Still no tin?

[FDru]

So I started a fresh map for the update. Went in with all generation settings on normal, no expectations, just wanting to see how the new world generation was in its purest form.

Now I'm quickly running into an all too familiar problem. Hardly any tin anywhere.

Okay there's SOME. But it's been several hours and I've built a tin workbench and that's all, nothing else out of tin. Still don't have enough tin for an iron work bench but I have DOZENS of iron, hundreds of copper and I'm going to end up skipping all the tin stuff and going straight to iron (just like always).

Also, of the little tin I've found, probably half came from recycling looted equipment.

[Kona❤Kona]

Tin is in the Clay caves. If you are in dirt or stone you won't find much.

[FDru]

Originally posted by Kona❤Kona:

Tin is in the Clay caves. If you are in dirt or stone you won't find much.

Well that's how it was before. Maybe it's just the same, in that those biomes are small and hard to find.

My usual method of starting out is digging straight tunnels in all four directions until the burrower ring. I mine literally every ore that comes into sight while doing this, then go back to digging the tunnels. Doing this has always led to a shortage of tin but it doesn't make sense why that would be.

[Nom]

As a first time player, I also ran into this problem. I had 75 iron before I had 10 tin. I found one clay area, and it was so small it barely had any tin in it, maybe none.

[Lasagna]

Originally posted by FDru:

Originally posted by Kona❤Kona:

Tin is in the Clay caves. If you are in dirt or stone you won't find much.

Well that's how it was before. Maybe it's just the same, in that those biomes are small and hard to find.

My usual method of starting out is digging straight tunnels in all four directions until the burrower ring. I mine literally every ore that comes into sight while doing this, then go back to digging the tunnels. Doing this has always led to a shortage of tin but it doesn't make sense why that would be.

Are you stopping at Ghorm's ring? because Tin (and Iron/gold) have always been much more abundant in clay areas further past the ring. I'm not disagreeing with you that tin is probably the rarest material if you don't go out of your way to tear down the clay biome to get it.

[FDru]

Originally posted by Lasagna:

Are you stopping at Ghorm's ring? because Tin (and Iron) have always been much more abundant past the ring.

If Ghorm is the burrower, then yes. But I have a lot of iron so there's still a discrepancy there.

Also, I'm not sure how it's going to play out this time but even tin boulders outside the ring have been rare in the past.

[Yama]

There should be a massive red clay biome (where the spear throwing cavelings live). Start exploring there and you will drown in tin in no time.

[boxinabox]

it may not be a lot, but the slime merchant will sell tin after you activate Ghorm's statue.

[subwaybananas]

yes i also run into the tin problem. You get much faster in the stone caves with iron than you get into the clay area to get tin. When you dig far enough behind the Ghorms tunnel you can find enough. But its feel realy weird, that you have stone/iron much closer than the clay/tin area.

[boxinabox]

I'm just glad railroad tracks no longer require tin.

[Kona❤Kona]

The biome distribution inside The Wall is shaped much like a pokeball. There is a smaller center (dirt) and two halves on the outside (clay and stone).
The new generation of 1.0 may have changed this slightly but it is still basically the same.
If you are deep in stone, go the complete opposite way and you will find clay.

[Ishimuro]

https://core-keeper.fandom.com/wiki/Tin_Ore#Drops

there are SOOO many ways to get tin ;D

[Miqi]

Tin amount definitely feels out of place.
Found more gold than Tin exploring the first tier of caverns.
Then I started finding Iron and made Iron tools before I could even sustain my tin tools or make tin traps or tin drill.

[Ishimuro]

like others said, the issue is that tin and iron should be on the same tech level, or, and thats how the game intends, you shouldnt be able to mine stone walls to get iron until you get tin upgrades, so you would be forced to mine clay stuff and then progress to stone, but as it is current, you have a 50% chance to skip clay cause you just miss it and go straight to stone

i think the devs should look into the mining values, i know they lowered em with 0.9.9, that was a bad idea

[Diarmuhnd]

I find enough tin through scrapping for my early needs via scrapping shiny loot.

Starting with the four compass points I make exploration shafts then do the diagonals if needed. But most times I find ore veins and follow them if i need them.

Once past the Burrower ring I find multiple Tin Ore Nodes soon enough and I set up conveyor bets to move all the mined ore closer to a rail track for easy pickup.

Good luck have fun
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Originally posted by boxinabox:

I'm just glad railroad tracks no longer require tin.

I noticed that

It made it much easier & faster to get back and forth to my first tin node extractors.

[Nom]

My conclusion as a new player: it felt like tin should be an uncommon find in the dirt biome and pretty common in the stone / iron biome.

Finding your first tin deposit in a wall teaches you to search for more clay biome. Sadly, the first two clay mini-biomes I found didn't have any tin at all. After hours of exploring, my only tin was around 12 from looting and digging spots.

It felt really weird that I couldn't afford the tin anvil, or even the iron workbench, just because I didn't turn away from the challenge of exploring the iron biome early and instead scoured the world looking for wherever tin was supposed to be. That said, I'm glad I could mine stone with a copper pickaxe to explore harder areas early, and I wouldn't want them to take that away.

Of course, this is all as a new player. It seems like the rest of the game requires setting up drills for large amounts of ore, and the main way to find a tin deposit is by finding the big clay biome anyway.