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It is likely that there is no iron at your site. It does not exist on every map.

It is one of the challenges in the game - not every map has all the resources, so how do you succeed when you don't have access to iron.

If you think there may be iron somewhere - there are a couple of tricks to finding it:

The dfwiki shows some mining/ exploration patterns that can help you find ores and gems - search it for 'DF2014:Exploratory mining'

A (cheating) way to find it is to pause your game, then use dfhack 'reveal' command. You can also 'unreveal' when done looking around.

Having a great time with this mod. Here are a few observations and concerns:

Vampires. I lock them in their own nice room. They always die of thirst (five games, lots or dead vampires). If I put a few casks of cheap strawberry wine in with them, they drink that and do fine. ? I thought they didn't need food or drink, and would never touch the alcohol.

Bags. Yikes! How to get enough bags for all the gold dust, herbs, raiding kits, etc... I have a 50 tile rope reed farm and just cannot keep enough bags for all the spell components. Does training a warlock with a new spell destroy the bags? It seems like it, but I think it should not.

Ghouls - the ones from the graveyard appear naked, and quickly become unhappy about it. Need to have a strong clothing industry if you want to mass summon ghouls. Would be nice if they could wear small and /or large things left over from the seiges. I have all my cloth going towards bags.  Also - why do ghouls care if they are naked?

Raids and Books. How about letting us raid a library or tower to find books. Perhaps even the town raid could provide books. I have a fort going into year 4 and have only made 40 books. I want them all and I want to make all the spells I want everything. But it goes so slowly.

Thanks again for making this mod. I just love telling my wife I am going to church because it is fun (to get scalps, heheheh insert evil laugh)

I want to be dorfed.

Call me Murple, and I want to be a clothesmaker / weaver. And no sobriety - it scares me.

He did not load it without DFHack, he just reloaded it. The lag comes after a long time of play.

The game will work, but most scripts, weapons, custom buildings etc.  won't.

Indeed - I just restarted a saved game without using dfhack, and I ran it for hours without a slowdown. I think most things worked - I was able to build robots! I was able to get blueprints, build buildings, and create all those cool objects. The robots were able to use their plasma weapons. Did I mention that I really like the robots! They are so cool!

I also tried running it with an older version of dfhack. I just replaced the files in the hack folder with old ones. That did not work, dfhack (old) ran and gave me several pages of report on how broken it was, and nothing in it worked - not even something simple like deramp or prospect.