How To Find Large Veins of Resources

[Eldritch]

Every time I scan QB-1 only finds 1 block of the resource I'm looking for. This is extremely inefficient so I'm hoping there's some way of finding large veins of resources that I just haven't discovered yet. Any help would be appreciated.

[M]

as you progress, both your scanner and the drone's become better,able to scan at longer range. Ideal method is to have QB-1 scan for something and then once you've got to the node scan around you with your player scanner to reveal any nearby nodes. rinse and repeat. Becomes more efficient as your upgrade your tech.

[Arsat]

Unfortunately, large ore veins are very rare.
I think most of one ore type was once 4 or so
What helps is to press your own scanner (q) and search for the surrounding outlines. Ores can often be found there. Often the same ones you were looking for.

[Eldritch]

Yeah that's what I'm doing now but again each time he's only finding 1 block. It sounds like this is how the game was intended to be played but I've gotta say I was hoping to find out that there's caves full of each resource or something. Or at the very least that I could go into space and find large asteroids of each resource.

Sadly I think this slow process is really making the game longer than it should be due to the time it takes to find resources. I hope to see this changed in the future.

[Miccus]

Originally posted by Eldritch:

Yeah that's what I'm doing now but again each time he's only finding 1 block. It sounds like this is how the game was intended to be played but I've gotta say I was hoping to find out that there's caves full of each resource or something. Or at the very least that I could go into space and find large asteroids of each resource.

Sadly I think this slow process is really making the game longer than it should be due to the time it takes to find resources. I hope to see this changed in the future.

there are asteroids (shown on the map) in space that can give you easily like 60-100 ore of a specific resource, depending on your skill level and such. You just have to manualy mine them first before shooting them.
I just dont know if the level of ore depends on the system level as i havent gone to high level systems yet. But got almost a hundred titanium ore in a single asteroid and the system was in the low 10s.

[Eldritch]

Originally posted by Miccus:

Originally posted by Eldritch:

Yeah that's what I'm doing now but again each time he's only finding 1 block. It sounds like this is how the game was intended to be played but I've gotta say I was hoping to find out that there's caves full of each resource or something. Or at the very least that I could go into space and find large asteroids of each resource.

Sadly I think this slow process is really making the game longer than it should be due to the time it takes to find resources. I hope to see this changed in the future.

there are asteroids (shown on the map) in space that can give you easily like 60-100 ore of a specific resource, depending on your skill level and such. You just have to manualy mine them first before shooting them.
I just dont know if the level of ore depends on the system level as i havent gone to high level systems yet. But got almost a hundred titanium ore in a single asteroid and the system was in the low 10s.

I was just watching a video explaining that you can look at the galaxy map and at least narrow down your mining to planets that have the most abundance of the resource you're looking for so that should help hopefully. Also good to hear that asteroids offer more as well.

[Miccus]

Originally posted by Eldritch:

Originally posted by Miccus:

there are asteroids (shown on the map) in space that can give you easily like 60-100 ore of a specific resource, depending on your skill level and such. You just have to manualy mine them first before shooting them.
I just dont know if the level of ore depends on the system level as i havent gone to high level systems yet. But got almost a hundred titanium ore in a single asteroid and the system was in the low 10s.

I was just watching a video explaining that you can look at the galaxy map and at least narrow down your mining to planets that have the most abundance of the resource you're looking for so that should help hopefully. Also good to hear that asteroids offer more as well.

with asteroids i first just shoot them with the ship and only got like 15 ore, but i noticed you still get the same amount of ore from shooting them when they are just a sandcube with all ore removed, so that became my strategy so far for the lower tiered ores. It is just something that is nowhere mentioned.

[Wusog]

I found going into the tunnels lined with ancient hull panels have a lot of resource nodes exposed. Also the pirate bases have a lot of resources in the chests

[Eldritch]

Since we're talking resources...here's a tip I just discovered recently about water which is much faster than using the "water collector". Just use grenades or the rocket launcher near the bank of a lake...this creates massive amounts of water blocks at one time for you to collect versus one at a time with the collector.

[doshha]

Originally posted by Wusog:

I found going into the tunnels lined with ancient hull panels have a lot of resource nodes exposed. Also the pirate bases have a lot of resources in the chests

Yes this is the only way to get more then one node at a time--need more of these please DEVS ?

[Tei]

The normal scan after a few upgrades show the materials through walls like ghosts

[MoJean]

You also got those mines made from ancient stones that have alot of resources in them. it has like 3 pirates inside them but should be doable.