[2.0.15] No vault ruin near Fulgora landing site.

[qoalabear]

Landed on Fulgora for the first time (on the island with the square of power lines in the middle of the screenshot). There's a small island immediately NW of my initial landing point with a bunch of ruins. No vault ruin was located there, leaving me with a bunch of scrap and nothing I can do with it.

Started searching around other nearby islands, dropping radar as I go. I eventually find my first vault ruin approximately 2x the continuous-view radius of a radar to the S (where I'm currently standing in the screenshot).

All map settings were left at default during initial generation, other than disabling biter expansion.

What I expected

Considering that mining a vault ruin is required before you can do anything with Scrap, I assumed there would be one easily located from my starting point. I don't know if there was an issue with the map generation, or if this is an expected distance to be required to search.

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[Genhis]

Thanks for the report. Your seed had the vault immediately next to spawn. In any case, it could rarely happen that it is further away and this seems like a reasonable distance.

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[LFarquaad]

I don’t know if it’s worth reporting it but in my case the closest vault ruin was completely enclosed with cliffs, so I couldn’t mine it. I had bots with me so I ended up using them instead but it was a bit confusing as I couldn’t immediately find another one.

Map exchange string:

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It seems there are actually 2 not too far to the south and east, but if I had started a new game on Fulgora, it wouldn’t have been a very fun experience to find them – especially if one does not start by looking in one of those directions.

[cubei]

so I couldn’t mine it. I had bots with me so I ended up using them instead.

Did that work?
I used bots to deconstruct a lot of stuff around me without paying attention, and then wondered how to unlock the recycler, couldn't find the vault anywhere. I reloaded an old save (before flying to Fulgora) and easily found the vault, handmined it and unlocked the recycler.
So I assumed handmining is required for unlocking the research.