No gold for 8 hours playtime. Seriously?

[Doomerang]

I hate to rant but I just cannot believe I have such a hard time finding rock and gold in this game. The first 2 games I have played rocks were very abundant. Instead now I just find myself playing an impossible game due to winter instantly killing me because I cannot ever do alchemy because the game flat out refuses to give me gold. I understand me having a run of bad luck, but 8 hours?!

[bitcrusher]

Your not doing it right then.

[Skyte100]

You gotta be gentle. Smooth talk the rocks first. Otherwise they wont give up the goods.
Said that because Bitcrusher said "your not doing it right then."

[Miles]

if you are having so much trouble the next time you start a world you can change how much
something spawns I hope this helps :)

[TillsterRulz]

You're probably not mining the gold rocks then.

[MostDeaf]

no I had the same problem in one of my worlds, i just made another. literaly no rocks were spawned

[Leezeebub]

Is this over multiple games? If that's the case then you obviously arent exploring the map fully.

Sometimes you will have to cross a swamp to reach parts of the map, or if you are just running around the coastline try going inland a bit to find biomes which don't touch the shore.

Edit: Oh yeah, also make sure you're mining the right rocks (the ones with the gold veins), and also search the misty graveyard biomes for gold scattered on the floor.

[Doomerang]

It happened to me 3 times in a row, rocks would just not spawn.

[SMRT]

up the rock count in a custom game, took me a while to realise there was a "next" button on the customize page, but if you go too high it gets a little crazy, rocks EVERYWHERE.

Give yourself a penalty to balance it out and retain the challenge, or not :D

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Some world just dont spawn certain things. I had a map 100% explored and found no pig king.

For rocks though you just need to look harder. Don't sit in the same spot all the time, look around. Jump in a wormhole to get to another area fast. That's what they're for.

Other than that, don't be using up all your gold on gold pickaxes and other stupid crap.

[arealhumanbean]

Last map I spawned on the edge of a big area of rocks and before day 2 was over I had over 30 gold and a bunch of stone.

You just have to find the right spots on the map. They only spawn on rocky terrain..

Graveyards also have gold, if you happen to find one of those.

[DarkMyau]

I never use teh default world. They just never spawn enough rock, so I alway set Rock to more.

btw have you tried giving meat/toys to the Pig King?

[Phelsarus'Beel]

well your problem just got solved if you look at the new patchnotes for the hotfix

Version 76878 Changelist:

Added "Default Plus" preset
Fixed issue where death menu buttons could become unresponsive
Gold-vein rocks always drop at least one gold
Increased Nitre drop rate on nitre rocks

[The Dark Knight]

I loaded up a new game and I was merely testing something out and ran across some bones with literally 4-5 nuggets laying around. I bet I never see that again. Haha.

[abdullah]

I have this exact same problem. I searched the whole map but I couldnt find any gold.

[Duke_Bubblez]

Looking at the dates of these comments...sigh.
Im obviously a very late starter to this game!! Lol

First game/run ever , my first rock, & a single piece of gold dropped.

Blissfully unaware of what was to follow, when i inevitably died i started again, & again, & again....(ad infinitum)!!

Ive not seen a gold piece since. Heck on more than 1 run i didnt find a single rock/boulder!!

I REALLy didn't want to resort to "looking things up" , as for this genre i feel the whole learning curve, not knowing wtf's goin on, IS 99% of the entire game.

BUT this lack of a single crucial item simply not spawning/dropping after almost 4 hours is a tad too much.

I assumed i was "missing" something, not me having to alter the settings for spawn rates.... :/