Size of Veins?

[zem 2]

Hello TFcrafters,

I started playing TFC a view days ago.

When i started, I was looking for a good location to settle down. when i found igneous stone next to a beautyfil lake i started my first crappy base camp.

After exploring the area around me, I got lucky and found a ravine. I started to dig down carefully and found some cassiterite, enough to make a few ingots.

Now I was all fired up and started to look for ores underground. I found copper on the surface and dug down. But my prospectors pickaxe kept beeing stubborn and told me there were only traces of copper. An hour or so and 2 pickaxes later i gave up and started looking for another location.

There I finnally found copper, and the vein was HUGE. I had to run back to my base several times to empty my pockets and get new pickaxes

Here is my question: Was I just extremely lucky to find so much copper? there were about 440 blocks in my vein. how big is a vein in average?

To the devs:

Keep up the good work. This mod is awesome and i like playing it a lot!

greetings from germany and please excuse a me, if i made a view mistakes in my post

zem

[aliceingame 114]

They tend to be smaller in surface, and bigger deep underground. At least it's what i noticed.

In the last copper vein i found on surface, I had to do 2 trips to move everything.

underground i found a 10 block high, maibue 40-50 block long and large vein of different ore (mostly useless, but still).

as for the pro pick, you might want to check the guide i wrote in the guide section of the forum to find ore quicker.

[Bihlbo 29]

You're lucky that the ravine had ore in it. Nearly all of the ones I explore are barren. But to answer your question, you probably won't find any veins of 9 pieces of ore like you would in vanilla MC. Veins are hard to find, but reward you big-time when you find them.

[mayaknife 82]

Wait until you hit your first "very large" coal deposit. Those things can be friggin' huge!