HeermanTheGerman

Well, up to now 377 ingots of gold ( only 1/3 of which were cheesed back when the luxury trader sold gold Omok pieces) 434 silver ingots, last quartz disk mined out was 82 ingots worth. Post yours below!

So, I found a quartz vein that was so ultra preggers with silver ore, that I got 214 ingots of silver from that spot alone. Has anyone had similar experiences with gold?

I wondered if Nadyia will truly be the last remnant of civilization. Then it dawned on me that this would not make sense. Just on the way between the story locations Archives, Lazarett, Nadyia etc. I have dsicovered and talked to more traders than the entire population of Nadyia itself. It wouldnt quite make sense for so many trader Caravans to exist facilitating trade between nobody. They talk about how there is good profit to be made trading and travelling instead of living a sedentary lifestyle. Well, trade between who? I think there will be more settlements added in following updates. Nadyia cant be the only one left. I wonder if there will be only story location settlements or proceduraly generated ones like the other block game implemented them.

yeah I got that. But since you said that gold spawns in sharp localized spikes far apart distribution wise and the prospecting pick interpolates data from bordering chunks, getting any reading at all on density search for gold should mean that the chunk near the sample taken is one of those localized spikes. Because if what you say is true and that gold "veins" are small only one or two chunks at most with a lot of empty space in between to form lots of tiny individual spikes on the heat maps the game uses for ore distribution, that means you do not really get percentages guiding towards a high concentration area like copper for example with "veins" hundreds of chunks wide with probability of up to 30% in the center of the heat map peak. You cant get those percentage readings because there are no high percentage areas so to speak. A reading for gold on density search is more like a boolean answer of "true, you are on a node" as soon as you get any. Or you get "false, you are in the empty space between nodes" when you are between the nodes. The nodes are never close enough to get you any readings like the gradients of poor, decent etc or the percentages. Because the nodes are too far apart for any interpolation but as soon as you are directly on one, there would be enough of it to give you a poor reading. Which I got on two locations. Finding most ores with the prospecting pic is like walking barefoot in the dark on a carpet trying to find a puddle in the room. You can actually feel the carpet getting from humid to moist to wet and at some point you step into the puddle. Finding gold if what you say is true, is like walking the same room barefoot in the dark only that you dont look for a puddle. Its a bunch of single lego pieces spread around couple of meters apart. You wont feel anything most of the time. But once you find a "reading" by stepping on it. You should be pretty certain its there.

So that would mean that when the prospecting pic says "poor" on Gold readings, the readings are higher as usual because gold actually appears on the readings at all? I´ve got two hils that actually show gold readings on prospecting which makes me curious because its just those two isolated hills. No vein to follow on to higher concentration like on copper or sphalerite