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I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:08 am
by CreeperDaReeper
Click image for full size. And if you look at the minimap, theres a nice big pile of copper to the northeast too.
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Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:04 am
by DasMonzta
NOM NOM NOM
Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:44 am
by Der_Doodle
Max settings or notmal settings for the size you made there?
just curious if this can happen with everything on normal
Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:04 am
by Rahjital
Burner miners? So you just spawned next to this? Holy moly, that's some great luck.
Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:10 pm
by Ric
I'd be interested to know your spawn generation settings.
This may make things too easy having a patch that big! lol..
Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:49 pm
by ssilk
Or the map generation hash?
Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:44 pm
by CreeperDaReeper
ssilk wrote:Or the map generation hash?
I had started this map for
testing, and this was the first one I generated.
Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:06 pm
by Khyron
I should be the last person to talk about bad spelling, but did you know it's actually spelt "lode"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_lode
Re: I found the Motherload.
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:21 pm
by Rahjital
Ah, that makes sense now. Lowering frequency makes resource fields rarer but bigger, which in combination with the largest size and richness does this. Well, I guess you'll never you railroads in this game.
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