How do i get steel?

[Azuwi]

Most stuff requires steel to build it.. but i dont know anywhere how to obtain steel.

[Slye_Fox]

Mine or trade

[Azuwi]

Cant find any on my biome to mine. Where can i get it elsewhere? trade where?

so far the only steel i had to obtain to build some minor things like kitchen was to deconstruct old power circuits and ancient boreholes.

[LYNX Scout]

It should be in any rocks / hills on the map. usually it is visible. Which biome are you in? You could, I guess, send a mining crew and start a second outpost/colony

[Aaronthelemon]

As said above start a new colony is a mountain area.
There are mods that help such as quarries or mining co

[ec928]

Early game: mine it in the rocks / hills / mountains as mentioned above. (look for some steel.
Clicking on it will result in popup saying "compacted steel" in the lower left of your user interface. Click on the mine icon to mine.)
Mid-game: trade for it when needed
Mid to late game: get the deep drilling + ground penetrating scanner tech and mine it from the ground.

[Bouncer]

Originally posted by ec928:

Early game: mine it in the rocks / hills / mountains as mentioned above. (look for some steel.
Clicking on it will result in popup saying "compacted steel" in the lower left of your user interface. Click on the mine icon to mine.)
Mid-game: trade for it when needed
Mid to late game: get the deep drilling + ground penetrating scanner tech and mine it from the ground.

In addition, midgame also gives you the smelter, where you can turn useless weapons or metal slag in steel.

[Sugar Show]

Mine all you want mineboi
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1470065926

[stevasaur]

This user has made a number of posts either asking about mod suggestions or complaining about issues with mods interacting poorly with one another. Dimes to dollars says that Rayden[star][donut] downloaded one mod or another that meddled with the map generation.

If you remove all of your mods and start up a fully vanilla colony on a flat tile, are there any exposed tiles of Compacted Steel?

[crgzero]

Or they're using one of the mod sets that makes it so you have to MAKE steel. Iron and coal, so they don't have any steel deposits and just haven't paid enough attention to realize they need to craft it.

[brian_va]

Originally posted by stevasaur:

are there any exposed tiles of Compacted Steel?

bet a quarter they either aren't realizing the minable tiles of steel, or running a mod that complicates things.

@OP, screenshots and/or mod list would go a long way.

[Bozobub]

Or they're on an iron-flat map, with literally zero mineable hills ^^'. No hills = no steel, beyond what you scavenge to smelt and/or what you trade for. Hope ya got trees! There's many reasons ice sheet starts are legendarily brutal, and this is one of 'em.

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by Bozobub:

Or they're on an iron-flat map, with literally zero mineable hills ^^'. No hills = no steel, beyond what you scavenge to smelt and/or what you trade for. Hope ya got trees! There's many reasons ice sheet starts are legendarily brutal, and this is one of 'em.

no it isnt

ice sheets have mountains and stuff

[Aaronthelemon]

Originally posted by believer in prawn:

Originally posted by Bozobub:

Or they're on an iron-flat map, with literally zero mineable hills ^^'. No hills = no steel, beyond what you scavenge to smelt and/or what you trade for. Hope ya got trees! There's many reasons ice sheet starts are legendarily brutal, and this is one of 'em.

no it isnt

ice sheets have mountains and stuff

Ice sheets are completely flat sea ice

[M.K.]

Originally posted by Aaronthelemon:

Ice sheets are completely flat sea ice

no, it is NOT

"Ice sheets" and "Sea ice" are two COMPLETELY different terrains.

Ice sheet is like desert, except all the soil and sand is deep ice. No soil, no plants.
But you DO have geothermal vents, and more important you DO have rock formations to dig into and mine from.

Sea ice is the same, except no rocks. No geothermal. No *nothing*!
(bad grammar aside... no nothing should actually depict a lot of something, eh?)

I suspect sea ice also has no deep ores to mine with deep drill, but i've never survived long enough to test that.

[Aaronthelemon]

I realise I made that mistake as I posted it but didnt have internet to correct it.
Whoops