ArmedBOB it should be fine to add the mod later. The game only saves the modification you have made to the planet voxels.

If i have a saved game already started and then add this mod, do i need to respawn in my planets to refresh the ore pools?

You guys probably know by know, but on a fresh playthrough the only errors Scarce resources generates are the typical texture-related errors (old sky/cloud layer .dds files names that no longer exist)

Oh, I forgot about that mod. I should probably update it at some point.

Thanks for updating this. Feels like something that should have been baked in or at least in the options.

Will the "Deep Scarce Resources" be affected by the changes?

@ryangoslinglover306
You may be misunderstanding what this mod does. I recommend reading the description.

It only changes what ores are found where, and only reduces them in so far as they can only be found on certain planets, so there's technically less of that ore in the world.

like, five resource deposits in a single valley just like vanilla

resources not scarce when using this? did this mod break?

Thanks for your work guys, without this Mod (which should already be Vanilla) it is a crime to play Space Engineers! Here in Brazil I try to influence the community to use it.

Very odd. Hopefully the version I uploaded doesn't have any errors, I only checked that the local one worked.
I guess until this gets worked out, whatever the issue is, at least the update's available somewhere.

Thanks for the update Darian. I've tried to upload it multiple times but I keep getting "PUBLISH FAILED. Error accessing service". Maybe the Steam servers have some technical issue at the moment.

Just quickly uploaded a dev version of the mod with the changes added. Should be fine to tide people over until the main one is updated, and you ought to be able to just drop and replace when the time comes.

I'm not greedy enough to expect extra work on your part but it would be appreciated, the game feels sort of pointless without this mod.
Thanks for your work either way!

I've submitted a pull request to the mod's github, so it should only be a matter of time until the update.
Or maybe I can do a temporary update as a new workshop item.

not yet

Has this problem already been solved, the appearance of food/plants?

FYI with the new update the solar radiation on pertam doesn't work.

There's probably more data that needs to be added to the planet definitions. Should be an easy fix, in theory.

Animals drop meat and found seeds and meals in unknown signals, but berries and the like disappear.

Anyone have a fix?

No it doesnt actually... i mean if you are okay playing without food then probably, but it stops food items from spawning..

Dearest modders, do you expect this to work with todays update?

I sincerely hope it will, can't play the game without it.

I cant find any nickel on pertam northpole. isn't is supposed to be evenly distributed throughout the planet? checked everywhere.

must have mod. its nice not just going to space and being able to stay there cus everything you want can be found there

hey, is it possible to find stone on europa with this mod?
anyway i've been playing with this mod for years thanks for your work :)

@NoseShot Sorry I didn't remember we fixed it. Darian is correct, meteors has been modified and should not contain silver or other scarce ores. Maybe your issue is due to mod load order. Meteors is in the asteroids definition file. Do you have any other mod that modify asteroids?

Oh, really? Was that removed?

@NoseShot Meteors has not been modified and will contain the same materials as the vanilla game.

After having read through most of the comments, it seems as if meteors are still allowed to contain silver but no rare resources like platinum and uranium. What other resources are allowed to spawn in meteors?

I found silver in a meteor which crashed close to my base on earth. That should normally not be possible, right?

I used the mod with a brand new world.

i hope space engineers 2 has a system like this so it encourages exploration and i hope they add a endgame goal like a story to survival mode

This mod only affects vanilla planets, and asteroids.
It does this by overwriting the vanilla planet definition directly, so if anything changes them by, for example, changing the color of sunlight through the atmosphere, there's a good chance one will be overwriting the other's changes.
I'd recommend having this mod lower down in the load order to make sure its changes are applied.

Dude, what happens if I install a Mod that adds new planets, will your Mod also affect the generation of minerals on the new planets?

I thought I installed this mod as a ore detector, I searched the planet for cobalt for hours , I spent hours searching for uranium in asteroids. I scanned every part of the moon with a detector for platinum. Then I thought if there was a problem with my installed mods, it took me 42.5 hours to think about this . This was the first mod, when I read its content I realized where I made a mistake :D

It is my only essential mod, gives me an actual reason to visit the planets.
Currently setting up a gold refinery on the moon!

If you have any other mods editing the planets, they'll probably be overwriting SR's changes.
Even something as simple as changing the atmosphere color would do it.
You can make SR take priority by moving it below the other mods in your load order (Or was it above?), but then SR will be overwriting their changes.
Nice to see the mod being appreciated! It's a surprisingly rare occurrence lately.

Loving the challenge! However, I think I have another mod confusing this one, as I found silver and gold on Earth. So far with my current start, IRON was the rarest one I found... Asteroids only giving me iron and silver though. But, still, loving the challenges you modders give! (Will play another proper start after this, having too much fun, lol)

I'm afraid you'll need to deal without uranium for a while, until you reach the alien planet.
You've always got solar and wind, at least, and you can charge big batteries.
Hydrogen engines also exist, which can help.

any easier way to get uranium? I want to go to space but the power situation is heavy lol

does this work with deeper ores?

The gold veins on Earth's moon are becoming increasingly disappointing in size as we increase production. We've chewed through about 6 whole veins now. Does anyone know if the other moons (or Pertam) have bigger gold veins?

@Verlian
Any mod overwriting the planet would break it.
This (probably) includes that seam fix mod.

@TheOofertaffy
That's been removed. The asteroid thing shows you only get iron and silver.
Also stone, but that didn't have the ability to be refined in to anything but gravel when the mod was made.
You need to be careful with your hydrogen management, have proper airlocks to avoid wasting oxygen, and maybe employ oxygen farms!
It also makes ion thrusters more desirable, since they can remove your reliance on hydrogen for space propulsion.

Any reason why Scarce Resources would stop working because randomly I got gold and what not on earth...

Gotcha. Also one more question, are Ice asteroid still something you can find with this mod? I remember there were asteroids completely made of ice in vanilla, but i'm not sure if it's still in here with the mod. I've been to space with my survival, but last 2 times between going between the moon and earth, I forgot to pay attention to the asteroids. I checked this mod description but I hadn't seen anything on Ice asteroids.

Pretty sure it should be similar everywhere.
Sounds like you got pretty unlucky, or weren't checking deep enough.
Some might be too deep to detect directly with an ore detector, you may need to sample the vein a bit deeper.
However, if you look at enough ore patches, you may eventually recognise a pattern, and be able to guess which will have gold deeper down based on what ores are near the surface.

Quick question, is gold more common on other moons than the earth like moon? It took me around 2 hours to find a single vein of gold on the earthlike moon and kind of wonder if it's even going to be enough to sustain my survival save if I can only find 1 vein per moon.

Started a new game (Star System map, Earthlike planet) and the *only* resources I've seen were surface-rocks.
This was with a 1250m extended range ore detector and even cheating in an atmospheric ship to fly around a bit.
I will have to start a new game without this mod :(

i have started server with this mod already installed with creating new world but it seems to be not working because asteroids spawn with ores they are not suposed to can it be fixed within existing world or do i need to make new one

@Müdavim you have to start a new world with the mod enabled

Slurp :o read mod description