Does ore take up cargo now?

[[S.C.] Worsin]

This used to not be a thing but just now while mining i was unable to pick up more cargo so i added another cargo container to my ship and it shows 6 iron in my cargo. This is a confusing system now.

I have far more than 6 iron so why does it not show all the iron in cargo and what are the rules now?

If someone can point me to where i can read up on this i would appreciate it.

[[S.C.] Worsin]

So further testing i can see that much of the ore will go into the normal ore storage not the cargo containers and some of the ore will show with the icon indicating i cannot store it.

I'm really confused as to why this is the case.

[WeriTis]

When using a "R"-mining laser, you will get ore (goes to your cargo bay) that you then have to take to a resource depot to have it refined.
Read the Patch notes concerning the mining update, should clear things up.

Also, the space ores take up is about the only thing right with this largely unwarrented/unnecessary addition:
So far, each ore seems to only take up 0.04 units of space.

[[S.C.] Worsin]

I don't have an R mining laser all of them have Refinement as a feature

[Joker]

Originally posted by S.C. Worsin:

I don't have an R mining laser all of them have Refinement as a feature

You have to find or make one.

[[S.C.] Worsin]

Yeah i know about them i read the patch notes...still does not explain why im getting what i suppose is raw ore without having one. Maybe a bug

[Drascalicus]

Destroying blocks with your ship can also give you stuff.

[kaashy]

All blocks have a small probability to drop ores (stone blocks) and scrap metal (metal blocks) IN ADDITION to what you get from mining. It's always been like that, but you may not have noticed it since they were refined resources (ores and scrap metal didn't exist yet).

[[S.C.] Worsin]

This occurred while mining as i stated in my original post.

To be clear since everyone seems to be getting me wrong.

I was mining...without R Mining Lasers and i was ending up with a small amount of RAW ORE that i was unable to pick up.

I wasnt scrapping ships or anything like that. Since rebooting I have not experienced the same issue again so im not sure what the deal was before.

[Teralitha]

Sometimes steam games have issues after updates until steam gets restarted.