Gold Ore Boulder金の鉱石の岩

What is Gold Ore Boulder? Features and uses

Gold Ore Boulder is a common item in Core Keeper (Placeables & furniture).

Gold Ore Boulder key points (from the game data)

• Size when placed: 2×2 tiles.
• Sells to merchants for 1 Ancient Coin.

Calculated and summarized by this site from the game data (1.3.0.6).

Gold Ore Boulder mechanics (checked against the game data)

• The Gold Ore Boulder can only be mined with a drill.
• There are ten metal ore boulders from copper to relucite, plus amber and crystal meteor boulders.

Written by this site from values in the game files (1.3.0.6 prefabs and configuration files).

Gold Ore Boulder notes

• Mining it requires a Crude Drill or Drill on one face of the boulder, hooked up to a power source.
• Multiple drills can be placed around the boulder, each one speeding up output.
• A boulder has room for at most eight drills: two along each of its four sides.
• Drill type, drill count, layout and overlapping hits on a single boulder tile together set the rate.
• Each additional drill still adds ore, but the gain per drill shrinks as you add more.
• Powered drills make the boulder shake, with a clink on every hit.
• A mined-out boulder breaks and disappears.
• On the map, ore boulders show as solid 2×2 squares.
• Point a Crude Drill or Drill at the boulder and wire it to a generator if necessary.
• Get the drill running and producing ore at its back before you build anything to collect it.
• Check that both drilling and collection work before adding more drills.
• If the collection route is jammed, more drills will not help.
• The cap of eight is how many spots there are around a boulder.
• You do not need eight drills to start mining.
• More drills raise the boulder's output, but the gain shrinks with each one.
• The Furnace, Smelter Kiln and Fury Forge all make bars, but from different ores.
• Choose the smelter that fits the ore.
• Furnace: Copper Ore, Iron Ore and Tin Ore.
• Smelter Kiln: Gold Ore, Scarlet Ore and Octarine Ore.
• Fury Forge: Galaxite Ore, Solarite Ore, Pandorium Ore and Relucite Ore.
• The Robot Arm must face the right way to load the smelter.
• Smelters start automatically once they hold ore they can process.
• No ore appearing: check the power and that the drill points at the boulder.
• Do not judge a new rig after a few seconds; compare it with the drilling rate tables.
• Ore piling up behind the drill: check the belt direction, the Robot Arm's direction and power, and space at the destination.
• Ore reaches the smelter but is not processed: check that the smelter takes that ore.
• Each smelter accepts a different set of ores.
• More drills did not speed things up as much as hoped: returns diminish with each drill.
• Layout and overlapping hits also affect mining speed.
• Boulder vanished: it has been mined out.
• Move the mining setup to another boulder.

These notes cover behavior that the game files do not show directly. They are based on facts from the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) page "Gold Ore Boulder" (CC BY-SA 3.0), rewritten in this site's own words.

How to get Gold Ore Boulder

• Placed inside dungeons or scenes (buildings, ruins and so on); break it or pick it up to get itPlaced in: Railway Section, Gold Boulder Island [The Forgotten Ruins]
• Placed naturally when the world is generated (The Desert of Beginnings, The Clay Caves, Azeos' Wilderness, The Forgotten Ruins)From the game's world generation settings (Conf/Spawn/Initial).

Scene containers, dungeon placements, guaranteed drops and natural spawns are based on the Obtaining data of the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) (CC BY-SA 3.0), because these are not in the game files this site reads. Scene names are the wiki's English names.