Metal meteorites on regolith asteroid

[Xilexio]

I made a base on the regolith asteroid to get a steady supply of regolith, copper ore and gold amalgam. However, I'm yet to see a metal meteorite and a few dozen of cycles have already passed. So far, I've seen only dust and rock meteorites. Do metal meteorites appear on the regolith asteroid? If so, are they rare?

[KonfigSys]

I have never seen anything but regolith falling.

Unless Klei made some recent changes.

Ore can be mined in space POIs.

[Xilexio]

Thanks. That poses a problem for my colony, then. Is there an infinite source of gold amalgam in Spaced Out? I like building everything out of it due to both +10% decor and +50C overheat temperature.

[KonfigSys]

It depends on seed ID. Some may generate space POIs with gold amalgam.

Cooper provides also +10% decor. I usually use steel or termium for high temp zones. Decor is generally not a problem with carpet floor.

I do not see why dupes have to spend any significant amount of time in high temp zones, so the decor effect is minimal.

Gold volcano is more frequent but you can build golden wires only.

[Xilexio]

Gold amalgam is good for ~100C buildings like ones that are permanently in steam for cooling purposes or ones operating on oil while I don't have fast enough production of steel. I guess I'll solve my steel production problem and switch to it rather than use gold amalgam everywhere. By the way, what's the name of the asteroid field that has gold amalgam?

As for carpets, I use gold metal tiles for speed and more or less the same decor.

[Pedro_L]

On 12/9/2021 at 9:15 PM, KonfigSys said:

Cooper provides also +10% decor. I usually use steel or termium for high temp zones. Decor is generally not a problem with carpet floor.

Metal tiles made of gold are generally better because of runspeed

[KonfigSys]

On 12/10/2021 at 5:06 AM, Xilexio said:

Gold amalgam is good for ~100C buildings like ones that are permanently in steam for cooling purposes or ones operating on oil while I don't have fast enough production of steel. I guess I'll solve my steel production problem and switch to it rather than use gold amalgam everywhere. By the way, what's the name of the asteroid field that has gold amalgam?

As for carpets, I use gold metal tiles for speed and more or less the same decor.

75+50=125C, yes, gold is good for average (cold steam vent) temperature

You can see the list of materials that you can mine when you reach the field. 

There was a list of all materials that can be mined at the space POIs (asteroid fields). It was not an inclusive list as players were adding more materials as they had been discovered. Klei did not make such table so this unofficial one was quite useful but I tried to find it and could not. It was on the forum.

Not all materials can be in your currently generated world. Like the world I am playing now does not have golden amalgam (but cobalt, cooper< uranium) and has gold in golden field. 

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I see your point with golden tiles. I usually make central "speed lines" with plastic which has maximum running speed and have some decor items on the line (like statues and artifact stands). However, the golden tiles made from gold but not golden amalgam and gold is generally available from golden volcanoes. So it is not  problem; like even in the spoiler above I have POIs with unlimited gold. it is 25% of the asteroid field mass. It is in Russian but you will figure out by the symbol.

It sounds interesting to make the base "golden" - with tiles and tempshift plates from gold. Both can be made from gold (tempshift can be from gold and amalgam).

 

Golden volcano

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Good luck with steel. It is quite easy to mass produce:

fish -> many fishes -> eggs -> lime

Fully automated fish farm (I know I could make a tiny one but I like aquariums)

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iron from frozen asteroid which exists on all seeds generated

coal from animals

a simple and labor not intensive set-up in the spoiler below

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[blueberry pi]

4 hours ago, KonfigSys said:

There was a list of all materials that can be mined at the space POIs (asteroid fields). It was not an inclusive list as players were adding more materials as they had been discovered. Klei did not make such table so this unofficial one was quite useful but I tried to find it and could not. It was on the forum.

Had to dig for a while to find it, we seriously produce a lot of posts in this forum, enough to bury important information.

Enjoy!

[WhiteWind36]

So as far as I see there is no renewable source of gold amalgam. Good to know that and plan accordingly. And because there is renewable source of refined gold, maybe it makes sense to save all gold amalgam, not refining it.