Largest ore veins discovered!

[steveman0]

With the ability to scan ore veins with 'V' in the latest Steampipe beta it is now possible to quantify the vast scale of some of the generated ore veins. I'd love to see what others have found. Here is my largest a tin vein found just below the first cavern layer with over 5.7 million tin:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=233299156

[DjArcas]

My biggest has only been 3.1 million so far.


Did I just say 'only ' ?

Irrc, 5.7 million would be around 6300 blocks.

[steveman0]

6431 blocks to be precise.

[PsiCoTix]

Originally posted by steveman0:

6431 blocks to be precise. :diggin:

/faint

[steveman0]

Time for an update!!!

So I was exploring the deep undergound in my new world in search of other deposits of nickel since my supplies were running short. I did manage to find some but along with it I found another massive tin vein.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=239107380

The first thing that came to mind? Excavation project! I didn't get to see how big the first record holder was so I started on this one! So just how big is a ~6.7 million ore tin vein? This big:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=239107616

From top to bottom the vein is ~35 meters tall and stretches back about as far. Interspersed among it were two distinct coal pockets and three nickel veins. The nickel veins themselves measure 1.3 million, 2.7 million, and 0.7 million for the last.

My biggest surprise though? This is not the record holding largest vein found. That's because in the excavation I ran into this guy...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=239107767

The new record: 8,636,400 tin ore or 9,596 blocks.

All combined in this little corner of the world is 20 million ore waiting to be extracted.

Fun trivia. For the new record holder an anti-matter extractor on easy mode would require 1124 hours to extract the entire vein (easy mode). It would burn through 92,532 coal (easy mode) to complete the task. The resulting extraction would produce 107,955 bars of tin (easy mode).

In the future I see a fun server project being to gather a group of people to tackle a vein of this magnitude. The scale of the extraction project would be insane. Even 100 anti-matter extractors would take a full 10 hours running at full tilt to bring it down.

Oh and it pales in comparison but this is the largest non-tin vein I've ever found. It proves that tin isn't the only ore that appears in absurd quantities. 5 million iron:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=239122027

[DjArcas]

The irony is that, in the new game I was playing recently, my first Tin vein consisted of... 2 blocks. THANK YOU, OH LORDS OF RNG!

[steveman0]

That's why I like to get a good look at the first vein before I go and research it. You can continue to use the unknown ping to find a bigger one. All about the meta-game.

[Korenn]

Originally posted by steveman0:

That's why I like to get a good look at the first vein before I go and research it. You can continue to use the unknown ping to find a bigger one. All about the meta-game. :pcrace:

thumbs up on using the mechanics!

Though if the very first ore you find is tin, you can then proceed to use the normal ore ping to find only tin veins even quicker. That stops working as soon as you researched other ore types :)

I found some very interesting exploits in the current game, but I'll keep them secret until I get time to fix them.

[steveman0]

Originally posted by Korenn:

Though if the very first ore you find is tin, you can then proceed to use the normal ore ping to find only tin veins even quicker. That stops working as soon as you researched other ore types :)

Of course there is that! I had wished I had hunted down additional copper veins before settling on mine. I went through a good portion of it quickly and finding a backup vein that was a decent size was very annoying. I'm really looking forward to the solution to finding a specific ore. Tin is really abundant in this world and it saturated my ping in almost every direction I went.

[InvalidSelection]

Here's the biggest I've found to date.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=276224768

[InvalidSelection]

New record for me, clocking in at 8k blocks of tin.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=280211950

It was discovered while I was bringing power from my new super massive solar array down to the lowest levels. This array is made of 150 solar panels, and since connecting it to my grid, all battery nodes have been at full capacity across my entire infrastructure.

Now I have somewhere new to use that power, just need to figure out how to get that ore out of the hole I found it in.

[[CoFR]Kendrick]

when i hit about -500 -600 ish i started finding a ton of massive veins like that will have to boot windows again to see what they were but 7m+ on 3 or 4 with in spitting distance of eachother. that win game start was awesome to... crash exposed a 270k coal vein to start from. If i had realised about superdig at that time would have gotten a heck of a lot farther in the time i spent.

[[CoFR]Kendrick]

new world hit my first huge vein. Might load the previous world when i wake up and see if i can find them again. Some of the bios disapeared on me due to spelunking and not having a bunch of items with me to cause it to show on the hollomap. Tin seems to be the most prevelant ore in all the maps i generate. coal some times being bothersom on the surface

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=285340168

[Zok]

Originally posted by Cryptic Edge:

Now I have somewhere new to use that power, just need to figure out how to get that ore out of the hole I found it in.

matter movers :)

The biggest vein I found was somewhere around 6800k. I've found many around 1500k for all ore kinds, around 3000k copper, titanium and nickel but tin seems to favor 5000k and up ;)

[[CoFR]Kendrick]

oh the flash light it tells another story. what DJ said about glowsticks is so true 6m tin and 2.2m nickel ! was getting ready to run a convayer over to the drill when i truned my flash light on to find i could just move it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=285724742

[Sask_Skittle]

My largest to date: 7,272k of Tin.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=285830315