There are indeed deposits of coal throughout the soil (though very few seams would be close to the surface, most are between the 300m to 1000m mark below the surface!) Immediately around the basecamp and for many kilometers out, the soil is alkaline and rather non-arable. It's a biome rather close to a desert, and the native plants have adapted to suit!
Once you get a little further out, specifically to the north-west, the soil will become quite fertile, but Earth plants would find themselves hard-pressed to grow in it without proper precautions for the acid rain in place — the hydroponic gardens in the basecamp use native soil hauled from this region, for example!
There are many ores in the world, and you are welcome to describe them and/or follow them as suits your design for the 'fun factor' of a thread! Some of them will be Earth-familiar (iron, gold, etc) and some will be completely alien. If you decide to apply and are accepted into the game, another option would be: if you would like (and this is by no means an obligation, just an invitation to engage with our setting!) we would encourage you to come up with unique ores and metals and submit them to us for review as a way of having your character impact the game. We would only ask that you not make anything too OP if you decide to go that route (and we would reserve the risk to give light nerfs to anything we felt might result in too significant an impact on the setting!)
Please let us know if this is adequate information!
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There are indeed deposits of coal throughout the soil (though very few seams would be close to the surface, most are between the 300m to 1000m mark below the surface!) Immediately around the basecamp and for many kilometers out, the soil is alkaline and rather non-arable. It's a biome rather close to a desert, and the native plants have adapted to suit!
Once you get a little further out, specifically to the north-west, the soil will become quite fertile, but Earth plants would find themselves hard-pressed to grow in it without proper precautions for the acid rain in place — the hydroponic gardens in the basecamp use native soil hauled from this region, for example!
There are many ores in the world, and you are welcome to describe them and/or follow them as suits your design for the 'fun factor' of a thread! Some of them will be Earth-familiar (iron, gold, etc) and some will be completely alien. If you decide to apply and are accepted into the game, another option would be: if you would like (and this is by no means an obligation, just an invitation to engage with our setting!) we would encourage you to come up with unique ores and metals and submit them to us for review as a way of having your character impact the game. We would only ask that you not make anything too OP if you decide to go that route (and we would reserve the risk to give light nerfs to anything we felt might result in too significant an impact on the setting!)
Please let us know if this is adequate information!