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I just lived this same problem , teleports me directly into a stone wall, luckily there was a cave though(which took a while to find) I dont have a way home...

Allright, I tried the grid pattern with bad results, using 40 blocks as a start. I started at -10 y 360 with miniscule amounts i went west 40 block and found miniscule I went west again with no results I went back to start and went north 40 with no results back to start and went east 40 with no results back to start south with 40 with miniscule south again 40(into a lake) with no results Should I concentrate on that small area of south and west and try grid patterns again? if so smaller grid patterns or is this a bust with miniscule results or I just have to keep going to find better? Thank you again

Thank you, I will try that process.

I know, this has been explained multiple times and read them all. I use both modes on the prospecting pick and watched several videos. I just hit the 30 cave mark on exploration, 3 had locust and Im not ready to fight them. I think Im doing something wrong. I can not find iron. There not in any of the caves I looked through, I have 70 hours in game and am coming up to my second winter. I have only found miniscule amounts prospecting. I even dug down shafts in that area to mantle, thought I would hit caves with all the shafts I dug, but no. The area im in is mostly granite with claystone and periodite rock. Ive found tons of quartz, silver, bismuth, some tin, olivine, im copper rich. I even just found my first teleporter. Theres no chalk stone in my area or limestone, I would like to find salt too. Thanks for any feedback.