Space Engineers

Space Engineers

Scarce Resources
933 Comments
Revale08 Sep 30 @ 3:54am 
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)
Darian Stephens  [author] Sep 21 @ 7:39am 
Oh, I forgot about that mod. I should probably update it at some point.
Mobius Sep 21 @ 7:27am 
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?
Darian Stephens  [author] Sep 14 @ 8:00am 
@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.
ryangoslinglover306 Sep 14 @ 7:55am 
like, five resource deposits in a single valley just like vanilla
ryangoslinglover306 Sep 14 @ 7:54am 
resources not scarce when using this? did this mod break?
HS_DRAGON ✞ Sep 14 @ 5:54am 
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.
Darian Stephens  [author] Sep 14 @ 2:07am 
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.
Chrido  [author] Sep 13 @ 10:03pm 
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.
Darian Stephens  [author] Sep 13 @ 1:35pm 
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.
Ozlav Sep 13 @ 12:53pm 
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!
Darian Stephens  [author] Sep 13 @ 11:57am 
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.
Berci Sep 13 @ 5:51am 
not yet
HS_DRAGON ✞ Sep 12 @ 11:33am 
Has this problem already been solved, the appearance of food/plants?
Beton Morel Sep 9 @ 1:32pm 
FYI with the new update the solar radiation on pertam doesn't work.
Darian Stephens  [author] Sep 9 @ 12:23pm 
There's probably more data that needs to be added to the planet definitions. Should be an easy fix, in theory.
Ozlav Sep 9 @ 11:35am 
Animals drop meat and found seeds and meals in unknown signals, but berries and the like disappear.

Anyone have a fix?
Berci Sep 9 @ 3:51am 
No it doesnt actually... i mean if you are okay playing without food then probably, but it stops food items from spawning..
Ozlav Sep 8 @ 8:33am 
Dearest modders, do you expect this to work with todays update?

I sincerely hope it will, can't play the game without it.
DeathSlapper Jul 19 @ 10:59am 
I cant find any nickel on pertam northpole. isn't is supposed to be evenly distributed throughout the planet? checked everywhere.
Stepver Jul 16 @ 5:51pm 
must have mod. its nice not just going to space and being able to stay there cus everything you want can be found there
OozyFlipchart Jun 9 @ 7:36am 
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 :)
Chrido  [author] Mar 16 @ 8:14pm 
@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?
Darian Stephens  [author] Mar 10 @ 1:42am 
Oh, really? Was that removed?
Chrido  [author] Mar 9 @ 7:02pm 
@NoseShot Meteors has not been modified and will contain the same materials as the vanilla game.
NoseShot Mar 9 @ 12:08am 
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?
NoseShot Mar 8 @ 11:41pm 
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.
NPC Mar 4 @ 4:20am 
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
Darian Stephens  [author] Feb 3 @ 5:29pm 
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.
HS_DRAGON ✞ Feb 3 @ 4:13pm 
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?
EgoLast Jan 27 @ 9:16pm 
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
BZD Jan 23 @ 12:51am 
It is my only essential mod, gives me an actual reason to visit the planets.
Currently setting up a gold refinery on the moon!
Darian Stephens  [author] Jan 17 @ 3:08pm 
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.
Tuuvis Van Kraun Jan 17 @ 2:45am 
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)
Darian Stephens  [author] Dec 23, 2024 @ 12:34am 
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.
serpenten Dec 22, 2024 @ 11:33pm 
any easier way to get uranium? I want to go to space but the power situation is heavy lol
tntingram88 Dec 21, 2024 @ 3:45pm 
does this work with deeper ores?
SirFlutternutz Dec 18, 2024 @ 6:02pm 
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?
Darian Stephens  [author] Nov 19, 2024 @ 10:08am 
@Verlian
Any mod overwriting the planet would break it.
This (probably) includes that seam fix mod.
Darian Stephens  [author] Nov 19, 2024 @ 10:07am 
@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.
Verlian Nov 19, 2024 @ 7:12am 
Any reason why Scarce Resources would stop working because randomly I got gold and what not on earth...
TheOofertaffy Nov 15, 2024 @ 11:30pm 
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.
Darian Stephens  [author] Nov 10, 2024 @ 7:34am 
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.
TheOofertaffy Nov 10, 2024 @ 3:57am 
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.
cy-one Oct 27, 2024 @ 6:51am 
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 :(
Scorp0102 Oct 16, 2024 @ 12:24pm 
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
Darth Porgus Aug 1, 2024 @ 7:25pm 
@Müdavim you have to start a new world with the mod enabled
Darth Porgus Aug 1, 2024 @ 7:24pm 
Slurp :o read mod description
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jun 21, 2024 @ 3:10am 
This mod usaully works great for me but in my current survival world ive founf uranium in asteriods as well as like iron and cobalt sooo whaats that abt
Müdavim Jun 4, 2024 @ 2:27am 
We had a current save, then installed this mod, but after that, we found gold on earth. Just one patch, but we found it. Why do you think?