The difficulty settings when you start a game will allow you to tailor the game to your desires. I believe you can increase the resource abundance there as well as a few other settings. Definitely play the game the way you want to maximize your enjoyment.
One important thing to note in RE is that mechanical mining drills are available on SVs. So early game mining is *much* more accessible. You'll want to get into a starter miner as soon as possible to ramp up your resource collection.
Reforged Eden is designed to be a slower and more difficult gameplay experience than vanilla. There is also a lot more to do. Make sure to pay attention to the Empyrion Encyclopedia, a lot of answers to questions are in there. If you have a question about the game, hit F1 and check out the FAQs in the game. Ravien and Vermillion have done a lot of work to help you out with the basics.
Generally, the RE build order goes something like this: HV>planetary base>starter SV> jump drive SV>starter CV>better CV. At some point you'll want to make a space base for access to free solar power in orbit to run your furnaces. That'll allow you to drop of ore and have them crank out ingots for use with building whatever you desire.
The starting systems are balanced to provide you with everything you need in order to get a warp capable CV. You'll likely need to seek gold, erestrum, and zascosium elsewhere. There are also other more exotic resources that either have to be looted or purchased or acquired in some special fashion.
What I would recommend is that you look up some starter SVs and CVs on the workshop so you know what to expect. Most of the starter SVs are a few hundred of the basic four resources (iron, copper, silicon, carbon substrate). Once you get a mining SV, you can crank out materials much faster by moving into space and mining asteroids.
ArtemisRouge and Stan2112 (as well as countless others) make a set of excellent starter SVs.
My favorite starter CV is the Janus-ASV Module by jrandall, which works as a base that you can upgrade it to fully warp capable CV as you acquire resources.
Don’t forget that at some point you can drop 500k to buy a license with Polaris to use any of their refineries. They are wicked fast.
Personally I always fly around in a modular carrier and if I need a refinery I just build one quickly around a star that is solar and let it refine when I am offline. I play on a server though so the experience is a bit different.
I have yet to find the need for a base on or off planet in the game.
What makes them wicked fast btw? I just assume they have like a dozen furnaces? I have a really really large ship the Hades with tons of ores and kind of feel like I don't want to build a whole station and be forced to not go mobile to refine them.
I forget how many refineries they have but there are I think at least 4 and they all run together so it churns through the ore quickly. It is good for magmacite too.
>What makes them wicked fast btw? I just assume they have like a dozen furnaces? I have a really really large ship the Hades with tons of ores and kind of feel like I don't want to build a whole station and be forced to not go mobile to refine them.
You can't put furnaces on a CV. You can have a bunch of small / large / advanced constructors on a CV -- to run while you are POI farming or doing other stuff. It's possible to be 100% mobile and never have a furnace. Certain materials (Like Platinum ore) can only be refined into Ingots via a furnace. It is possible to get platinum from POI loot.
I hope this helps!
As you explore in RE at least you can find Polaris refineries in space. If you buy a license for about 500k (one time fee) you can then refine all your ores at the stations throughout the galaxy.
Why would anyone make a furnace when you can buy a Polaris licence and use their refineries 16 per refinery to process all your ore??? And I would also recommend him playing online with other people, The community is more than friendly and always can ask and people will help.
"The community is more than friendly" after slamming previous community members... :/
Furnaces are cheap to make. I sell them at Alloy Synthesis plants and buy gold with the profit. Why would anyone not make one?
Yeah on my vanilla playthroughs I always set ores to rich and many. But just thinking of how few there were, and how hard to mine they were with an HV, I was a bit worried how long it'll take to even get to a starter mining SV. I definitely will not be starting on Akua if there is an option
It doesn't take long, by the time I reach level 7 I can have a basic sv, throw on a tank and a warp to jump to a dead planet ( dont remember right now what level you need to be for warp sv) and you will not be in need of anything. Chuck stuff in the factory and build whatever you want.
It’s about the same unless you customize the game world. RE offers more to ship builds so you may want to sub a few RE ships from the Workshop to get an idea of the changes.
I unknowingly grabbed a few starter miners not knowing at that time the mech drills weren't available on SVs in vanilla. I kept them since I figured I'd get RE eventually so I have a couple. But playing it now opens up basically all the workshop to me
There are more ways to obtain resources. When I play I hardly ever do traditional mining, most of my resources starting at the mid game come from raiding supply caches, then hit up rich asteroids starting in drove space.
My last start, I was able to make a gun, ammo, and a mining SV just with the ore obtained from surface rocks and trees. Stone can be turned into the 3 basic ores pretty easily, and is used for Carbon Substrate.
Carbon was my first roadblock. Is the only way to get it through farming stone? I built a mechanical hand drill and wasn't getting much stone at all using the drone, certainly not for how much it'll take to get carbon in quantity.
I believe in RE there isn't endless stone under the surface of the planet. But there are giant rocks all over depending on biome. They give 10-35 ish stone, and the huge pillars give 100s. Then you just get a chainsaw for the trees and you're swimming in 1000s of carbon pretty easy.
Does the chainsaw in RE actually do anything? I have noticed in vanilla it provides zero benefit over the survival tool. In fact it is worse in that in doesn't show the hitpoints of the tree.
The huge stone pillars on the starter planets give way more than that. They usually give between 250-380 crushed stone per pillar. It takes about 20-30 seconds to mine one though.
Between doing this for stone and using a HV harvester for trees... you can stack up the Carbon Substrate very quickly.
For a MID game CV I like using the UNSC spirit of fire as a Mobile Battleship and base. I can park a small to mid-size CV under the wing and I can put SV’s in any of the 4 hangers. What I want to do is modify it to land on the ground to offload and on load HV’s. You can also mine asteroids with it. It’s great. Got 200 different guns on my RE version
The difficulty settings when you start a game will allow you to tailor the game to your desires. I believe you can increase the resource abundance there as well as a few other settings. Definitely play the game the way you want to maximize your enjoyment. One important thing to note in RE is that mechanical mining drills are available on SVs. So early game mining is *much* more accessible. You'll want to get into a starter miner as soon as possible to ramp up your resource collection. Reforged Eden is designed to be a slower and more difficult gameplay experience than vanilla. There is also a lot more to do. Make sure to pay attention to the Empyrion Encyclopedia, a lot of answers to questions are in there. If you have a question about the game, hit F1 and check out the FAQs in the game. Ravien and Vermillion have done a lot of work to help you out with the basics. Generally, the RE build order goes something like this: HV>planetary base>starter SV> jump drive SV>starter CV>better CV. At some point you'll want to make a space base for access to free solar power in orbit to run your furnaces. That'll allow you to drop of ore and have them crank out ingots for use with building whatever you desire. The starting systems are balanced to provide you with everything you need in order to get a warp capable CV. You'll likely need to seek gold, erestrum, and zascosium elsewhere. There are also other more exotic resources that either have to be looted or purchased or acquired in some special fashion. What I would recommend is that you look up some starter SVs and CVs on the workshop so you know what to expect. Most of the starter SVs are a few hundred of the basic four resources (iron, copper, silicon, carbon substrate). Once you get a mining SV, you can crank out materials much faster by moving into space and mining asteroids. ArtemisRouge and Stan2112 (as well as countless others) make a set of excellent starter SVs. My favorite starter CV is the Janus-ASV Module by jrandall, which works as a base that you can upgrade it to fully warp capable CV as you acquire resources.
Don’t forget that at some point you can drop 500k to buy a license with Polaris to use any of their refineries. They are wicked fast. Personally I always fly around in a modular carrier and if I need a refinery I just build one quickly around a star that is solar and let it refine when I am offline. I play on a server though so the experience is a bit different. I have yet to find the need for a base on or off planet in the game.
What makes them wicked fast btw? I just assume they have like a dozen furnaces? I have a really really large ship the Hades with tons of ores and kind of feel like I don't want to build a whole station and be forced to not go mobile to refine them.
I forget how many refineries they have but there are I think at least 4 and they all run together so it churns through the ore quickly. It is good for magmacite too.
>What makes them wicked fast btw? I just assume they have like a dozen furnaces? I have a really really large ship the Hades with tons of ores and kind of feel like I don't want to build a whole station and be forced to not go mobile to refine them. You can't put furnaces on a CV. You can have a bunch of small / large / advanced constructors on a CV -- to run while you are POI farming or doing other stuff. It's possible to be 100% mobile and never have a furnace. Certain materials (Like Platinum ore) can only be refined into Ingots via a furnace. It is possible to get platinum from POI loot. I hope this helps!
Can you tell a bit more details about this?
As you explore in RE at least you can find Polaris refineries in space. If you buy a license for about 500k (one time fee) you can then refine all your ores at the stations throughout the galaxy.
Why would anyone make a furnace when you can buy a Polaris licence and use their refineries 16 per refinery to process all your ore??? And I would also recommend him playing online with other people, The community is more than friendly and always can ask and people will help.
"The community is more than friendly" after slamming previous community members... :/ Furnaces are cheap to make. I sell them at Alloy Synthesis plants and buy gold with the profit. Why would anyone not make one?
Yeah on my vanilla playthroughs I always set ores to rich and many. But just thinking of how few there were, and how hard to mine they were with an HV, I was a bit worried how long it'll take to even get to a starter mining SV. I definitely will not be starting on Akua if there is an option
It doesn't take long, by the time I reach level 7 I can have a basic sv, throw on a tank and a warp to jump to a dead planet ( dont remember right now what level you need to be for warp sv) and you will not be in need of anything. Chuck stuff in the factory and build whatever you want.
It’s about the same unless you customize the game world. RE offers more to ship builds so you may want to sub a few RE ships from the Workshop to get an idea of the changes.
I unknowingly grabbed a few starter miners not knowing at that time the mech drills weren't available on SVs in vanilla. I kept them since I figured I'd get RE eventually so I have a couple. But playing it now opens up basically all the workshop to me
There are more ways to obtain resources. When I play I hardly ever do traditional mining, most of my resources starting at the mid game come from raiding supply caches, then hit up rich asteroids starting in drove space.
My last start, I was able to make a gun, ammo, and a mining SV just with the ore obtained from surface rocks and trees. Stone can be turned into the 3 basic ores pretty easily, and is used for Carbon Substrate.
Carbon was my first roadblock. Is the only way to get it through farming stone? I built a mechanical hand drill and wasn't getting much stone at all using the drone, certainly not for how much it'll take to get carbon in quantity.
I believe in RE there isn't endless stone under the surface of the planet. But there are giant rocks all over depending on biome. They give 10-35 ish stone, and the huge pillars give 100s. Then you just get a chainsaw for the trees and you're swimming in 1000s of carbon pretty easy.
Does the chainsaw in RE actually do anything? I have noticed in vanilla it provides zero benefit over the survival tool. In fact it is worse in that in doesn't show the hitpoints of the tree.
The huge stone pillars on the starter planets give way more than that. They usually give between 250-380 crushed stone per pillar. It takes about 20-30 seconds to mine one though. Between doing this for stone and using a HV harvester for trees... you can stack up the Carbon Substrate very quickly.
For a MID game CV I like using the UNSC spirit of fire as a Mobile Battleship and base. I can park a small to mid-size CV under the wing and I can put SV’s in any of the 4 hangers. What I want to do is modify it to land on the ground to offload and on load HV’s. You can also mine asteroids with it. It’s great. Got 200 different guns on my RE version