cant find minerals

[amynicole420]

it says that minerals were found and if i click on the spot nothing comes up. i cant seem to find the minerals that are supposedly there, i cant build any sort of quarry or nothing

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

You need to own the hex that contains the mineral deposit. Then you can build a mine there.
edit: but it should tell you what it is when you cursor over it.
edit edit: oh, have you sent your Bailiff there to discover it? For that you need to own a the hex within 3 hexes away.

[amynicole420]

YES TO ALL OF THE ABOVE. my bailiff says he found stuff. and itll even glow if i look for minerals but i try clicking it and it doesn't say what it is or anything, its like there isnt anything there

[Lailantie]

When you send your bailiff to search for minerals you get a little popup text when he found something. You need to click on that text (which disappears after a while, maybe it is in the log) and you see the mountain with the minerals. You click on the minerals and if you own the land you can build a mine. You can not build any mine on minerals which your bailiff hasn't discovered. (And if I'm wrong I happily stand corrected.)

[amynicole420]

i do that and i know there is minerals there but i cant seem to build anything or even locate where or what mineral it is that he has found.

[kampfer91]

Click on the telescope icon on the bottom tab and then highlight the mineral deposit . You can find them deposit on rocky mountain.
You cant build any extractor on it if the deposit itself not inside territory .
And in case you found the deposit but see nothing special , it probably stone deposit ( which is actually valuable compare to mable ).

[Бобок]

Yeah the game does need some menu to locate these things without scrolling the map, even with visibility of minerals highlighted.

[Nemy]

It took me AGES to realise that you needed to actually click 'edit build' on the ore deposit to build the quarry. I couldnt understand why there was no quarry in the build menu.
ALso..when they find the minerals, they do look pretty significant. Ie iron has big dark reddish chunks coming out the rock - gold is all sparkly etc... and she does travel quite far. The first on I found she'd gone round the back of a big rocky outcrop, half hidden in trees and I was like WHERE??

[Juwelenjupp]

sometimes you may not be able to explore because a bridge is missing at the mountain. Without a bridge no one gets there.

[RJM]

Originally posted by Nemy:

It took me AGES to realise that you needed to actually click 'edit build' on the ore deposit to build the quarry. I couldnt understand why there was no quarry in the build menu.

I second this. Having a mineral deposit become an incomplete building structure that you need to edit is completely unintuitive.

[Бобок]

I also had to google for this, but i don’t think this should be changed (quite convenient once you know of it), just better explained ingame. Casual games must sometimed lead the player by hand and there are checkmarks ‘disable the tutorial’ when this is no longer needed.

[RJM]

Yes, it needs explaining the first time, then you know.

[Norse Thor]

I had built a bunch of quarries already, then all of a sudden I couldn't scout out new mineral deposits, even when I owned the territories the deposits were located on. I finally realized I had to BUILD A BRIDGE in order for my bailiff to get to them.

[Wuik]

Hello,
Yes, on certains maps you must do it..
But the more fun and strange on the vanilla map .. "Moutains"
on the more hight , on the left , there is somes minerals that you can see with the UI...
But it was impossible to acces to it and bridges don't works..
So i am a little afraid with generated maps..^^