PC Coal! Where are you?
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dashbarron
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I haven't run into (or tried looking for) for lead or coal, but I have never found such a large vein of iron as I have now. I've made 1000 rebar frames, probably another 600 pieces of forged iron, 100 or so iron bars, I currently have just under 25,000 pieces of iron smelted in the furnace, and I have 7 stack (1200) pieces of raw iron sitting in the chest, plus 2x 1200's in the furnace that's shutoff. I probably have around 40% iron left in the vein I found. This is A LOT of iron, more than I've had access to. Just doing the math, tha's a lot more iron that could be smelted down.
I dug down from the base level of a mound probably 22 blocks high, probably...30 blocks deep to find the start of the vein. It extends another 10-15 blocks down, and...very wide, maybe 25-30?
I dug down from the base level of a mound probably 22 blocks high, probably...30 blocks deep to find the start of the vein. It extends another 10-15 blocks down, and...very wide, maybe 25-30?
There is a commented section in the blocks.xml (around row 24823) that assigns blocks of various things to the different ores and ores+gravel underground. Just uncomment that section and go into DM in your game and use god mode (or clipping) to slip underground to see them.
I finally found a seam of coal in the burnt forest, dug 12 mines in total looking for it but in the end found a good seam and got 3k of coal, I already had the nitrate, nailed the next horde night relatively easily. (love guns *in games*)
I read all the info people posted and in the end set out a wood frame square over 'sandy' areas where small rocks spawn approx 12 x 12 then reduced this. I cleared the first 2 layers of earth and sand, if i got coal mixed in with the sand i was clearing i continued to dig following the sand down to find the coal rather than just going straight to bedrock which never worked, all the coal i have found so far has been within the first 12 blocks down including soil. If i got no coal mixed in i moved on to another spawn site, also Coal looks pretty much the same as some of the darker natural stone, they should consider changing it.
i shall repeat again in the next 7 days to see if it works again but have more faith than just digging to bedrock and counting back 10 - 14 from base
I read all the info people posted and in the end set out a wood frame square over 'sandy' areas where small rocks spawn approx 12 x 12 then reduced this. I cleared the first 2 layers of earth and sand, if i got coal mixed in with the sand i was clearing i continued to dig following the sand down to find the coal rather than just going straight to bedrock which never worked, all the coal i have found so far has been within the first 12 blocks down including soil. If i got no coal mixed in i moved on to another spawn site, also Coal looks pretty much the same as some of the darker natural stone, they should consider changing it.
i shall repeat again in the next 7 days to see if it works again but have more faith than just digging to bedrock and counting back 10 - 14 from base
Gazz
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If you look at the screenshot you see that
a) not all "ore areas" are connected to the surface, meaning no gravel areas on top of them and
b) a few of these are shallow so you may follow a gravel trail and bump into solid rock. (trololololololololololol...)
It's just a 3D noise function.
a) not all "ore areas" are connected to the surface, meaning no gravel areas on top of them and
b) a few of these are shallow so you may follow a gravel trail and bump into solid rock. (trololololololololololol...)
It's just a 3D noise function.