Running out of steel to mine

[Neatto]

What do i do when i run completly out?

[whatamidoing]

Trade, deep drill, potentially long-range scan but it's heavy so a bit of a pain to bring back

[HunterSilver]

Call bulk good traders to your colony, run a ground scanner and deep drill, or melt down scrap, or disassemble mechnoids. These are the most reliable methods to gather bulk steel.

[minniefinnie]

have you deconstructed the ancient danger?

[Kazouie]

You can also smelt down tainted armor and low quality weapons for steel.

[Ballistic Drop]

I'm currently doing the same thing now. I dropped to a random site in the jungle, low hills. I just got the deep core drill running and am getting ready for the infestations.

I found that this is a fun way to play. Random drop with re-rolls for mountains and water as they are not valid points to land (they would just die upon landing anyway).

[Security Cam #7]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Trade, deep drill, potentially long-range scan but it's heavy so a bit of a pain to bring back

If you don't mind a bit of cheesing, crafting plant pots out of steel and deconstructing them at home will be much easier to bring back, but you will lose like half of the steel steel.

[Ballistic Drop]

VFE has the growable resources mod, its a little silly but can get you out of a jam.

[Swordmouse]

Originally posted by Ballistic Drop:

VFE has the growable resources mod, its a little silly but can get you out of a jam.

Growing steel?! Those "Vanilla" Expanded mods certainly are... something.

[brian_va]

Ancient complexes usually have carpet and steel floors, so a decent source for both and they are generally pretty close by

[Caz]

Can also use mods.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2007576583
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1545681321

There's more, but those are two of the more popular.

[Guezzy]

Deep Drilling is infinite steel

[Masked Monster]

For vanilla:
1 - Tame a lot of Muffalos or animals that can carry lots of goods
2 - make a new settlement near your base with colonists good or capable of mining
3 - mine the entire map
4 - make caravans with those Muffalos and bring the ressources back to your main base
5 - when the map run out of ressources and when you brought all the ressources back to your main base, abandon the mining settlement
6 - repeat from step 2 to 5 until u're good to go

[Yxklyx]

Doesn't the Noble Transport allow you to transfer any mass of goods back to your base?