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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.

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.

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: 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.

LFarquaad wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:52 pm 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.