Miners: Are certain minerals bugged and do not appear in their hotspots?

Angus

Angus
I've been trying to make my mining a bit more varied by choosing different minerals to go after. The trouble is, when I find a suitable hotspot, it appears to be devoid of said mineral. Tonight I found quite a nicely overlapping Rhodplumsite double hotspot, but I've not seen a grain of it there. There's Coltan, Lepidolite, Bertrandite, Gallite, etc etc and I've had 2 Platinum cores, and 1 Serendibite core - just none of what I'm looking for - Rhodplumsite. I'd noticed this before, with Monazite, Benitoite etc but because in the past I generally went for Low Temp Diamonds and Void Opals (which seem to appear as expected) it hadn't really made much of an impression.

Is this a known issue?

Is there somewhere I can read up on the various minerals and how they are distributed within asteroids. Like LTD's can be core, subsurface, or surface deposits, but Void Opals are only cores, right?


Thanks for any advice.
 

Kenneth McGrew

Kenneth McGrew
Angus said:
I've been trying to make my mining a bit more varied by choosing different minerals to go after. The trouble is, when I find a suitable hotspot, it appears to be devoid of said mineral. Tonight I found quite a nicely overlapping Rhodplumsite double hotspot, but I've not seen a grain of it there. There's Coltan, Lepidolite, Bertrandite, Gallite, etc etc and I've had 2 Platinum cores, and 1 Serendibite core - just none of what I'm looking for - Rhodplumsite. I'd noticed this before, with Monazite, Benitoite etc but because in the past I generally went for Low Temp Diamonds and Void Opals (which seem to appear as expected) it hadn't really made much of an impression.

Is this a known issue?

Is there somewhere I can read up on the various minerals and how they are distributed within asteroids. Like LTD's can be core, subsurface, or surface deposits, but Void Opals are only cores, right?


Thanks for any advice.
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Core mining hotspots are not working correctly, you're sometimes better off just going anywhere as its up to the RNG what the core contains.

its a known issue and has been on the issue tracker... will it be fixed? I doubt it.

if you're after specific materials, you're better off laser mining in a hotspot, at least the asteroids contain the said material in a hotspot... just not the cores or sub surface deposits which sit outside the usual money makers so people don't care about them and neither do frontier.
 
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