It is simple to operate: just take it out and start walking around on the planet surface. The new Cave Scanner is a clunky but useful device with a cheap Tier 3 crafting cost. Let’s take a closer look at new equipment. The Cave Scanner helps prospectors locate nearby caves, while two Deep-Mining Ore Scanners actually point the way to the nearest deep-mining ore deposit and allow prospectors to select the type of ore. Says Gamerunner Dean Hall, “it is vital we iterate on the our existing balance or we will be simply compounding problems.” Scanning TechĪlong with the changes to deep-mining this week are three new tools to find caves and other ore deposits. Basic ore deposits like silicon and sulfur can be drilled more quickly, and metal ores will require more time. While the yield from each deep-mining ore deposit is being kept high, the extraction rates are now resource-dependent. However, with the higher demand placed on Tier 4 Tech the further you progress down the mission tree, the deep mining ore nodes might make this type of mining crucial to gathering resources like the Gold Ore, especially with the recent and upcoming changes to mission timers. Of course, the Biofuel Deep-Mining Drill remains a considerable resource investment.

If you choose to go for the ores found in the open, remember to keep a lookout for weather events and roaming animals! Mining outside of the caves definitely has its own dangers. (Meaning, you will have to do less guessing about which of the floating texture blobs represents which ore.)Ĭertainly a more clean look… if you remember the original deep mining blob- uh, ores Well, that is, they are now both inside and outside of caves! How about that? They can now be found in all three biomes, with a more recognizable look.

Special thanks to our own Mila Grish for teaming up to co-write this week’s news update! Deep Mining Ores! Deep Mining Ores Everywhere! Some of the details were not as clear in the official update this time around, so we dropped in on the new mission to check things out and give you some answers! Included are more deep-mining ore deposits (now also found outside of caves), cave and deep-mining ore scanners, varied extraction rates of different ores, and a mission that walks you through the system. The devs are preparing to add new content to Tier 4, and it sounds like Deep Ore Mining will certainly be a part of it - so, we are getting several updates this week to expand on and improve this system! It’s been 8 weeks since RocketWerkz added Deep Mining to ICARUS and, after a slow start, they have proven to be an excellent resource supplement for higher-tier tech projects in later missions (considering how long it took to reach Tech 4 in the past, especially!).

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