Biome with the most iron?

[Kuji]

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[Det. Dave Starsky]

Most biomes have iron underground or in caves exept the desert..

Im in a plains biome and dug under and mined out a tunnel from my forge house to my main base and found so much iron coal and lead i dont know what to do with it.
Well I do, I have 4 rows of fully upgraded log spikes.

[Kuji]

ah, we are in the desert, so I guess that explains it.

[Det. Dave Starsky]

The desert isnt a bad place to mine though, it contains oil shale which coverts to gas.

I have a small desert biome next to my base and now have around 27000 gas.

[Erija Kaz]

I found a huge iron, lead, coal mine in a burning land

[Nocternaldaze]

Originally posted by TempusFugit:

Most biomes have iron underground or in caves exept the desert.

on one of my playthroughs on alpha 14.5 i had a base in a desert as well but i only managed to find 1 piece of oil shale and was mostly iron and lead, although i was only digging in one area so it might be just pure luck on where you are digging in the desert biome.

[Honor's Bastion]

What ore spawns in a particular area depends onw hat kind of biome it is in: By default, it set up as:

All Forest biomes (Maple, Pine, and Burnt) = iron, lead, coal, potassium nitrate and gravel
Plains Biome: Iron, lead, and gravel
Snow Biome: Iron, coal, and gravel
Desert Biome: Oil shale, coal, and gravel
Wasteland Biome: Iron, lead, coal, potassium nitrate, and gravel

The above does not account for the random coal and potassium nitrate spawns on a biome's surface or the potassium nitrate that comes from the caves as stalagmites or stalagtites. Those will spawn regardless of the biome that it is in.

As a result, the forest biomes are the best for general mining while the desert biome is more niche in its use in terms of ore, although that's compensated by the many other useful desert products like aloe, yucca, and yucca fruit.

[SSK DRon]

i would say wasteland as there are girders lying about everywhere. Boulders are fairly plentiful. I like to have at least one base near the wasteland specifically for the easy iron access.

[CatPerson]

Breaking up large numbers of the grey ground boulders gets you a lot initially, imo. But yeah, forest biomes tend to be the best re: mining.

The girders in the wasteland, as SSK mentions, is also a nice ground source.