No sand ?

[DVLOS]

Is this normal? Been playing a map for a few hours and all my farming has turned to proverbial dung, but I need sand for many things.. found 2 coal, 10 iron, 5 clay spots.. NO sand?

[DVLOS]

Now I know maps are randomized but I've rolled like 3 maps and I can't find one with sand -- is this an icon I am missing or SOMETHING I'm missing here.

[Arl Eamon]

It is very very random. Sometimes you get loads of some resource and nearly none of the other, other times you get another resource very abundant but lacking some critical ones.

[OzWally]

I found one, I thought there was non but I searched carefully and found it.

[Ninjafroggie]

it's a little yellow icon, looks like a small pile. Depending on the biome it can be quite rare, and rng can punish you even more harshly by making it practically non-existant on even a large map. Of note, as far as i can recall Ive never seen sand up on a mountaintop, it's always been down on the low ground

[dazkaz]

I think some of the maps are set up to favour biome specific resources where you have to trade for the missing resources and items produced from their chain. Which is great.

The problem is the visiting traders have been overlooked in the EA development, and don't cater for the specific biome rolled randomly or chosen as an option.
For instance I have a clay soil but after 40 years have only had one trader visit and offer to sell sand, or glassware.
I do however regularly get one that wants to buy sand and glass from me lol.

[regpither]

I've not found any sand or coal, just plenty of iron, a few clay and one measly gold. But, as mentioned, actually identifying the icons is rather an arcane art...

[Ninjafroggie]

Originally posted by regpither:

I've not found any sand or coal, just plenty of iron, a few clay and one measly gold. But, as mentioned, actually identifying the icons is rather an arcane art...

coal, at least, can be made from firewood in the kiln

[dazkaz]

Originally posted by regpither:

I've not found any sand or coal, just plenty of iron, a few clay and one measly gold. But, as mentioned, actually identifying the icons is rather an arcane art...

Select the mine you wan't the resource for from the build menu, and you will see an overlay of where the resource is under the map.

[DVLOS]

For my second map, I'm realizing it's all sumac, clay, and 1 sand pit (no iron or gold) ... pretty strange as you would think "sand" is a pretty common thing.

[captainbuddy]

I've been playing a large idyllic valley for about a week. There has been no sand, anywhere. Lots of everything else, but no sand. I kept EXPLORING the map edges little by little, and started a new settlement on the far side of the mountain. And today, I hit sand; two big pits that I started to mine. Keep looking, and exploring. Have fun.

[pikupupu]

My map have so much of sand, rock, Iron, gold, coal, clay every where. Only roots and willow aren't in map. :( Big mountain map. :D
I rerolled so many time the map seeds to get fun map. Not the flats one. +++10times

updated: I been played over 100hours now I finally found roots and willow in the map.
Have you explored the whole game map? Maybe its rare in ur map seed?

[SgtScum]

Sand seems to be the rarest of resources to be spawned even on the maps that claim to have lots of everything.

The only map I've been able to find that actually has lots of everything is this one.

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I've yet to find another like it by twiddling with the seed. Close but still missing sand.

[loriaw]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

Originally posted by regpither:

I've not found any sand or coal, just plenty of iron, a few clay and one measly gold. But, as mentioned, actually identifying the icons is rather an arcane art...

coal, at least, can be made from firewood in the kiln

The kiln should be producing charcoal ~ not coal. Can't quite wrap my head around that one, especially since I'm married to a knifemaker/blacksmith (with almost 50 years of experience) who does make his own charcoal along with forges, casting molds, etc.

[SgtScum]

Charcoal is effectively the same as coal. Both are carbon heavy and burn slow and hot.

It's even in the name. Char Coal.

[loriaw]

Originally posted by SgtScum:

Charcoal is effectively the same as coal. Both are carbon heavy and burn slow and hot.

It's even in the name. Char Coal.

Charcoal is a black carbon residue produced by heating wood, animal, and plant matter using low oxygen.

Coal is a sedimentary rock, and is formed when peat is subjected to heat and pressure over millions of years.

They are nothing like each other either in their formation, their chemical makeup, or their uses. Both can be used in a forge but for very specific and different production.