Magic Site Locations?

[fncruz01]

The manual has a section on magic site locations. Mountains have more than most places, etc.

It has black for Plains so I assumed that meant they have none but I just found 1 in a Plains province.

Anyone else have this happen?

[Mormacil]

Every terrain type has some sites

[SaD-82]

What you, most probably, are referring to: Special magic sites for certain province types.
Normal magic sites will appear, no matter the amount of possible special magic sites.
(I.e.: Nature in water provinces leading to finding kelp forts, for example - and yet having normal nature gem sites, as well.)

[fncruz01]

Ah ok that explains it.

Thanks!

[Draken]

If you want the real details, here is a breakdown for Dom 5:
https://illwiki.com/dom5/magic-sites

It is still probably somewhat accurate. Though the Glamour inclusion will have shuffled some things around.

[Yograin]

I wonder if the chance changes when I destroy a province into a wasteland. And whether to wait with scan then?

[Draken]

Originally posted by Yograin:

I wonder if the chance changes when I destroy a province into a wasteland. And whether to wait with scan then?

I am pretty sure the sites are rolled at the start of the game and don't change via terraforming. I might be wrong though.

[Sombre]

Originally posted by Draken:

Originally posted by Yograin:

I wonder if the chance changes when I destroy a province into a wasteland. And whether to wait with scan then?

I am pretty sure the sites are rolled at the start of the game and don't change via terraforming. I might be wrong though.

This is correct afaik.

[fncruz01]

Originally posted by SaD-82:

What you, most probably, are referring to: Special magic sites for certain province types.
Normal magic sites will appear, no matter the amount of possible special magic sites.
(I.e.: Nature in water provinces leading to finding kelp forts, for example - and yet having normal nature gem sites, as well.)

I am actually referring to this image from page 22 in the manual.

https://imgur.com/G1sYQpV

[Doresh]

Basically magic sites are a bit more common in certain terrain types. It likely has something to do with the remoteness of the terrain, which is why farmland makes magic sites less likely.

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by fncruz01:

I am actually referring to this image from page 22 in the manual.

That's referring to the bonus chance of magic sites appearing - basically a: Plains have a normal chance, but mountains, oh boy, mountains get all those percentages.
Otherwise certain terrain types wouldn't have any resources, for example, according to this chart.
I would have to look up what the base chance for magic sites is, but it's just showing the boost for certain terrain types in this chart.