How the hell do i find veins?

[Dazzaka 0]

I just started playing this mod last night, and I'm freakin hooked already. the only thing is I'm wasting durability on my tools trying to find veins. The prospetcing pick said "Found a large sample of Sphalerite" and then the trail got weaker and i cant find it again. How the hell do you find ore it's so confusing.

[lolzilla 7]

...Sigh.

Try going into the guides section or checking out any of a dozen tutorials in Youtube.

[killster550 401]

simply said, find where theres stuff on the surface, dig down there, and check in about 10 blocks each direction, triangulate from there

[FatPoulet 24]

Imagine a 20x20 block bubble (I don't know the exact block range it's just an example) around the block you hit with your prospector pick. It scans the blocks and the closest you are from a vein the bigger the sample is. Traces, small, medium, large, very large samples. Like killster550 said, triangulate. When you see the samples reducing in size its because you are moving away from the vein.

But beware, there are false negatives. Sometimes two blocks next to one another will say two different things like Very large sample and Nothing found. In general when you find a very large sample just dig in every direction and note when you are moving away from the vein. Usually what I do is when I hit a very large sample I make a 6x6 chamber and dig in every direction for about 20 blocks (up and down and diagonal) it works MOST of the times.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

Imagine a 20x20 block bubble (I don't know the exact block range it's just an example) around the block you hit with your prospector pick. It scans the blocks and the closest you are from a vein the bigger the sample is. Traces, small, medium, large, very large samples. Like killster550 said, triangulate. When you see the samples reducing in size its because you are moving away from the vein.

But beware, there are false negatives. Sometimes two blocks next to one another will say two different things like Very large sample and Nothing found. In general when you find a very large sample just dig in every direction and note when you are moving away from the vein. Usually what I do is when I hit a very large sample I make a 6x6 chamber and dig in every direction for about 20 blocks (up and down and diagonal) it works MOST of the times.

Counting the block you are hitting, it would be a 25x25 bubble (12 from each side of the hitted block). Other than that, you are right :3

[Sda215 8]

Follow the trail. Watch out for falses, though. I once had to go in a wild goose chase looking for Bismuthinite. Branch mine and prospect is how I go (during the early Beta stages of vII).

[mrpwase 66]

How the hell do i find veins?

Usually you slap your arm and wait for them to appear

[halfmaster1 77]

once you have a reading, find where it is as high as you can get it.

Then dig one way until it goes down. Mark the last block with a torch.

Dig the other way, mark that end with a torch.

Find the middle.

Figure out the rest, I won't share all my secrets.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Think about it this way: The reading is determined by how many ore blocks the scan picks up. This means that if one block reads "medium" and an adjacent block in the +x direction reads "large" then this means that the extra 1 block 12 meters in the +x direction has ore in it. Repeat this for the z and y directions and you're done. you want to find CHANGE in reading, not just "very large"