Just a few questions about mining ore. First, does ore level have anything to do with rarity? I've noticed that Eridani and early systems, uranium ore (lvl I) is hard to find and when found in an asteroid, I usually only get one chunk of ore unlike plasteel (lvl II) or titanium (lvl I) which I can get 3 or more chunks of those ores per asteroid.
I would browse through the XML's to find out, but I do not understand most of it.
Does the level indicate when you can find the ore (lower levels earlier in the game and higher later in the game)? Does each ore of each level have its own frequency (common/uncommon/rare)?
Tinkers can make armor out of specific types of ore, but what about the other types, can you do anything with them besides sell them (Ore Refining Mod allows fuel ore to made into fuel rods at fuel depots)?
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frequency of the ores (rarity) is not proportional to the level, it's just a property of the item. In this case uranium ore is rare, while titanium ore is common.
that's an outdated mod, I'm surprised that somebody still remember itOre Refining Mod allows fuel ore to made into fuel rods at fuel depots
I used it for a while, but it started giving me errors at the dock screen and there was no way to exit it. I think it started happening after .99, but I can't remember. I loved that mod, it almost guaranteed that you always had enough fuel. It has only been recently replaced as my favorite by Pkodon's NoDockNavBeacon mod (without targeting ROM, nav beacons are a real pain).
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The ore tables are found in mining.xml at the bottom. They're fairly straight forward but basically, the ore level has nothing in common with when it is found.
Ore is used at the tinkers, the teraton fabricator and for selling. Digdug's fuel mod was great, I made some stations too (don't use them because they will probably crash)
I made a refinery a long time ago that could take almost any ore and would spit out some randomly appropriate items, similar to the tinkers but you had no idea what you were going to get back. That was when I first started modding and it got epically mangled so I scrapped it
Ore is used at the tinkers, the teraton fabricator and for selling. Digdug's fuel mod was great, I made some stations too (don't use them because they will probably crash)
I made a refinery a long time ago that could take almost any ore and would spit out some randomly appropriate items, similar to the tinkers but you had no idea what you were going to get back. That was when I first started modding and it got epically mangled so I scrapped it
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Thank you. I read the mining tables in the mining.xml and it was actually easy to understand, a lot easier than i thought it would be.
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