How rare is silicon exactly ?

[Nanian]

Ive been spending 5 hours looking for Silicon, and the only bit ive Found was at the very first asteroid I spawned at - Ive been 50km away from the spawning area, in every direction with no silicon in sight D:

Am I just extremely unlucky, or is silicon just that rare ?

[SpannerMonkey]

I'd say unlucky, in the server I play on, it's platinum thats hard to find, loads of silicone though, it's all down to the RNG gods sadly

[Nanian]

Aw.. I got ♥♥♥♥ loads of Platinum on the other hand.. having a decently hard time finding cobalt as well, though its actually there >_<

[Astasia]

http://www.spaceengineerswiki.com/Ore

You are just unlucky.

[Capt. Davinci]

Originally posted by ZoiN:

Ive been spending 5 hours looking for Silicon, and the only bit ive Found was at the very first asteroid I spawned at - Ive been 50km away from the spawning area, in every direction with no silicon in sight D:

Am I just extremely unlucky, or is silicon just that rare ?

Just depends on the world that is generated. I have a survival world where platinum is a bear to find.

[Vargali]

yep, all decided by the Random Number Generator Gods....had a world where starter roid had soo much gold, i could have filled fort knox 3 times over with the refined stuff...

[McFlurry Butts]

Did you check the smaller asteroids that usually float near the bigger ones? They usually have some rare stuff and it's very easy to access.

[Nanian]

Originally posted by Mcflurry Butts.:

Did you check the smaller asteroids that usually float near the bigger ones? They usually have some rare stuff and it's very easy to access.

Yep I did, usually go for those due to finding more rare stuff in those - though they usually got everything else but Silicon. Quite frustrating.

[Lexe]

Originally posted by ZoiN:

Ive been spending 5 hours looking for Silicon, and the only bit ive Found was at the very first asteroid I spawned at - Ive been 50km away from the spawning area, in every direction with no silicon in sight D:

Am I just extremely unlucky, or is silicon just that rare ?

I've had the same problem with ice.
It's all random.
I spend hours travelling between asteroids over a distance of 200km+, only found ice once. Dropped a platform, mined it all. Now i got 600.000 ice =).

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=441754082

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442458928

Silicone is everywhere in my map. Mined a tiny part of a patch that I found and it totaled in over 1,2 million silicone.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=440613786

How much would it be if i mined all that rofl ^^.

[Nanian]

Gotta suck not being able to find ice though D: - There's Ice EVERYWHERE on my map. I guess it doesn't matter to much if you got those Oxygen farms however.

That's a ♥♥♥♥ ton of silicon >_< - WANT !
Never thought of putting up a drilling station - should probably do that might be lucky that my sensors just aren't picking up any silicon signals I guess :p?

[Lexe]

Originally posted by ZoiN:

Gotta suck not being able to find ice though D: - There's Ice EVERYWHERE on my map. I guess it doesn't matter to much if you got those Oxygen farms however.

That's a ♥♥♥♥ ton of silicon >_< - WANT !
Never thought of putting up a drilling station - should probably do that might be lucky that my sensors just aren't picking up any silicon signals I guess :p?

It's probably been done before. But here's what I do.

Build a light large ship, in the middle you build a pre-build platform with everything you normally need + a gravity generator + a mass block + a merge block.

Fly to your destination scanning the skies,
Place a new base block + 1 solar panel + 1 merge block.

Now activate the mass blocks, and grinders on the ship.
And you got an instant base where-ever you decided to deposit it.

Then I just build a drill down and start the drilling madness.

Advantages:
1) you can build at your HQ and not go mad over getting the right components
2) no struggling to keep the ship aligned, just timed mining on a massive scale,
have a beer and enjoy the show.

Here are some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY9M0oMsAKQ

Edit: wait, i didn't even spot that second giant area of sillicone in the background lol ç!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lwhx8Z_s0

[Nanian]

Originally posted by Lexe:

Originally posted by ZoiN:

Gotta suck not being able to find ice though D: - There's Ice EVERYWHERE on my map. I guess it doesn't matter to much if you got those Oxygen farms however.

That's a ♥♥♥♥ ton of silicon >_< - WANT !
Never thought of putting up a drilling station - should probably do that might be lucky that my sensors just aren't picking up any silicon signals I guess :p?

It's probably been done before. But here's what I do.

Build a light large ship, in the middle you build a pre-build platform with everything you normally need + a gravity generator + a mass block + a merge block.

Fly to your destination scanning the skies,
Place a new base block + 1 solar panel + 1 merge block.

Now activate the mass blocks, and grinders on the ship.
And you got an instant base where-ever you decided to deposit it.

Then I just build a drill down and start the drilling madness.

Advantages:
1) you can build at your HQ and not go mad over getting the right components
2) no struggling to keep the ship aligned, just timed mining on a massive scale,
have a beer and enjoy the show.

Here are some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY9M0oMsAKQ

Edit: wait, i didn't even spot that second giant area of sillicone in the background lol ç!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lwhx8Z_s0

Why would you want a mass block on this ;o ?

[Lexe]

Originally posted by ZoiN:

Why would you want a mass block on this ;o ?

The platform is part of the ship.
The grinders cut it loose.
So basically it's a ship without thrusters.
If you hover over the base merge block and cut it loose.
using a mass block, it gets dragged down and snaps onto the merge block.
At that point, the drifting part (drill platform) becomes an actual base and will no longer drift around.

[fabricator77]

I encountered an asteroid that only appeared to contain ice and iron, only after mining it for some time did I discover there was silicon and silver buried deeper. I do have an insane amount ice left to mine though.