After five hours prospecting, five empty caves...

[wolf1000wolf]

What I want is the experience of owning a mine and mining... self sufficiency ftw?

[FatBob]

... six liters of extract and walking to the edges of the map, not even a single mine. Should I keep trying?

yaa keep trying .

My group found 2 mine in the same cave :O soo GO

[slipper]

... six liters of extract and walking to the edges of the map, not even a single mine. Should I keep trying?

yaa keep trying .

My group found 2 mine in the same cave :O soo GO

Thanks but I already have acess to mines now

[slipper]

If you want to own and defend a mine, yes. If you just want some metal, then no - it's easy enough to trade for.

Also, this.
It is easier to forage/make_bricks/make_linen than smelting ores, it is fun at the start, but then...

[FatBob]

Ya probably. :O pffff

[Shask]

b) Stealing stuff like large chests from land claims along the way, but only if you're traveling for several more hours so they don't track you down.

Unless you're protecting your HF every time, isn't that really risky?

[Danno]

b) Stealing stuff like large chests from land claims along the way, but only if you're traveling for several more hours so they don't track you down.

Unless you're protecting your HF every time, isn't that really risky?

Yup; my random thefts ended up getting me killed. You'd probably want to hide yourself behind a palisade at the very least if you want some security. But with the new mines added, you have a pretty good chance of finding at least tin or copper (since some people don't bother with those), so the long journey for finding your own mine is more worthwhile now on its own without risking yourself with stuff like theft (as long as you're heading to the edges of the world).

[Jacob_Lee]

Don't give up. I went prospecting for about 12 hours, and at the end I went from being a hopeless loner with nothing to his name to running a nice settlement with 3 other people and owning an iron mine.