Removing empty mineral deposits

[Liado]

Hey all,

I'm new to the game and loving it so far! However i do have a problem with the mineral deposits. Once I mine all the resources out of one, it does stay as a signal on my scanner. On planets I only visit once its not a problem, but i now started building a few bases on planets with nice resources and i keep running to empty deposits... Is there a way to remove these markers? Or am i just not emptying them enough to be removed by the game itself?

[BonPadre]

Have them too, and if someone's got a tip, I'll take it as well.

Now I'll add a few things, for OP as tips about those deposits and maybe how to cut into the mining. Thas is only if you already have the medium refinery (or the large one), so if not, push forward into base building missions.

Depending of the deposit, if you keep mine it, know there are way to expand some (if not a lot) of ressources without you needing to collect anymore, from cobalt, to copper (or whatever gives you chromatic metal from your planet), or other ways to get them (paraffinium)

So dig into refinery guides and tables... the time you spend to learn them will save you lot of ingame time to do what you like to do. Here are a few links from great work by some peeps (me not beeing the creator of those, so full credits to the ones who did those amazing works)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1456988316
https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Refiner#Medium_or_Large_Refiner
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m3D-ElN7ek3Y0f-1XDt0IW2l6HxfXi5n5Yr7VLwLbg4/htmlview?sle=true

Once you unlock Autonomous Mining Unit
https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Autonomous_Mining_Unit
Make use of them, they will get so much more minerals from the same deposit than you mining it.
So keep a few untouched deposits around your base... you'll thank me later...

Anyway, have fun playing the game ;-)

[Rylie]

Great time to necro a dead thread, but I was having this problem and it popped up first on Google, for me at least.

I found a (somewhat) fix:

1) Find deposit you want to mine.
2) Mine a little bit in the center.
3) Use flatten tool (middle click to switch to it) in a big circle well around the deposit.
4) repeat steps 2 and 3 until you reach the bottom of the deposit.


While this is a bit more tedious than just ravaging away with the circular mining tool, it doesn't leave anything behind and soothes my need for less empty deposits.

[Ruca [PT]]

Old discussion but it may still be valid as I have so many resource nodes depleted but still showing on my HUD without any additional information.
It is annoying to run or fly to so needed deposits to get there and see the hole from being minned already.
At those cases it could/should show some sort of tip like saying Visited or percentage or something else so we don´t waste time and resources going for nothing.

[knighttemplar1960]

If you have a base there just assume its mined out. At the point in game that you reach this problem you can usually afford to buy anything you need from stations or you have set up mineral extractors on resources you use frequently.

These spots also respawn eventually. The game only holds a certain number of terrain manipulations in memory. When you exceed that the oldest manipulation is cleared out of memory to make room for the new manipulation and the old terrain respawns. If that terrain was a resource node the node is back and can be mined again.

Alternatively get in your ship and glide over the spot. You can see deposits from the air and except for the silica only ones they are all shiny and easy to pick out if they are unmined. For most of them you can tell what mineral it is from the color and you can just keep flying until you find what you need.

[lordoftheapes79]

Originally posted by Liado:

Hey all,

I'm new to the game and loving it so far! However i do have a problem with the mineral deposits. Once I mine all the resources out of one, it does stay as a signal on my scanner. On planets I only visit once its not a problem, but i now started building a few bases on planets with nice resources and i keep running to empty deposits... Is there a way to remove these markers? Or am i just not emptying them enough to be removed by the game itself?

no, but don't invest too much time into thinking about it. They WILL eventually respawn, but that will take some time. There are other methods to gathering these materials, using the terrain manipulator to gather this stuff is just quick way to grab what you need right now.