Wolframite

[Alex]

I have traveled to every planet so far and cannot find and Wolfamaite (tungsten). I checked Desolo where it says it is the most common, but I saw nothing when I went in the caves. Do you have any ideas? Have you found any tungsten ore? Thanks.

[Bomoo]

Try the desert planet? I forget what it's called now. Uhhh, Calidor. Remember to bring tethers and an oxygenator.

[Martin]

Moon of Terran. It is fairly rare on surface. Quite abundant underground.

[bigJLITTLEd]

I am with him, i have been everywhere. i need help, i have been to Desolo so many time that i'm pretty sure the whole planet is tethered.I'm not kidding. the only good thing, i will never run out of fuel the whole planet is ammonium. went to Calidor but could only find Malachite. yes i moused over it and it was Malachite. I going to wait for answer, but if none,the game is done. not going to spend another 20 hrs looking.

[Arckeiner]

Look underground (not just under the surface, lower) on either Calidor or Desolo. it looks like green/orange "pixels chuncks".

[bigJLITTLEd]

thanks but caves are the first place i look, though i have not found a cave like the one i just found on novus looking for iron. first cave i went into tons of hematite. at least with all the wreaks i have a shredder and trading platform.

[Derpykat5]

You have to go deeper than most surface caves will bring you (at least on desolo). Try finding the lowest spot you feel safe traversing, then dig down further from there. Desolo's caves are packed with wolframite, but rarely do those caves connect with the surface. you need to go a bit deeper than you would expect, but you don't need to drill to the core or anything.

[Mama Cel]

Yeah, I mean... I dunno what to tell you that hasn't already been said... If you aren't finding it underground on the terran moon, or on calidor, then you either have a really specific major bug, or you just haven't looked everywhere, because it is definitely there... I've found way more than I need just on the moon, but it is most definitely only underground... I'm not sure if the specific depth layer matters or not, but I've found it even in the top-most underground biomes...

But, that being said, sometimes I do have to run around quite a while before I run into it. When 1.0 was released, they changed the way resources are dispersed about the different biomes: the resource deposits are much more irregularly placed so you will run across them less frequently on average, but the individual deposits will have a much higher density of resources in them... You may run across areas that have a bunch of different resources all clumped on top of each other, while other areas may be completely devoid of anything... It is just a lot more random overall, so you may have to run around searching for a while if you had bad luck with the world generator.

The other suggestion I have, is don't just use your eyes... Sometimes--and this is especially true for worlds that have a very irregular surface pattern, like the terran moon--the deposits can be entirely concealed by the ground, so you must pull out your terrain tool and move the cursor around to see if anything is under there... It will show a little icon if there is a resource buried underneath where the cursor is pointing. In my experience, resources on the moon are actually more abundant than I first assumed, it's just that some of the deposits are covered up completely so you can't see them without digging down.

Other than that though, if you are positive you have looked everywhere it could possibly be, and you are certain it doesn't exist.... I don't know if there is a way to fix that without regenerating the solar system completely, which means starting a new game. So it's up to you if you think you've reached that point or not.

[bigJLITTLEd]

derpykat never thought about doing that, always entered via opening already there. 1 cave was funny went all way down thinking this got to have some, though it really didn't go down; but at the end resin one huge area of it. well going to give it a try.

[Mama Cel]

Originally posted by shopdogin:

derpykat never thought about doing that, always entered via opening already there. 1 cave was funny went all way down thinking this got to have some, though it really didn't go down; but at the end resin one huge area of it. well going to give it a try.

yeah, that is actually a good idea... The EA version had a lot easier cave access openings already there, but now they don't really show up the same way and in the same frequency. But I've found that if you just start digging a ramp down at any random spot, you will end up running into a cave more likely than not. It is a lot easier than trying to find a path down that already exists.

[bigJLITTLEd]

found a boat load. landed where the cave i mentioned earlier with the all the resin went to the very back. in one spot compound from the roof and resin mixed a lot. went down right there 2 tethers in i hit quartz, it was the roof of a large quartz chamber. funnest and most heart pounding time in the game so far. thanks all