So, after quite a few months of playing this mod, I FINALLY made a metal tool.

[Alestance 39]

The day is April 8th, 1000. One month and seven Minecraft days after starting the game, and about a week of playing the game here in the real world. I have scavenged a 5 mile radius of my home and spawn location, hunted, gathered, and knapped tools, staved off the undead and the damned, and built a rather cozy log cabin over a river bed.

I have quite literally over a hundred crops planted, and enough food to last me the rest of the year. I've been blessed with settling near at least four large deposits of clay, a lime stone, marble, and diorite field for plenty of flux, and willows grow nearby, granting me with enough wood to make more charcoal than should be necessary for the remainder of the year.

However, metal had evaded me. One might say I'm...

Met-allergic.

One month and 50 miles of searching through the desolate grassy plains, the thick and heavily shrubbed woodlands and forests, and climbing steep, dangerous cliff sides, I finally found Cassiterite AND Native Copper. Today I have made my first metal tool legitimately. A tin chisel.

It only gets more difficult from here, I suppose. Wish me luck on my journey.

^{_{Yes I only made this post to make that terrible pun. Please don't hurt me.}}

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

Why is there so many unfortunate people playing this mod, now that i think about it? i usually spawn, apparently, right over a vein of some starting metal, to the point where sometimes i'm begging to find a normal rock to actually make tools.

(quote from myself from a thread where the poster whinned about how hard finding ores is)

'nough said.

[ECC 508]

well written. you playing blind or by the book? cause if its the latter, I'll toss you a tip from my own 'blind' playthough

[Sebster 8]

Good luck on the remainder of your long journey.

Ironically in a new SP game I just recently started I have found my stone anvil and at least a dozen spots to mine for copper tin bismuth and zinc. I have everything I need to start except flux material. Im searching everywhere in growing concentric circles but I still havent been able to find a single flux capable stone. But that is part of the appeal of this mod for me, nothing can be taken for granted.

Im thinking now Ill just pick a direction and head that way till I find my flux.

[Alestance 39]

Playing by the book. After being with this mod for such a long time, playing blind is now impossible. Well, almost impossible. Constant overhaul of the very early phase of the game is a bit off putting sometimes, but I'm quite content in knowing that most of the rest of the game will stay the same until the Kingdoms update, or the construction overhaul if those two aren't the same.

[ECC 508]

in that case: pro tip: if you find surface ore, dig down.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Good luck on the remainder of your long journey.

Ironically in a new SP game I just recently started I have found my stone anvil and at least a dozen spots to mine for copper tin bismuth and zinc. I have everything I need to start except flux material. Im searching everywhere in growing concentric circles but I still havent been able to find a single flux capable stone. But that is part of the appeal of this mod for me, nothing can be taken for granted.

Im thinking now Ill just pick a direction and head that way till I find my flux.

hey, do you go to Waterloo? My best friends from highschool go there

[Alestance 39]

in that case: pro tip: if you find surface ore, dig down.

I've been marking every location that I've found surface ore with a block of cobble, there's a huge field of bismuthinite, cassiterite, and native copper about a mile away from where I've set up shelter. I need just a bit more tin to make a prospector's pick, which is, incidentally, the last tool I absolutely need. Just a bit more cassiterite and I'll be ready.

I've set up a forge and a bloomery, but neither will be perminent, as I have my eyes set on relocating to the mountains that's much farther.

[ECC 508]

no, you dont need a propick. just mine down and make sure you have laddars. make a propick AFTER you get your first depot.

[Sebster 8]

hey, do you go to Waterloo? My best friends from highschool go there :)/>

Nope. Graduated many years ago.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Nope. Graduated many years ago.

I see, but you still live there. It's rare to meet someone who actually lives in a smaller community.

[Alestance 39]

I spent too much time putting a shale roof on this cabin, but here are images of my home, farm, and temporary metal works. http://imgur.com/a/vxoFx#0

Haven't built anything remarkable with the chisel yet, but when I start building at the location I want to, I'll be using the chisel quite a lot.

Started doing strip mining near where the cassiterite and copper was found.

Also, this sort of became a diary of my game so far. Is this thread in the right section?

[Kimbblesrath 503]

I see, but you still live there. It's rare to meet someone who actually lives in a smaller community.

Is it just me, or are there a bunch more people from Canada than before?

[Sebster 8]

I see, but you still live there. It's rare to meet someone who actually lives in a smaller community.

I didnt ever go to school in Waterloo, I went to Centre Wellington. Ill be moving closer to Orangeville in the near future.

[zoran 31]

It's rare to meet people who live in small communities? If it counts, I used to live in the Waterloo area...

[halfmaster1 77]

You guys are so unlucky when it comes to ore. I found my first vein in day 7. Or was it 10. I can't remember, but it was something like that.

[Kandid Kandace 16]

Ah, Terra Firma. It's the game where to get your satisfaction, you need to secure it in an arm lock and suffocate it to death, while it tries to violently stab you with it's infinitely growing arms. The way minecraft should have been.