Tips on finding ore

[Ailaa]

So i've spent 5 hours searching 4 different mountains for ore. And i've also spent around 5 hours mining in 3 different mines, not finding anything but stone, stone, stone. Anyone have some tips on how to find some ore? This is starting to get extremly frustrating.

[Garfy]

Keep looking.

One thing to consider is, it does not have names like copper ore, or tin ore. It has actual names like Malachite, or Cassiterite and so on. So one thing you can do is when you mine a stone, try to make a stockpile with it. If the stockpile is grey it's stone, if it's a reddish brown colour, it's ore.

[Ailaa]

Lol, nevermind. 5 minutes after i post this i find "Heavy Earth" that i can burn in the smelter, now exciting to see what i get^^

[Gabula]

Lol, nevermind. 5 minutes after i post this i find "Heavy Earth" that i can burn in the smelter, now exciting to see what i get^^

How did you find "Heavy Earth", just by digging? In any particular spot?

[Óðinn]

This 'heavy dirt' is a historically accurate technique they used in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries where the earth had pieces of iron etc. in it and they melted it and through some complex thing managed to make iron with it.

I think it's based on that, anyway.

[Sevenless]

Sounds like bog iron to me.

Question remains: where'd that come from?

It wouldn't be the first surface metal source we've found.

Edit: Yeah looking it up I can't find any references to "heavy dirt", at least in english. I'm going with bog iron

[Garfy]

Sounds like bog iron to me.

Question remains: where'd that come from?

It wouldn't be the first surface metal source we've found.

Edit: Yeah looking it up I can't find any references to "heavy dirt", at least in english. I'm going with bog iron

You can get pretty much any ore both above and below ground.

Can confirm the following appear as boulders above ground. Cassiterite, Malachite, Heavy Earth and Black Coal (black ore does too, if it is indeed an ore).
Have found most of those in caves too and others that I've not found boulders of yet.

One thing to note though is not every ore is good. Iron Ochre for example gives iron, but it's about a 1% chance or something retarded.

[Óðinn]

Heavy Dirt

Check the video for what 'heavy dirt' probably represents.

In laymans terms, basically there is just soil that is very iron rich. I think it had to do with the streams of water coming down from the mountainous areas in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (OK, more like Skane, but that was at the time Sjaelandish and thus 'Danish') and taking iron with them. Ofcourse this wasn't ore, but it landed in the soil.

They just grabbed the soil and did the above procedure to extract iron. It wasn't perfect, actually it was very bad 'iron' compared to other places.

But a sword is a sword

[Sevenless]

You can get pretty much any ore both above and below ground.

Can confirm the following appear as boulders above ground. Cassiterite, Malachite, Heavy Earth and Black Coal (black ore does too, if it is indeed an ore).
Have found most of those in caves too and others that I've not found boulders of yet.

One thing to note though is not every ore is good. Iron Ochre for example gives iron, but it's about a 1% chance or something retarded.

Oh I was getting excited there might be renewable metal deposits of some kind in swamps, didn't realize it was a boulder :< Alas, too much realism!

Black Ore is an ore, I made a stockpile with it.

[Ailaa]

Lol, nevermind. 5 minutes after i post this i find "Heavy Earth" that i can burn in the smelter, now exciting to see what i get^^

How did you find "Heavy Earth", just by digging? In any particular spot?

I just went into a mine and started digging. Second place i dug at had heavy dirt. But only 6-7 tiles? So i started digging about 10 tiles away from it, and found some more. Seems like they go like a "vein"