the journal told me to do. After 7 days of digging I got nothing out of it. I know people are gona tell me to mod the game or buy ammo from trader. While that I can do I feel like such will take away mining from the game.
