The NOOB saga continues: Lithium?

[BustedHipGaming]

So, with the help of BlaBla from the Discord, I have gotten kind of launched. I have coal, copper, tin, and iron being mined and turned into goodies. I checked the manufacturing thing and it looks like the next ore I need is Lithium. The wiki says it is between 160 and 850 depth.

So, 3 lift-with-piston later, I have found a cavery around 200 units deep. A quick scan shows some unidentified ore nearby. Here's the hitch: It's so cold in that cavern I die of hypothermia before I can run over and scan it, which means even if I could scan it, I'd die before being able to set up a mining sequence on it.

So....what do I do now?

[MyProfile]

You are going to have to find a vein of lithium (-160) above the cold caverns (-200). Thats the easiest way. And then build a suit heater with the proceeds. You also might try standing on a pile of torches to get the scan and place a machine or two on the lithium.

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by MyProfile:

You are going to have to find a vein of lithium (-160) above the cold caverns (-200). Thats the easiest way. And then build a suit heater with the proceeds. You also might try standing on a pile of torches to get the scan and place a machine or two on the lithium.

OK will go just above the 200 level and start scanning like a madman

[Wariat117]

The ore you have found with scan is probably crystal deposit ;D

You can scan stuff by breaking it and picking up -> try to get those blue blocks down there, you will need to scan one to get special research in your laboratory

[Robert]

-160 meters? That depends on difficutlty settings, then. I'm playing a rushmode world right now, and Lithium starts around -120 meters. Same for Rapid Mode worlds.

[cris301000]

Recently started scarce and found my lithium vein at 128

[MyProfile]

I was going off the wiki.

[pHredric]

Rule of thumb: You can find the next ore in the progression at roughly a lifts distance from the earlier one.

[ICountFrom0]

If you have power running down with your lifts, don't be afraid to break out the work floor excevator 1. MOST useful tool for finding ore. Once you get a ping that shows it's near, clear a region, boom.

[Chris]

Lithium is at -120 to -850m

[BustedHipGaming]

Originally posted by ICountFrom0:

If you have power running down with your lifts, don't be afraid to break out the work floor excevator 1. MOST useful tool for finding ore. Once you get a ping that shows it's near, clear a region, boom.

How do you "run power down with the lift?"

[Flowsilver]

Dig the 3x3 for the lift,dig 1 extra block and run power down.

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Something like this.

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by BustedHipGaming:

Originally posted by ICountFrom0:

If you have power running down with your lifts, don't be afraid to break out the work floor excevator 1. MOST useful tool for finding ore. Once you get a ping that shows it's near, clear a region, boom.

How do you "run power down with the lift?"

I think they talk about laser energy transmitter running next to lift

[Robert]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

Originally posted by BustedHipGaming:

How do you "run power down with the lift?"

I think they talk about laser energy transmitter running next to lift

I think the laser will even pass through the lift platform, so that you can directly target it at the piston - but maybe that was fixed, it doesn't look nice so I stopped using that "design".

[ICountFrom0]

Okay, this is a slow, quite quiet comunity, but I like it.
I give an offhand comment with a useful trick, and somebody else explains how to make it work.