@Syphond Pretty sure it does on the old planets. I think there is a new planet which could be missing the deep ores. Have to check that, gimme some time.

does this still work?

Yeah, Mars looks to be a good alternative option to my idea's scenario, but that only goes for the landscape. Weather feels easymode-ish, and there don't seem to be any spiders at all.
Another possible start is the Alien planet with that spider swarm mod for Alien, but that mod seems to affect ore spawns there somehow, as my friend told me he was seeing ores 10m under there as well.
Having Workshop planets work with this mod would change things a lot, I think. I'm sure anyone using this and wanting more/different planets would appreciate that.

😁 Yeah I know that... We played on our own dedi, too. Lot's of mods, the enemy drone spawning mods improved a lot in the past 2 years. We were using BOB for automating building and repairing stuff. Making ores less common made us travel more which triggered more drone spawns. At the moment we are in other games but at some time we are coming back. Maybe we use another planet, because earthlike is boring.

God dammit, I just realized I went off track at one point in the wall of text. Oh well, you get the point

*uninhabitable, not inhabitable

Yeah, I figured that much once I read more about the mod, should've just deleted the comment. I'm now trying to make a planet I desire in Blender. I can tell more about it later.

The thing is, my friend and I were bored as shit with our save having broken several times because of the Nanite Factory mod, to the point that he even decided to buy a dedicated server in attempt to solve our issues. Pushed our amazing Kharak experience into bad memories with Clang and desynchronization. We decided to start a new, much more hardcore run, where we would start off with a crashed variant of my dropship that once managed to survive a 2km fall with mostly cockpit, wings, and tail critically damaged.

We found the Vel planet mod, and it looked AMAZING to us because on the paper it offers a harsh experience that we would enjoy, forcing us to stay on our toes and use land vehicles to traverse an inhabitable environment filled with threats through constant sandstorms. It was great until we realized that despite having this mod, which was, by plan, supposed to make us set up long-lasting mineshafts at Great depths & routes for autonomous resource deposits back to base. Mix that with the "AhhScrap!" mod among the others we have and realistic sounds, things looked grand, it was going to be an immersive experience. Well, weathers bypass realistic sound seting, which sucks, but we could live with that. Until we saw ores 10m under surface spawning every second step we made away from our "crash site" start, so we pretty much immediately got pushed away from playing there.

@Shas'Ui Demotana
Sadly no. There is a bit of work involved in exchanging/modifying the files for ore distribution and ore definition. What planet do you want to use? I've never used modded planets but maybe it's time to do so 😆

Will this work on a Workshop planet, though?

Love it i use it for my DS Server :) It works Together with (Scare Ressources)

Now updated for the new survival update!

Sure!

Yes the vanilla is 5 and you changed it to 1.25, I found out how to macro python scripts through regex in notepad++ to modify your mod on several areas, still learning how to mod. Is it alright if, when I am done, summarize my changes, credit you in the description, and upload this to the workshop?

You have to edit the file VoxelMaterials_asteroids.sbc. Just compare it with the original file in the SpaceEngineers data folder. The ratios may have been updated by keen, so it could be that it is not 4 times less anymore...

How can i modify the 4 times less return rate to be more forgiving?

Nope, this is only for vanilla planets, sorry!

@emperror: Jap, Kartoffel hier 😜 Das ist durchaus möglich, allerdings haste dann auch ein riesen Fleckenfeld überall dort wo Resourcen sind. Man könnte das wiederum kombinieren mit no ore spots... Schrägen sind leider nicht möglich, im Vanilla gibt es 2 Höhenstufen für Erze die nebeneinander liegen, das "wirkt" dann so, als wäre es schräg. Aber das zu zeichnen ist eine schweine Arbeit. Die Frage ist, wie ändert sich das Gameplay für dich? Bzw. wie möchtest du die Ores generell verteilt haben? Wie sollen die Reisezeiten sein?

does this also effect modded planets?

Ok, ich tipp das mal auf deutsch, da mein englisch nicht so sehr gut ist. falls jemand eine Übersetzung wünscht werde ich mich dran versuchen :-).
Zurück zum Thema.
Ich hatte sowas wie ein "Kohleflöz" im ´Sinn als ich meinen Kommentar geschrieben hatte.
Dünn (so zwischen 1 und 3m) und über eine größere Fläche ausgebreitet (meine Meinung max zwischen 250 und 500m. Das Abbauen soll ja auch spass machen). Vielleicht noch etwas abeschrägt.
(250x250x3) oder (500x500x3).
Keine Ahnung ob das zuviel wäre. müsste ich dann mal austessten.

It's possible in all directions, width, height, depth. You can't make them smaller (minimum on earth is 45m x 45m for one pixel) in an easy way, though.

Question is, how big should they be? Easiest is to increase them in a power of two. So twice as big? Four times? 8 times?

I wonder if it is possible to change the size of the veins "sideways". Or is it only possible to change the depth of the veins ?

yeah im useing that Scanner mod ;)

Thanks! Glad you like it. Look at the scanner mod down below, maybe that one helps :-)

the Mod works great i like it alot, du need a long range ore scaner else it gets a bit too hard to find any ores ;)

Nope, they are around 2-3km away to each other. Using azimuth ore detectors you can cover a radius of 250m around a hole, going straight north 500m from the first hole covers an area of 500x250m. There is a mod to scan for ores, maybe that makes it easier.

that is to bad hope you can find a salution. so if i find the first patch the nexst one will be in a radius of 500m from that one?

So I took a look. The spots are there, but they are so barely visible you need some glasses. You can see them if you are almost on the ground. I can not change the color or size of the spots, they are tied to the depth of ores and are calculated by SE, it seems. Even setting them to 100 or lower they are almost not visible any more.

I guess you have to make a plan and drill for ores every 500m in a grid until you find the first patch, using azimuth ore detectors.

I'll try to get in contact with Ghost722nd who made the "classic Deep Ores" mod. Maybe he has an idea.

Cool it was on the Earth plannet i was looking.

Hm I'll have a look on that!

btw i just tryed playing whit the deep ore version. but i cant findt any dark patches to indicate were there is ore? are you sure they work? i have no troble finding them in your other version?

So hardcore sparse deep ores? 😁 I'll see what I can do... 👌

Can you make a even more hardcore version were ther only is one type of ore in ech deposive?

yeah bigger mineshafts

Should I increase the "height" of ore veins? Atm an iron ore patch consists of 20 cubes with sizes from 45x45x30m to 45x45x50m. You need to dig down 1010m, find iron, dig down another 30m - 50m, then iron is gone. Is that enough reward for digging down 1010m? Or should I make the cubes 100m deep? So one cube would be 45x45x100m...

cool thanks

Haha yeah, with this mod you have to totally rely on the "dark" spots. 😁

im going to try it out. but i think i'll need a long range Ore detecktor ;)