RegleR Posted October 10, 2025 Report Posted October 10, 2025 Fellow seraphs! I just wanted to share my joy of finding magnetite for the first time, after hours and hours of trial and failure prospecting and digging shafts around very high / ultra high spots. I am aware that magnetite is the rarest form of iron, but I did not want to give up on it and look for another spot. Rich quality! I really feel like the effort paid off. It seems like this will be a large vein too. Not that I have any other to compare it to. I've made my bronze anvil 18 irl days ago, preparing for the iron age. I can't play regularly due to work, so I've been looking forward to this moment. Cannot wait to progress further as I was having trouble finding tin. The difficulty of progress - even though I had to turn off the temporal stability mechanic - makes these things rewarding. I hope other casual players are having as much fun as I do. So glad to have stumbled upon this hidden little gem of a game. Now, back to mining and then making the first iron ingots and tools! 4 1 1 3
Poor_Kid Posted October 10, 2025 Report Posted October 10, 2025 That's Amazing congratulations. I'm new too and this is the same feeling I got when I first found copper! I can't imagine the pain of finding iron. 1
LadyWYT Posted October 10, 2025 Report Posted October 10, 2025 Congrats on the find, and welcome to the forums! 3 hours ago, RegleR said: Cannot wait to progress further as I was having trouble finding tin. Just a side note for future reference--while tin bronze is probably the most common type to make(and the type you will need for a certain trader quest), there are two other bronze alloys as well if you're having trouble finding a good source of tin. Bismuth bronze can be made from copper, bismuth, and zinc, and has a bit more durability than tin bronze but a little less damage. Black bronze has higher durability and damage than both other types(although it could just be the highest damage only), and is made from combing copper with gold and silver. 3 hours ago, RegleR said: I am aware that magnetite is the rarest form of iron, but I did not want to give up on it and look for another spot. I dunno man, magnetite is rare, but I've found more magnetite than I have limonite. 1
RegleR Posted October 11, 2025 Author Report Posted October 11, 2025 11 hours ago, Poor_Kid said: That's Amazing congratulations. 10 hours ago, LadyWYT said: Congrats on the find, and welcome to the forums! Thanks! 10 hours ago, Poor_Kid said: I can't imagine the pain of finding iron. I wouldn't call it painful, it's just that the ore generation is not what I'm used to This was also the first time I've looked for something with the prospecting pick. (and not just prospecting to map resources). Also, don't let my 42 hour mark on this scare or discourage you. I take my time exploring the game. I made my first copper tool around 10 hours. 10 hours ago, LadyWYT said: there are two other bronze alloys as well if you're having trouble finding a good source of tin My main focus up to now was getting ready for winter, so all I have is roughly 3 bars worth of gold nuggets when it comes to the other bronze alloys. I did find decent bismuth and ultra high zinc spots, but I wanted to go for iron as I already found a good spot for it and making bronze just seems expensive in comparison. 10 hours ago, LadyWYT said: I dunno man, magnetite is rare, but I've found more magnetite than I have limonite. I was quoting the wiki on that, I have no experience with the rest.
Broccoli Clock Posted October 11, 2025 Report Posted October 11, 2025 In one playthrough, I was having difficulty finding iron, other metal ores were fine. In the end I decided to enable a translocator and see if it takes me somewhere nice. As I lifted up my lantern to illuminate my new location, I was greeted by a large wall of bountiful iron. Perfect. As for finding stuff, the rule of thumb is that you will travel 100s, perhaps 1000s, of blocks to find a particular resource, and it's only when returning to your base that you find a source much closer than the distance you originally travelled. I did this for clay in one of my first ever playthroughs. Unsure what clay actually looked like in the wild, I spent hours and travelled 100s of blocks to find a deposit some distance from my base. As I returned home, happy with my gathering, I found there was clay about 60 blocks that I had blithely wandered over. 2
hstone32 Posted October 12, 2025 Report Posted October 12, 2025 I just found iron too! I discovered I had built my cottage only 20 meters away from a "very high" hematite prospect. I only had to dig down 8 blocks before coming into a cave where part of a massive rich vein was exposed on the wall. sounds really lucky, right? Well not when considering how long I traveled the continent looking for a decent prospect, before deciding to ue my prospecting pick under my house on a whim. 1
Echo Weaver Posted October 12, 2025 Report Posted October 12, 2025 5 minutes ago, hstone32 said: sounds really lucky, right? Well not when considering how long I traveled the continent looking for a decent prospect, before deciding to ue my prospecting pick under my house on a whim. That's sympathetic laughter.
hstone32 Posted October 12, 2025 Report Posted October 12, 2025 2 minutes ago, Echo Weaver said: That's sympathetic laughter. You wanna know what's even funnier? I had this same situation play out beat-for-beat back when I was trying to make bronze. The mountains behind my house, almost exactly where my original spawn point was, contained an ultra high cassiterite prospect the entire time. 1
Narcosis Posted October 12, 2025 Report Posted October 12, 2025 (edited) TFW you stumble into a rich iron deposit in your first few hours of playtime, while searching for tin Edited October 12, 2025 by Narcosis 1
Echo Weaver Posted October 12, 2025 Report Posted October 12, 2025 32 minutes ago, Narcosis said: TFW you stumble into a rich iron deposit in your first few hours of playtime, while searching for tin Mine was digging for iron and finding salt
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