Iron very hard to find on planets. Help.

[ramlatus]

I can find every type of ore pretty easy, even uranium, except for iron. I have had to abandon 2 worlds and start over because i was unable to find iron after several hours of searching. I find every other mineral in the dark spots, but its like iron was forgotten. Suggestions?

[Legas]

Also happens to me, iron is usually the last ore to be found.

last map I played (Solar System, Mars), I found 3 uranium deposits, 2 silver/gold and countless nickel/silicon/magnesium until I found a single iron node.

Thankfully nodes are rich enough that it provided enough iron to get off the planet.

It may be RNG, but I belive iron is truly the rarest ore in planets. (which is ridiculous, it should be the most common)

[JT]

Gotta get that meteor shower RNG going

[Ninjaneer]

I never had prolbems finding iron. i belive its just random world generation

[callme-jk]

lol - not rly rare. Check some stones, too.

[AlanEsh]

I've never had any issues finding iron when using a large grid detector. First thing I build after parking my lander is a large grid scout ship, the extra range on the detector is extremely helpful.

[UnshackledJester]

How? Iron is like the herpes of Space Engineers. You need the large ship ore detectors to find it, but it's all over the place....Are you using the small surface rocks?

[MrNo]

It really is everywhere. Throw together a small ship that can hover (literally only down thrusters and gyros are *necessary*, you can turn the ship to move in a direction), stick an ore detector to it set to max range, then move in circles around your central base, looking for discolored ground.

Also, it will generally spawn in the same vein as nickel. And those patches are big. If you're on one side, and you're seeing nickel, just sort of float on over to the other side and hang for a second to let the sensor update. Chances are you'll find iron.

[Sam Sann]

Whelp! Iron matters, and is quite hard to find it on Planets, idk if the planet matters but i'm at an Alien Planet, and i can't find Iron even with 250Meters Ore detector (who make my FPS go under 30fp/s).

When i run out of Iron, i just fill my hydrogen based ship with Ice and bring back some Iron from spaaaaaaaaaace.

It's quite the thing to land after that because i'm using x10 invetory and about 6 large cargo on a small ship.
1 of every 5 times i do that, i CRASH HARD CAUSE hydrogen goes off quickly.

[MWNF]

Having trouble finding iron? O_O Unless it's a world specific thing I'd guess your game is bugged or a mod is messing something up. Iron is freaking everywhere.

[dga8705]

Yea, I find iron in almost every deposit I go to. I end up with millions of tons of it.