Silicon at start

[twin moon]

Please make it so that silicon spawns in the starting area. There is always iron at the start location, but I never find silicon. Like on any of the 20 maps I started and tried to play, just never found silicon. Maybe increase it's spawn chance, since it makes up about 20% of the moon by weight.

[pseudo nymph]

it's random on what map you get.... that would mean them making pre-set maps with no seed generation. or play story mode and ignore the missions.

[twin moon]

Is there not a weight system used to distribute resources on the generated map?

[pseudo nymph]

my understanding is this, every map has the exact same number of veins, it's only quality and location that is random, you've just been unlucky.

[twin moon]

Maybe that is something that they could look into then, it has been very discouraging to play a game where it takes literally forever to complete the first couple of missions.

[pseudo nymph]

i've not had any issues

who knows maybe they'll look into it when they are done with he'3

[twin moon]

I get that you haven't. but I have. Of the 116 hours I have logged, I have not found silicon at all in the last 20 games I tried to play.

To the point I get mad delete the game and put it back on the shelf for a few months.

[pseudo nymph]

i have over 500 hours and not once had the issue and i make a new save after every tiny update

sorry you have had such bad luck

had issues with Ai and Ti but never iron and silicon.

[twin moon]

I'm going to Delete everything in the folder and see if a reinstall fixes anything.

[pseudo nymph]

i normally end up storing it on the floor 😄

reinstall won't change anything

it's RNG

"Random Number Generator"

[twin moon]

I'm really just hoping it was a bad install is all at this point

[pseudo nymph]

hope it works out.

[twin moon]

I get a ton of all the resource just no silicon

[weary zealot]

Close to 300h in the game, I also came across the "no silicon" close to the starting area problem in the sandbox.
I just had one map without silicon within the max range of an ore scanner built next to the elevator.

Personally I developed a way to deal with the no silicon problem by running two drones mining on the deposit with the highest known percentage of silicon until you found your silicon-node out there.

[spark path]

i think a developer hinted at a weight system when they said you can find aluminium furthur out

[spark path]

how are you getting them to mine silicon, dont they produce the dust of the ore named on the vein

for me i think the 2 starter veins silicon and iron were found int he top left and top right of the elevator, i thought it was a preset thing. for the like 5 saves i did

[weary zealot]

Mining drones mainly produce the oxide that is named after the deposit, but there is a chance that they also mine something else.

Just try it 🙂

[spark path]

I think i remember that I just didn't process the thought