Trying to build the heater and can not find iridium. Does it look like the icon? Is it a special find?

Thanks in advance

It's red.

From the usual spawn point you'll see a crashed ship. If you follow that mountain to the right you hpefully see a cave...

The cave where sand is falling from the top of the mouth of the cave.

If you come out of the pod that you started in, turn all the way around. There will be a path that narrows between two rock walls. Hug the right wall and you will come to a cave. There's a bunch inside. Closest spot to starting zone.

The ice hiding most of these caves has to have melted and you have to have unlocked the T2 Ore Extractor and Advanced Crafting Station to do the following.

You'll find iridium in two caves. One is at the sand fall cliff (where the sand is spilling over the cliff and looks like a "dirt waterfall". I'll let you find the other.

You'll have to gather 18 iridium so you can make two iridium rods so you can build a T2 Ore Extractor.

DON'T use the iridium for anything else until you've constructed 2 iridium rods for your first T2 extractor - iridium does not re-spawn (neither does osmium or uranium). If you run out and you've collected all the surface minerals all is not lost. You'll find more in crates and meteorites but its time consuming.

Place your first T2 Ore Extractor in a iridium cave. Every 15 minutes or so you'll extract 5 to 10 iridium plus 20-30 iron, titanium and magnesium. You've now solved your iridium problem. Just make sure to completely empty the extractor when you collect the iridium. Keep 9 or 10 iridium and turn all the rest into iridium rods. You'll need a ton of them.

Keep searching and you'll find another iridium cave, osmium caves, uranium caves, sulfur deposits and an aluminium "forest". Put a T2 extractor in each. You've now solved the problem of otherwise hard to find in quantity elements. You should never run short on aluminium, iridium, osmium, sulfur or uranium. Stockpile them in large lockers.

If you've constructed T1 extractors de-construct them. You'll have iron, colbalt, silicon, magnesium and titanium coming out your ears if you have the T2 extractors running. If you've run out of items to build use the "waste" elements plus aluminium and start stockpiling Special Alloy.

I don't want to spoil your exploring by telling you exactly where all of them are. After an hour or two of exploring you should be able to find them all.

Originally posted by Sanaro:

The ice hiding most of these caves has to have melted and you have to have unlocked the T2 Ore Extractor and Advanced Crafting Station to do the following.

You'll find iridium in two caves. One is at the sand fall cliff (where the sand is spilling over the cliff and looks like a "dirt waterfall". I'll let you find the other.

You'll have to gather 18 iridium so you can make two iridium rods so you can build a T2 Ore Extractor.

DON'T use the iridium for anything else until you've constructed 2 iridium rods for your first T2 extractor - iridium does not re-spawn (neither does osmium or uranium). If you run out and you've collected all the surface minerals all is not lost. You'll find more in crates and meteorites but its time consuming.

Place your first T2 Ore Extractor in a iridium cave. Every 15 minutes or so you'll extract 5 to 10 iridium plus 20-30 iron, titanium and magnesium. You've now solved your iridium problem. Just make sure to completely empty the extractor when you collect the iridium. Keep 9 or 10 iridium and turn all the rest into iridium rods. You'll need a ton of them.

Keep searching and you'll find another iridium cave, osmium caves, uranium caves, sulfur deposits and an aluminium "forest". Put a T2 extractor in each. You've now solved the problem of otherwise hard to find in quantity elements. You should never run short on aluminium, iridium, osmium, sulfur or uranium. Stockpile them in large lockers.

If you've constructed T1 extractors de-construct them. You'll have iron, colbalt, silicon, magnesium and titanium coming out your ears if you have the T2 extractors running. If you've run out of items to build use the "waste" elements plus aluminium and start stockpiling Special Alloy.

I don't want to spoil your exploring by telling you exactly where all of them are. After an hour or two of exploring you should be able to find them all.

Not using Iridium for anything until T2 mining is kind of crazy. You can build a rocket that sends down iridium meteors. I don't have T2 mining yet and have a TON of Iridium.

Originally posted by Gerald McMeow:

Trying to build the heater and can not find iridium. Does it look like the icon? Is it a special find?

Thanks in advance

There's several locations for that. It's in various caves, an also on a specific metor storm you might cause at some point

If you find a heater in a wreckage you can disassemble it and take the maerials home to build it there as well.

THe cave with sand falling just nth east of the start point is available from the start. it is also mineable with T1 extractor. more then enough between those two.

And if anyone is truly miffed by all the stuff you don't want coming out of the extractors just mod the game. Google is your friend, there have been mods and plugins for this since the demo

the fastest way is to send up like 3 or 4 of the iridium rockets, and go collect it, you will end up with 100 - 200 iridium.. I now have something like 30 lockers full of the stuff in 5 different bases.

Originally posted by Telle:

Not using Iridium for anything until T2 mining is kind of crazy. You can build a rocket that sends down iridium meteors. I don't have T2 mining yet and have a TON of Iridium.

Plus you can dismantle and get the materials back. Every time I upgrade i replace previous tier drills, solar, etc... with stronger versions. Always worth it so far, don't lose rare materials, progress is linear and quick.

The same piece of iridium goes through every tier building with me. Never wasted or forgotten.

Originally posted by Gerald McMeow:

Trying to build the heater and can not find iridium. Does it look like the icon? Is it a special find?

Thanks in advance

For future reference anything you want to know just type it in youtube and you will find the answer. There is videos showing you where any resource is, all locations.

Originally posted by chutz748:

the fastest way is to send up like 3 or 4 of the iridium rockets, and go collect it, you will end up with 100 - 200 iridium.. I now have something like 30 lockers full of the stuff in 5 different bases.

Except they are clearly near the start and can't find it off the batt. you can't build a rocket without atleast 9 iridum to build a rod just for the rocket alone, and you don't have a platform to even launch one either.

Off the batt the Iridium cave where the sand is falling over the entrance is available right at the start and there is atleast 30 just lying on the ground

Originally posted by Thiesen:

It's red.

From the usual spawn point you'll see a crashed ship. If you follow that mountain to the right you hpefully see a cave...

What ship?

For reference, it's also rather easy to spot because it has a nice deep red glow to it.

Just go look in the Guides.. the Complete Guide is pretty good.