Do ores/ resources respawn?

[irock322]

Hi all, I am wondering if ores and things such as trees, and the small trees that drops sticks respawn. I think they may but I am not 100% sure. If not, then its one hell of a grind to get the level 30 techs.

[Ferringer]

No they do not respawn while you are on your prospect, but the entire world resets every time you end a prospect and return to the station including removing what you placed and any gear you made on the surface). Someone mentioned that the outposts reset their ore/trees but I haven't had time to check.

[Marilith]

They don't respawn during a given drop but do between drops. So if you take the same mission again or revisit the area on a different mission, things will be back.

It's session based so that's the reason because. Explore around more and you'll generally find what you need. If you didn't know, caves can have sealed entrances you have to dig through, look for oddly flat sections of stone. Learn some of those locations and your life'll be a lot easier in terms of mineral grind.

If sticks are your issue, the carpentry bench lets you turn wood into sticks. Chopping trees, turning those into sticks, the sticks into sap and from there into epoxy is a great way to farm xp.

Using a sickle to harvest plants will get you a lot more bang for your buck too. Even just bone makes a huge difference.

[rustedblayds]

Originally posted by Marilith:

If you didn't know, caves can have sealed entrances you have to dig through, look for oddly flat sections of stone. Learn some of those locations and your life'll be a lot easier in terms of mineral grind.

OMG I've seen some of these flat surfaces thinking that damn this would be a spot for a cave but...Thanks!

[DWI_Suriil]

It is a stupide thing , tough.
You need 40 iron for anvil , and about 40 iron -> Nails to build your little stone home.
Those 80 iron bars = 160 ores , that you will get from , probably, 3 caves.

And the pb - you cant live in a Wood house , because stroms weaken its condition so hard and any lightining into your roof = end of the story.So stone home will be your first investement.


But then you need tools, and steel. Bullets price is a joke , considering how little metal you have on the planet.

Basicaly you need to clean the whole planet from metals to push your tech to max.
And once you pushed it , you have none for your tools , weapons.
Fun fun fun.

The whole idea, I guess , was to put players into ressources hunger position. But it is an exageration I think in terms of quantities game provide us.
If something is not changed about , I will start to seek for modes to change those quantities.

[GameDragon]

Originally posted by T.MauvaisLoveStory:

It is a stupide thing , tough.
You need 40 iron for anvil , and about 40 iron -> Nails to build your little stone home.
Those 80 iron bars = 160 ores , that you will get from , probably, 3 caves.

And the pb - you cant live in a Wood house , because stroms weaken its condition so hard and any lightining into your roof = end of the story.So stone home will be your first investement.


But then you need tools, and steel. Bullets price is a joke , considering how little metal you have on the planet.

Basicaly you need to clean the whole planet from metals to push your tech to max.
And once you pushed it , you have none for your tools , weapons.
Fun fun fun.

The whole idea, I guess , was to put players into ressources hunger position. But it is an exageration I think in terms of quantities game provide us.
If something is not changed about , I will start to seek for modes to change those quantities.

especially this issue gets saturated in solo mode.... as well as limiting skills point.
they made a separate skill tree for solo but there is not enough tech point to open even a half of the tree
but sure, ores need to be changed..... re-spawn or make more nodes

[irock322]

I just find it INCREDIBLY frustrating, that after using the icarus interactive map, AND mining every single gold ore I have come across in both the forest, AND arctic zones, that I only had HALF of the gold needed to make a fabrication station or w/e its called. I also check every single cave that is listed on the map, and it still wasn't enough.

[Macdallan]

I don't think anything other than wildlife respawns. Ore did respawn in some of the beta tests but it was a glitch.

Based on the volume of complaints about gold it sounds like it does need some attention.

[DWI_Suriil]

Well the pb is not that there is no ores. The pb are certain missions.
For exemple you are on Arctic mission , and only accesseble zones are....arctic !
ANd you only have 1 mine with sooooo little supply in even iron.

You beg the random to give you iron and not to roll you 3-4 coppers , because you need those to get your stone structures.
This is a pb - they have 1 map for all missions.

They told us on some missions they increased ores , but....I did not feel it later on.
Still stuggeling solo in arctic biom

[S.T.A.R.S- SSSV]

just scatter ore nodes of each type out side the caves easy fix

[Sunderforest]

me and a few friends have a prospect with a walled off cave, both the stone wall and ores have respawned a few times when leaving and hosting the prospect again, only happens to that cave.

[[WoH]Shadow]

yea.... its a shame .... to be able to make composite you need 3 machines which in total already need 152 electronics which use 456 copper bars and 152 gold bars to make.
besides needing to craft a fabricator first too.

[[WoH]Shadow]

also metal arrow crafting is super unsatifying since you use 1 ingot per single arrow

[09anaxeen]

Originally posted by T.MauvaisLoveStory:

It is a stupide thing , tough.
You need 40 iron for anvil , and about 40 iron -> Nails to build your little stone home.
Those 80 iron bars = 160 ores , that you will get from , probably, 3 caves.

And the pb - you cant live in a Wood house , because stroms weaken its condition so hard and any lightining into your roof = end of the story.So stone home will be your first investement.


But then you need tools, and steel. Bullets price is a joke , considering how little metal you have on the planet.

Basicaly you need to clean the whole planet from metals to push your tech to max.
And once you pushed it , you have none for your tools , weapons.
Fun fun fun.

The whole idea, I guess , was to put players into ressources hunger position. But it is an exageration I think in terms of quantities game provide us.
If something is not changed about , I will start to seek for modes to change those quantities.

Depending on your mindset, and whether you play multiplayer, you might like WeMod. if you run the launcher in the background it gives you access to cheats. one is that nonperishable resources are not used during construction. It definitely is cheating, but you can use it to bypass the bulk of the busywork while still playing the game normally. assuming you don't use the other cheats, you still play the game normally (hunt, mine, explore, craft food, build base, get mauled by bears, etc) but you aren't spending hours on busy work once you get initial resources.