How to find Platinum on Moon

[Cpt_Yukii]

hey i am on moon now with my big hydrogen ship to get platinum i found out that with hand drill its not really possible to find it since its deeper but i cant make ion thrusters either how do i find platinum now?

[OxDeck]

No Platinum on the moon. Astroids only

[ScarryHarry]

^ Ox, I have indeed found Plat on the moon just a couple of weeks ago when I was playing vanilla with a friend on LAN. It was hard to find and took a while, but it is there.


TL:DR - Either use a large ship ore detector on a good ship with plenty of H2 fuel, or search nearby asteroids for better fuel efficiency in space.

Yukii, you're best bet is just to have a large ship with an ore detector (or the trick where you have a small ship, and place a small rotor with a large rotor part {if that's still possible in the most recent version})

However, I would tell you from experience that I think it's much easier to find a nearby asteroid frist for some plat. It's not much harder on the moon with such low gravity, and it's not much harder with hydrogen you have made a good ship with a lot of tanks for fuel, but if you started on the planet, it's much easier to go searhing for asteroids. I built a large cargo-miner with like 6 H2 tanks, with about 4-6 small hyro thrusters on all sides and a large on in back. I used large atmo thrusters for coming back to planet (I also put on 2 large hydro thrusters facing downward since atmo thrusters would take too long to work and I'd crash, so I use those 2 large thrusters to do a re-entry burn to slow down once I get below 20km or exceed 250-300m/s)

[Calaban]

platinum that I have found on the moon have been DEEEEEEP. like 220m down. So, to find it, you need large grid ore detectors cranked up to max range

[Rhemmy]

Originally posted by Oxdeck:

No Platinum on the moon. Astroids only

Every ore can be found on the moon (unless) the server owner has changed that

I own a server and it can be found deep or shallow i use a small miner to scout ore pockets for our bigger goliath miner just keep looking for it.

peace

[MzEvilCanadian]

Take any deposit you've found on the moon and just a hand drill to dig about 50m past the depth of the material you've found already. Takes about 5 min per patch. If you don't see anything at 100m down look elsewhere. I've seen every material at surface level (>50m) and many more at the 100-150m