Space Engineers - How to Find Uranium and Platinum (Without Mods)

[@alecisla]

Small correction: Europa does have an atmosphere that ends at around 800 meters above ground level, so it is possible to fly around using atmospheric thrusters for mining.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Ahhh so it does!! Thankyou! 😁 I always thought it had none!

[@alecisla]

@@TheGarageGamer86 That's ok, I didn't know that there is Platinum in Europa, found out because of your video! lol :p

[@TheGarageGamer86]

@@alecisla yeah I came across it once when I had built a fuel depot on Europa in another save and I was quite surprised!! 😁

[@alecisla]

@@TheGarageGamer86 I've got almost 2k hours in SE and I'm still learning new things to this day. That's what I love about SE, coz even after you learned all the blocks, which can take a while on its own, you'll always find a different way to use them, which makes the game "infinite" and extremely creative. It's an endless learning of mutating creations! :D I'm a big fan of your channel and your ships, I got a lot of nice tips from you already!!! Keep up the good work mate!

[@TheGarageGamer86]

@@alecisla thanks heaps mate!! Really appreciate it 😁👌. Yeah I love the creativity of this game, its probably the only game I have with as many hours in it!

[@montyferguson4657]

There are astroids without any ores. They are rare, but I stumble across them quite often. I've tried the 25k detector before, but it makes my game lag. However, it's much easier to find all ores without having to fly around. Occasionally I use the 1k detector for convenience, but there is something enjoyable about going mod-less.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

25K detector lol, damn. I honestly can't remember if I have come across an asteroid with nothing in it. But if you have a look in the time lapse closely the very first asteroid I checked out once the music rolled I couldn't find anything in it, although the range is only 150m in vanilla.

[@X3105i]

Honestly I don't have all day I want to build in survival so I don't have time always to fly around for hours

[@tonycable4560]

You can speed up your process a bit by hitting the key and then typing "/gps Iron" or "/gps Uranium". It will automatically append "_2", "_3" if you type in the same text multiple times.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah I really need to train myself to use that more often 🤣

[@odd_bobble9106]

Wait, that works in survival?

[@tonycable4560]

@@odd_bobble9106 Yes, it is just the texting option, but you can still use some commands as well.

[@randomnobodyxbot7795]

Didn’t find anything

[@odd_bobble9106]

Random nobody X bot Now I am not trying to make you sound stupid but are you in space around a cluster of asteroids

[@toddblankenship7164]

If you not running Ore+ mod which just increases the detection range which imo is very reasonable as a time saver you could just build a mole ship with a standard detector and right click bore through the asteroids quickly and watch for any ores.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah I used a range extender mod in the first version of this video, but then people complained that the only reason I found ore was by using a mod 🤣😂👌

[@derkatzenfuerst6077]

This was really helpful, I'm a new player and reached space for the first time yesterday. Haven't found Uranium or Platinum yet, but I didn't search as thoroughly as you did. I love the look of your ship by the way!

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Thanks mate, awesome to hear it helped you out! 😎👌 If you want you can download the ship here 😊 - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2229593425

[@derkatzenfuerst6077]

@@TheGarageGamer86 Thanks, and in the meantime, I have found lots of Uranium, Platinum, Gold and Silver deposits.

[@metalfiregametime652]

When it comes to drilling I have found that you get more ore with the drill attachments. The hand drill gets a similar amount but not quite as much.

[@jaymouton9165]

Guess what I'm looking for tonight... One thing you definitely made me realize, I need more H. I only started playing this game recently.. learned a few hard lessons. But 1) more fuel & 2) more exploration

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah managing hydrogen supplies for big ships can be a bit challenging, I have created big mining rigs on Europa before to keep the ships fed haha. Unless you are landing on planets or taking off from planets I would just use Ion Thrusters as you don't have the hassle of fuel 😎

[@Сверхпроводник-г1п]

Ты молодец.Способ который тут показан работает потому что ты обыскиваешь все астероиды по очереди облетая их как можно ближе со всех сторон что рано или поздно принесёт плоды.Главное не сдаваться и тщательно делать своё дело и тогда будет успех.За музыку отдельная благодарность.Платина один из самых редких и дорогих ресурсов реже урана.Есть ещё способ приварить к кораблю штангу из поршней на конце у неё будет детектор руды и два бура в режиме разрушения породы, чтобы они ломали камень но не собирали его в себя.Таким щупом можно просверлить астероид в центре в глубину и он точно укажет есть ли там что нибудь полезное, особенно важно проверять с виду пустые астероиды в которых вроде ничего нет.Часто в их центре бывают полезные ресурсы но их без бурения внутрь не увидеть.Ещё есть вариант сделать небольшого дрона на ионных двигателях с большим детектором на борту.Надо взять удалённое управление над ним и пролететь как можно ближе к поверхности астероида, это экономит топливо в главном корабле и маленький корабль дрон очень быстрый и не дорогой как разведчик.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Thanks mate, really appreciate the kind words and glad you enjoyed the music!! 😎😁. Your drone idea is awesome, I will have to use that idea in future saves!! 😉 I have come across some asteroids that are completely empty for some reason though, although they are like 1 in 100, but I only found that out because I was using a mod which increased the range of the ore detector lol. Again, thanks for the kind words mate, appreciate it!! 😎

[@thantzinthuria1888]

Seem I am lucky, while watching your video I found my first Pt deposit ever in game :3 It take 2 hours for me, as I take off from Desert Planet to Earth's Moon, and found it on unexpected asteroid while I was drilling ice to refuel my ship. Now all way back to home planet 500km journey. 🚀

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah sometimes you find it really easy and other times it takes forever to find it! It's just luck of the draw I'm afraid, glad you found some though!

[@RomanDvoryadkin]

When I made my first space ship, after taking off from the Earth ground, first asteroid that I found have 1 platinum and 2 uranium deposits. Just a little luck.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah its all luck of the draw, normally I have to go to 40-50 asteroids to find Uranium and Platinum, but this time I was very lucky :)

[@RomanDvoryadkin]

@@TheGarageGamer86 40-50 asteroids will be very painful for my first ship that flying like a brick 🤣

[@DeadJedd4187]

Just finished building your Altas on my survival server dude its the best ship on the server

[@saureco]

We have found platinum in the earth moon, but the deposits are rare. Platinum in asteroids is already rare enough, but the prospect of also finding uranium makes it worthwhile.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah it takes ages but it's certainly worth it 😁👌

[@idjles]

at 4:30 you are turning on and off the front thrusters so you can coast. you don't ned to do this. Just toggle Z (dampeners on/off) to coast or not.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

If you press Z then you loose all steering.

[@draconian_dragons6588]

@@TheGarageGamer86gyroscopes allow you to turn though

[@TheAechBomb]

​@@draconian_dragons6588turning off reverse thrust allows you to conserve fuel while keeping the ship moving in the direction it's facing at all times

[@AftaImage]

This is why I use the range extender for ore detectors. Man, that must have been painful!

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah I usually do as well, but in my last video people were not happy about me using a mod 😂 so I created this guide 😎🤙

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

@@TheGarageGamer86 If they were complaining about that, were they also complaining about increasing screen brightness so you could see the contrast between ore deposits and the surrounding voxel material?🤔🙄🤦‍♂️ Some people are just whiners.😖😝

[@Waldherz]

@@beckhamkellan2212 So you two guys now changed names and channel? No. We still wont watch anything you two recommend.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

If you see this kind of stuff here let me know and I'll delete it, these guys are plague!

[@Waldherz]

@@TheGarageGamer86 Will do!

[@danieljuno810]

Ay Earther! Leave them astroids alone! They belong to the boss man Marco Inaros and the Free Navy!

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Belta Lowda!!!

[@Nibbles015]

Hey man 🖖 Happy to see the Pilgrim get some screen time 👌 I never knew about "ore finding" mods before. What would you suggest?? I wouldn't want anything OP but more like a range booster for the standard detector 🤷‍♂️

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Thanks mate, yeah I love this little ship, it became so much more useful when they made the changes to hydrogen in the game 😀. I would recommend this mod here, it can increase the range to about 1,250m, just be careful with it though it causes the game to lag quite a bit when it's turned on so of the game is glitching this is why :). steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1653943631

[@Nibbles015]

Ya i remember the vid with the old Atlas and the MK 14 and the Pilgrim, half the ship was tanks haha 😂 Nice one thanks!!! My PC was decent 9 yrs ago but now it might take a hit lol 😂

[@platon38]

nice ship, have any tutorial to assemble ?

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Sure is mate, I built it here in my Survival series :). kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ6UiY1qpL56gs0

[@serdaraytemiz9978]

I played SE for around 2 years now off and on... roughly 1400 hours. and I just found my first Uranium Asteroids 2 weeks ago. I tried it many times and I just never happened. It is just luck I guess. So my game play style changed to reflect it as I never use Uranium for power so all my designs are compact and purpose built. I highly suggest game plays with no uranium as I realized it makes power issues go away.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah having uranium definitely makes the game alot easier thats for sure! I haven noticed that the deposits I find now days are a fair bit smaller than before, either that or I'm just finding smaller deposits lol.

[@serdaraytemiz9978]

@@TheGarageGamer86 I used to search open space for hours when I first started and find nothing. After teh second attend I just stopped looking and adopted no uranium game play. But my recent game play I found 6 in low orbit around earth. all within 0.10 to 0.05

[@toddblankenship7164]

well I run big league setups so i like the large reactor power and i need it 100+ refineries with yield modules burns uranium like mad. I like the refineries on planets so I have a need for a hauler and reactor power is crucial when your a big rig.

[@serdaraytemiz9978]

@@toddblankenship7164 I would love to see what you are building :) oh and the computer that runs it :) My last computer went up in smokes when I tried to have 2 station in 2 planets. I only had 20 refineries. Then I learned about sim speed and how SE works. When I play solo I use 10x refinery speed to reduce the amount of refineries and calculations the engine has to make or I use block resrictions mod to limit the amount I can build and play a casual game with 1x refinery speed.

[@toddblankenship7164]

I play in experimental with a million PCU limit i believe it is(slider maxed out). I play on a I9 9900K @5Ghz and an EVGA 3080 with 32GB Ram.

[@strixfiremind]

I like to use the Azimuth overclocked ore detectors, 5km is the setting I use...there are many asteroids with no ores, just stone. Guess they're from Colorado..lmffao

[@TheGarageGamer86]

LOL, yeah I like to use the one where it only has the 1.25km range maximum, but only because my PC starts hitching when i set it to that range, if I want 5km I reckon my PC would not like me very much lol. I mainly made this video as there were a fair few comments about the last one where I used that exact mod, even though the process is exactly the same whether you use the mod or not which really confused me, but here we are LOL.

[@fangmindalas6040]

Love the work man, it takes a lot of time to find things in space. I have been looking for a good modded server myself but I'd want a set of mods that I feel make the game better. Any recommendations on that?

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Thanks mate, yeah I find that the space got real mod makes a big difference to the game and how it looks, it makes darkness a challenge, you can also get alot of mods to do with weapons but I havent really played around with them too much, you can also get shield mods, there is mod called build and repair that uses nanites to build everything for you automatically it really just depends on your style of play 😀

[@fangmindalas6040]

To be honest there's a more power intensive mod, I think nanite control or something like that, like the build&repair, but uses slot more power to do the same thing. There is a bit more to that one but it makes the game less challenging, but not a much as the build&repair does.

[@jakubkonecny4553]

Did they change the uranium appearance? it looks differently in my game...

[@akrazyspic]

Thank you, I’m still looking for uranium

[@TheGarageGamer86]

You'll get there eventually! 😉

[@jimstormcrow]

Excellent video lad, really useful. Hate to be that guy but Silicon isn't spelt with an 'e' unless you're talking about implants or bathroom sealant.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah i always get them mixed up 😂🤣. English never was my strongest field haha

[@MightyAssa]

Well, that's not the best part of SE. I do enjoying mining but waiting for the game to spawn an astroid that i need, is very mindnumbing. What do you think of controlling a miningdrone straight through the middle of an astroid? I could imagine that it is faster considering the way you fly around the astroid and the way the drone flies.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

I have mixed feeling about it to be honest, I like the challenge and longevity it brings to the game, but sometimes it has taken way too long to find so it's very hit and miss 😁. Oh to be honest I usually use the ore scanner range increase mod lol. I only done this video for people who don't want to use mods 😀

[@MightyAssa]

​@@TheGarageGamer86 I use that mod too ;)

[@michaeleber4752]

There is another way (if you haven't made a video of that). Turn you planet from Safe to Cataclysmic with a low number of meteors. I ended up with Pt and U from all of the meteors.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Ohhh yeah the asteroids, I didn't know you could get platinum out of those! Good to know 😉👌

[@pneuklf]

In Vanila game (no mods :) ) there is allways patern in spawned ore deposits either on planets or asteroids. For example on earth if you look for Cobalt deposit you will allways find it in spot with Iron and Nickel but it use to be 50-60m+ deep. Same goes for platinum in space. As it was said there are almost allways two kinds of ores on asteroids. If I remember corectly last I found Platinum on asteroid that contained Nickel :) Sometimes third deposit of Ice... Just memorize those paterns :) [Earth - Fe/Ni/Co; Si/Ni/Mg; Si/Ni/Ice; Au/Ag; ...] :)

[@TheGarageGamer86]

That's a good point! I have also noticed that certain ores like to group together like Gold and Silver, and in this video I also noticed Iron liked to accumulate near Uranium 😁

[@ronh8126]

I wish Keen had added Ore Surveyor to it's new automatons update. Create a drone with this on it and it flies (within a specified range) and GPS marks all the Ore locations it can find.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

That would be pretty cool to be honest! I think there is a mod that acts like a spectrum analyzer so you can kinda look at an asteroid from a distance and it tells you roughly what it contains, Timmy Carbine was using a mod like that an it looked pretty cool 😎👍

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

@@TheGarageGamer86 I think Splitse used something like that on one of his mining ships.

[@asdanjer]

the problem with using mods is that if you don't play with them you probably would use a small ship with a large grid ore detector attached. can decently scan entire asteroids if you fly around. A Hand Drill really sucks.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah the hand drill is really bad for searching asteroids lol.

[@sixno8553]

I found like 3 Platinum Deposits in my World already but not a single uranium one. I've checked about 70 Asteroids so far :(

[@jan49_]

I know the struggle

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

Probably you'll have to go to the Moon like I did.

[@fangmindalas6040]

It just takes time man. Don't forget you can invite your friends and they can help find stuff once you get them a ship also.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

You will find it eventually, if you are into using mods then check this out, it makes it alot easier 😉😁. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1653943631

[@zaflowgalactic]

I like the hunt! It's also helpful to design your ships in stages. I always make a hydrogen mining ship first, and a small refinery station that gets torn down when the mobile base is built. Just a sort of way to get by until you get your ores. The cool thing is once you mapped 70+ asteroids that you now know where to find the other ores. Once you do find uranium it will last a long time.. my only complaint is when they decided to make all the pre deposits much smaller... I do like that stone provides iron silicon, nickel, and gravel though. That has made early game a walk in the park. I would say much more important than finding uranium quickly us finding cobalt. I spent an entire day on Triton walking around with a drill, I ended up building a rover with ore detector to finally find cobalt so I could build a cargo container lol. Was tough!

[@kirkster8000]

Very frustrating indeed. I have now searched 108 plus objects in vanilla and no platinum. I'm using modified rescue pod so I do have a large grid ore detector. May be time to get help.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah it can be annoying to find, but eventually you find it. I usually search in a bubble like fashion, if i search in a linear fashion then I find it is way harder to find!

[@AmyLDCCX]

Is your UI a mod? It looks so different from mine.

[@zaflowgalactic]

What's up with your gravity drive? Are you using a script to control it? I just noticed that the artificial gravity was flickering like mad. Anyway pretty neat shuttle you're using there. Reminds me of a ship I made called the Hadron Collider. It's all h2 powered, simar paint, and bridge is similar but smaller. Has on it a gravity drive and jump drives also.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Oh its because I have two gravity generators, one on either side of the ship, and when I sit in the control seat it flickers like crazy, I'm not sure why lol. But yeah this is purely a hydrogen ship 😁

[@zaflowgalactic]

@@TheGarageGamer86 I see, maybe you're like half in gravity and half in not gravity, and yet half in other gravity because gravity lol.

[@11---------]

Is there infinite Uranium in space? and if i mine all of it somehow, will Uranium respawn? say i play for years and years on the space map, is it possible to be completely out of uranium?

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Kind of yes and kind of no. So uranium will not "re-spawn" once you have mined it out of an entire asteroid, you would need to find a new one. But there will be an infinite amount of asteroids, while on delivery missions from space stations that are 20,000km from planets i have found asteroids with Uranium in them. So you will always be able to find more, so it is kind of infinite in that sense :).

[@michaelgodborn]

Comment before watching the video. Have you considered getting uranium from the buyable ships?

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah, but I've seen alot of people in various groups ask how you get uranium, and they have seen alot of videos from before they removed it from planets. That's mostly why I created the video haha. For myself when I first started playing I didn't realise you could not find it on planets and took me a while to figure out Keen had removed it. You can get it from NPC's like reavers as well 😎👌

[@jasonmckay2769]

My father mined actual uranium in Elliot Lake ON Canada. There's lot's still there...

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah we have quite a lot in Australia, but there is a lot of public concern about mining it so we just leave it there. They almost got a mine off the ground in South Australia but they cancelled it due to public concerns haha.

[@bryanvonstase6755]

How do i mine it with the hand drill? I have level 2 hand drill and when i drill into the ore it just dissapears

[@TheGarageGamer86]

You have to left click to mine, and right click just drills a hole and deletes the voxels 😊👌

[@Gummypuss]

You can also find platnuum on titan

[@knibtang]

You can find platinum on all moons. It has nothing to do with atmosphere.

[@Linrox]

I think i have been unlucky, as i found a majority of the white/light grey asteroids are empty.

[@femboy_wettuce4391]

lol moon is so much better for mining platinum, there are colored spots where ore deposits are there

[@MANU-dw9dh]

I ended up here because I've flown 300 km and found everything but Platinum, it's a little frustrating.

[@theflyinggeordie]

Can you find platinum on or near mars

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Nah not on Mars itself, unless you install a Mod to do so. Although you can find it in asteroids anywhere in the system, even around Mars.

[@theflyinggeordie]

@@TheGarageGamer86 thank you

[@SFCgunny]

Play it with AQD Ores or Procedurally Generated Ores....the only place you'll get Uranium is the Alien planet. Using the vanilla ore distribution in the game is far too easy

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah I want to do that next time for sure, gives me a reason to visit other planets!

[@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248]

What is with you guys... I wanted a tip on how to find uranium... you're the first hit google gave me and I'm supposed to sit through a 45 minute video?

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Most of the video was me finding it myself, I made sure to put how to find it at the very start, basically it is on asteroids only, go from asteroid to asteroid and you will find it. I wanted to show that it is possible to find it if you look hard enough though and people complained in the last video that I used an extended range Ore Detector mod. So therefore I made this video.

[@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248]

@@TheGarageGamer86 I bet if you made a video, under 5 minutes, that showed what each deposit looks like on the asteroids you'd get a lot of hits... and if you absolutely had to have the mid roll advert stretch it out to 8 minutes.

[@MorrrisEk]

i think im luckiest and unluckies man in space engineers im finding almost every single platinum ore depots on asteroid surface but for searching uranium im looking like 5/6 hours and cannot find

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah it is luck of the draw I'm afraid, i find that searching in a linear fashion takes a lot longer than if you were to search a given radius if that makes sense. So try and do like a ball of asteroids rather then traveling in a straight line :)

[@sakred5724]

All u have to do is push z when u wanna coast

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah but this way you can still have a bit of steering, so you can easily change direction 😉

[@matthewscotti5602]

Yeah I had that same thought (I turn off dampeners all the time) This video being for newbies - it's better his way. Far easier to control momentum, and gives a bit of training towards eventually flying without damps- as you're technically flying with 5/6ths of them Also, try it. It feels weird, but prospecting asteroids it feels... idk. Sorta like you're on a track circling the 'roid? Hard to describe. Being a skilled pilot and flying using experience (and physics) is of course more efficient - but requires hours of flight experience, and at least a couple of crashed ships :p

[@Centrifuze]

@Sakred That works when you're not in a gravity field. But with gravity, if you turn dampeners off, you're going to have to ride your space bar (or whatever is on consoles) to make sure you don't hit the planet.

[@zellhaufen8583]

What is "Oz"?

[@TheGarageGamer86]

I'm not sure what you mean, i mean i guess i am an Aussie? LOL :P

[@Penguinlazor]

beg to differ ive found over 14 plat veins and 0 uranium i play on a multiplayer server but im also in a sector that is unpoppulated as in there isnt anyone else within 1000km

[@TheGarageGamer86]

They could have enabled that Mod that modifies where you can find Uranium and it only appears on the alien planet 😁

[@stratcat3216]

NO platinum on planets?

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah unfortunately, I mean you can do it using mods but in the vanilla game you can't 😒

[@Carnados]

Dont do this, eather go to a moon or wait for an ai ship to spawn to u can harvest its engines for plat.

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah I often raid ships for thruster components 😎👌

[@kahwigulum]

found multiple sources of platinum. still never found uranium :\

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Uranium is significantly harder to find than platinum, at least that has been my experience 😔

[@kraven9203]

check the roids for the ore lol i didnt even need to make video lol

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah its more for the new players :).

[@yasharbagheri5335]

I found platinum on earth like!!!! WTF

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Yeah that doesn't sound right, you must have a mod installed or something that is causing that?