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[Fozstoke]

This is old news to you but new to me. Can't find iron. Look for it in hills etc. Nowhere to be found. Doing my head in. Anybody got any ideas. On ps4

 

[criZp]

It can be located in the same tile as a district or wonder, in which case you won't see it. Also need bronze working tech.

 

[RohirrimElf]

This is old news to you but new to me. Can't find iron. Look for it in hills etc. Nowhere to be found. Doing my head in. Anybody got any ideas. On ps4

you need two things. Research the right technology (i believe iron working or the one before it). And an iron resource. Not all start locations will have iron. But then you might have plenty of horses or niter. Do not despair if you have no iron.

You can search for iron on the bottom left icons. Type iron and all should be green on explored tiles.

 

[criZp]

he's on PS4 so I'm not sure he has the map search

 

[MrRadar]

You can search for iron on the bottom left icons. Type iron and all should be green on explored tiles.

he's on PS4 so I'm not sure he has the map search

Yep, sadly, consoles do not have that wonderful map search function.

Rely on your eyes. Press the touch pad to call up the tooltip for the currently selected tile - this helps to check what is underneath cities, districts, wonders and such.
Or build the Jebel Barkal wonder, if you have a desert hill tile, it will give you some iron per turn.

You can also trade for iron - buy it from the AI. But there's a catch. The best deal will often be to buy it one unit at a time, even within the same turn. There's some strange bug in the algorithm, so if you try to buy a batch of 10 units or so at once, AI may ask for half your kingdom and the shirt off your back. But it will happily sell you those 10 units one by one within the same turn (if it has surplus) for a reasonable price. Always go for lump sum payment, not gold per turn. This is valid for all strategic resources: iron, horses, niter, oil, aluminium and uranium. Coupled with the very horrible user interface of the deal screen that Civ VI currently has, you must be seriously into S&M to do such trading. Or you must need those strategic resources really badly.

 

[tiamats4esgares]

He probably just doesn't have bronze working.

 

[RohirrimElf]

Switching to strategic map mode could also work. If you are staring at the map and overlook things. Also sometimes an iron resource might just be sitting pretty under a city.

 

[MrRadar]

Switching to strategic map mode could also work. If you are staring at the map and overlook things. Also sometimes an iron resource might just be sitting pretty under a city.

Console versions don't have strategic map mode.

 

[FlyinPhil]

Not having iron is a blessing in disguise sometimes, depending on your civ of choice and play style. If I have no iron, it usually means I've got boatloads of niter, which is good for me since I prefer going to war in the mid-game

 

[RohirrimElf]

Console versions don't have strategic map mode.

sorry. I am unaware to civ 6 on console. I prefer to have all features so i play on pc

 

[Sostratus]

AFAIK it only appears on desert, grass, plains, and tundra hills.

However, it shares grass & plains hills with coal, which can also be pretty common in GS.

By extension, playing Civ’s who have start biases for grass & plains hills (Greeks, Inca, etc) or mineable resources (Nubia) or even specifically iron (England) helps.

As others have have, niter can appear in the same terrain but on flat land only instead of iron being hills only. Adapting to no iron usually means rushing for crossbows and then military engineering to look for niter. If you have horses, horsemen -> coursers -> is a very good unit line that only needs horses for 4 eras.

Ultimately it’s all about oil anyways; you’re only missing out on swords, knights, and cuirassiers. There’s a lot of other units to use.