CAN'T FIND IRON UNDERGROUND!

[Jamal Nigarson]

I look for the gravel nodes, dig all the way down to bedrock to only find coal and lead! Where can I find iron underground? I mean I keep finding lead and coal. Is iron spawning in a specific biome or?

[Wegetzu]

Forest biomes has most iron and lead

[Jamal Nigarson]

Originally posted by Wegetzu:

Forest biomes has most iron and lead

I am in a forest biome but I have only found lead

[strask]

There's a trick. Look for gravel patches, like you have been. But when you find one, start digging and each voxel of gravel will give you (in addition to the small stones and sand) one unit of the ore that it is leading you to.

So if you are getting stones and sand and a small amount of lead from the gravel, stop digging and find another gravel patch until you find one that gives you stones and sand and a small amount of iron, THEN dig for real.

[Groovybaby]

This happened to me, too. I found a cluster of 10-15 gravel patches and created a mine shaft in the center of these patches expecting to find a vein on my way down. I made it to bedrock without finding anything. I started rooting around at about -20 and eventually found some iron.

In the past I've found it easy finding tons of iron and never needed more than one mine to meet my needs. Maybe we both just got unlucky or something has changed and long winding veins don't exist everywhere anymore.

[Rev]

*Ahem*

Obligatory gravel link for an Iron...Tutorial?

[MeDaDaddy]

GIT GUD !

[MeDaDaddy]

Originally posted by Revel:

*Ahem*

Obligatory gravel link for an Iron...Tutorial?

This :)

[Jamal Nigarson]

Originally posted by strask:

There's a trick. Look for gravel patches, like you have been. But when you find one, start digging and each voxel of gravel will give you (in addition to the small stones and sand) one unit of the ore that it is leading you to.

So if you are getting stones and sand and a small amount of lead from the gravel, stop digging and find another gravel patch until you find one that gives you stones and sand and a small amount of iron, THEN dig for real.

Thank you so much!! I will do that next time! Awesome trick! I didn't even pay attention to the stuff that I get. I thought i only get sand and stone. I have already found some!

[dreamdancer642]

Don't dig down to bedrock. Iron tends to be near the surface. If you mine down and find an ore vein, there will usually be more nearby. Dig around the first, digging at gravel and mining ore, and generally ignoring rock. Sometimes the vein will go on for some time in multiple directions. Follow the veins for fun and profit.

The gravel on the surface is only an indicator of the near surface deposits. Ore deeper down is more randomly dispersed, and from all I can tell quite a bit rarer(which is quite fair, since it's also far safer to be deep underground).

And yes, the new trick for A16 of the gravel above hinting at what's below is super helpful.

[Jamal Nigarson]

Originally posted by dreamdancer642:

Don't dig down to bedrock. Iron tends to be near the surface. If you mine down and find an ore vein, there will usually be more nearby. Dig around the first, digging at gravel and mining ore, and generally ignoring rock. Sometimes the vein will go on for some time in multiple directions. Follow the veins for fun and profit.

The gravel on the surface is only an indicator of the near surface deposits. Ore deeper down is more randomly dispersed, and from all I can tell quite a bit rarer(which is quite fair, since it's also far safer to be deep underground).

And yes, the new trick for A16 of the gravel above hinting at what's below is super helpful.

I am like 30 blocks deep and I a have found a crap ton of iron. I just dig out the gravel and poof, more iron. I have found coal near it as well. And I didn't find iron near the surface. I am pretty deep down. But there is an insane amount of it. I get like 1000+ raw iron every night from there with only an iron pick.

[dreamdancer642]

30 blocks deep is still pretty near the surface. Surface veins can go on for ages. The one I'm working on goes deeper than that. I've pulled well over 10k raw iron from it(so over 50k scrap iron). Once you find a good vein you are set for some time.

But yes, veins do show up at lower depths, they are just less frequent and don't have the handy surface indicator.

[Jamal Nigarson]

Originally posted by dreamdancer642:

30 blocks deep is still pretty near the surface. Surface veins can go on for ages. The one I'm working on goes deeper than that. I've pulled well over 10k raw iron from it(so over 50k scrap iron). Once you find a good vein you are set for some time.

But yes, veins do show up at lower depths, they are just less frequent and don't have the handy surface indicator.

I've found one like that. And there are like 12 voxels of gravel near each and 11 of those with iron. The other one is coal. But thanks to you guys I found iron 4 DAYZ. Thank you so much!