Help! Metal Ore!
I’m in the late game and have run out of metal for ore! In particular gold amalgam!
Posted Sep 23, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC
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It falls from the sky with meteors. Try to harvest as much of the falling debris as u can, usually with a c miner setup
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Why you need gold amalgam in late game? Thermium is a much better conductor. And steel is more plentyful to give higher overheat limit. The only use for gold amalgam late game is to give higher decor in your base but you don't need a lot of it. Meteors actually drop gold right from the sky so you can get gold for other purposes. You can also get gold from asteroids as well.
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I have lots of gold! But not gold amalgam! I have cleaned everything out and have sweepers getting everything that falls from the sky and four rockets and more wolfamite than I can refine! Just no amalgam!
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Question is, what do you need it for?
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Wires? Pictures? Tiles?
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Switch to conductive wires instead of regular. At the end of the day refined metal is probably more renewable through volcanoes and starmap than raw ore. And iirc they have the same material cost anyways.
For pictures, if you have helium or gas giants on your starmap, check those as they can be sources for large chunks of niobium. Niobium should be superior to gold amalgam for pictures. Or alternatively, instead of the regular 2x2 pictures consider hanging pots made of diamond, as they'll pack more decor per tile than pictures I think.
For tiles, steel is renewable, niobium should be an option again but probably not worth it. Normally I just use iron ore b/c that one's usually plentiful, and decor issues can be sorted in other ways.
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Wire can be anything, copper or iron ore is fine, steel is better if you're in a hot environment. Switch to conductive wire as much as you can and use lead as there's plenty of that and it doesn't melt until +300c so plentiful for lots of places
Metal tiles, for decorative purposes? Those use gold not gold almagam
Pictures, yes, like I said in my other comments, decorative usage is the only thing you need them for but you don't need a lot of it. You can potentially use niobium for various things to increase decor as well or use statuses and space artifacts to stack up decor. So there are work-around.
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You can use the resource filter to look for what objects you made out of it. Then you can deconstruct them and replace them with another ore if gold isn't needed for them. That's how I did it when I was in that stage of the game.
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you can try to fetch it from another asteroid via rockets. But do you really need it lategame?
Once I reach lategame I only care about steel and wolframite.