Which Planets/Moons contain ore

[xendelaar]

So, Bill and I have been on a "grand tour"-kind of journey: Hopping from planet to planet and refuelling there on the spot. We're having a blast roaming space. We just arrived in the gravitational field of Jool and landed on Pol. I assumed that all planets would contain at leas a small concentration of ore, but Pol doesn't seem to have a gram in its crust. :S This made me wonder.... are there more planets which don't have the precious ore melange?

I made a small list of ore-containing planets/moons that Bill visited so far:

Moho

Gilly

Kerbin

Mun

Minmus

Duna

Ike

Dres

does any of you know if there are other celestial bodies that contain ore?

Edited June 5, 2015 by xendelaar

[waterlubber]

All of them do.

[xendelaar]

My scanner isn't able to find any traces of ore (0÷ threshold) on pol. Maybe it's not accurate enough? I'm using the m700

[Kourou]

Have you tried landing and Mining on Pol? I think the problem lies in the scanner, as you already mentioned. The system works a bit weird: The ore concentration of a given survace relies almost only on its biome, whithin a biome there is only minimal difference. The scanner's cutoff takes 'about'® the highest concentration on the celestial body, then, if you have e.g. 50% cutoff set, the map will show the area with more than 'about®' 50% of this maximum, the map view is very unaccurate. I assume the empty map view could mean the only 4 biomes of Pol all have about the same concentration, and it does not matter where you land.

Another possibility: Did you use the 'Show Biomes in Map view' debug option? It removes the overlay and it will not show up again after you switch the option off, the overlay off, and activate the overlay again.

[Teilnehmer]

All of them do.

Jool?

My scanner rejected to scan Jool.

That’s what I got for the Jool’s moons:

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Edited June 5, 2015 by Teilnehmer

[Captain Sierra]

Jool?

All bodies except the sun and Jool have ore. Ore also will not generate below sea level on Kerbin, Eve, and Laythe, so no underwater mining. This can be determined from the ore generation .cfg.

[xendelaar]

I moved my ship from the highlands to the midlands and there I did find ore! The overlay didn't show any ore on the planet, even with a 0% cutoff, isn't that weird? I didn't use the cheat menu to 'show biomes' btw. Thanks for all the suggestions.

[FancyMouse]

The ore concentration of a given survace relies almost only on its biome, whithin a biome there is only minimal difference.

Not true. My Minmus lowland varies from below 6% to about 8%. You need to analyze surface first, and then narrow-band scanner shows the difference within a biome, and it's not minimal.

In my save, all my flats are almost zero... I wonder where my luck has gone.

[SanderB]

the overlay is not an accurate instrument, you need a surface sampler and scanner to see accurately. This is why you can see 0% on the overlay but 5% on a surface sampler.