05-13-2025, 01:28 PM
On the mining magnet, there's a button that says "scan" or something along those lines. If you press it, it will helpfully mark every single interesting thing on the current asteroid - a purple circle indicates a buried object of some sort, a blue dot indicates a gem, some other markings indicate tougher or weaker rocks which can be completely ignored if you're mining with a copper pick as Armok intended, and a red exclamation point indicates a rock that is explosive or full of rads. Then, and this is a neat trick, you don't mine any tiles with a red exclamation point. Do this, and you will never explode.
You can get the same overlay, albeit in a smaller area, by using the mining scanner inhand if you're mining in the trench or the asteroid field.
You can get the same overlay, albeit in a smaller area, by using the mining scanner inhand if you're mining in the trench or the asteroid field.