For deserts and ressources I guess the only tipp is: Build a grass-area and bonemeal it or should ore-flowers appear in deserts, too?
Just had to travel about 1'000 Blocks to finally find tin, but since alot of the way is desert I'm wondering if I just missed any closer vein.
Of course the RNG made fun of me and gave me exactly then my first blood moon...
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Uhm, which mod is it, that makes the tool not break anymore?
Seems there is a bug when you "over-break" them with the mining-upgrade (so bringing them to negative numbers, that then deletes the tool anyways)
And: These ore-flowers are making fun of me too often... Following gold-flowers and trying to find a piece of gold for 3 hours, found coal, iron, copper, red fluorite... just not a single piece of gold xD
Guess I should try to make a 3x3 pickaxe before trying to search again, finding these veins sure can be painful ^^"
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Wooohoo, found out rotarycraft has an item with which finding ores should be lot eaiser
Now I just need to move my machine setup to the near desert... of course right when I wanted to start, winter came and the blast furnace doesn't get enough heat *grumbles* ^^
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And after another few hours trying to find gold... I give up for now :/
It's a nice modpack, very challanging, but this ore-finding can just be really frustrating, especially since you loose veins so easily cause of water, dirt and gravel. Or cause other ores seem to overwrite each other.