Mining in A15

[I HATE PEOPLE]

I'm playing Navezgane and I cant find any minerals underground other than iron, even at bedrock. Did anyone manage to find them?

I know that minerals are biome-specific now. I AM looking for the right mineral at each biome, I just wasan't able to find them underground.

[I can't spell]

I went back to the cave I mined in A14 and now there's nothing there but rock and iron - nothing where as before it was littered with everything. Never once I have found nitrate while mining. Only on the surface. Really disappointing the changes they made to mining. It was fine before.

[Azr]

Well let's just say this is some trick I tried, use a bucket and create underground pools of water. Small section will do, this somehow would create some gravels for me in a forest biome and then somehow iron ores appear randomly after some while. Maybe placing water on stones would grow mineral/ores kinda. Not sure if its bug or is something that is legit though.

[Malkuth]

You would have to check the Pre Alpha Logs to see the exact locations. But your looking for gravel patches. Dig to bedrock etc. I know the snowbiom has Nitrate.

Also with A15 you now get, Stone, Iron, Coal, and Nitrate from the small rocks scattered around everywhere (The ones you use pick on) the large ones (Tall big ones) are mostly just STONE.

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Ok, has ANYONE been able to find any minerals underground other than iron?

[Mackenzie]

Originally posted by Shakaw:

Ok, has ANYONE been able to find any minerals underground other than iron?

Yes. Just keep mining.

Special ores per biome are nitrate in snow and wasteland, lead in the maple and pine forests, coal in the plains and burnt forests, and oil shale in the desert

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Originally posted by Mackenzie:

Originally posted by Shakaw:

Ok, has ANYONE been able to find any minerals underground other than iron?

Yes. Just keep mining.

Special ores per biome are nitrate in snow and wasteland, lead in the maple and pine forests, coal in the plains and burnt forests, and oil shale in the desert

Where? Can you give me map coordinates so I can check the region myself? Maybe my game is just broken.

[Oeil de marmotte]

there is a big mine in the south of the map were you can find a lot of minerals undergroud

[Oeil de marmotte]

north of the grand canyon

[Essedus]

In random gen I've found stuff in biomes where they supposedly aren't suppose to be. For example in snow I've found underground coal, lead and iron all in the same dig site. I've found nitrate in the plains along with iron.

I don't remember where I read it but someone had mentioned to look for large patches of ground where plant fibers aren't growing. Try and dig a wide enough area to cover the majority of the patch of bare ground and start digging it up layer by layer. If you don't find gravel within roughly 8-10 blocks down then there isn't going to be anything there and you should move on.

I use to NEVER find any of the resources aside from the surface nodes, and since I've started following the bare patches of ground method I've found more resources in 1 day than I had in a week. I expect Navezgane uses the same mechanics for ores underground.

[198xAD]

Try going into the snow biome and mine along the bedrock. You'll find potassium nitrate, coal and lead.

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Originally posted by Essedus:

In random gen I've found stuff in biomes where they supposedly aren't suppose to be. For example in snow I've found underground coal, lead and iron all in the same dig site. I've found nitrate in the plains along with iron.

I don't remember where I read it but someone had mentioned to look for large patches of ground where plant fibers aren't growing. Try and dig a wide enough area to cover the majority of the patch of bare ground and start digging it up layer by layer. If you don't find gravel within roughly 8-10 blocks down then there isn't going to be anything there and you should move on.

I use to NEVER find any of the resources aside from the surface nodes, and since I've started following the bare patches of ground method I've found more resources in 1 day than I had in a week. I expect Navezgane uses the same mechanics for ores underground.

After having posted this, I kept digging and started finding minerals near bedrock. There arent as many as in previous versions to the point we would get nearly unlimited stacks of gunpower, but enough to hold off the hordes in the late game.

On a side note,the cost-benefit of each ammo type appears unbalanced though, so you'll want to use your gunpowder primarely on 7.62 bullets and tin can mines. That's because a good quality sniper rifle does 150 entity damage and costs 3 gunpower whereas 9mm pistols and 10mm submachines do only 30 damage but cost 1 and 2 gunpower respectively, and magnum revolvers do 120 damage but cost the same 3 gunpowder as the 7.62 bullet.

As to what you've said about finding minerals in the right biomes, I have noticed a slight predominance of certain minerals in each biome. Lead seems to be the rarest of all underground, even in the forest biome, but thats not a problem since we need it a lot less than the others. These patches of ground where plants dont grow are actually gravel in the surface, and I seem to always find iron below if i dig around it, but I dont always find the other minerals. I'm not sure if potassium nitrate, lead and coal are tied to this surface gravel.

[Essedus]

I actually haven't been digging anywhere's near bedrock and the deposits I've been finding are very plentiful. Again though this is random gen I'm refering to so it might not be the case for Navezgane.

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Originally posted by Essedus:

I actually haven't been digging anywhere's near bedrock and the deposits I've been finding are very plentiful. Again though this is random gen I'm refering to so it might not be the case for Navezgane.

I've only found mineral deposits other than iron underground near bedrock, so yeah I suppose random gen is totally different then.

[Ziigler]

I found a post that pine forest has lead nodes and burnt forest has coal. I have found in snow biomes to have potass, etc...

I'm still trying to figure out if there is a good way to mine underground though.

I just started playing again and just got to the point of having an auger to look, good luck...