Quartz not spawning in??

[Wonderer]

Im not sure what might be going wrong but in this screen shot im looking at a place that it says there should be quartz. There is another place about 300m away that has the same problem of it says there should be quartz but there isnt any. the next nearest "node" that may or may not be there for over 1km. Ive looked around and there are no caves heading to where the node should be. Any ideas on whats going wrong? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2485468591

[Capt. W. Schwartz]

If that is where I think is is, the node is in a cave underground.

The entrance is to the East, just North of the land bridge. In an area with 4 coal nodes.

[Wonderer]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2485486731
this is east of the screen shot

[Grandaddypurple]

Yep as Capt. Schwarz said, the node is located underground. There are 4 entrances of that cave system in this biome

[Maehlice]

Hint: Find the Coal nodes, then look nearby for vines.

[Wonderer]

Thanks! much appreciated

[Anatolius]

Yeah, i've recently been to that cave - there's tons of spiders, some power slugs(as always in mildly annoying places to reach), couldn't completely explore it since 1 passage is blocked by poison mist.

What i can tell you is that this location is a bad choice if you want to automate mining and transportation, it would be a big headache to build there. There are more easily accessible nodes just a bit further than those you found from your hub(provided it's rocky desert where you spawned and build hub).

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by Purple Flame:

Yeah, i've recently been to that cave - there's tons of spiders, some power slugs(as always in mildly annoying places to reach), couldn't completely explore it since 1 passage is blocked by poison mist.

What i can tell you is that this location is a bad choice if you want to automate mining and transportation, it would be a big headache to build there. There are more easily accessible nodes just a bit further than those you found from your hub(provided it's rocky desert where you spawned and build hub).

I love that cave system. I call it "the mines" and use it to transport Coal all the way west onto the coast, where I have my Aluminum factory. You can build above all the poison, so it's NBD.

[Grandaddypurple]

Originally posted by Purple Flame:

Yeah, i've recently been to that cave - there's tons of spiders, some power slugs(as always in mildly annoying places to reach), couldn't completely explore it since 1 passage is blocked by poison mist.

What i can tell you is that this location is a bad choice if you want to automate mining and transportation, it would be a big headache to build there. There are more easily accessible nodes just a bit further than those you found from your hub(provided it's rocky desert where you spawned and build hub).

Meh I disagree, I even built a train station inside to get that quartz out of the cave, looked pretty cool. But to each their own, it's true it's not the simplest place to get quartz

[Wonderer]

How do you get rid/ past the poison gas? Where would you recommend to get quartz to start out with? my main base is in the desert area with the river that goes through it to the coast. Plus im not that far I just barley got 4 coal gens set up so I can have free power instead of harvesting endless trees. Also, where is a good place to get mycelium ive gotten random bits of it but havent seen a consistant place to get it.

[Maehlice]

You can build platforms//walkways over the Poison gas and navigate 100% safely.

Relative to the Rocky Desert, that Quartz is the closest.

If you go farther east about 400m from those 4 Coal across the bay/inlet, there are two Pure Quartz nodes up on the edge of the cliffs of the "Western Slopes".

[Wonderer]

ahh so kinda over by the coal by the lake area ish? with the giant water fall?

[Veeshan]

All this said, yes there ARE broken nodes; the sixth iron node in the desert start area, around the two pillars, is invisible. Only found by accident.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Wonderer:

How do you get rid/ past the poison gas? Where would you recommend to get quartz to start out with? my main base is in the desert area with the river that goes through it to the coast. Plus im not that far I just barley got 4 coal gens set up so I can have free power instead of harvesting endless trees. Also, where is a good place to get mycelium ive gotten random bits of it but havent seen a consistant place to get it.

The Mycellium is from the various mushroom tree types. Chainsaw probably required.

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by Wonderer:

ahh so kinda over by the coal by the lake area ish? with the giant water fall?

East of the 4 Normal Coal nodes at the end of that long cave with the Quartz is a water inlet (technically an outlet) fed by a small waterfall from a huge lake. Just across that inlet are two Pure Quartz nodes about 60m up.

(If you're talking about near the 3 Pure Coal nodes way up in Crater Lakes, then no. There is no Quartz near Crater Lakes.)

[Wonderer]

Im not seeing this cave entrance? I just killed some big spiders and got a purple slug. Am I to far to get into the cave entrance?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2486363574