Mining minerals and where to find them?

[小阴茎]

Hi guys! I'm wondering if anyone knows if there are specific places to mine, or if there are minerals everywhere and how to tell? I did a crawler mission and remember seeing a bunch. Are minerals in caves? Is there a way to see them on the ship scanner?

[FourGreenFields]

Mineral scanner on handheld sonars and sonar monitors (not navigation terminals) will highlight minerals.

Often, but not allways, in caves.

[Smurff-a-thon2k]

if you want to get an idea of how the maps generate you can start up 10 or so single missions and do these commands and just free look around the map, you'll see minerals are everywhere and you'll start to know when to stop and look:

F3 - opens commands console
enablecheats - enables cheat commands (if you are trying to get steam achivements you'll have to close out the entire game and restart it for enablecheats to be disabled again
lights - lets you see better everywhere
los - disables shadows around corners
freecam - detaches the camera from your character so you can free look around the map
control (character name) - to take control of yourself after freecam or any other bot

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

mining missions will lead you into cave where will be lots of other stuff to mine and usualy , plants too

[小阴茎]

We did another crawler mission and I noticed the handheld sonar worked great! I also had my friend look out of one of our rail guns under the ship and he would tell me if he saw minerals. We really were hurting on fuel and lucked out because we found group of minerals and one of them was uranium.

[Greb]

Feels good when you locate that uranium when you're low on fuel, lol.

Yeah mining took me a while to figure out too, I kept trying to mine the cosmetic coral and background elements, or checking white patches from the sonar, rarely coming across minerals...until eventually I did a mining mission that showed us exactly what to look for.

After that we learned about mineral scanners, and it became a lot easier to locate it. One of our group was always on the mineral scanner, calling out minerals when he saw them. Helped a great deal, but eventually you'll realise mineral clusters spawn along the cavern walls so much that stopping and starting will get annoying, especially if it's for "useless" minerals you don't need, lol.

Good luck with your future mining endeavours!