How to find Platinum Ore

[TheGreatApple32]

How did you guys find platinum? I've been to more than 10 asteroids and probably scoured the entire northern hemisphere of the moon (a little exaggeration) and I could not find platinum? Is there like a tip to find it, because I currently rely on greedy hydrogen thrusters which sucks.

[DeathByBuick]

It's random. Sometimes I find it in minutes, sometimes it takes days.

[Ω Spriggan Ω]

DeathByBuick is right.

you could spend hours burning a line of hydrogen then drifting to the next asteroid and find none of it...then find 2 lumps of it.

i usually use a camera to scout an asteroid before burning towards it but platinum blends in pretty well with siliicon and uranium depending on the light level.

[Roasty my Toasty]

It's not very common for sure, but you just gotta keep looking. I have about 20 asteroids marked with GPS, and of those (around) 20 only 2 have platinum. But, those platinum asterioids have HUGE amounts of the stuff. Also, this may just be a my own stupid fault kinda thing, but sometimes you can just skip over resources accidentally. On the HUGE asteroid I've set up shop in for two weeks or so, I only just discovered a decently sized deposit of silver a few days ago. And I'd roughly scouted out the place beforehand, so maybe that's just my own fault in a certain situation, but you might just be missing the platinum.
Also, side note, in my (limited) experience, asteroids only tend to contain a few different types of ores: generally iron, uranium, maybe ice, then two, maybe three unique ore types.

[Erek]

If yu have meteor storms on you find it sometimes in meteor craters. But that is up to 200 kg, after refining 1kg?

[Dots]

you get that if you go to space and get lucky in asteroids..

[TheGreatApple32]

I finally found it. It was definitely very rare. I almost missed it before my ore detector detected Platinum. Thanks guys for the tips.

[HazardousMoose]

I tend to have much more luck on the moon wiht platinum. Never had to fly more than 10 kilometers from my base to find platinum, and almost always within 5 km of any spot on the moon you'll find some platinum, but it tends to require more mining to get to, so make sure you have an automated stone disposal system:)

[Leanardoe]

It's easier with rovers. They can be closer to the ground and detect ore that is buried deeper.

[milkom]

SPACE!

[Blyatman]

Found some on the moon. Was there a good couple days before I found it, and couldn't see it untill I'd made a large mining ship/antenna as it was 140+ below the surface. Turns out i'd built my base 400 meters from the vein and didn't know for ages!! :D

[Atophy]

Originally posted by TheGreatApple32:

How did you guys find platinum? I've been to more than 10 asteroids and probably scoured the entire northern hemisphere of the moon (a little exaggeration) and I could not find platinum? Is there like a tip to find it, because I currently rely on greedy hydrogen thrusters which sucks.

My trick, I just used it today to escape an alien planet start, is to use my atmosphere thrusters to get to 8000 feet on battery, pop the hydrogen thrusters on, kill the atmos thrusters to conserve power, give it a solid burn up to max speed then pulse them manually to consurve fuel, keeping speed at max.

Tro move the ship in space while conserving fuel, turning things off is your best friend since both energy and hydrogen systems consume fuel while idle. Second, you don't need GIANT thrusters in all directions. I got around with a single small thruster in each direction, using MUCH less fuel than my pair of down facing large thrusters.

Start by turning off inertial dampeners, pick a direction and burn till you reach a desired speed then kill the engines entirely. Don't fly straight at an asteroid, plan to miss it so you don't end up smashing yourself if you misjudge the stopping time. Best bet is to park your ship on an asteroid, set up a GPS marker to always show where you parked and scout with either a small drone or manually, packing a couple oxygen bottles and maybe a hydrogen bottle.

Use the same technique as you did on the ship for manual exploration in order to conserve fuel, aim to miss the asteroid cause you WILL kill yourself if you misjudge the refire, good luck finding your pack and precious bottles then, I have MUCH experience with this from lone survivor games.
I did this and got lucky, finding platinum on the first roid I manually scouted, proceeded to mine a full inventory and brought it back to the ship for processing after marking the platinum with another GPS. If I hadn't found plat, I would have marked what minerals I did find and hopped to the next nearest roid.

I wasn't fully prepared for space as it was maybe the second time I've ever left the surface from a plantary start, if I were to do it again, I would have a scout craft ready to go before I left the ground.