How do you merge ores?

[vovuey]

Trying to complete 2 quests that each requires 1.5 weight worth of iron ore. How do you merge ore without turning them into bars?

[grandmaMax]

You can't, however if you dig deeper you'll get better resources

[Belariean of Canada]

Get T2 dirt, and the nuggets are significantly bigger

[Tjark]

and how can we easily see the wheight of a ore nugget?

[Jarlim]

use the scales

[Tjark]

ok then i need to buy one :D i think some tool tip would be good. i started again after a while and now dont know how it works anymore

[vovuey]

Originally posted by Belariean:

Get T2 dirt, and the nuggets are significantly bigger

The rewards for the quest aren't much but is its ironic that they require a cloutium miner to extract

[aRPeaR]

It doesn't require a cloutium miner, I've done this quests with just a bucket and shovel in the starting plot. Just dig as deep as you can with the T1 shovel.

[halfbaked2001]

I know I didn't start this topic but thank you, thank you, thank you never thought bout going deeper my pea sized brain kept trying to smelt 2 iron ores together to get the 2 ore weight.

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I agree, the game doesnt really represent this whole concept of dirt layers too well. Neither does it emphesise enough that you need to dig as deep as you can for better results. So new players tend to just build on the surface.

However i noticed that NPC's now actually tell you to go deeper, and also there is a tutorial with a simple miner setup which also shows that you can build underground. So it gets better, i think.

[Zerschmetterling]

The Jeweler literally tells you, you get better ore the deeper you dig.

[Dr3amt]

The scale has rounding errors. Sometimes adding two ores 2.5 and 2.5 can give 4.99 on the scale.

[halfbaked2001]

Originally posted by Zerschmetterling:

The Jeweler literally tells you, you get better ore the deeper you dig.

True but that could've easily just meant rarer ore types