What to do..?

[Ahhburn]

So me and my friend (and possibly more friends in the near future) have decided to start gutting out this game to build at least a small village with a farm and the likes, first and foremost our rustic "homebase", which at the moment is just two hearth fires and a lean-to, is built close to a large village called ARMENIA. I know nothing about this village, is it safe to build close-ish to it or should we move on and find a better place? Second, I've heard that the chances of finding a mine are about zero now with all of the villages and such built and claimed now, is this going to be a huge problem to us? I'm not planning on making a super-village, just a nice little safe village for friends. I know it isn't necessary but the added capabilities with metals seem like something we'd enjoy, so is it a big deal if we can't find any? Also I've ehard any available mines are probably far off in the outskirts of the world, is it worth travelling hours to get to them?

P.S. Does anybody know anything about ARMENIA? I'd like to get a basic idea of where we are in relation to the world map. Thanks!

[bitza]

do that first, explore and try to locate youself on the world map, not having a mine isn't the end of the world, you can find a trade partner or get to constantinople to trade. but yeah you definitely want some metal, if nothing else than the simple things like scythes, cauldrons, sausage grinders and so on

[notalbanian]

i think armenia may be 7chan (i know they had villages named croatia, serbia, etc), if so you probably want to move out.

[Ahhburn]

Alright thanks for the advice, I don't know why opening up trade never crossed my mind, I'm sure we'll do tht when we get to that point. I'm trying to locate Armenia on the world map but it doesn't appear to show up and I even did a ctrl + find and searched its name.

Ooh, 7chan? Dang. Does anybody have any definites on whetyer they are 7chan or not and if so are they openly hostile like I know they would be.

[Ahhburn]

I hate to double-post but I've finally found myself on the world map, I'm right near the hearthlands to the upper-right of Xymop. Does anybody have any idea in which direction I should set out if I want to start a village in a new place?