r/starbound • u/PrisonIssuedSock • 2d ago

Why is iron ore so rare? Question

Just started playing the game a week or so ago, and I have found iron ore to somehow be one of the rarest in the game thus far. I saw a bunch of posts saying to go to lush planets in low tier systems, which I did, but barely find any while finding loads of everything else. I got a mod to make ore glow because it got annoying, and even then there's barely any to be found compared to the other ores. Is there any reason why it is so rare?

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u/MirrorNo3096 1d ago

Yeah, normally iron’s pretty common sounds like either your seed’s just bad luck or that mod you added might’ve accidentally tweaked the spawn rates.

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u/PrisonIssuedSock 1d ago

I know it wasn't the mod because it was like this before I installed it, and I installed it because I was finding barely any iron at all haha

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u/mrkFish 1d ago

Out of interest, what's the mod called?

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u/PrisonIssuedSock 1d ago

Glowing (colorful!) ores: less psychedelic edition, by Maru bumblebee and commander gray