Gold uses

[asrussell96]

Couple of gold questions

I'll be honest....I have not found gold yet on the maps... So what does a gold deposit look likke on the map? (limestone is tan, iron is reddish brown, etc)

Next....I understand that trading / markets are coming so what is gold used for currently?

Thanks in advance

[Wantoomany]

Gold is mostly black, it looks like coal but has a shine to it and gold streaks running along it.

As for use. You can select it as a material ingredient for weapon or armor crafting.

[Cinereous Monk]

Dark grey stone with thin streaks of gold in it. At the moment not much, I just use it for mechanical component materials. You can make weapons and armor from it as well but I've not tried it as I assume it's weaker than iron/steel.

[asrussell96]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Gold is mostly black, it looks like coal but has a shine to it and gold streaks running along it.

As for use. You can select it as a material ingredient for weapon or armor crafting.

OOOOH Gold armer.....Ruling over my peasants like a boss..... I will blind my subjects with the pure opulence of gold.....LOL

[tdsdave]

"There's gold in them thar hills" I'm told , but is there? On about my 8th play through of the EA , various terrains last 3 on mountains , got na da.

[Capt.Luke]

gold are those "draker" tile found in iron vein

[meganraine]

Originally posted by day90:

"There's gold in them thar hills" I'm told , but is there? On about my 8th play through of the EA , various terrains last 3 on mountains , got na da.

I actually just found 2 sqaures of it when i was mining coal but only that. However if you scroll through the ground lvls you can use the mining icon to find out what the material is

[TehJumpingJawa]

It's currently the best way of increasing your settlement value, as a full pile of it in your stockpile has a value of 999. (or in some cases 998; rounding bug I assume)

As to why you'd want to increase your settlement value..... no idea.
I don't think it impacts upon the difficulty of enemy raids.

[ChuckGyver]

just be sure, you don't allow them to produce with gold ... it's the default setting

[TehJumpingJawa]

Originally posted by ChuckGyver:

just be sure, you don't allow them to produce with gold ... it's the default setting

Was that Q to me?
Yes, steel is the only material I make weapons & armour with.
Also fuel is always sticks. (except for steel ingot manufacture, where it has to be coal)

Tbh I'm not sure why these aren't the defaults; it's incredibly tedious to have to change these settings every time a workbench is made...

[tdsdave]

Originally posted by meganraine:

Originally posted by day90:

"There's gold in them thar hills" I'm told , but is there? On about my 8th play through of the EA , various terrains last 3 on mountains , got na da.

I actually just found 2 sqaures of it when i was mining coal but only that. However if you scroll through the ground lvls you can use the mining icon to find out what the material is

I found some 3 whole cubes of it , I'm rich I tell ya. :)
I'd been trying the scan with the mine tool since the beginning but obviously thats a lot of cubes, and realistically I'd only want to mine those near my existing excavations. So soon gave up after a 1000 squares checked.

[Owner]

Gold gear is weaker than Steel and Iron though (realistic as gold is soft and malleable) so probably just leave it in the stockpiles. Apparently theres also silver in the game files but its completely useless and the ores cant be turned into bars or anything (yet). Probably for future uses of trading and kingdom value scores.