Nickel/Native Silver/Malachite (B72)

[Holy_Shield 17]

Has anyone found any of these ores in this build or later?

Need people to start chiming in here.

I have the entire server I am on looking for a Gabbro layer below the surface layer (For Nickel) and noone has found it.

Not to mention the fact of Native Silver and Malachite just seem to be missing.

[aeroc 51]

Here's the block count from a B73-B75 generated world with 49014 chunks:

Native Copper: 174582

Native Gold: 17890

Native Platinum: 0

Hematite: 46736

Native Silver: 7035

Cassiterite: 385729

Galena: 115335

Bismuthinite: 576428

Garnierite: 1105

Malachite: 2147

Magnetite: 53367

Limonite: 75567

Sphalerite: 1020753

Tetrahedrite: 85425

Bituminous Coal: 710168

Lignite: 652299

As you can see those ores you mentioned are the rarest.

[ShawnB 8]

aeroc, what did you use for the block count?

[Holy_Shield 17]

I am wondering is Nickel more rare now?

Because it felt nowhere near as rare as it used to before these rock layer changes were made.

Obviously Silver is not an issue because of mixed ores with silver in it.

[aeroc 51]

aeroc, what did you use for the block count?

I made my own in java.

I am wondering is Nickel more rare now?

Even though 47000 chunks is a decent amount, it could be just luck that the areas I generated didn't happen to have gabbro in the Y60 range. I thought that garnierite count was a bit low from other worlds I've played in.

[mayaknife 82]

I am wondering is Nickel more rare now?

Because it felt nowhere near as rare as it used to before these rock layer changes were made.

I've always found nickel to be rare - rarer than gold, even - primarily because it only occurs in one rock type and never when that type is the top layer. No other resource in the game is that restricted.

Here on Earth nickel is more abundant than copper, gold, zinc, lead, tin, silver, bismuth and platinum. I find it particularly amusing that nickel is about 1,700 times more abundant than bismuth in the real world, while in TFC I find myself tripping over bismuthinite everywhere I go.

In real life limonite is a principal ore of nickel. Given that it doesn't produce nickel in TFC, I assume that Bioxx has deliberately kept nickel rare to make the upper tiers more difficult to attain. Perhaps the TFC world wasn't pelted with iron-nickel asteroids during its youth the way Earth was.

[Holy_Shield 17]

By more rare- i mean rarer than earlier builds.