IlikePie1 Posted July 26, 2025 Report Posted July 26, 2025 I've got these three points all showing .37% Cassiterite in them and have an ultra high concentration. Does that mean that this area should have a cassiterite node or does the low percent mean the node if there is one is extremely small?
idiomcritter Posted July 26, 2025 Report Posted July 26, 2025 the words 'ultra high' signifies the best chance in the game. usually I'll either drop a shaft (using Node Search mode every 4-8 blocks down to see if i'm near a deposit) in the area between the 2 highest percent readings. or cave dive in the area with hopes of finding exposed ore quickly.
Solution Thorfinn Posted July 26, 2025 Solution Report Posted July 26, 2025 To he best of my knowledge, the size of an ore bed is independent of the readings, as is the quality of that ore bed. You can find roughly the same size ore body of bountiful copper with both miniscule and ultra-high readings. It's just not worth putting a whole lot of effort into finding one in a miniscule region, because the odds are so very low. The probably apocryphal Willie Sutton answer. I'd have never looked for a second ultra-high, TBH. 1
Maelstrom Posted July 28, 2025 Report Posted July 28, 2025 (edited) In my 1.20 world I have pulled out a couple of trunks worth of copper ore chunks from an ultra-high copper reading. I have yet to explore outside of the first chunk I started mining and have only sunk 4 maybe 5 mineshafts in that area. Once I found a rich deposit on top of a poor deposit on top of another poor deposit. In the center it was 4 blocks deep. We should pin a post "How to use Density Search with the pro-pick". Especially with all the newbies that came flooding in this year. Edited July 28, 2025 by Maelstrom
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