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Immersive Mining v1.2 ( less ore / rare ore )

Now updated for the new SE survival update!

Deep ores edition is here:

Immersive Mining v1.1 ( less ore / rare ore ) - Deep Ores Edition

Vanilla refining and yield edition here:

Immersive Mining v1.2 - vanilla refining and yield



While playing with a friend I got annoyed by the sheer amount of ore patches and the little traveltime to get to them. We have a lot of encounter mods active and almost never get attacked. Horizontal mining, defended mining outposts, mining with a wheel based vehicle are not neccessary. This mod is my try to make mining more interesting and harder, because it is one of the key features of this game, but in vanilla just a nobrainer.


- ore patches placed alot further apart
- thicker ore veins
- less ore combinations
- 4 times less ore yield from drills
- 2 times longer refining times
- halved ingot production amounts in refineries
- vanilla planet replacement


Ore patch distribution has been revamped on all planets. They are now further appart and force you to travel alot more, increasing the chance of more encounters along the way.

Ore veins are alot thicker, making horizontal mining more valuable.

Ore combinations have been reduced. You can find the following ore combinations:

1. Iron Nickel Cobalt
2. Silicon Uranium Magnesium
3. Silver Gold
4. Platinum (on Moons)

On moons the ore patches are bigger than in vanilla.


The outcome of refining ores has been halved. 100k iron ore gave you 70k iron ingots in vanilla, now it gives you 35k ingots. Refining time has been doubled.


Reduced the mining efficiency by 4 for all drills! If you mined 100k iron ore in vanilla you will now get 25k in the same time, so it will take 4 times longer to get 100k iron ore.


This effects all vanilla planets. You can hotplug this mod into an existing savegame (but on your own risk 😋). It will instantly change ore patch distribution and all other adjustments will be active. Your GPS coords will be obsolete. 😉 Asteroid ore distribution is not affected.

Feel free to ask for compatibility patches for other mods!


Where to find ores:

So while on a little walk you are not hitting your toe on ores every few meters anymore. How to find the precious metals now?

Here is a list of current starting depths:

Iron ore is found at 10m.
Nickel at 10m.
Silicon at 20m.
Cobalt at 20m.
Silver at 30m.
Magensium at 20m.
Uranium at 30m.
Gold at 30m.
Platinum at 90m (on moons).

Look at the screenshots on top of this page. They will give you an idea on how the patches are layed out.

These are the distribution grids of ores. Each grid repeats to the right and the bottom.

Earthlike, Mars, Alien:


Moon, Europa, Titan:

• none

• playtest the early game with this mod

This is the collection we use on our dedicated server.

This is our NPC mod collection.

To create this mod I used these resources and tools:

• Official Guide: How to create your own planet - the guide
  
• Videos from Doctor Octoganapus
• Photoshop CS
  
• Notepad++