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Those numbers are the distribution of materials that you'll find in random meteorites and outcrops. You'll get 3 of a material in each chunk but when the planet says "Iron 23.4%, Sulphur 19.2%,...Polonium 0.7%" that just means you'll find a lot of iron and sulphur for every polonium chunk you find. The total amount on a planet is effectively limitless for every material as the shootable rocks respawn constantly - a few times I've picked up a metallic meteorite on the scanner, driven towards it and found it right in the wheel tracks of when I went past that spot 10 minutes before when it wasn't there.
Volcanic and biological sites follow slightly different rules, I'm not sure if a 0.5% vs 1.5% of the rarest material effects the number of needle crystals or the biological equivalent whose name escapes me that you find at each site. Once you clear a site it will respawn its materials a couple of weeks later.
Volcanic and biological sites follow slightly different rules, I'm not sure if a 0.5% vs 1.5% of the rarest material effects the number of needle crystals or the biological equivalent whose name escapes me that you find at each site. Once you clear a site it will respawn its materials a couple of weeks later.
Many years ago I went around and harvested a lot of volcanic sites and compered the percentages of results to the actual percentage on the planet list. Volcanic sites are good at concentrating rare materials and typical a body with say 1% polonium will give a return of 10% of total mats from a volcanic site if you harvest the entire site. Of course the crystal spike sites largely have replaced that in efficiency of high value mats, I wonder what Odyssey will do. I wonder if Odyssey players will be changing to Horizons to harvest mat sites!
