No iron patches generated. about industrialrevolution

[Deadlock989]

You've simply been slightly unlucky, possibly due to the RNG of ore patches being obliterated by the placement of water. You've explored a decent area but I wouldn't say it was especially large (YMMV). If you import your map string into a new game's Map Generator and open the preview, you'll see that there are is a very large iron patch only about 1-2 chunks beyond your currently explored area, a smaller one about the same distance in another direction, and several more huge ones about 3-5 chunks away in other directions. In total I'm guessing you have access to several million iron ore within the map preview area.

[David00]

Thanks for the quick response, @Deadlock989! I was wondering how I could preview the rest of the map and the built-in previewer totally slipped my mind. I will check that out and head that way shortly. I'm really enjoying IR3 so far! :)