Cannot mine large rock or place miner on Caterium Ore node

[LoveyDovey]

There's a huge rock on this Caterium Ore node at -12,815/-104,642. Typically, there are rocks on nodes that you mine into and destroy before placing your miner. On this one, the rock is WAY bigger, I cannot mine it by hand or with my portable miner. I cannot place foundation into or on top of it and the Miner cannot be placed no matter it's orientation. I used this node on my previous save on Update 8 and never had this issue. Anyone else with this problem? Is it a bug that will be fixed or do I need to do something different?

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Does it go boom?

[Paragon]

You need to blow it up.

[mbraunen]

You first have to research explosives with the MAM and blow up the rocks. They're blocking the mine.

[flashpixie]

If you see big rocks like that with cracks through them, that means they can be destroyed with the grenades (forgot what they are called in game). You will see these rocks elsewhere. You blow them up, to gain access to what they were blocking......

[Mozzy]

As noted above ^^, research explosives for detonator and explosives (which are handy to perma remove poison plants as well). But for MAM research, you don't need much catherium ore or ingots.

Put down a few portable miners, heck- spread 10 out if you like. Build easy biofuel generator and process on the spot. smelt Cat ore -> constructor cat ingots. You can easily research most the catherium MAM tree with 10-15 minutes of portable mine + on the spot processing.

Eventually you'll want to come back with explosives and put down permanent extraction to produce lots of quickwire, but asap portable mining is in my opinion the way to go (*unlocks Mk2 power poles making upgraded bases lot easier, and even 1 stack of 500 quickwire goes a long while for just making power poles)

[LoveyDovey]

Originally posted by Mozzy:

As noted above ^^, research explosives for detonator and explosives (which are handy to perma remove poison plants as well). But for MAM research, you don't need much catherium ore or ingots.

Put down a few portable miners, heck- spread 10 out if you like. Build easy biofuel generator and process on the spot. smelt Cat ore -> constructor cat ingots. You can easily research most the catherium MAM tree with 10-15 minutes of portable mine + on the spot processing.

Eventually you'll want to come back with explosives and put down permanent extraction to produce lots of quickwire, but asap portable mining is in my opinion the way to go (*unlocks Mk2 power poles making upgraded bases lot easier, and even 1 stack of 500 quickwire goes a long while for just making power poles)

Thanks Everyone! I forgot that's what I did before. Been a little while since I played.