Cinnabar

[xTrainx]

i havent seen a rock on the surface in ages

[MagicManICT]

The starting areas are scarce of rock because people have used it all up. Boulders were only spawned when the world was created. Tocky ground (mountain terrain) can be dug for stone.

stuff

Just because it's what you found doesn't make it true for everyone in a random world. The stones you find and order they occur is going to be completely deterministic based on exactly where you started and direction you travel in. What type and where it can be found was randomly generated at world start. Overall you have the right idea, but your post isn't exactly correct, either, mainly because it's too narrow of a view (not everyone starts out at the same location and stone type can vary very frequently to infrequently).

[Teleskop]

The starting areas are scarce of rock because people have used it all up. Boulders were only spawned when the world was created. Tocky ground (mountain terrain) can be dug for stone.

stuff

Just because it's what you found doesn't make it true for everyone in a random world. The stones you find and order they occur is going to be completely deterministic based on exactly where you started and direction you travel in. What type and where it can be found was randomly generated at world start. Overall you have the right idea, but your post isn't exactly correct, either, mainly because it's too narrow of a view (not everyone starts out at the same location and stone type can vary very frequently to infrequently).

The main idea was that stones come in layers that change as you travel forward

[abt79]

Well if you've ever mined underground you'll know that boulders and groups of stone (and ore) underground both spawn as the same type in their own very small area.

And I mean really small, like maybe 10x10 at most

this isn't true. i've found no correlation at all between surface boulders and stone deposits in the cave layer.

boulders types seem to behave in some sort of supergrid typing where all the boulders are of the same few types (with an ore type that is rarely manifested) hours between, then they change to another group.

Really?
I have, there's a limestone quarry near my house with a limestone Boulder near it and a limestone deposit in a cave directly below

[abt79]

i havent seen a rock on the surface in ages

I see tons, being a lonely hermit who lives hours away from the spawn is great

[Turtlesir]

Well if you've ever mined underground you'll know that boulders and groups of stone (and ore) underground both spawn as the same type in their own very small area.

And I mean really small, like maybe 10x10 at most

this isn't true. i've found no correlation at all between surface boulders and stone deposits in the cave layer.

boulders types seem to behave in some sort of supergrid typing where all the boulders are of the same few types (with an ore type that is rarely manifested) hours between, then they change to another group.

Really?
I have, there's a limestone quarry near my house with a limestone Boulder near it and a limestone deposit in a cave directly below

probably a random congruence.