How to find ore without scanning

[Stillkill]

Is there a way (or mod) to find ore on a planet without having to send a scanner over to your destination? This is what takes up alot of my time and it can get boring

[Red Iron Crown]

Welcome aboard!

I moved your gameplay question moved over to Gameplay Questions, lots of helpful people here.

[steuben]

You can just plop the rig down. Scanning is not required. But, the time you spend scanning will easily be saved in the time it takes to fill the ore tanks.

[Nich]

Pinpoint scanning not required just do the high level scan and find a spot with more then 5%

[Reactordrone]

Well it helps to do the global scan so you know where the 0% areas are so you can avoid landing on them without enough fuel to relocate.

[MaxL_1023]

I don't think any areas are exactly zero, but a lot are under 1%. As long as you have the large drill you should be fine eventually - it might just take 2 years to refuel!

[Reactordrone]

There's usually at least one biome that has ore concentration N/A (In my game at least).

[bewing]

In many of my games, several of the Minmus flats have had 0% ore.

But I think the real answer to the OPs question is:

Ore is almost always in high concentrations at high altitudes, at unusually low altitudes, and near the poles. If you want to find ore without any scanning at all, then just land near the poles.

[Superfluous J]

If you seriously want to actually know where the ore is without scanning, one solution would be to backup your save file, scan Mun (or Minmus, or Kerbin) for ore, and then compare the backed-up (pre-scan) file to the post-scan file and see what the game puts in there to tell if you've scanned the world.

Then add that to every world in the game. Insta-scan!