Osmium

[LadyLynn]

I have found several Osmium caves but when I put down an Ore Extractor it only shows Iron. What am I doing wrong? How can I mine for Osmium?

[Thiesen]

T2 extractor... :-)

[Blud]

What Thiesen said. You need a T2 for the rarer materials.

[LadyLynn]

Well, that's really annoying. I can get everything else with the T1 so why do I have to have the T2 for Osmium? Thank you for the information.

[Taonath]

Originally posted by LadyLynn:

I can get everything else with the T1 so why do I have to have the T2 for Osmium?

You can't and because the Devs decided so.

[DJGeeks]

T2 is for rare ores, its not just for Osmium.

[nor7hy5]

Originally posted by LadyLynn:

Well, that's really annoying. I can get everything else with the T1 so why do I have to have the T2 for Osmium? Thank you for the information.

you can't mine every other ore with the t1 and this is mostly because if they allowed you to do this you'd be-able to skip a majority of the game as the later ore nodes are really powerfully and so would speed up progress way too much.

a t2 can mine
Super Alloy
Uranium
Osmium
where as t1 can't and presumable new ores being added will also be gated behind the t2 ore extractor or later tiers of ore extractor.

this is early access as well so if they added a higher tier item to a existing one that only did one new thing you can probably expect that to get more fleshed out.

[Zarinthal]

I just think of it in my mind as the T2 extractor isn't just more powerful, but more precise, and the "rare" ores are less stable and can't be collected by the brute force of the T1 extractor. Where there is no lore (yet?), one must create their own.

[LadyLynn]

I'm having a hard time accumulating enough pressure to get the T2 extractor. I just reached 100 but I need 364. I've made several T4 drills but it's still increasing very slowly. Any advice?

[Taonath]

Launch a rocket or two, it will speed up the process immensly.

[LadyLynn]

Right...the rockets. Forgot about those. lol

[Sir Laffsalot]

Originally posted by LadyLynn:

I have found several Osmium caves but when I put down an Ore Extractor it only shows Iron. What am I doing wrong? How can I mine for Osmium?

Where does it show what it will extract? If I set this up in the aluminum caves, will I get aluminum?

[sarg]

Yes, I had a run where I set my base up at the edge of the aluminum region and just ran several extractors instead of going out collecting. Actually ended up with way more aluminum than I could use. Had like 8 storage lockers of the stuff.

[Sir Laffsalot]

Originally posted by sarg:

Yes, I had a run where I set my base up at the edge of the aluminum region and just ran several extractors instead of going out collecting. Actually ended up with way more aluminum than I could use. Had like 8 storage lockers of the stuff.

I accidentally set my first base camp up near my capsule, only to learn that it was low ground. Had to move it once water started appearing on the surface, otherwise, would've been at the bottom of a lake. lol

[Alaskan Glitch]

I use T2 Ore Extractors to collect Super Alloys, Osmium, Uranium, Iridium, and Aluminum.

Before T2 Ore Extractors Aluminum was the rarest element on the planet. I could always get more Iridium and Uranium by using rockets to call down another meteorite storm. Or manufacture Super Alloys, before the Super Alloy meteorite storm began. Even Osmium and Sulfur eventually arrives in meteorite storms. Only Aluminum is exceedingly rare before T2 Ore Extractors. One or two might show up during a normal meteorite storm, and a T1 Ore Extractor may produce one Aluminum out of every 20 ores it collects, but otherwise you are out of luck if you need Aluminum and do not have a T2 Ore Extractor.

[LadyLynn]

Originally posted by Alaskan Glitch:

I use T2 Ore Extractors to collect Super Alloys, Osmium, Uranium, Iridium, and Aluminum.

Before T2 Ore Extractors Aluminum was the rarest element on the planet. I could always get more Iridium and Uranium by using rockets to call down another meteorite storm. Or manufacture Super Alloys, before the Super Alloy meteorite storm began. Even Osmium and Sulfur eventually arrives in meteorite storms. Only Aluminum is exceedingly rare before T2 Ore Extractors. One or two might show up during a normal meteorite storm, and a T1 Ore Extractor may produce one Aluminum out of every 20 ores it collects, but otherwise you are out of luck if you need Aluminum and do not have a T2 Ore Extractor.

Aluminium was super easy for me to collect. Just put down a couple T1 Extractors in the Aluminium fields and you get all you want.