4615

You are using your terrain manipulator on the copper deposit, right? Because you should get, I don’t know 100-300 units from the average little patch.

Usually copper is on the surface, but I did find a deposit that was just below a patch of lawn.

4616

With the terrain manipulator, it has three size settings. Make sure you mine on the smallest. It seems to pull the same amount per pulse. So if you chew up the deposit in 3 pulses you get 3 x amount. If it takes you a couple hundred pulses you get 3 x a couple hundred.

4617

I didn’t know that. I will have to try that when I get home.

4618

They’re all going to be on the surface, but when looking at the stats for a planet be sure to note whether copper is a major or minor resource. I believe the first resource mentioned is always going to be more common on a given planet.

Also, I’m not sure why you’re looking for copper, but if the reason is that you want to refine it into chromatic metal, you can also refine other ores into chromatic metal.

4619

Literally just learned this tonight. Amazing stuff. I was running around looking for 3 or 4 different deposits just to get 250 pyerite. Not anymore!

4620

Someone already mentioned it but there is a tool size selection. If on PC, while using the terrain manipulation tool, R and T change the size and you’ll see the red ball change while pressing those. Select the smallest setting. Also I’m not sure about pulses, but I hold the trigger down and go back and forth at the base and work around until it’s all gone.

Copper is in a lot of places. But keep track or emeril and cadmium (when you get to them.) They are tougher to find, especially so without sentinels. Also tag at least one hot, cold, radiation and toxic planet nearby. You’ll need the byproducts from those at some point.

4621

It will often remain on the map just for a fraction of a unit left in some corner of the deposit you missed and may not really be visible due to the weird 3D terrain deformation system they use. You can scan (‘C’ on PC) to see about where in 3D the spot you missed is located. However, for a small deposit, you’re much better off moving along and finding another one. Most of them are much bigger than you’re seeing.

You can also sometimes find a lot of a mineral by looking for fields of minerals on the ground or in a cave with that as the first or second resource. I just found a cave full of Cobalt/Copper stalagmites, which was very handy for me.

4622

Thanks for all your replies on copper.

Yep, I’m using the terrain manipulator, but I didn’t realize it had size settings. I’ll play with those. I’d been carving these gigantic deep caves, a la Minecraft, looking for copper.

My newbish quest says I need to collect copper to make something for a base? I got this quest at the same time I got the quest to make my terrain manipulator.

Anyway, I’ll try again. Thanks.

4623

Then do that, don’t try to make the metal out of anything else even though you technically can. NMS quests can be… fragile. :)

It’s easy to spot using the analysis visor, just wander around until you find some.

4624

Yeah, the analysis visor will show copper deposits from a long distance. The icon for resources deposits looks like a round ball and it will tell you if it’s copper, salt, or whatever other resource.

4625

Ok after playing around 80 hours, I a tired of this game

I can easly dump the market of a station with chroline and platine making around 40 million. I have several mines and a farm that produce a lot of materials.

The part I like more from this game is exploration and in this version of the game is kind of weak Theres too many curated animals and curated planets / probably in a effort to make the game less memeable

4626

Thanks. It took me forever to figure out that I need to hold down the visor hotkey to use its features fully. The tutorial probably told me that, but I missed it. Once I did that, I had no trouble finding copper and other goodies. I now have a bouncing baby base.

How do you tell which things are curated?

4627

I read “curated” and thought … on my most recent planet I should try riding the huge bouncing phallic fauna that are dominant there (three sizes!) then milk them when I am done.

Who is doing this curating?

4628

Thet appear again and again and again in 100+ planets.
You also seee them in other players screenshots.

Is beyond the oxygen planet. Is most animals and planets on problems.

4629

I don’t think anything is ‘curated’.

Planets have a set biome, and a biome tends to pick it’s flora and fauna parts from a list that is suitable to that biome (and that star). You see things repeated because there’s 16 quintillion planets but only a set number of parts to pick from.

Some biomes have very restricted parts to pick from though. The ‘exotic’ biomes like this one:
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will not have much as variation as the others.

4630

Even if parts vary at some level, we tend to lump them together by common characteristics. There’s effectively little difference to us between limbs that may look somewhat different. This is why variation by parts is ultimately a losing game. The same thing applies to planets – what our brain looks for is things that are functionally different, and that’s hard to make procedurally. After seeing 100s of planets and animals, you can probably lump them all into a few main groups.

4631

Yes, virtually nothing in the game is curated in the sense of being placed or even just chosen by a designer, at least outside of the main quest lines. 99.99% of the things found on planets are just random procedural noise. Of course the possible variations of animals and plants are not that great, and are based on fixed types, but that’s just a limitation of the underlying system, not evidence of anyone deliberately selecting a given planet’s look and feel.

4632

Hmmm, that is disappointing as Survival was my absolute favorite way of playing in prior years.

I love the difficulty of survival, especially when you start on a planet with a dangerous climate, but if they didnt ease the grinding aspect then I might need to go normal this time around. Something to think about.

4633

If I could change something on my life, I would travel back in time and talk to young me. Before he started playing Beyond, and I would convince him to label every animal that look like a dog “dog”.

This is my only remorse.

Leaving a trail of 100+ planets occupied by dogs (with only a few of then having extra legs, but most looking similar).

4634

Puppies?

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