What's the biggest ore deposit that you've ever had?

[Sorrowful Cat]

I have an 8.0 million iron deposit relatively close to my base. Anyone have one that's bigger or similarly big? What's the biggest deposit that can spawn?

[The Undead Watcher]

I think the amount is infinite, since the further you go from your spawn, the richer a patch gets.

So my biggest that i have discovered was an 112 million iron ore patch, but a realivly long way from my base.

Also depends on your settings

[Nemo]

I by accident created 1.1 billion ore deposit

[Killcreek2]

Have a 58M stone patch about 1300 tiles E from the spawn point, atm it is taunting me from inside heavy biter nests.
But have not explored too far on this world yet (~2000 tiles ENE, ~1000 in other directions), hoping to find some decent sized (100+M) iron / copper patches further out to the NE.

Richness gets higher the further away the ore patch is, & the resource configuration settings in the map gen make a big diference too. (I used: freq: very low, size: very big, richness: very good.)

[Zamber]

Modded Angel+Bob and some ores are on rich settings.
From 43 mln patch ive dig 15mln already. Just in 330 hrs playtime. ;P

Just last night i found Stiratite patch counting 73mln.

[Evilsod]

Yeah that question doesn't mean a great deal. I started next to 2 gigantic deposits around 15-20mil each of Copper and Iron. Travelling a short distance (~50 tiles) away I found ones with a similar amount in them yet a fraction of the size because they were much richer.

Someone the other day was talking about not wanting deposits lower than 1G which is... a lot and took a couple hours worth of travelling to reach.

[Qlimax]

18M

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1496400569

[Qlimax]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1496403794

[Estelyen]

I cheated. I usually use Angels infinite ore mod. So my patches are bigger than all of yours, since they're infinite ;)

[Freelancer]

In Vanilla, using no mods I was setting up a Megabase using only 1+.0G resource patches just for the fun of it..

https://i.imgur.com/tUFE2Wo.jpg

It took over 3.5 hours (in real time) to travel far enough away from my starting point in a car to reach the area in above screenshot. It is more than possible that by the time you reach the end of the map that resource patches are in excess of 100's of Gig's in size.

[Sorrowful Cat]

Damn. This thread has been very informative. I only have a few hours in factorio and have only played 1.5 games so far and the first one I rushed for the rocket so I could start again and do better with more knowledge.

I didn't actually know if people went that far in the map because there's usually more than enough patches of ore to finish the game, at least in my two games.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Freelancer:

In Vanilla, using no mods I was setting up a Megabase using only 1+.0G resource patches just for the fun of it..

https://i.imgur.com/tUFE2Wo.jpg

It took over 3.5 hours (in real time) to travel far enough away from my starting point in a car to reach the area in above screenshot. It is more than possible that by the time you reach the end of the map that resource patches are in excess of 100's of Gig's in size.

Wouldn't it have been more practical by that point to just use the Infinite Ores mod? Its not like 1G is ever going to run out unless you plan to play for an EXTREMELY long time.

[Zamber]

Originally posted by M E M E L O R D 02:

I didn't actually know if people went that far in the map because there's usually more than enough patches of ore to finish the game, at least in my two games.

Simply not everyone love this game for ability to "finish" it. ;)

Now i have 330+ hours on my save and i don't launch even single rocket yet.
Mostly becouse making satellite in Bob+Angel is real pain in the ass. ;P

[Sorrowful Cat]

Originally posted by Zamber:

Originally posted by M E M E L O R D 02:

I didn't actually know if people went that far in the map because there's usually more than enough patches of ore to finish the game, at least in my two games.

Simply not everyone love this game for ability to "finish" it. ;)

Now i have 330+ hours on my save and i don't launch even single rocket yet.
Mostly becouse making satellite in Bob+Angel is real pain in the ass. ;P

For now i'm gonna play pure vanilla until I get bored of it because I know that as soon as I install Bob's/Angels I will never be able to go back.

[Killcreek2]

Originally posted by M E M E L O R D 02:

For now i'm gonna play pure vanilla until I get bored of it because I know that as soon as I install Bob's/Angels I will never be able to go back.

I have over 3k hours ingame playing vanilla, with some UI / QoL mods (non-gamechanging).
Currently building a megafactory (mostly just to see if I can ~ so much math & planning involved). Will defo try bobs / angels or deathworld preset at some point though, for a change of pace / different challenge.

There is plenty of stuff in the vanilla game to keep you busy for a long time, especially if/when you start playing with circuits. My advice: try *everything* out, at least once.

[Sorrowful Cat]

Originally posted by Killcreek2:

I have over 3k hours ingame playing vanilla, with some UI / QoL mods (non-gamechanging).
Currently building a megafactory (mostly just to see if I can ~ so much math & planning involved). Will defo try bobs / angels or deathworld preset at some point though, for a change of pace / different challenge.

There is plenty of stuff in the vanilla game to keep you busy for a long time, especially if/when you start playing with circuits. My advice: try *everything* out, at least once.

I know there's a lot in vanilla as it is which is why I'm gonna try to 100% the game/get all achievements before I try any mods. If I get used to bobs or angels then I will likely never play the base game again and never get any more achievement.