Ice needed!

[El Presidente]

I ran out of Ice several game days ago. What is the best way to find it.

[Ronin Planetary Industries]

Ice is everywhere. Most planets have lakes full of ice. If you see snow on a planet... it's ice. Ice is common in asteroids. If you search hard enough, you can even find entire asteroids made out of the stuff.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi El Presidente,

ice Poles are easy to find cause always the same place, or just fly up and you should see a ice lake close to the area you play, well if you play on Planet.

+ Faster to go to the ice Pole of the Moon because it's a Tiny "planet", also easier on Titan because this one got a lot of ice lakes and faster to reach its ice Pole.

[El Presidente]

Can't fly as out of hydrgen and no ice left in generator.
Been searching for several game days and nothing detected so far.

[Spaceman Spiff]

If you're on Pertam, however, ice is much more difficult to find; if there, look for dark green patches scattered far apart on the planet and you'll find ice there.

If you're on any of the other planets, with the exception of the moon Europa which is a ball of ice, and you can't jetpack because you're out of hydrogen gas, you'll need to run around with your drill equipped and find buried ice (assuming ice lakes are not nearby). Many updates ago ice was used to replace uranium on planets, so it tends to be deep.

[frag2k4]

Depends on where you are, planets and moons will generally have ice on mountains and poles. Earthlike and I believe alien also has it in large frozen lakes and a bit rarer in normal deposits. Pertam has it in deposits but also look for oasis areas with rich greenery, its under there.

On asteroids you just got to get lucky, some will have it and some are entirely made of it which are jackpots.

If also worried about using it all up, try making a cargo container on your base/ship but keeping it disconnected from the rest of the ship via a pair of facing connectors, as long as these are not locked it will act as a valve preventing anything going through it, putting these before O2 or H2 tanks or H2 engines is also an idea for controlling how much those tanks hold or so the engine doesn't drain your H2 and ice reserves.

[Dan2D3D]

Sorry correction :

Titan got a lot of ice lakes here and there with 2 huge ones at the "Poles"
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3099866770

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Originally posted by El Presidente:

Can't fly as out of hydrgen and no ice left in generator.
Been searching for several game days and nothing detected so far.

Create a copy of your save by using the "Save as + change save name", load that copy in creative mode to find the closest ice lake faster and load the original save once you know where it is.

Or give me the GPS coords of your position, I will go find on my side and will give you the closest one.

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Do you have a Trade station close to you ?

-> You may be able to sell ores to buy ice.

[Dan2D3D]

Good Tip

2 Earth Deset Biome where there is a ice lake are the easy start of that Planet :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3099881138

Edit
Because no bad weather/lightning and all ores close to each other on sand.

[El Presidente]

My friend told me to switch to creative mode. My drop pod spawned on the wrong side of the mountain. Huge lake on other side! Trade station and other friendly's are over 47 Km away!

[frag2k4]

Originally posted by El Presidente:

My friend told me to switch to creative mode. My drop pod spawned on the wrong side of the mountain. Huge lake on other side! Trade station and other friendly's are over 47 Km away!

One thing to do with the drop pod is to grind down the sole hydrogen thruster and say the 4 curved armour blocks on the top and replace those with normal cubes and place 4 atmo thrusters on them facing outward.

It does require a bit of work to get them built since a basic assembler is required, but a gyro and either replace the seat with a cockpit or even just build a remote block and you can fly around your pod.

You can usually get this done inside of about 20 minutes in game and you shouldn't be anywhere near running out of hydrogen before that even if using your jetpack to search (keeping the bottle on you is important for extending your search range).

If you gut the pod of everything bar the battery and pipe up a medium cargo in it along with a drill the 4 lifting thrusters will be enough for a whole container of ice which should see you well enough for ages.

This is just something for future games, the pod makes a great miner early on and should be used for such, saving time and H2.

[carl.wear]

Originally posted by El Presidente:

My friend told me to switch to creative mode. My drop pod spawned on the wrong side of the mountain. Huge lake on other side! Trade station and other friendly's are over 47 Km away!

So you are on a planet with ice, that good.
A couple of things i found out the hard way when looking for ores / ice.

1) if you are walking around looking for ores with anything but a hand drill equipped then you won't detect anything. You have to equip the drill for its built-in ore detector to work. its range is only about 50m

2) Ore detectors on ships/ vehicles / stations have a preset range when you build them. You can increase the range of them above the default. It will draw more power but you can always turn it on and off when not in use to save power.

You could build a small vehicle / ship and just scout around. vehicle probably better since its on the ground so can see deeper below the surface than a ship flying above it.

[El Presidente]

I need to build a flying miner to go get a bunch if Ice and bring back to my oxygen machine. I already ground up the pod. The re-spawn indicator was still there even though the pod was gone so I went to my GPS tab and deleted it. I have a beacon on my platform. Can the Basic Refinery process Silver or do I need to build the next one? I think I have unlocked the next one in progression.

[frag2k4]

Basic refinery can only do iron, nickel, silicon, cobalt and magnesium, the full refinery is required for the others.

As for O2, if you have any oxygen on a planet like the earthlike, sticking a vent somewhere linked to an O2 tank and set to depressurise will fill that tank up quickly, no ice needed for that.

[carl.wear]

Mining vehicles are fairly easy to make.

Here is my second attempt at one. This one works better than my first one.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3100964322