Mineral/Gas Extractor and Supply Depot?

[Polraudio]

Does anyone know how these items work? The mineral extractor always says theres no mineral deposit despite being directly on top of some copper or salt deposits and yes it is powered with more than enough power.

[Bamboot]

I could be mistaken, but I got the impression there were new "hidden" resource nodes that you could find with a visor / scanner upgrade. It could be these new mining machines are for those, and not normal resource deposits. Otherwise, why would they still keep normal auto miners in the tech tree? That's my only guess. Anyhow, I'm not 100%, but it's something to look into. They sell the tech visor upgrade at the nexus iirc.

[Polraudio]

Originally posted by Dork Wizard:

I could be mistaken, but I got the impression there were new "hidden" resource nodes that you could find with a visor / scanner upgrade. It could be these new mining machines are for those, and not normal resource deposits. Otherwise, why would they still keep normal auto miners in the tech tree? That's my only guess. Anyhow, I'm not 100%, but it's something to look into. They sell the tech visor upgrade at the nexus iirc.

Yea i guess thats what i got to do by the looks of it. Thank you!

[KellyJelly625]

Originally posted by Dork Wizard:

I could be mistaken, but I got the impression there were new "hidden" resource nodes that you could find with a visor / scanner upgrade. It could be these new mining machines are for those, and not normal resource deposits. Otherwise, why would they still keep normal auto miners in the tech tree? That's my only guess. Anyhow, I'm not 100%, but it's something to look into. They sell the tech visor upgrade at the nexus iirc.

You got it 100% correct

[Polraudio]

On another note what about getting nanites for milestones? I can only find the guy who gives them for discoveries.

[Genghis Bong]

I have yet to play the update because of bugs, but can anyone elaborate on the class systems for the deposits?

[bill]

I would guess same as tech C.B.A.S. I've come across mainly C's and 1 or 2 B's so far

[BA|Oddbod]

Can you use either the metal or gas extractor to actually power your base? Or only the electromagnetic hotspots? Because the hotspots are pretty far apart, and I've already run into trouble trying to run a power line from an EM hotspot 700M to my existing base. It don't work, even with interim bases.

[Polraudio]

Originally posted by BA|Oddbod:

Can you use either the metal or gas extractor to actually power your base? Or only the electromagnetic hotspots? Because the hotspots are pretty far apart, and I've already run into trouble trying to run a power line from an EM hotspot 700M to my existing base. It don't work, even with interim bases.

Gas and Metal extractors are only for getting resources and the EM is only for getting power. So theres no way from what i see to power your extractors with EM.

I just use a bunch of solar panels and batteries. Im making about 10m an hour from an activated indium deposit all powered by solar.

[BA|Oddbod]

That's some nice income. The only decent mineral deposit I found so far is copper, but I haven't looked far and wide yet. I wish there were a longer-range scan option for locating this stuff.

Is anyone else reminded of Star Wars Galaxies? I played that old MMO for years and was able to craft absolutely top-notch industrial mining rigs for resource extraction.

[Andromalius]

How much gas are you supposed to harvest? I have 4 gas extractors on a node and it says that 8 supply depots only have a storage capacity of 360?? Is this different for gas? It also seems to extract very slowly. This doesn't seem worth the effort.

[Polraudio]

I haven't tried gas myself yet. Are you sure all your depots are hooked up via power and cables correctly?

[BA|Oddbod]

Do you even need power for depots? I have one hooked up to my Copper extractor and it fills that thing up with 1500 copper and I've connected no power to it. Though I also don't seem able to hook any additional pipes to it, besides the one. Maybe because it's not powered?

I haven't built any gas extractors yet, so I can't answer that question.

[Andromalius]

Turned out to be a bug with just Sulphurine, the grades of the gas deposits were all the same for each gas type that I set up to mine, with the same amount of harvesters and depots. Extractors and Depots harvesting Sulphurine are just bugged and harvest less at a much slower rate. As for whether or not Depots need power I am not sure, they all have the no power display on them regardless of if they are powered or not, but I like to have them hooked up just in case.

[IndigoAK]

Originally posted by Polraudio™⚔:

On another note what about getting nanites for milestones? I can only find the guy who gives them for discoveries.

The guy who gives nanites for milestones is right across the room. His name is Ares.

[Dragontail]

I've found a few of each but power is the only usable for me. I can get gobs of power, but cant get that power where it's needed at the next hotspot 670u+ away where there's a fat O2 hotspot, or the 2 mineral nodes that are also 700u+ away in different directions. Solar gets ya 25 kP, ya need 32 of them to power a gas harvester..My lil power experiment is generating 11,000 kP and storing 1.4 Million, A little over the top, but I panicked when I saw how much power the resource collector wanted..