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Anyone know how to make this happen? I've been trying for like 2hrs, but the MOST I get is like 5x5 tiles of coal, iron, and such, and they're MILES apart. Help?

I cant remember my settings except I used tiny start area. so there is chance for big fields, at least one of them, to spawn close to start area. It still takes some running between fields, but they are easy to find. If you use same settings for each resource, they will spawn diagonaly from NW to SE.

Starting area will never have huge fields of resources.
If you set starting area size too high, you'll need to travel far away to get the first big field of resources. After that you'll get big patches with about 50-100 tiles of empty space between them (on max resource settings).

Hm. I just created custom worlds with resources options almost maxed out. It gave me pretty good spawn and several big piles of resources around.