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Dazzaka

Whats a good level to mine on ?

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Hi, im at the point where i need better ores to move on to the next metals, is there a good level to strip mine on ?

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Well, find a stone layer that can contain the ore that you are looking for, then prospect in caves, strip mine, just get a reading (a consistent one, remember the propick gives you false negatives frequently). Once you have a reading, mine (use a guide on the wiki if you need) to find where the ore isn't and triangulate the location.

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Yes, what Kimb said. Also, use the propick to search the level, because for now in TFC there isn't a good level. And I like this :D

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I find best heights to be y60 and y58, cause generally terrain is uneven so you get a glimpse of both layers. y58 is slightly more annoying cause of higher chance to get in the side of underground river. Prospecting caves is not as effective as it may seem, cause caves tend to be huge and unless you're playing on peaceful or get really lucky and have valuable ore exposed - it's less efficient than good old boring branch mining. Also - if ore spawned spread around so it is dangerous or annoying to excavate - you may forget about it unless you really need that ore at the time or if it is garnierite (can never have too much of that).

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or you could just go around on the surface looking for large metal drops from rocks and go to stone there, check with propick, then go down :D

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or you could just go around on the surface looking for large metal drops from rocks and go to stone there, check with propick, then go down :D

Judging by the OP, he said he needs better metals to progress. Tier 0, and Tier 1 aren't exactly good. I am assuming he means Tier 3 and beyond or at least Tier 2. You can only get Tin, Zinc, Bismuth and Copper from breaking rocks - only Tier 0/1 metals.

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To be fair, Tier 2's best metal is an alloy of a T0 and T1. Bronze is a long way from bad, even if it's nothing on steel. You don't need to go deep-earth mining until you want iron for T3, or the more aesthetically-pleasing T2 metals (Rose Gold is the best-looking T2, so screw bronze. If I can have gold, I'm using it).

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To be fair, Tier 2's best metal is an alloy of a T0 and T1. Bronze is a long way from bad, even if it's nothing on steel. You don't need to go deep-earth mining until you want iron for T3, or the more aesthetically-pleasing T2 metals (Rose Gold is the best-looking T2, so screw bronze. If I can have gold, I'm using it).

Bronze has like no durability compared to steel. kinda annoying to alloy and lug around a stack of pickaxe heads, especially if you're not mining paranoidally safely. Iron is abundant so once got - you never use bronze again. And not exactly hard to find either. As for rose gold - i'm using it only for alloying red steel. And to make fancy anvil for posterity's sake. Red steel is godly material and looks better than Rose Gold anyway ))) Black bronze is also very nice-looking.

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Bronze has like no durability compared to steel. kinda annoying to alloy and lug around a stack of pickaxe heads, especially if you're not mining paranoidally safely. Iron is abundant so once got - you never use bronze again. And not exactly hard to find either. As for rose gold - i'm using it only for alloying red steel. And to make fancy anvil for posterity's sake. Red steel is godly material and looks better than Rose Gold anyway ))) Black bronze is also very nice-looking.

Bronze is crap compared to steel, no question. But it's incredibly easy to acquire and you'll never run out of it. Even when I have steel, I tend to use bronze for a lot of the lesser tools (chisels and scythes and shovels) just because it saves the good steel for picks and hammers that I use most often.

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I very rarely make scythes, I remember when I did(a tin scythe) I ran through my tree farm spamming and it broke in like, 45 seconds >_<

Course, now with trees sprouting up everywhere I see little need to even use the scythe for anything, other than I suppose in the future harvesting crops.

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It certainly makes getting sticks convenient, I like to have it around just because i can get 4+ stacks of sticks in a couple minutes, and the one out of bismuth bronze has lasted me for about 13 stacks so far, can probably get a few more.

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i find bronze to be extremely easy to make, and its a very efficient alloy. compared to tier 0/1. also its abundance makes it the go-to until steel is obtained in bulk.

as far as what levels to mine at, i've had horrible luck at level 90.

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