>>715863879
It's basically impossible to not set up "near" clay. And you need so little cassiterite to make tin bronze that one big field trip hardly matters.

VS involves a ton of walking, that's a major part of the game.

>>715866497
skill issue, learn2prospect

>>715867016
You can and should decrease the landcover to 70% or so. Increase the worldgen scale to 300 or 500% and you'll get big continents and big oceans.

>>715864050
It only became ubiquitous because one group of guys had access to a big deposit of tin and traded it literally everywhere.

>>715869348
Don't be in forests if you don't want to get mauled by forest creatures


Anyway, here's the smithey I made in my last (now retired) world