There are a complete of eight sorts of ores in Solarpunk, and every one has a everlasting ore patch on the earth map that you may mine for as much of that resource as you would like without fear of it ever running out.
These everlasting ore spawns are also the one locations where you may arrange a Drill to robotically mine the ore for you. Combined with a Transport Drone, this will allow players to completely automate ore mining so long as they’ve enough energy to maintain the system running.
Nonetheless, since these ore patches are unfolded across the map, players will only have the ability to achieve them by upgrading their Airship step-by-step, with each upgrade unlocking access to latest everlasting nodes.
All Everlasting Ore Node Locations in Solarpunk
The next table shows the precise location of every everlasting ore node in Solarpunk and which Airship Upgrade is required to achieve the islands where they’re situated.
Ore | Requirement | Location | Screenshot |
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Iron | None | Starting Island, right next to the pond in the midst of the island. | |
Copper | Airship Level 1 (No Airship Upgrade) | Northwest of Starting Island, west of the Tradebot’s shop. | 
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Quartz (Silicon) | Airship Level 2 (Airship Upgrade 1) | Northwest of Starting Island, on the leftmost island among the many group of three sky islands floating together. | 
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Sandstone | Airship Level 2 (Airship Upgrade 1) | Northeast of Starting Island, within the northernmost a part of the sky island. | 
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Cobalt | Airship Level 3 (Airship Upgrade 2) | South of Starting Island, on the northern fringe of the island. | 
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Stone | Airship Level 3 (Airship Upgrade 2) | South of Starting Island, on the identical island because the Cobalt patch. | 
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Clay | Airship Level 4 (Airship Upgrade 3) | Northwest of Starting Island, on the western fringe of the sky island. | 
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Diamond | Airship Level 5 (Airship Upgrade 4) | Southwest of Starting Island, within the western a part of the snowy island at the sting of the map. | 
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How one can Automate Mining Ores in Solarpunk
To robotically mine ores from the everlasting ore nodes in Solarpunk and have them delivered on to your base, you’ll need two principal things:
Item | How one can Unlock | Recipe |
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Drill | Unlocks at Energy Workbench Tier 1 (Requires Blueprint x1) | |
Transport Drone | Unlocks at Energy Workbench Tier 2 (Requires Blueprint x1) |
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Here’s how this works.
- Place the Transport Drone where you ought to receive the shipment of your ores (typically your base), and connect it to an energy grid that has not less than 300 power to spare. Give the Transport Drone a reputation.
- Go to the everlasting node you ought to start mining ores from, and place your Drill there. Place an energy generating device like Solar Panels or Wind Turbines nearby and connect them to the Drill to present it 120 power.
- Interact with the Drill and choose the name of the Transport Drone you set down in step 1 to start out the automated mining operation.
And that’s it! Now, your Drill will start mining and depositing the mined ores in its inventory.
The Transport Drone will fly backward and forward between where it was placed and where the Drill is mining to hold the mined ores back to its original location.
All that you must do is periodically empty the Transport Drone’s inventory of the gathered ores and store them in a chest for safekeeping.