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Loudstorm

[Solved] Native Ore spawning

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Hello.

I'm new in TerraFirmaCraft and I have a question about Native Copper spawning. It is possible that the ore does not appear on the surface within a radius 1000 cubes in each direction?

 

I really dont understand spawning system of Native Copper. It doest not appear because biome type (My is Plains), or it is absolutely random to get Native Ores in any world?

 

By the way, I have change ravineRarity to zero in my TFCOptions.cfg it have effect on Native Ore spawning in total or not?

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If you take a look at http://wiki.terrafirmacraft.com/Ores_&_Minerals you can see which stone layers that copper can spawn in.

 

Metal and mineral spawning are not dependant at biome at all, just which stone layer you have. 

 

If I'm not mistaken, the small surface rocks appear when there's a vein within 30 blocks down, so surface rocks can spawn when the vein is in the second stone layer.

 

How it spawns is entirely up to the random number generator, so it seems you are just unlucky. Or that you missed the rocks - that happens to me all the time.

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vidaj, thank you, now I understand a little more. This mean if rocks around me are Andesite/Basalt/Dacite/Rhyolite I will get Native Copper spawning under surface?

 

Stone layers in world depend on biome or it's random too and I can found new if move around? Or every seed have only 3 different types of stone layers on all map?

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Yep, that's the correct rocks for native copper. Note that Tetrahedrite is also copper.

 

Again, not exactly sure here, but I believe that rock layers are not dependent on biome. The rock layers also change individually from each other. That is, the top layer can change without the middle layer changing, and so on. Just move around, and you'll find other kinds of stone layers. It's not uncommon to travel over 10 000 blocks to find what you need. Or just get a better seed. There's some good starting basalt seeds in the Seed section on the forum.

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vidaj, thank you, now I understand a little more. This mean if rocks around me are Andesite/Basalt/Dacite/Rhyolite I will get Native Copper spawning under surface?

 

 

I would not say you *will* get Native Copper spawning - rather you *might*...

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It is not uncommon to travel quite far before you find a certain resource in TFC. 

 

And by the way, while the thing about ores spawning in certain rock types is certainly true, bismuithinite, native copper, tetrahedrite (copper) and sphalerite (zinc) can spawn in the top layer even though it is not "their" type of stone. The wiki is little confusing with this information, but from what I experienced, when at least one of the layer can contain those metals, there is a chance that it'll spawn in the top layer of the stone too, regardless of type. However I can't confirm if it works exactly like that, I can only confirm that I did found native copper in stone where it shouldn't be.

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That is incorrect. The surface veins have the same or even more restrictive rock types they can spawn in. The difference is that they get a second roll of spawning and the height restrictions are changed. This means they will spawn higher up mountains. You can see all the settings in TFCOres.cfg

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Oh, okay, thanks for correcting my mistake. THa kind of explains why I couldn't find copper in chalk xD

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