How to find Iron Easier please?

[Good Old Gamer]

PLEASE NOTE - a similar thread already exists @ http://steamcommunity.com/app/280790/discussions/0/451848855015458979/

The reason i have created a new discussion and not commented there is simply because the last reply was over a year ago and did not want to get yelled at for *re-opening a necroed thread*

So as stated in the other one and THIS title - how on earth to find iron a lot easier?

I know i know *you can find it very easily in the stalactite layer* well - in my world this has been proven to be false - i have only found 4 blocks of iron in my stalactite cave and have been mining for a few days now ...

If only we could *create* iron or - just as you can with coal and diamond by somehow blowing up tar ;)

This is very annoying now - thank you

[Powerbats]

Excavators are your friend in this case as well as mining in sections, there's also caves depending on world that're loaded with iron. Genreally iron is either really hard to find or abundant depending on where you're looking.


Try going to other sections looking especially on heavily populated worlds to ensure it hasn't been looted where you're at.

[Good Old Gamer]

Thanks powerbats but i play solo so :P - (that was in regards to *heavily populated worlds - not trolling - sorry) thank you for your reply - i guess i just have to search my world a bit more - maybe in a new location -

Thank you

[Powerbats]

Originally posted by Trolls never get justice:

Thanks powerbats but i play solo so :P - (that was in regards to *heavily populated worlds - not trolling - sorry) thank you for your reply - i guess i just have to search my world a bit more - maybe in a new location -

Thank you

Ah I c and I play solo for the most part also, which world are you on if you know?

[CharlieC]

Hate to agree with him because it goes straight to his head and he has a big enough head already, but "a sipcy meatball" did a guide on this.

All you really do is blowup big portions of the stalactite layer and quite often large amounts can be found.

[A Spicy Meatball]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=901933090

[Powerbats]

Originally posted by CharlieC:

Hate to agree with him because it goes straight to his head and he has a big enough head already, but "a sipcy meatball" did a guide on this.

All you really do is blowup big portions of the stalactite layer and quite often large amounts can be found.

True and totally forgot about his guide. I also find ut better in certain biomes like red rock caverns areas.

[CharlieC]

What did I tell you. Straight to his head. Big splashy guide with flaming meatball for crying out loud.

[Good Old Gamer]

hehehe - what the hell have i started? lol - but turns out i dont need the guide (currently) buut i will bank it :) (only anoying thing is turns out the ADV extractors are hard to craft/find mats for - and the normal one erefuses to blow up the stac layer QQ -

But saying this - all i had to do was follow Mr Bats advice and look about for another cave - found one 100 blocks away and straigt down to the stac layer i found not one - not two- not thre but 6 blocks of iron near each other XD

*when in doubt give a shout and look about :) *

[Darth Nautas]

I have to agree that the problem is the ore distribution. Depending on the cave you choose, you can get lots of iron, in some cases even without excavations, and in others, you have to TNT your way for obtaining less than ten nodes.

Your best bet is to move from the area you're currently mining and try for another one. It's not efficient to do this only for iron, but in those cases you may have no other choice. Just setup a TP from your base to the new mine to shorten travel times and just try again.

[J's]

Iron does not always appear on the surface of a stalactite cave. My suggestion is to invest that iron in Advanced Excavators ASAP (you may have to craft the regular ones first).

Each Iron Bar will be enough to craft 8 Advanced Excavators, I suggest starting up with 48-56 (require 6-7 iron). When you got them, I suggest set up a teleporter in your base and bring it's twin with you along with the mats for the code you used. You may also want to bring a few Arctek Chest to avoid too many back and forth. Bring lots of Extractors, the best ones you got.

Next step would be to go to a location where you're unlikely to want to build in/under, such as an ocean or frozen ocean. Dig straight down until you reach either Fossil or Stalactite... depending if you want to fill up on Bedrock/Limestone*/Stone as well as Obsidian.

When you are at the layer of your choice, place your first Advanced Excavators. The next few ones will be put in the side walls middle block (4th from the bottom, 3 block on each side) until you get a rectangle or square flat surface 7 block high. Clear all the ore floating in the air, then use more Advanced Excavators to dig further down.

I did this in one world, starting on the surface, in order to make a storeroom/processing room and made a 2x4 Advanced Excavators surface, then dug down to the lava layer using more Advanced Excavators (it took the recommended 48-56 in order to do so).

Alternatively, you could dig on the side of an existing stalactite cave using 2-4 Advanced Excavators wide.

[Good Old Gamer]

thank you J's -

its just that now i have the CS for my HT i am building it in the stalactite layer (hidden temple - go figure :P) and i am running out of iron/obsidian gloves FAST QQ

[J's]

Originally posted by Trolls never get justice:

thank you J's -

its just that now i have the CS for my HT i am building it in the stalactite layer (hidden temple - go figure :P) and i am running out of iron/obsidian gloves FAST QQ

Then you may want to spend a little time to upgrade your mining cell up to lumite :D

As you can see from this guide, lumite cell is indestructible on stalactite and everything higher (fossil, surface) :
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=599948264
I remember a long time ago when I started playing how many mining cell I wen't through while building on the surface... until I found that guide (I then rushed to diamond cell since I was on the surface and fossil, you'll need to go an extra step).

[Darth Nautas]

Originally posted by J's:

Iron does not always appear on the surface of a stalactite cave. My suggestion is to invest that iron in Advanced Extractors ASAP (you may have to craft the regular ones first).

Each Iron Bar will be enough to craft 8 Advanced Extractors, I suggest starting up with 48-56 (require 6-7 iron). When you got them, I suggest set up a teleporter in your base and bring it's twin with you along with the mats for the code you used. You may also want to bring a few Arctek Chest to avoid too many back and forth. Bring lots of Extractors, the best ones you got.

You're wrong. The current recipe for the Advanced Extractor is 3 stone Slabs and 3 Obsidian Slabs. No iron involved.

On the other hand, the Advanced EXCAVATOR requires 2 Gunpowder, 6 Diamond bars, and 4 iron rods.

So you only get TWO Advanced Excavators from one iron bar, never mind the needed Diamond bars. You may want to re-think your math and your strategy.

[metahmah]

In my world I find a lot of iron in large caves.

[J's]

Originally posted by Darth Nautas:

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On the other hand, the Advanced EXCAVATOR requires 2 Gunpowder, 6 Diamond bars, and 4 iron rods.

So you only get TWO Advanced Excavators from one iron bar, never mind the needed Diamond bars. You may want to re-think your math and your strategy.

Yeah, I was talking about Excavators... but each craft provide 4 of them, not 1.

I corrected the errounous mention to extractors.

As for diamond, OP seems aware that he/she can make them infinitely as evidenced by this part :

Originally posted by Trolls never get justice:

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If only we could *create* iron or - just as you can with coal and diamond by somehow blowing up tar ;)
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