Ore detectors not working? [SOLVED]

[physixtential]

Are ore detectors working for anyone? Have I unchecked something? I have a station with a large ore detector and antenna and the ore detector is checked to use the antenna. It shows know ore on the hud. Also, I am sitting on ice, and I noticed a few days ago that ice shows up as an ore, but now I have tried a small detector flying around, holding my drill out, and the large detector, and I havent seen a single arrow on my hud in days. Please help.

Solution:
You have to be going pretty slow and very low or the ore detector wont "scan".

[Shylock (NZ)]

Fly around and look for dark areas in the ice or grass, they are pretty large and from my experience each dark patch will only have 3 ore veins scattered around them.

The dark patches appear between 1000 and 3000 meters appart. so not very close together, ores can be anything from 1m to maybe 100m deep.

Your ship detectors range is about 100m small ship - 150m large ship and the hand drill only has 50m range, so getting close enough to spot deep ores can be a challenge.

You are doing it right, just need to find those dark patches, they sort of look like cloud shadows from the air, and near invisible on the ground.

[Stormmaster]

Also I noticed that ore tend to show up, when you stop. Flying around may prevent ore from showing up on HUD even when it normally would. Though it's the ore detector movement that seems to cause this (player movement in case of using a hand drill).

[dahni.uru]

Same problem. I'm brand new, playing the easy mode of Lone Survivor. I can see Iron from the color but get no detector ID even when I'm mining it. Found some Uranium, but never got a signal from the detector. Is there something I need to activate on my Space Suit, or the Platform? I've tried it with the Gravity Generator on and off.

[physixtential]

Originally posted by Stormmaster:

Also I noticed that ore tend to show up, when you stop. Flying around may prevent ore from showing up on HUD even when it normally would. Though it's the ore detector movement that seems to cause this (player movement in case of using a hand drill).

This is the issue. You have to slow down for a second for it to scan, and you need to be somewhere less than 50-100 meters off the ground to see them. There is actually a ♥♥♥♥ ton of ore all over the place. It tends to be ~100m under ground so you have to scout slowly, but you won't have to go far.

A special note about the poles. I like to build near the poles of planets because it is always daytime if you find a good high mountain, but don't try to build smack in the middle of the pole on the ice sheet... There is nothing but ice for miles. I dug all the way to the center of the planet for lulz and its just ice, packed ice, then dirt... then dirt... then more dirt... and eventually dirt.

[Lothos]

the ore dectector is not omnidirectional too folks. Keep that in mind.

[Stormmaster]

One more thing. After ore detector found particular ore it will continually show it on HUD, even if there is no more ore there (after you mine everything). If you switch your detector off and back on, it will start fresh and will erase obsolete reading. This doesn't seem to be a bug. Pretty much realistic: if it's scan is directional, it needs to rely on that data to keep showing the results after turning away.

[physixtential]

Originally posted by lothos:

the ore dectector is not omnidirectional too folks. Keep that in mind.

I am not sure where you got this, but I can face my ore detector straight up at the sky, or straight down at the ground, or horizontal to the ground and still read ore 130m underground directly beneath me.

[CulasRopffen]

what is the key to scan with hand drill? :o

[AeQuArTz]

Originally posted by CulasRopffen:

what is the key to scan with hand drill? :o

There is no key to scan for ore, it does that automatically

[Bolisaris]

No it does not, ore still not showing correctly in the game and Devs seem reluctant to sort this out, Mining is a BIG part of the game and without the detector the game is rendered almost useless. This needs to be sorted.