Ore deposits won't deplete?

[Beetroot]

Hey I'm sure this is asked to death, but:

When i mine an ore deposit, I can't seem to get it to disappear. I.E. I mine all the ore, but the deposit still appears on my scan with yellow boxes.

This is annoying because when I'm using the visor to look for deposits, I can't tell if it's one I've done already.

Any help?

[GordonDry]

I second that.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

If you are out exploring, you should be moving along so you won't see it anymore. If you are hanging around in an area, use the portable extractor- they never deplete the source. Other option would be to drop one of the temporary markers so you know it is tapped.

Other than that, it takes a while but you will learn how to know where you have been so you should rarely be fooled by an old deposit.

[drav3nat0r]

This really is an annoying issue. Scan for deposits, find one, tag it, run all the way there, only to find that you have already mined that deposit! Mining deposits is a big part of this game... DEVS please have a look at this?

[Gumsk]

To get it to disappear, you have to get every last pixel of ore, which is hard to do. Use your scanner to get the orange boxes and you'll see where you missed something.

[Sexy_Fox]

Originally posted by Gumsk:

To get it to disappear, you have to get every last pixel of ore, which is hard to do. Use your scanner to get the orange boxes and you'll see where you missed something.

THis "boxes" just floating in air. There are no ore left. I have same problem. The place is marked as deposit, but there is only hole, left from extractor. Terrain at this place not regenerates either, even if you leave the planet. So you extract the ore, leaving permanent hole behind, marked as deposit. Damn, the whole territory around my base looks like after bombardment...

[Eudoxical]

NMS has always had this problem. I think it's related to the proceduraly generated nature of the game and might not be fixable.

[Eudoxical]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

If you are out exploring, you should be moving along so you won't see it anymore. If you are hanging around in an area, use the portable extractor- they never deplete the source. Other option would be to drop one of the temporary markers so you know it is tapped.

Other than that, it takes a while but you will learn how to know where you have been so you should rarely be fooled by an old deposit.

Portable extractors don't exist anymore.

[Eudoxical]

Originally posted by Gumsk:

To get it to disappear, you have to get every last pixel of ore, which is hard to do. Use your scanner to get the orange boxes and you'll see where you missed something.

Orange boxes are no help - they appear in empty air on every single deposit I've ever bothered using the scanner on...to the point that I no longer use the scanner because .... there's no point. It's perma-bugged.

[Beetroot]

I figured out that you can hit 'T' to make the terrain modifier gigantic, but even then it doesn't usually get it all.
I know there are ways to work around it, but I'd like to have this issue fixed. Like once the ore is less than 5% or something, the marker comes off. That would be good.

[Teyar]

Yeah, the fact that you do indeed use up resources when, for example, repeatedly "finding" the same drop pod is quite maddening. Especially since the game just presents a Repair menu, takes the antimatter, cobalt, et al, and boop, nothing!
The fact that there's no map... It still confuses me. the game renders in such a way that at least showing the local chunks, mapped and unvisited known tags, shows your local C scans, it would really give you a means of definatively clearing an area out.

I remain pleasantly amazed at the pace of progress for the game, and keep slinging hours in. Bought it day one, still haven't quite regretted it. The sheer responsiveness boost in Synthesis is alarming.

[Beetroot]

I can see having no map, but it'd be nice if the "waypoints" could be selected and travelled to. That way I can name the drop pod waypoints A, B, C etc.
I figured there must be a way to find named waypoints, but I can't see it.

[deathhancox]

Originally posted by Eudoxical:

NMS has always had this problem. I think it's related to the proceduraly generated nature of the game and might not be fixable.

Wouldn't it be easier to just implement an option that lets a player manually set a deposit as visited for their client?

[Zuric]

So you can get rid of deposits with the restore tool. Re-build (restore) the dirt and the missing "particles" will appear for you to remove. Or destroy the node with the create tool. A pain but clears it after a little bit of work.

[JHarlequin]

Like zuric said, if you really want to clear the spot, then you have to take extra measures most of the time. Restore, and sometimes add terrain bit by bit, and it will make more stuff to mine.

But it isn't particularly good at it so you will have to do it for like twenty minutes to actually clear it. Though if you just fill in the spot with dirt, then most of those orange ore boxes will be destroyed rather than just making more ore.

If you really need the spot cleared so that you don't come back, mine as much as possible and then just fill it in, that should take care of most of it, you will likely have to dig most of it out again and then refill, but that might kill it on the second pass.

Otherwise, just ignore it and challenge yourself to just ignore bad spots.

[I Am Groot]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

If you are out exploring, you should be moving along so you won't see it anymore. If you are hanging around in an area, use the portable extractor- they never deplete the source. Other option would be to drop one of the temporary markers so you know it is tapped.

Other than that, it takes a while but you will learn how to know where you have been so you should rarely be fooled by an old deposit.

that ore extractor doesn't deplete the deposits?
I thought in the context description they say it will deplete.