How do ore detectors work?

[Moon Truther]

No matter what i do it won't detect any ores, i've put an antanna on it so it can broadcast, nope. i've bumped up the range for it, nope.

[Moon Truther]

Guess i'm stuck to mining rocks.

[NoahZ]

ore detectors work like placing beacons except uses the same concept as beacons but to show you where an ore is on asteroids or planet

[NoahZ]

but if nothing is popping up you might wanna check your ore detect settings on the block panel
or check if you have power

[NoahZ]

if you need help on what to do you can friend me on steam and broadcast so I can check things out
currently my space engineers cfg file is missing and its telling me to get a dx11 card which I have a 12 on the bug report forum and no one has responded in 6 days so I wont be able to join your game

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, you just need to add a ore detector to see what ores are in ore spots.

I use antanna to be able to control my Planet Scout tiny small ship from my Station and I will see the ores from a very long distance when detected so the station antenna range.

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I find ore first with my eyes and go there with my hand Drill or small ship with ore detector and fly very close to the soil.

The best Biomes to better see the ore spots are on ice and sand.

In space = I prefer to start on the Earth Moon at the huge flat area near one of the ice Pole, there is a lot of ores over there on the flat terrain but it is harder on the Moon and must have XP to find ores faster.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901345098
And I go in space to find the ones I did not found on the Moon, I explore the asteroids at 30Km around the Moon.
I also find with my eyes first on asteroids :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901384463

[Moon Truther]

Still not working, i built an ore detector directly on ice and it didnt detect it.

[Dan2D3D]

That was a "Bug", well it was showing too much the word "Ice" on screen so the SE programmer deleted those signals when we can see the ice with our eyes.

It should show less and only one "Ice" word on screen now = there was a lot of complaints about the ice so this one got a changed.

[Dan2D3D]

A thing you can do is to share your "Bugged" save on the workshop, save in front of the bug and I will go test, it may be bugged only in that specific save for X reasons.

Just tell me when the save is on the Workshop.

[Moon Truther]

Originally posted by Dan2D3D:

A thing you can do is to share your "Bugged" save on the workshop, save in front of the bug and I will go test, it may be bugged only in that specific save for X reasons.

Just tell me when the save is on the Workshop.

I'm sure i'm just building the detector in bad spots, because i flew around with my drill out and found a few things, like half a km away from my base

[Moon Truther]

Originally posted by I actually beat a nerd to death.:

Originally posted by Dan2D3D:

A thing you can do is to share your "Bugged" save on the workshop, save in front of the bug and I will go test, it may be bugged only in that specific save for X reasons.

Just tell me when the save is on the Workshop.

I'm sure i'm just building the detector in bad spots, because i flew around with my drill out and found a few things, like half a km away from my base

If i build a mining ship and i fly around and can't see it i'll let you know for sure

[Kenton]

If you built an ore detector right on ice and its not connected to anything then that's the problem.

Secondly, you need to be sitting in the same ship the ore detector is connected to. Or have your suit antenna on and the antenna of your vehicle on in order to see what its detecting.

if you want to just test it, build a battery then build an ore detector then an antenna, turn it all on (including your suit antenna with o) then you should see everything.

[jafiwam]

The drill itself is an ore detector.

I found most of my first few deposits skimming around on jetpack just above the trees or along the surface of the ice.

Just hold it in your hands and move around and cover ground.

Looking for "off" colors on the ground helps a lot too. Unexplained shadows or brown grass can give them away, or big boulders commonly have stuff in them.

With just some time and the H2 to power the jetpack I found quite a bit. (Playing easy mode Earth.)

[Valen]

Originally posted by jafiwam:

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Looking for "off" colors on the ground helps a lot too. Unexplained shadows or brown grass can give them away, or big boulders commonly have stuff in them.

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'Pee stains in the snow' on the moon surface

[Jack Schitt]

It's the same thing as sonar. If your scout ship is set up with a detector and an antenna and has sufficient power and you're not finding any ore that means there isn't any in that area. Move to another area. On planets I end up finding almost every ore near ice lakes. On asteroids ore is random but can usually be seen on the surface if there aren't already holes in it to pilot through and find some. Everything (all planets and asteroids) has stone.

In the default, vanilla (no mods), game there are 2 types of ore on every asteroid. Planets have multiple types of ore but it's not all found in the same place. We have to roam around and find it.

[Mike]

They work poorly. They were nerfed into the ground a while back and all mods made to give us back that play-ability have been broken and abandoned.

Small Ore Detectors are 100% useless, never use them, waste of power.

Large Ore Detectors are only 150m. That's about 3% of what they used to be back when they were actually helpful.

As it is now, your only choice is Large Grid Ore Detectors on as small a Large Grid ship as you can possible build (or find on the workshop and blueprint craft)