Tungsten...where?

[The Militant Penguin Front]

I've dug all the way to bedrock and excavated a huge area with multiple tunnel spanning the length of the entire biome... no tungsten. Any tips on finding this unicorn mineral?

[Doc']

Sometimes you will find Tungsten trophys around & that you can use to make scrap outta of it make a Land Claim Block or etc.

[The Militant Penguin Front]

Yeah, I'm specifically addressing the ore... where in the world is this stuff.

[Psycho Circus]

The most tungsten trophies I found is at the wasteland in lockers..

[Chill]

I have found tungsten ore in the forest biome... I wish I could say exactly how deep it is, but I'm not sure. I just know it's deep, and it looks like it was painted with a brush, so keep an eye out for that. TNT will destroy tungsten ore and it will not drop any so don't use TNT to mine for tungsten.

[just.j]

Pretty sure it's supposed to spawn in the snow biome and low down (which means from high up in this game as the bedrock is always at a constant level). Try digging down from the highest snowy hill you can find.

[friscobay58]

On the NAVASGANE [ sp.] map, in the shallow forest region northwest of the Desert/ wasteland region, there is a large triangular -shaped lake with banks about 8' high located near a ''ranger/information center ''. First building a small outpost shelter close by in the trees where you drop a sleeping bag and storage crate, you return and can start digging at the bank and begin downwards at a 45-degree ramp motion, until you begin to hit iron or lead.
Clear the stone area around it so that you can define the vein. If you don't have an augur, simply flatten out the floor at the bottom of the vein around twenty feet - or roughly between 18-30 blocks down - with a pickaxe.
Strike the vein and begin clearing the iron or lead out. You will then likely hit a bonanza of differing minerals, from the needed potassium to gravel, coal, more lead, and iron to go along with stone. Below the potassium - keep clearing as you go - it will be at the deepest mineral levels which is why you grade so that you do not end up getting trapped, you will usually come across a light blueish material that is similar in color to lead.

This is Tungsten. [ and without an augur, will quickly chew through pickaxes, so bring plenty of iron bars and sticks along to make new ones ].

[CatPerson]

Tungsten is, I believe (and last I knew) found at very deep levels, where deep = number of blocks downward. Meaning you have to start digging from the top of some tallish hill or higher mountain, not at river-level.

Something like close to 60 blocks deep, I don't know for sure, could be a bit more.
(edit) Doesn't have to be the tallest peak possible. Just tallish.

[The Militant Penguin Front]

Huh, well maybe thats my problem... I'm literally walking on bedrock but I dug from river level.

[CatPerson]

One of the higher plateaus in the maple-forest is likely tall enough ... the parts that get a bit darker green on the world map. I only dug that deep a couple times ... where my ramped tunnel seemed to go on and on and on forever, even when I doubled it back on itself. Maybe one day I'll do it again in those tall mts. in the pine forest.