Can't find additional ore deposits.

[Slashimus]

OK I have found the 3 'starter' ore deposits that you get when landing on the planet at first.

But I have yet to find any others. And I have looked a good way into Zirax and Talon territory.

Is this a feature that they are farther away now?. I just built my first HV and started to explore the area. I have covered a lot of ground but not found anything else.

[Warlord]

did you build the detector and ore scanner?

... and no, they did make it so the other deposit would be far away from starting point but that's not recent.

[Slashimus]

It's been a while since I played.

[Slashimus]

Will the detector and ore scanner have to be mounted on my HV to work?

I have them both in my inventory but there is an option to build one for my HV which I currently do not have built. If they don't work while in my cockpit than that might explain it.

[dred]

I had same issue. I built a large world recently and noticed that there are not so many ore deposits.

The last game I played some months ago with the medium world had much more deposits. I think they made deposits more rare.

[GTO]

Originally posted by MyProfile:

There are options on difficulty tab of world creation for rich and plentiful ore deposits. That may be the problem but yeah I'd definitely install the detector on the ship and maybe put the hand detector and ore scanner on the hotbar. <<< Not sure about that maybe but couldn't hurt anything.

Being just in the inventory is fine, no need to put into tbe toolbelt aka hotbar.

[Gwizzz]

If you mouse over the detector in your inventory it should say range 1000 m. The one you build and mount on your HV/SV is 2500 m so it will detect deposits and POIs from a much greater distance. Also pay attention to the outer red quadrant outlines on your mini map, They light up indicating something undetected is in that general direction. The smaller segments within the quadrant indicate a rough number of undiscovered nodes/POIs. 1 small segment is 1 to 2, etc

The planets are a lot bigger so the deposits/POIs are spread out further than they used to be.

Keep in mind that your faction standing with Talon and Zirax will decrease every 5 minutes you are in their territory with a vehicle, unless you are at least Friendly status. And you can't mine ore in any faction area unless you are at least friendly anyway - without taking a faction hit. If you plan on fighting the Zirax anyway it doesn't matter. And every Zirax you kill will raise your faction with the other two so go scout and mine in their area but be prepared for lots of small patrols.

I ran into the same problem of not finding enough ore in A9, so when I started started a new game in A10 I set the number of ore deposits to high but kept the amount per node to normal.

An SV makes a better initial scout as it flies over mountains and canyons - things that you have to go around in an HV. But an HV is better for the actual mining as it provides protection from predators and can mount a mining drill and gun turret.

[Slashimus]

Ah I'll have to build a detector...but first I need to build a base! And copper is scarce for me. It was the least plentiful ore in the starter deposits.

And I had no idea about the minimap indicators. Thanks! That would be a big help.

[Gwizzz]

Originally posted by Slashimus:

Ah I'll have to build a detector...but first I need to build a base! And copper is scarce for me. It was the least plentiful ore in the starter deposits.

And I had no idea about the minimap indicators. Thanks! That would be a big help.

If you don't need a lot of copper you could create some from crushed stone or mine copper bearing rocks on the surface. The crushed stone option is not very efficient (15 crushed stone to 1 copper ore which means 75 crushed stone for 1 copper ingot!) and copper bearing rocks are sometimes found in the same general area.

[Warlord]

also, if you can get a multi-tool and ammo for it, those wreck/crashed ship around might contain the mid tier component you require for... whatever you need to craft.

hell, with a bit of luck you might find the finish product you want in one of the cargo boxes. just plan to bring a rifle and bullet... i dont trust the newb rifle to take down drone...

[Slashimus]

The problem with the multi tool is that I need promethium for it to work.

[dred]

I feel putting ore deposits to plentiful is like cheating. The game was balanced for everything on normal so I see no reason to put the game on easy mode.

If you are going to put the game on easy mode then just put in console commands and give yourself unlimited ore or something.

[Slashimus]

Originally posted by dred:

I feel putting ore deposits to plentiful is like cheating. The game was balanced for everything on normal so I see no reason to put the game on easy mode.

If you are going to put the game on easy mode then just put in console commands and give yourself unlimited ore or something.

Errr...have you been following the discussion? Like one person mentioned mentioned putting it on easy mode. I was just asking since I hadn't seen any ore deposits aside from the starting ones. Are you sure you have the right thread?

[dred]

Interesting thing I noticed. If you look at your MAP it displays information about the world.

Surprisingly, I had lots of ore deposits on my large world. Also surprised nobody mentioned to check this out because it displays just how many ore deposits are on the world and how many are found.

It was something like 1/11 copper 2/8 iron etc. saying I found 1 of 11 copper mines for example.

SO my large world does have plenty, it is just that I have found almost none of them so far.

[Slashimus]

I have found 2 additional ore deposits. A copper and a promethium. Both are in Polaris and Talon territory. I suspect that the majority or deposits are in held territory.

Essentially forcing you to pick sides and fight for the others. I have found none so far in neutral territory. I still have a lot of the world left to explore though...but that's what I noticed.

[Warlord]

some clusters of alien structure do, yes, have some ore deposit near them to make the whole faction thing interesting,

but im looking at my current map where i discovered almost everything and at worst half the deposit are within alien territory, from that 50%, between half and 2/3 are near point of interest / structure. worst one was a polaris mining station with 6 security stations around it. that spot contain 2 deposit of iron, 2 of silicon and 2 of promethium...

otherwise, they're is still half the deposit within unclaim land with nothing dangerous nearby beside wildlife and that one annoying drone. this really perplexing, there should be a second deposit of each in an at leat 3km radius around your starting point... i dont know what to says beside harvest small rock for starter, then equip a super minimalist fighter/hover vehicule with a detector and scan the map for deposit. or else make friend with polaris and trade with them or make enemy with the zirax and take by force what you need... not that many other way to get ressource...

P.S.: yeah forgot about the ressource Info section on the map screen. that feature was added so long ago that i just kind of presume you were already using it...