Iron Ore with T2 extractor

[Funkpucker]

ive set up multiple t2 ore extractors, i have at the very least 2-3 t2 extractors per element. Iridium, osmi, sulfr, uranium. alumi, and iron. im finding that i get less iron when drilling for iron vs drilling for the other elements. With iron being the most common element being used for building and stuff i think it should be a little better ratio for iron when drilling for it with a t2.

[moira.lachesis]

I have the same problem as the OP. I always seem to run out of iron and all the rest is overflowing. It's not that you get little iron, it's just that you need a lot more of it than the rest of stuff, because it is used for almost everything.

[Odlid Tubpu]

I haven't built stairs to the sky or 100 room bases...but I do have 100 each t4 Drills and t4 Heaters and 70 tree spreaders. I have 2x at iridium, sulfur, and osmium, 3x at uranium and super alloy. I sort in piles on the ground all the common materials. I have HUGE piles of iron - probably 2000+ pieces all told in all the piles. After crafting 3 storage lockers for all the common materials in various bases I just started piling the extra on the ground rather than shredding it. Perhaps I'll use the iron; I'll never use all the manganese, silicon, cobalt, and titanium I have lying around. I have 4 storage lockers of Aluminium; I disassembled my Aluminium ore extractors and moved them to uranium and super alloy spots since I no longer have any need for Aluminium.

[Symatrix Hill]

Please take your time to read my long post about lack of iron in every game stages mate and the developer as well and sorry my english where i did try my best to handle the grammar as always where google translation get stuck all too often.


-- Odlid Tubpu i have been through this discussion several times mate where we have people who is always so happy with the way the game work where they all have too much iron where they even destroy them and that they don`t have the smallest clue why some people always need iron just because they have plenty of it and do not need it even on the earlier game stages.

Well the case about iron is : it is depends about how you/we prefer to play where some player is happy with these little thing and do not wanna work so much because that`t gonna boring them to the death and then we have other who is much more creative and wanna build and build forever and don`t mind to gather resources for hours after hours even to the extreme which today is perfectly normal because everything is depend about what we like to do in a game as example what we like to do out in the real life.

Again i wanna say iron is the most needed resources in this game as stone and trees in other survival/crafting game where this game have restriction on iron all the way to the end of the game and that means for some people that we can`t build whatever we wish or feeling for because no matter what we are doing we are constantly short of iron to the stages we is happy with everything we have build and that can take a long-long time in a game like this as in other game.


-- In my case on my first game i explore just a little bit and speed up the terraforming just enough to get those food grower up and running and then i start to build on the start area and in short time the lower area been flooded and i didn`t collect all the resources down there which i wish because i needed these resources.

So i place out some few miner drills just to collect iron and then start to explore and finds 3 other places i wanna build a huge base on, so i start it up and in short time these area was empty for iron as well and these miner drill i placed out collect a lot of items i did not need at that game stages which annoying me because why do i gonna be forced to deal with so much resources i do not need and waste time on it when all i wanna have is iron and by the way these ore extraction speed up the terraforming progress which i am not interested in something i will explain further down which the developers of this game have not thought of.

It is almost like you start up a new game and cut down a tree to get wood but that tree drop 75% leaf and sticks and seeds and it only gives you very few wood much less wood than in other game and all you wanna do is to build stuff but you can`t because of the game mechanics force you to work much more for these basic resources as wood.

Well after several x10 gamehours i still got issue with iron and my goal is not to reach the end of the game where i have tons of resources and nothing more to do except to build which will now at that gamestages be very boring because i have done everything else.


-- My intention or goal is to have fun and build whatever i wish when i wish and that i can`t because of the iron who is restricted in this game and the ore extraction speeding up the terraforming which make my gameplay shorter so what i did was to quit the game and restart a brand new game where i speed up the terraforming to the stages i got the equipment i needed to move fly fast and to be able to carry max item and to get these food grower up and running + the water collector.

Then i take down all my stuff who speed up the terraforming and start to collect all resources scattered around on the map not because i needed them all but because for me that is fun and because the map looks much nicer as well long time before i gonna terraform the planet and reach the end of the game.


-- So i build around 50 nice scout modules scattered around the map and explore everything then i build some nice big miner base outside each cave who "still is blocked by ice" which i don`t care about and then i have start up with 4 different very big bases project on different spot on the map and not because i needed them but because for me that is fun. Later on i wanna build 1 crazy big unique project as a space ship in the air or something but that reminds to be seen.

Well the big issue is iron but what i did was to start up a new game where i do not load up the game no matter what because if i don`t load up the game i noticed some very few % iron spawning back scattered around on the map where i use about 4 minute to collect 32 iron which is in fact cheating but i do not care because that is the "only way to get iron" on this dry nice planet without starting up the terraforming and without tons of resources i/we don`t need which the developer force on us and that is what the developer did not think of where some of us wanna enjoy the dry planet long-long time before the terraforming start up and this way we can extend the gaming experience much longer which many of you have forgotten and the developer as well which some should be their main focus.


-- Just tink about it here we have a game who has two part where other game has only one part.

- Part one of this game is : this dry nice beautiful planet and all we can do on it as long as we wish if we had access to iron without starting up the terraforming and that is the thing the developer need to know and urderstand because here they have missed totally the opportunity they have to extend the playing experience by only add a iron extraction early game stages without speeding up the terraforming progress.
- Part two : is the terraforming itself where we now get a totally different planet and when we start it up then we can never ever get that nice dry planet back and we all know the end of the terraforming is the end game so why hurry with it, why hurry to end any game.


-- By the way do you know what , my planet is still dry and the caves is still blocked with ice and the water have barely cover the bottom of the start area and i love it.
Now i can build as much i wish where i wish when i wish and i can also start up the terraforming whenever i whish as when i have finished all my construction building project and that gonna take long-long time on this nice dry planet which is perfect for me.

When everything is finished as all of my construction building project i can now enjoy everything i have build and focus on the terraforming only and be able to se this nice dry planet slowly changes for then to reach the end of the game where i can never ever get back that nice dry planet except to start up a brand new game which i probably don`t gonna do for a long time because i spend my hour on that dry planet and not only the terraforming progress which many people forget to do.


-- Yes that is the way i doing it to have fun on my one way where i do not care about the time i use to collect iron my way just because we do not have access to iron early game stages which for me is game devastating and i appreciate each second of my gameplay this way and for others this would be completely unthinkable which I totally respect :)


-- Seriously the developer need to add iron extractor where it collect most % iron and very few other resources maybe 10% or 5 % and we need early access to it without starting up the terraforming and "only" this way we all is able to choose whatever we wish whenever we wish and that should be the developers goal just to make everyone happy.

- The T1/T2 iron extractor or whatever they wanna name it should not speed up the terraforming for those who wanna hold it back who is very important if that been added to the game which the developer should do.

- The developer also need to add iron cave/area as well for those who wish to get access to iron later gamestages when they need it and for those who don`t need iron it should not "never ever" matter so easy is that.

Only this way we all can enjoy this nice game all game stages or whatever the way we choose to play :)


Yes mate again sorry my english and this long exploration and by that i wish you a nice day :) and to the developer as well if they did read my post :)

[GameOverRIP]

Once again, there are plugins/mods that tho they don't actually isolate and only give the resource you want, the ratio is much higher in favor.

They also have plugins/mods to extract seeds from plants, stack resources into lots of 10 instead of 1, increase storage space, and other things that will enhance the gameplay for some.

[Funkpucker]

Not looking to play with plugins/mods for this game in early access atm. maybe later down the line. i kind of just wanted to experience the game as it was released. its a very good game so far!

[Symatrix Hill]

Well i did read gameoverRIP first post about plugs/mods only two post above Odlid Tubpu post which was impossible to not miss who is nice for those who wish to use it but i am not one of them either Funkpucker and once again he repeat it and still nothing wanna change anything where it should be totally unnecessary to track and install any mods to get access to the most common/basic resources as iron and by the way most people prefer to play without any mods and we all know what mods can do with a game on good and bad where even mods have a lot of bug and if they don`t have then they are able to causes bug to the main game which can be very hard to track when we have tons of mods just for that particular game where i do not choose mods who is able to impact the economic balance for it to give me an advantage who is for me cheating.


-- When I bought this game I did not think that iron which is an basic resource had restrictions where the map has generally far too little iron scattered around the map compare to all other resources as titanium-magnesium and silicon and that we is forced to place out several iron extraction later game stages who again gives tons after tons of resources we do not need at that game stages and the iron extraction barely produce iron enough to store all these unnecessary item and that we need to throw them on the ground just because to get rid of them we need several shredder machine who need much more advanced resources which is available much later out in the game stages and on top of that the ore extractor speeding up the terraforming as well which is not bad for those who wanna reach to the end of the game fast but for me it is devestating.


-- Again the developer need to fix this issue and make iron available to anyone who may wish to do so by add a iron extraction early game stages who do not have any impact on the terraforming progress and they also need to create iron mine/area as well as they created for all these other special resources no doubt about that either where i also wanna point out the way the ore extraction work now is for me not any issue.

Thanks for your post Funkpucker :)