my resource gathering is going quite well

[grunkle lame]

this is my first world and I'm at around 25~ hours in it just with standard preset settings i don't really have a frame of reference but i get the feeling most people aren't finding high quality copper bismuth and zinc in the same area at the surface and i don't really have any clue how common a almost 38% native copper reading is, is this particularly outstanding luck or are y'all also finding resources in abundance?

[Maelstrom]

Yeah, that is pretty lucky to get bismuth bronze allows so close together.  I have to traipse about 3,000 blocks total to get my bismuth bronze, but I also get tin for tin bronze within that circumference too.

The quality of the ore once found is pretty much RNG.  I have an ultra-high area for native copper and have found countless deposits from multiple shafts.  My last foray found two very large deposits of copper that were both poor quality.  Usually copper spawns in single layer deposits but sometimes (like these two) the were massive and had two block depth, but poor quality. 

And VS be like

Edited March 14, 2025 by Maelstrom

[LadyWYT]

Really depends. You don't usually have all the makings for bronze in the same grocery aisle, so to speak...but it's obviously not out of the question as you've demonstrated here.

In the current world I've been playing with a friend, bronze was a struggle to get too, or so I thought until I tried to find iron. Oh boy, finding the iron made the bronze look trivial. So many Decent+ readings of magnetite, and all of them(the ones I dug for anyway) completely useless. Gave up on those and tried a Poor hematite reading...found ore first try. Go figure.