I have 12 Ore Extractors in the Waterfall Biome and They are not extracting all ores like the description says. They only get Iron, Titanium, Silicon, Cobalt, Sulfur, and Magnesium. I know that the T3 Ore Extractors can get all mineable ores but they are not getting Iridium, Uranium, Aluminium, Zeolite, Osmium, and Super Alloy. This has been a problem since I unlocked the T3 Ore Extractor. Any advice? Has the requirements to use this Extractor been changed and I just not noticed?

is it a t2?

and you have to be in where the caves and stuff are for example, you want iridium, go to the iridium cave and you will get iridium waterfall and many other biomes don't specialize the ores you said

Originally posted by carranzarandy64:

I have 12 Ore Extractors in the Waterfall Biome and They are not extracting all ores like the description says. They only get Iron, Titanium, Silicon, Cobalt, Sulfur, and Magnesium. I know that the T3 Ore Extractors can get all mineable ores but they are not getting Iridium, Uranium, Aluminium, Zeolite, Osmium, and Super Alloy. This has been a problem since I unlocked the T3 Ore Extractor. Any advice? Has the requirements to use this Extractor been changed and I just not noticed?

they have indeed been changed with the Fish and Drones update, they need to be in the right location to pull the rarer resources like the T2 do, drones can be used to fetch what's mined.

T3 lets you now select from one of the ores available *within a location*. If you'd want one that generates super alloy, for instance, you'd have to build one in the alloy cave and set it to acquire that. Miju felt that being able to just make one of each right by your base was a little too overpowered and wanted to incentivize exploration in the later stages.

How would you even get to t3 ore extractors without having explored at least a good portion of the planet?

Thanks E3kHatena
Well this sucks. I was able to build an awesome base with the intent that I can have T3 Ore Extractors under it to get my minerals but I can't any more because that is overpowered... In the later stages where I am in I believe I should be able to build a T3 Ore Extractor and get what ever mineral I want. It's called Efficiency. This keeps me from making tons of drones that are going all over the map. Just make a few to keep up with the requirements at the base.

Side question.. is there a way just to get silicon with a T1 or T2 extractor.. Most places that logically should yield silicon, like the desert since sand is SiO2, just yield iron.

Originally posted by nevryn:

Side question.. is there a way just to get silicon with a T1 or T2 extractor.. Most places that logically should yield silicon, like the desert since sand is SiO2, just yield iron.

Not true. The icon shows Iron, but that's because the Iron icon is used as a placeholder for ALL base-level ores (Iron, Silicon, Titanium, Magnesium, and Cobalt). A T1 or T2 Extractor in any location will mine all of those at random rates (on top of whatever special material a T2 might pull up in the case of putting it down in an advanced location).

Originally posted by avatar.zero:

Not true. The icon shows Iron, but that's because the Iron icon is used as a placeholder for ALL base-level ores (Iron, Silicon, Titanium, Magnesium, and Cobalt). A T1 or T2 Extractor in any location will mine all of those at random rates (on top of whatever special material a T2 might pull up in the case of putting it down in an advanced location).

So I take it there's no way of specfically getting one of the base ores from a location? I'm perpetually short of silicon, so would like to be able to preferentially mine silicon, or at least get a higher proportion of silicon vs other base ores.

Originally posted by E3kHatena:

T3 lets you now select from one of the ores available *within a location*. If you'd want one that generates super alloy, for instance, you'd have to build one in the alloy cave and set it to acquire that. Miju felt that being able to just make one of each right by your base was a little too overpowered and wanted to incentivize exploration in the later stages.

Actually, you can ... you just have to get there. You can (and do) reach a point where how many drones you have is not an issue as all. In fact, you can build so many drones all the drowns flying around you becomes annoying, like gnats.

As for your incentive to explore ... at this point in the game's development, the map size is a perception relative to your progress in the game ... that is, at first is seems huge, but eventually as you can travel faster you realize the map is actually very very small.

The problem with exploration in this game is ... there are places you have to discover, but it is far too common to be able to get behind terrain and fall through the earth/planet/whatever.

Originally posted by nevryn:

Originally posted by avatar.zero:

Not true. The icon shows Iron, but that's because the Iron icon is used as a placeholder for ALL base-level ores (Iron, Silicon, Titanium, Magnesium, and Cobalt). A T1 or T2 Extractor in any location will mine all of those at random rates (on top of whatever special material a T2 might pull up in the case of putting it down in an advanced location).

So I take it there's no way of specfically getting one of the base ores from a location? I'm perpetually short of silicon, so would like to be able to preferentially mine silicon, or at least get a higher proportion of silicon vs other base ores.

Only the T3 Extractor, which allows you to specify which ore it digs up (and that will be the only thing it produces until you change the selection).

Originally posted by E3kHatena:

T3 lets you now select from one of the ores available *within a location*. If you'd want one that generates super alloy, for instance, you'd have to build one in the alloy cave and set it to acquire that. Miju felt that being able to just make one of each right by your base was a little too overpowered and wanted to incentivize exploration in the later stages.

There is no such thing as exploration in the later stages.

Players will have seen and done everything by the time they unlock T3 miner so this reasoning is total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Originally posted by Shahadem:

There is no such thing as exploration in the later stages.

Players will have seen and done everything by the time they unlock T3 miner so this reasoning is total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Have to agree. I'm no where near unlocking T3 Ore Extractor, but I have an O2 atmosphere, and 4 of the 5 Warden Keys to unlock the final door in Paradise. Just need to locate the final key, then potentially see about unlocking fish,, but that almost seems like an anti-climax now. Don't even have drones which would help with resources but they also seem like a waste of time as well.

Originally posted by Shahadem:

There is no such thing as exploration in the later stages.

Players will have seen and done everything by the time they unlock T3 miner so this reasoning is total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Actually you are wrong. You can progress through all of the current content without ever visiting some of the places in the game. I've played through this game 4 times now for various reasons, and there are hidden places in the game I know about and never go to ... because you don't have to.