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Non-Starter Metals in first stone layer?

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So the general consensus is to look for the rarer metals in the second and third stone layers. But my question is;

Do the rarer metals (gold/silver/nickel/etc) even spawn in the first stone layer?

(Does anything besides the starter ores spawn in the first stone layer?)

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If you don't count copper as a starter ore, then some of them do (you can find copper in the first layer).

But if you do count it?... I'm not really sure... i found some exposed useless ore a long time ago, but it could have changed since then.

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So the general consensus is to look for the rarer metals in the second and third stone layers. But my question is;

Do the rarer metals (gold/silver/nickel/etc) even spawn in the first stone layer?

(Does anything besides the starter ores spawn in the first stone layer?)

I highly doubt it, based on my experiences. Out of all the worlds I played in, I have yet to pick up a nugget from a rarer metal near the surface. On NEI, however, I do believe (I'm not one-hundred percent sure on this) there is some nuggets of rarer metals.

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I consider copper, bismuth, tin and zinc to be the starter metals. Super easy to find (on my seed anyway). Copper is a tier 1 metal though so I see your point. It's the other two tier 1 metals that are eluding me, gold and silver. I have actually found some precious nickel and so I'm anxious to be able to craft black/blue/red steel.

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I consider copper, bismuth, tin and zinc to be the starter metals. Super easy to find (on my seed anyway). Copper is a tier 1 metal though so I see your point. It's the other two tier 1 metals that are eluding me, gold and silver. I have actually found some precious nickel and so I'm anxious to be able to craft black/blue/red steel.

What do you need Gold and Silver for (other than getting rich, that is)?

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What do you need Gold and Silver for (other than getting rich, that is)?

I've found iron as well so now I'm searching for gold and silver so I can craft black/blue/red steel. If I understand the alloys chart correctly that is.

I just found traces of silver, hopefully it is easier to track down than my nickel find. With that one I cleared two double chests of stone to find 30 ingots of nickel. (branch mining) It was very scattered and hard to locate, I tunnelled through the 'vein' twice without discovering any Garnierite. Medium was the highest concentration of ore I found with my prospecter's pick.

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it could be worse, i tunneled through about 14 KM of tunnel before i found gabbro 2-3rd layer, have yet to find any nickel.

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Right now I'm pretty sure the only ores you can find in the first layer are only the 3 starter ones and native copper, although on a very old world quite a few builds ago I found coal in the first layer (not sure which type of coal).

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I once found a nugget of hematite, but at the bottom of a ravine. A pity.

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My prospector pick's located olivine in the first layer before, but I'm not sure if it was actually picking it up from the 2nd layer as I was pretty far down and I didn't have time to dig it up. I've also never see any ores besides tin/copper/bismuth/zinc from surface pebbles.

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I've played TFC with four different seeds now, and I've never seen anything better than copper in the first layer of rock.

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