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Hi,

I've played several times. Hours and at a point that I seem to get so far, it seems like by default there is no silver, no gold anywhere around unless I restart the map and have things set as high. Is this normal, or is it just sparse and spread way far away that it is a major journey to get those materials?

Thanks,

Wade

I too have had this issue on a number of maps. without setting gold/silver settings to high I am unable to find enough to keep up with production.

Thanks, I was afraid it might be considered cheating some.

I don't have a link, but gold at least is intended to be hard to find. I've been playing with RSO on as well and sometimes the nearest gold patch to the base is several minutes drive by car. Load up!

On RSO gold has same frequency set as other basic bobs ores. No idea how it behaves on normal placement.
With RSO tungsten, cobalt and gems are slightly more rare.

Rest is up to rng and it can be temperamental. Like 2.5k tiles to firs gold ore on map

I have been wanting to try RSO with Bob's Mods. Not sure if the 2.5k tiles scares me, or gets me more excited for the challenge.

Thanks for the information, I was wondering if it was broken or more likely I messed up on the install.

Gold and silver are hard coded to only spawn a fair distance away from the starting location. That said, I don't know what the rarity is compared to other ores.

Timeslice wrote:Gold and silver are hard coded to only spawn a fair distance away from the starting location. That said, I don't know what the rarity is compared to other ores.

I'm not even sure how to do it - they might be rare but nothing like that is present AFAIK. You can set ore to be in starting area or not - rest is perlin noise or random roll(RSO).
Do you know how this spawning a fair distance away is realized ?

Well, I just use basegame code for the ore spawning... there's a flag that sets a filter for either in the starting area, or out of the starting area, I use that. so whatever the game deems as not starting area, that's where the ore CAN spawn.