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World generated on build 79.6, now playing in 79.8. So anyone have found graphite? Or im beeing unlucky.

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accually with exactly those builds i have been able to find graphite for the first time withouth cheating :D. i stumbled over it in two different locations withouth looking for it. go check on the wiki if you are searching in the right stone types. if i am not mistaken this build also added graphite spawning to 2 additional stone types which should make it easier to find compared to the previous builds.

 

wiki page: http://wiki.terrafirmacraft.com/Ores_%26_Minerals

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2 bismuth bronze prospectors pick's are broken after search at quartize stone, but if you had found it, so this is imposible, ty. Gonna go and brake some more prospectors picks :D

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In the seeds section of this forum is a seed that says kaolite and graphite near spawn for 79.6 so I guess you're not having luck.

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Have you tried the seed mentioned? There's no Graphite there... I tried it because I wanted to know what a) block ID it was B) where it really spawned and looked like?

 

I then tried about 20 or so new worlds and am as yet to find Graphite. I have noticed that surface Metamorphic stone is also quite rare, so you're going to have to go digging I guess. I've currently covered a 5000 area around my base in my SMP and haven't found it. I'm now drilling pilot holes every 500 or so and finally found a use for all those branches, ladders.

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I have graphite in my world... so it does generate. Though I have to say, my continent is Gabbro on the top layer as far as the eye can see.

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Just a bit more of a pain to look for it since rock layers are bigger then they used to be, but I've been able to find it as well

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Update: I fell into a crevasse in the bottom was a tunnel which led to Metamorphic (Schist I think) stone, only a short way into the tunnel I found "Traces of Graphite". I followed it deeper and 3 or 4 blocks into the wall at the middle of the Very Large readings I found graphite, lots and lots of graphite. I can't remember when I generated the world, I think it was .3 and currently running .8. 

 

You have to go looking, it's not going to be obviously in your face any more. Next challenge is Gabbro  :wacko:

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In my 79.1 world, after searching several thousand blocks in each direction around my base, finally found some marble. I've since then dug probably 2 km worth of tunnels in all directions and not so much as a hint of the stuff anywhere :( Found more tetrahedtrite than I know what to do with, though, so it's not a complete waste of time, but I can't help but feel a bit sad being stuck at this point in the tech tree for over a week now.

 

I'm sure it's out there somewhere, but goddess, the game is not letting me have any of it.

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In my 79.1 world, after searching several thousand blocks in each direction around my base, finally found some marble. I've since then dug probably 2 km worth of tunnels in all directions and not so much as a hint of the stuff anywhere :( Found more tetrahedtrite than I know what to do with, though, so it's not a complete waste of time, but I can't help but feel a bit sad being stuck at this point in the tech tree for over a week now.

 

I'm sure it's out there somewhere, but goddess, the game is not letting me have any of it.

 

Heaven knows that some worlds just don't want to make it easy but I can offer some advice that might speed things up. The fastest way to find graphite (that I know of) is to search for a region that has the right rock type and is also a mountain range. I have never come across a mountain range of a graphite bearing rock without finding graphite in it within 30 minutes of exploring the mountains. Either a piece will be exposed, sometimes many pieces or if that fails, constant prospecting will yield a result somewhere on a cliff face. Hope this helps everyone.

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I have a single player world started in 79.4 that hasn't found graphite in over 2 years of searching for it.

 

Thinking I'll probably add a recipe to convert coal to graphite*. It's cool that TFC has a strong exploration focus, but I've got my limits for when something stops being fun, and becomes mindless work.

 

*(It sort of makes sense, you know, other than the ridiculous heat that conversion requires, Thinking I might make it a % chance to drop from lignite/bc instead, since those deposits seems to generate normally.)

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Graphite is notoriously difficult to find..although not as hard as sylvite to find.

I've found it both by accident and when looking for it, and almost every time in marble, although I'm sure the ravine I fell into last night by accident had graphite in one of the walls, and that wasn't graphite.. more interested in getting out and avoiding the mobs that actually finding out what.

As with my inability to find Rocksalt on one particular world until I gave up and then found it when returning home (still some 5000 blocks from my base), just keep looking in the right rocks and eventually you should find it..

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I've never ever seen sylvite, but you can still continue to play without ever finding it. Graphite is a requirement to move out of the bronze/iron age to end game. Same with rocksalt, if you find it, GREAT! but you can survive without it.

 

That's why people complain about the scarcity of it.

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