And unless you fortify it, mining at night so close to the surface is like a zombie magnet. I usually throw up a quick wood frame wall around the resource poi and then I have some warning if I get company. Like others have said, there's usually a heck of a lot of resource under the surface, but yes, you have to mine. On a nitrate deposit this showed no nitrate immediately under the boulder and top surface vein, until I dug down 1 more layer of dirt, and then I found the vein stretching down. If you see x/600 and hear a clang sound it's ore, even if it might look like dirt. I've gotten into the habit of hitting all exposed faces with my pick to see which is the x/600 that ore is, as compared to the x/200 for dirt or x/500 for rock. One thing I have noticed is that sometimes the clue that something is ore is either very subtle, or maybe absent. I prefer the experience of exploring while flitting from boulder to boulder.

Should I keep digging? How far? As I say I have no interest in digging actual mines. IN Ro Rancho Tvestynine Palas Iron Ita ALSO SEE Double circle combinations in. After that, it's only stone or dirt underneath so I walk away. Pop San Gabriel Big Bear Lake Dan nard - Recording Pariar San Die Tumhark.

So now when I find an Iron node, I mine it and that exposes precisely 3 blocks immediately underneath that contain further Iron. Surface boulders have always been the better choice. Ok am I doing this wrong? I have NEVER built a mine in this game despite being the group's miner - and I never want to be forced to do so either.

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