some people use stag breaker to find them before they get the swamp key but they are too infrequent and surrounded by danger to wanna try to find and mine them

Originally posted by UncleAcidic:

some people use stag breaker to find them before they get the swamp key but they are too infrequent and surrounded by danger to wanna try to find and mine them

I'd be fine with both "infrequent" and "dangerous," to be honest. I just hate underwater mining.

I mine them out after finishing all the crypts in a swamp. Can easy get an extra 1 and a half to 2 stacks if there is enough of them. The best ones are embedded into hills on adjoining biomes, as they aren't fully submerged by water.

They've been there all along, it's just rare to find one jutting out of ground.

Happens with silver ore too, had a piece of the deposit stick out from a cliff like a tree root.

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

They've been there all along, it's just rare to find one jutting out of ground.

not uber rare, but rather hard to spot unless right on it. A little bit of MSP is visible in about 10 or 15% of them, and a lot is visible for a very small % (1/100 or so? hard to say, too few to sample).