No Iron resource available

[nidaren]

Hey Guys,

Has anyone else had the problem with no iron resource available (past the one on the planet you are given at start)?

All I'm finding is aluminium, carbon and chemicals.

[Bowi]

Seems like a problem with randomness. How old is your save? When did you start this playthrough?

I'm asking because devs released a patch to improve that aspect of the game, if I understood correctly, but old saves weren't compatible.

[BobthenotsoGreat]

Pre patch 3 this was a common problem. Have you updated your game and then restarted or are you still using the older save with the new patch?

Only new starts will get the benefit of the new patches resource generation.

[nidaren]

Thanks Guys, I started a new game and all is fine now :)

[Grunthex]

It's not completely fixed. I imagine I'm unlucky, but in my current game (started this morning, so post-patch 3), I've scanned 3 large squares out from my landing site (so 18 small squares in all directions). I've got 9 silicon, 8 chemicals, 5 aluminum, 6 carbon ... 1 iron. 1 water.

[BobthenotsoGreat]

That is unlucky. Had those but not since the patch. Consider starting again. RNG is still a thing and you got an outlier. I have restarted 4-5 times and the only problem I continue to have is uranium.

Just as a guide. Pre patch I started with 6 scanners to no avail. Now I start with 4 and it seems pretty balanced considering I play on hard which has less spawns.

[Elyrien Valkyr]

This has been an extremely common complaint. Mars has run out of iron, despite it literally being red with it. Mars has run out of sand. etc. The dev team has made it pretty clear they don't intend to do anything to actually fix the issue with their mine system or random generation ending player's campaigns. The only thing they've done is tweeked the number on the mines and called it good.

[neoadorable]

Resources are a joke in this game. Maybe realistic, but few people want that much realism in their entertainment. You need steel to build the building that makes steel AND the mine that provides resources that turn into steel. And uranium? Maybe in the Uranus DLC

[jobob]

I gave up and used Cheat Engine to set several of my resource sites to 99999