Issue with metal ore

[sbangs007]

I played this game alot before the major update. I had no issues obtaining metal ore. However now, its seems impossible to find.

I killed the shark, have lots of shark bait.. i have o2 tank and flippers and when i travel deep by the side of the island.. i cant see any metal at all. Rock, sand copper and such no problem. I have traveled so far down with tank and flippers that i almost die trying to get back to air.

Any advice please?

Thanks

[mota]

You don't need to go deep for the ore. It's mostly on the outer edge of the reefs, but usualy only a few meters away from the other stuff.

Check small and default (tropical) big islands. The other types of big islands may only have a small amount of ore, or none at all.

[Texas_Jake]

Not sure what the issue is I have chests full of the stuff after stopping at the small islands trying to find the plane crash. It's got to the point where I just ignore it now that I have so much. I will say that most of the time I find much more ore in the shallow parts of the reef than I do checking the deep parts further out.

[sbangs007]

thanks guys.;. maybe that was my issue.. was going to deep..

[❄️The Last Frontier 😊]

Originally posted by sbangs007:

thanks guys.;. maybe that was my issue.. was going to deep..

you'll usually find it on the sides of things sticking up and even sometimes where it does get deeper you might see a few sticking out below but you'll see them and know their there without having to dive down the side to see. But most are in the shallower coral areas along the sides of things bluish in appearance where as the copper is more a browner color

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Originally posted by sbangs007:

I played this game alot before the major update. I had no issues obtaining metal ore. However now, its seems impossible to find.

I killed the shark, have lots of shark bait.. i have o2 tank and flippers and when i travel deep by the side of the island.. i cant see any metal at all. Rock, sand copper and such no problem. I have traveled so far down with tank and flippers that i almost die trying to get back to air.

Any advice please?

Thanks

you're searching the wrong spot and if you already scavenge clean an island and its surrounding ocean move on to next island.

Island only resets when you're 2500 tiles away from it, which I'd suggest just keep moving in one direction and have new islands spawns in your way to farm. Also visit story islands that have metal ores once in a while

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

A long time ago islands would spawn such that metal only spawned very deep. That was before the colorful reefs we have today were added. Hardly anything spawns so deep that you need diving gear anymore; they're convenience items rather than necessities.

Chances are very good you've swum past a lot of metal thinking it was rocks. They're about the same size and the glow everything has can disguise the metallic sheen. Metal, like copper, often spawns on a vertical or slanted surface, while rocks spawn on the sandy bottom bits.

[sbangs007]

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

A long time ago islands would spawn such that metal only spawned very deep. That was before the colorful reefs we have today were added. Hardly anything spawns so deep that you need diving gear anymore; they're convenience items rather than necessities.

Chances are very good you've swum past a lot of metal thinking it was rocks. They're about the same size and the glow everything has can disguise the metallic sheen. Metal, like copper, often spawns on a vertical or slanted surface, while rocks spawn on the sandy bottom bits.

good tip.. thanks for this