Ores?

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Procne
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Silushun wrote:Y'all are lucky for getting ore.. I've been in my cave dug 30+ places only stone and black coal it's hard son!
I think I have dug close to 100 spots... And the first ore I found was still a boulder on the surface. On the bright side, I found out that prospecting indeed works and I have prospected 2 more ore veins today (haven't checked yet if they are easily accessible in caves
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Surface ore are easy recognisable vs stone boulders?
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Procne wrote:
Silushun wrote:Y'all are lucky for getting ore.. I've been in my cave dug 30+ places only stone and black coal it's hard son!
I think I have dug close to 100 spots... And the first ore I found was still a boulder on the surface. On the bright side, I found out that prospecting indeed works and I have prospected 2 more ore veins today (haven't checked yet if they are easily accessible in caves
Same. I mined for 2 days straight and found nothing so ended up just wandering for 2 hours until I found surface ore. Haven't found any since, though.

A friend of mine has been smelting heavy earth for days and not gotten any metal yet.
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akadiablo wrote:Surface ore are easy recognisable vs stone boulders?
It's different colors, just like all other rocks. My best suggestion is to look for darker rocks.
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Anyone can give me an stimate of native hardness of iron ores? i have 40 str and i can't find iron (and that's making me crazy)
Procne
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Depends on rock hardness mainly. The only ore vein I have found was pretty soft (probably as little as 20 str would be enough) on one end and medium hard on the other (probably requiring over 40 str)
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how does one get heavy earth?
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nuker22110 wrote:how does one get heavy earth?
One digs
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jorb wrote:
nuker22110 wrote:how does one get heavy earth?
One digs
There's only turtles beneath here.
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jorb wrote:
Sevenless wrote:You can mine soft spots in caves with 10str Q10 axe. Hardness of the rock is not related to rock type (including if or if not it's an ore).
Not true. Rocks have a native hardness, modified by a variance field in the map.

I might misunderstood you, sorry, but do you mean that iron can be mined only a certain strength? So should I not even try with str 16?

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