I cannot find any copper

[user12345]

I am currently building a hyperdrive, but I cannot seem to find any copper anywhere to build chromatic metal and microprocessors. I have been trading with visitors at the space station to get copper but its so expensive, and not that common, and i need a lot.

(i have checked by planet does have copper)

any suggestions?

[Orion Invictus]

If a planet says it has copper, just keep searching it. Use your visor. If you're flying, look for yellow-ish deposits.

[user12345]

Originally posted by Orion:

If a planet says it has copper, just keep searching it. Use your visor. If you're flying, look for yellow-ish deposits.

yeah i will keep trying - you mentioned flying? how do u fly, i can only seem to go upwards?

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by user12345:

Originally posted by Orion:

If a planet says it has copper, just keep searching it. Use your visor. If you're flying, look for yellow-ish deposits.

yeah i will keep trying - you mentioned flying? how do u fly, i can only seem to go upwards?

I meant if you're flying in your ship.
If you want to move forward while using the jetpack, simply move forward while activating the jetpack or press W while in the air.

[user12345]

Originally posted by Orion:

Originally posted by user12345:

yeah i will keep trying - you mentioned flying? how do u fly, i can only seem to go upwards?

I meant if you're flying in your ship.
If you want to move forward while using the jetpack, simply move forward while activating the jetpack or press W while in the air.

ok thank you

[Magnus Chro]

Also once you have discovered it, if you have trouble finding it again just go to your discoveries map and click through the planets to help you. Then head to a station and teleport to that systems station.

[user12345]

Originally posted by The Professional:

Also once you have discovered it, if you have trouble finding it again just go to your discoveries map and click through the planets to help you. Then head to a station and teleport to that systems station.

ok thank you

[Hand of Fate]

Icy Planets usually have copper.

[BlackWater]

Hello new traveler, welcome to no mans inventory space. Allow me to assist in this matter, Copper, Cadmium, Emril you will want to hang on to, All else, while possessing a later use, can be sold. Once you can craft anti-matter, you can start hunting for suit upgrade kiosks. I pay for the modules you use on your signal booster, just always have 55 ionized cobalt, cause EVERY time I find one, you think a cave is nearby permitting said cobolt findification? hell no. Through blind luck, I found a traveler grave, Atlas symbol. I checked it out and found 1 portal glyph, now the real shocker, if you dial a stargate address, for me at least, it connects you to a random destination. I have yet to fully hyperspace, but have been to 3 systems now via gate travel, and I have brought back, a cadmium hyperdrive print, Geo cannon module, 2 A class hyperdrive upgrades S class thermal protection modules. Oh, I also use my portable refiner to break down scrap metal into ferrite dust, haveing 8000+ of that, anything ferrite related is no longer an issue. You never know what you will find, a busted machinery in the middle of freaken no where I just blindly stumbled upon had a confilct scanner print in it. nd speaking of that pesky green slime, throw that ♥♥♥♥ in the refiner once, keep refining it...(Thanks for that tip, Cyn) Nanites. 10,000+ of those now.

[Osiris]

OMG, Blackwater, I'm blinded by that text wall...

Paragraphs are your friend.

[Kaeru Gaman]

lol.. yeah. this looks like my aunt on the phone. xD

@user12345

copper really is a grind in the beginning, those deposits bare only so little, you don't believe it.
I recommend looking into the caves on each and every planet you get.
all caves have cobalt sticks (stalagtites & stalagmites).
some planets have their caves that full you need to mow the sticks to get through the cave without using the jetpack.
more than the half of the planets have a second metal in the sticks.
some of them copper.
there's only one combination in stalagtites and one in stalagmites per planet, so if you found a cobalt-copper cave with lots of them, the whole planet will be like that.
one single stalagmite will give ~25 cobalt and ~5 of the second metal. (copper)

sounds only little, but if you mow 20 of them you have 100 copper, and a came across many copper deposits with less than 100 copper and across many caves with over 1000 sticks.
it just takes some time....

... and cobalt sells fat, too.

[Wizard of Woz]

If you are not getting enough copper out of one deposit, probably means you need to reduce your terrain manipulator beam. I usually get between 800-1000 units from whatever I am mining from one deposit.

[Fienyx]

Small beam yields more ore from deposit. I use the largest beam for gathering silicate dust or w/e it's called to fuel the terrain manipulator. The medium beam is good for tunneling.

[Kaeru Gaman]

himmelherrgottsakrament! scheiBe. >_<"

[Kaeru Gaman]

okay, I just tested it with smallest beam, and I got 321 copper from a deposit where I would have expected 60-70, that is good.
but it's far from being 1000... what deposits are you harvesting or what planets are you rading?