Open world exotics veins

[Fingers McTickles]

I had a Exotics deep vein near my main base in the open world and had setup two drills on it. They both filled up once and I unloaded them. I logged off earlier today and came back to the play this evening. The deep vein is gone, long with the 2 drills. All that is left if the solar panel and batteries used to run the drills. Is that suppose to happen?

[Rekal]

The vein will disappear (stop glowing purple) once all the exotics have been mined out of it.

Your extractors will attract animals to attack them just like you the player does. If they wander close they'll attack.

Most likely series of events was the extractors completed drilling out the exotics so the deposit is now empty. Then some animal came along and ate your extractors with the exotics in them. Thus extractors are gone, and exotic deposit is gone.

Solar panel and batteries do not aggro animals so they didn't get eaten.

Defending your extractors is pretty simple. Either use a creature deterrent, or build walls about 3 squares away around the deposit so the animals don't wander close enough to agro on the extractors.

There's some other tips in the extraction section in this guide here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121617137

[Fingers McTickles]

Ok, good to know. I had the wood walls and spikes around it, but left one side open to get to them. I'll build a door next time.