Cant mine ore?

[kenziebebe209]

i unlocked the technology branch for mining, because i need iron ore. i thought that this was the way to mine the iron in the swamp area above your house, but it still says its locked and i don't have the technology for it. i don't know if i'm missing something or if there is something wrong with my save.

[UncommonWater]

Are you carrying the pickaxe on you?

[kenziebebe209]

Originally posted by UncommonWater:

Are you carrying the pickaxe on you?

i have it on me.

[Xuhybrid]

That research is for the infinite source across the bridge. You should just have access to the ore by default.

[kenziebebe209]

Originally posted by kenziebebe209:

Originally posted by UncommonWater:

Are you carrying the pickaxe on you?

i have it on me.

ok. never mind. i didn't talk to the blacksmith enough. thanks anyways.

[Xuhybrid]

Just worth noting that that infinite source seems missing or moved. Just wanted to correct myself.

[C-zom]

Aye, it is gone. Currently there is a finite amount of iron in the game. There is infinite coal however, as well as clay. will devs address the iron problem?

[Xuhybrid]

I found a small cabin behind some rubble. Might want to check it out.

[BOYCOTT]

wait is it really finite? the blacksmith sells both iron and steel ingots, they may not replenish though.

levels 2 for steel to unlock so don't get your hopes up if you haven't bought at least one or two whetstones yet.

[Xuhybrid]

I don't think the hole in the wall is finite no. There's even an area by the cabin that lets you refine it, sleep, refine it and carry it all back to your furnaces in your backpack. Really neat way to handle it to be honest.

[BOYCOTT]

Originally posted by Xuhybrid:

I don't think the hole in the wall is finite no. There's even an area by the cabin that lets you refine it, sleep, refine it and carry it all back to your furnaces in your backpack. Really neat way to handle it to be honest.

if it's a hole in the wall it's infinite unless the dev changed that since alpha, i actually went to the trouble of filling up the stone/ore (the one that actually processes ore, not the misnamed one) cutter fully in my confusion of trying everything i could think of that might work until i realized i needed the stone cutter, to of course, cut ore and there was never any reduction visually no matter how long i mined it.

[Jon]

I'm a little lost here, so where is the ore we can mine? Likewise have the tech, have my rusty pick, but the ores in swamp all say I need technology

[Grimmrog_SIG]

Originally posted by FluffyD:

I'm a little lost here, so where is the ore we can mine? Likewise have the tech, have my rusty pick, but the ores in swamp all say I need technology

do you have the correct mining tech or just the refining tech? can you screen the tech trees and post it, as well as the ore vein you try to mine?

[Jon]

Decided to play on a bit more and cleared the rockslide north of my home after mate mentioned it, and found the camp, allowing me to mine iron slabs, that i could break down into ore.
Later talking to the Smith, about ore i was granted the ability to make a smelter, and gather from bog nodes