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Ore Overlay

This mod adds a new overlay into your Rimworld experience. The Ore Overlay will highlight unmined ores on the map to aid in spotting resources for gathering.

Steam Geysers will also be shown to aid planning your base expansions at a glance.

With a powered Ground-Penetrating scanner, the overlay will also show you ores inside of rock faces and mountains to help you gather all the available ores in your tile.

Using the ground overlay you can also see the underground deposits without needing to select a drill or the scanner.


This is my most complex mod to date, so please let me know if you have any issues and I will work on fixing them!

• Investigating lag issue in some situations, Hopefully fixed!
  
• Game must run for a few seconds before overlay shows on save game load.
  
• Once a Ground-Penetrating scanner is built, something must be mined or found with the scanner before all ores show.
  
• Mod setting window not closed caused by assumption that a game is in progress.

The issues marked above should be resolved now, please let me know if you see anything wrong!
Note: When digging ores there might be a second or two delay before the overlay updates to remove these ores.

The mod has been tested in a heavily modified save and I have not found any conflicts.
The deep drill overlay works with Colored Deep Resources

A few ideas I've had for changes in the future, none guaranteed but let me know if there are any changes you'd like to see.

• Customisable highlight colors
  
• Extra research to highlight in-mountain resources

This mod has been created by me, SpaceMoth! A mod I have been wanting personally for some time due to the amount of time I spend manually scanning rock faces looking for resources.

This mod is available on GitHub[github.com] with the GNU GPL v3 License[choosealicense.com] so please feel free to take a look to help develop your own mods!

I will aim to update my mods within a couple weeks of any major update!
Please feel free to suggest ideas of additional mods. New mod creation can take some time but I am welcome to ideas. Please note my skills are in scripting and coding, and I have very little ability when it comes to art and assets.