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Clean Ore Detector Color Swap
   
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28 Apr, 2019 @ 10:17am
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Clean Ore Detector Color Swap

Description
Are you tired of having to differentiate between 50 shades of Gray(or white) while searching for needed ores?
No?
- then nothing to see here... move along...

Yes?
- Well then... your problem can be solved! Presenting:

Clean Ore Detector colors!

What it does? Something very simple- utilising rule that I have observed in SB universe:

Some construction ores (which mean copper, silver and gold ores are out of that rule. But still this mod handles them as well) you can find only with few others. F.e. iron can be found always alone or with titanium. Titanium with iron OR with tungsten, etc. Little exceptions are ferozium, aegisalt and violium. They always appear together on the same planet with durasteel or solarium.
It sounds a bit fishy at first, but scheme below shows it even more simple:

iron (light violet) Tiers I and II
titanium (light green) II and III
tungsten (light aqua) III and IV
durasteel (gray) IV and V
ferozium, aegisalt and violium (dark aqua, green, violet) V and VI
solarium (yellow) VI

Utilising it helps to get better colors.
Precious ores (copper, silver, gold and diamonds) can be seen on all planets, so they have own color set which is pink, orange and red and blue.
Erchius has no color because... IT SHINES! Why highlight it even more?

After few minutes these colors will perfectly blend into gameplay making it extremely intuitive to find needed ores.

Ready to download now!

Also check out alternate color scheme HERE!
12 Comments
Qbi Wan  [author] 10 Apr @ 7:38am 
it acts more like tear material or precious metal?
Qbi Wan  [author] 10 Apr @ 7:37am 
Platinum is currently disabled from game, are you using some mode? Where can you encounter it? Does it use old files?
Chalupa Supreme® 8 Apr @ 4:53pm 
ah yes, going from "I can't tell platinum and titanium apart" to "I can't tell platinum and durasteel apart", kinda feels like I traded one problem for another
Chronos "Salty" Pliskin 11 Feb, 2021 @ 7:06am 
That'd be great.
Qbi Wan  [author] 11 Feb, 2021 @ 5:48am 
I can see you took your time XD plotting in shadows XDXD Very well. I've made a graph containing your colors, it should be visible on mod's pictures above. First off all we don't need coal - we can add it, np, but if its black, it'll be hard to spot on black FoW anyway. Second, on tier II planets we'll have red iron, orange copper and brown titanium. When they all show up on 1 screen it's easy, but when you see only one type it's getting a lot harder. Same problem with dark gray and dark blue. Pink Solarium? Most valuable metal, final armor crafting material... pink? XD And again it'll mess with copper. I have feeling that core of this scheme is to give copper, silver and gold more corresponding colors, but later in game even gold becomes kind of trash... Old scheme focus on late game to help find solarium, fer, ae, vio, and durasteel. BUT if you REALLY wish to have it I can make some kind of "mod addon".
Chronos "Salty" Pliskin 9 Feb, 2021 @ 10:36am 
Here's what I think might work for a color scheme.

Iron - Red
Titanium - Brown
Tungsten - Gray (Dark)
Durasteel - Dark Blue
Ferozium - Cyan
Violium - Purple
Aegisalt - Green
Solarium - Pink
Copper - Orange
Silver - White
Gold - Yellow
Diamonds - Light Blue
Coal - Black
Qbi Wan  [author] 9 Feb, 2021 @ 5:51am 
Get what? More only changes vanilla ore detector. It's CRAFTED AT Agricultural Station with:
5 Refined Ferozium
5 Refined Violium
5 Refined Aegisalt
6 Copper Wire
4 AA Battery
RedTiger906 8 Feb, 2021 @ 1:05pm 
could someone tell me how to get it pleas
Qbi Wan  [author] 7 Nov, 2020 @ 5:38am 
I thought about many different ways of setting up these 3 metals... They're problematic - they can be found on all planets except for Barren. I'm afraid that white can be mistaken for gray - durasteel. Moreover, tungsten and aegisalt are already green. I just hope that diamonds doesn't muddle with ferozium and tungsten already XD Human eye just can't see enough colors ;)
Chronos "Salty" Pliskin 6 Nov, 2020 @ 12:02pm 
I think for copper, silver, and gold I would use green, white, and orange.