Where to find lead

[Koro]

It's ridiculous that lead is harder to find than diamond.. I've been looking for galena outcrops for hours. Going between the thermal spires and the twisty bridges. Found only 3 lead so far. Help please! I want to build my seatruck modules, but I can't with lead so hard to find

[Vince]

there's a lot of galena outcrop in the twisty bridges, early game a scanner room and a camera or the mineral detector can help

[kagypoo]

Galena outcrops are your only option unfortunately. So just keep looking and hope the rng is on your side.

[Etherealtroll]

try the lilypad islands

[Andreas]

There's plenty of galena outcrops on the walls of the twisty bridges. Just take your flashlight and look closely.

[Coops]

Scanner room.
Then post back "Where to find Magnetite?"

[Vince]

Originally posted by Coops:

Then post back "Where to find Magnetite?"

hehe

that's why i suggested a camera at first even if a bit tedious outcrop per outcrop

(i did build a camera for my first diamonds)

[Warc1]

Originally posted by TorqueoZ?:

I've been looking for galena outcrops for hours.

I do not get this at all. In a fraction of the time that you have been visually searching for galena outcrops, you could have gathered the raw materials to build a scanner room in Twisty Bridges and you would never have a lead (or virtually any raw mineral) scarcity issue ever again.

All of the raw materials to make a scanner room are easy to find with the exception of magnetite for the HUD and range upgrades. For that, just go onto land at the Glacial Bay dock with a mineral detector set for magnetite and it should find it within 100m.

It should take no more than an hour to gather all of the necessary raw materials and then build your first mineral detector, scanner room, HUD and range upgrades. After that, you can easily collect a dozen lead in a matter of minutes instead of your experience of three in a matter of hours.

Once you have built the first scanner room, you can dismantle it and move it anywhere in the game world (land or sea) to detect the few rare resources at deep or remote locations.

[Langkard]

Galena outcrops and Argentite outcrops look almost the same. The difference is the Galena looks a shade darker and more like a rock, while the Argentite is grayer and has a flatter and almost layered look when viewed from the side.