Platinum Mining

[Omogoto]

I have been on 3 or 4 trips up into space from my Planet and can not find any Platinum, does anyone have any tips on ways to locate it? I am finding most of the other ores, and am able to mine them. I am also wasting tons of Hydro, fuel in my searches.

[herrschaftg35]

Originally posted by Omogoto:

Well for now, I made it to the moon, (long trip).
This made me think, that the trip might be shorter when you wait until the moon is directly over my base location?
I was also able to find Ice and am currently re-fueling my ship.
While I waited I went out looking for rare ores, and did find some Platinum, I had kind of a hard time reaching it, with my detector on I would head towards the signal, then the signal would like change/move to a different spot, and as I got closer it seemed to jump around allot and would even end up behind me as I moved towards it.
Does Platinum have a color to it? like other ores, its like even when I get some small amounts falling I don't really see the ore in the rocks?
I am going to mine away until my ship is refueled and then see if I can get back to my base on Earth.
Thanks to all who took time answer

The planets and asteroids do not move, just the sun. Every ore has a color but I forget what platinum looks like. A "jump drive" will allow you to fly to the moon instantly.

[Valen]

Only the Sun moves. But at the same time it is just a figment of your imagination. You will never attain it.

[Spaceman Spiff]

In case nobody's said anything yet, the sun moves around the solar system and the celestial bodies are stationary. That's why there are no tides in the oceans.

[Valen]

Originally posted by Spaceman Spiff:

In case nobody's said anything yet, the sun moves around the solar system and the celestial bodies are stationary. That's why there are no tides in the oceans.

.... contemplating making a Foucault-pendulum to prove it. But chances are Klang will throw a wrench in the works.

[Cor.]

if you spawn on Earth in the mountains close to the grass lands, there are platinum asteroids just above your area. A small grid atmo/hydro ship with an Ore Detector should help you find them quick.

Make sure the ship has gatling turrets, the drones will find you quick.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Omogoto:

Well for now, I made it to the moon, (long trip).
This made me think, that the trip might be shorter when you wait until the moon is directly over my base location?

The planets and other bodies that spawn are stationary. The sun orbits around the planets. This game isn't a simulator it's a fictional Sandbox game. It confuses the best of us because many things in the game are very similar to real life.

Originally posted by Omogoto:

I was also able to find Ice and am currently re-fueling my ship.
While I waited I went out looking for rare ores, and did find some Platinum, I had kind of a hard time reaching it, with my detector on I would head towards the signal, then the signal would like change/move to a different spot, and as I got closer it seemed to jump around allot and would even end up behind me as I moved towards it.

Resolve this by getting out of your ship and positioning your engineer (pilot / character) directly over the ore deposit then crouch and look down at your feet to dig straight down to it.

You'll know when you're directly over it by whether the distance from it increases or decreases. If it says 24m and you move forward and it changes to 25m then you move back 2 steps and it says 23m you're directly over it when it says 24.

Originally posted by Omogoto:

Does Platinum have a color to it? like other ores, its like even when I get some small amounts falling I don't really see the ore in the rocks?

It's a grayish and silver color similar to the stone color of the Moon. It is fairly difficult to see on the moon. We can tell whether it's there or not by whether there's a difference in the surface we're mining or not. If it's all basically the same color it's stone. If it has darker and lighter or shiny patches there's platinum ore there to collect. Uranium is similarly difficult to see on the Moon.

I am going to mine away until my ship is refueled and then see if I can get back to my base on Earth.
Thanks to all who took time answer [/quote]

If you follow my advice here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/3880472899717705737/?tscn=1697658575#c3880472899719591860
and build ore detector relays on the Moon's polar caps finding ore shouldn't be as much of a challenge. The ore detector plus mod ShadedMJ suggested is a good suggestion to consider using.

[jandrana]

Some experience from my current game:

Started on Mars and then made a base on one of the first asteroids which had some iron ore (I was lucky to find one quickly) directly after reaching zero G.
From there I started exploring the asteroids in spherical area. Within 25km of my base I found all kinds of ore. Took quite a while until I found Platinum - from counting my GPS list it was #57.
The top priority should be to find ice -> supplies H2 fuel. I found several astros which some spots of ice, similar to ore. Recently I found large one, which completly consists of ice.

It's strongly recommended to build a large grid ship, so a large ore detector can be used. Don't forget to set the detection range to max in the terminal view. (why would anybody not use max range? having a default of 50m is strange - even the 150m max range is a bit too less).

With inertia off the fuel consumption for scouting a bunch of asteroids is quite ok.

[Omogoto]

Thanks once again, as an update, I made it home with around 2k of platinum ore. I parked on an asteroid on the way home, and was flying around in my suit and when I returned to my ship something attacked me and blew up my ship and killed me, I am assuming this was a drone someone mentioned? (I was not even able to see what was attacking me), Thank God for the game backups. I also did make the mistake of not turning off inertia on the fuel consumption, my mistake as noted.
So I guess I need to install weapons on my mining space ship to protect myself?
Thanks

[Spaceman Spiff]

if you didn't see the drone's "antenna" and if you didn't turn off signals using "H", then the drone was either an Escord drone or ProtectoBot because neither use an antenna to announce their presence; they just start shooting at you. The Escord drone can come from either a Encounter Salvage Station or a Encounter Droneyard. ProtectoBot drones come from Mining Outposts. Another possibility is that you cruised too close to a Homing Beacon, but they trigger their presence when you get close to them, so you should have seen some kind of red warning pop up on your HUD. Dunno.

When you're playing the vanilla game without hostile NPC mods, you still need to keep a game eye out for approaching drones. Some of the "Encounter" stations can trigger drone spawning when you're as far away as 20 km.

[Dan2D3D]

There are enemy Drones in space when we play with "Drones" enabled from the world advanced settings, 2 Drones will spawn where we play in space, one is a small "Fighter",one "Grinder ship" and they will try to kill you and damage your ship.

Tip
Small block ships need 6 Turrets and a few Decoys to be safe.

[MARRA92]

I made ore detecting "rockets" that I fire toward asteroids to ease that, also chuted ones for atmo ore seeking, like you fly and drop em above ore spots to se whats in, saving lot of time. ill share the flyer thing later if i remmber