I've been looking for an underground Iron ore deposit on Omicron, and marked out the boulders in ~100 km^2 area, so I don't have to scout the same locations multiple times.

I did eventually find one, just not in the area in this screenshot:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2172697401

(The blue tint and darkness comes from Darker Vanilla Sky.)

That's some dedication marking the boulders.

Partially re-built ship having finally reached Alien planet. Captured a Reaver Heavy which made a nice engine system.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2177874646

Hmm... Why the alien planet?.. Uranium?

I haven't yet come up with a reason to go to space... Just getting a medbay seems insufficient, or perhaps I'm intentionally trying to steer away from the progression in Splitsie's series. So, sticking to the surface for now.

Here's a mobile drilling platform - designed in Creative, built in SI. (Not on the Workshop yet.)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2184818511

Still ways to go - need to fuel it with hydrogen, make a trek (~13 km) to the iron deposit, and come back. Perhaps then I can go to space, or maybe get to that trading station I spotted on a recon mission.

P.S. Made three recordings while trying to attach the drill bit to the piston rig, maybe I'll publish a blooper reel.

Gold mostly, Uranium not so much but I took a load before running from the raining spiders.

Here's the same vehicle after a ~13 km trek to to the iron deposit.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2202832853
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2202833406
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2202833857
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2202834356

Not on Workshop yet.

My early playthrough where I left omni and landed on the saturn-like planet. Just to see what it was like,

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608464387
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608464669



My newest playthrough I spent much of the playthrough with a small grid ship. But ultimately failed to find a single magnesium outside omni. My goal this time was a small grid you could walk around inside.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608465606
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608479304
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2607597917

I flew this ship from omi where I built it, to omi's ice moon to the mars-like planet that is past the blue saturn. It took like 5-7 irl hours or something nuts from the ice moon to the mars-like.

The only time I almost lost this ship was vs a pirate vulture attack, with it + its 3-4 drones.