Ore farming

[Snowkeu]

Do you have to be at your ore farm for the pal's to do work? I leave and come back with barely any gain. But when I stand there, the ore's collected seems to go up pretty well. Does the game not render them there for them to work?

[EliteGamer11388]

I think so yea. It happens with a lot in this game. It's one of the few annoyances I have with it. Same thing with all my food in my fridge, spoils if my base isn't rendered, therefore my cooling Pal isn't working. I have to AFK in my mining base for stuff to get mined.

[GrandTickler]

its a bit janky right now. if u just load up your world u do need to fast travel to the ore mine before pals start working, after that it seems u can leave and they keep working, until they dont. im still not sure if this is a range based thing or a time based thing, but the first thing that breaks is the transporters, so u definitely want to come back from time to time to do the job that the transporters refused to do lol. picking up massive stacks of ore from the ground

[DreadfulDrummer]

i built a base with about 7 ore deposits and they refuse to mine it when i have the stone maker out? forgot the name. i just remove the stone builder until they finish mining the ores. It's annoying but i have so much stone its not a massive problem for me. Also, still creatures getting stuck in trees above logging site when they said it was fixed. For now the best solution for me was to build a second base at a random giant ore spot. throw down a chest, a few beds, berry farm and food basket and every hour illl come back to 120 ores to bring back.

[Donkle]

They tend to work less when you're away than when you're there. Some pals won't work at all while you're away (pretty sure until a recently update digitoise didn't do any ore mining while you're gone) so it could be the kind of pals you're using as well.

[Crimelord]

pretty sure its a pathing issue if u get an ore spot that has hills they wont hit nothing on the sides just on the top

[GrandTickler]

Originally posted by DrummerGuy90:

i built a base with about 7 ore deposits and they refuse to mine it when i have the stone maker out? forgot the name. i just remove the stone builder until they finish mining the ores. It's annoying but i have so much stone its not a massive problem for me. Also, still creatures getting stuck in trees above logging site when they said it was fixed. For now the best solution for me was to build a second base at a random giant ore spot. throw down a chest, a few beds, berry farm and food basket and every hour illl come back to 120 ores to bring back.

oh yeah true thats another thing, the pals prioritizing stone pit over ore veins

[PageFile]

I built a base near a bunch of ore last night. Overnight they mined 800 ore. Then while I was at work they mined like 50. So I dunno

[God of Snacks]

yesn't. Currently, for optimization purposes, pals despawn when you're far away. They struggle to interact with non base entities. A despawned pal will work a stone pit just fine, but it won't interact with ore nodes. IAnnoying, but it's an issue i imagine would take time to properly fix