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Detected ore disappearing after save, exit, reload if not mined/interacted with first

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As the title says, ore that is scouted out, on the surface/exposed or buried, will disappear after reloading if not interacted with prior. Only way to make the ore placement permanent is to mine at least a small amount, otherwise the game does not seem to remember the ore was spawned upon initial discovery. Already had a ton of gold, lead, etc disappear this way that I didn't have the time to reach before leaving the game session.

I conducted a test and proved it true as an exposed lead ore vein disappeared between saving, exiting the game to windows, and loading back in. I was on a large mass near the Kemik Station (~10km) for reference.

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Star_Kindler ●

I found silicon, silver, uranium, chromium and ice on an asteroid with my 200 m ore detector and marked the gps at a location where I could scan them. I then came back with a 350 m ore detector, and can no longer detect silver or silicon. I don't know if this is an ore detector bug or if the resources actually just disappeared.

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Argin Petrosian ●

I may have had ore disappear after small interaction as well, will test next.

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Michelle Knight ●

I usually tend to scout out asteroids whenever I see them. I will, generally, only stop if ore is detected and drop a GPS waypoint. Lately, when re-visiting marked asteroids, the rock still exists but there is no ore detected where my waypoint is made. In fact, it seems that the rock is completely devoid of any ore despite it's size.

There is a possibility that the distance moved from the asteroid as well as whether or not the ore has been interacted with are factors. The greater the distance, plus a lack of interaction with the ore (and/or the probability of the ore being on the outer surface latest asteroid visited having a silver deposit at the surface upon return to GPS waypoint. The only variant of asteroid re-visit that runs counter to my silver revisit is a small broken cluster that was marked with iron and gold which vanished without being touched.

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Argin Petrosian ●

So, I found that interacting sufficiently* with ore deposits makes them permanent. Taking a tiny bit is not a guarantee. I hope this gets fixed soon.. Every bit of discovered ore is either a commitment or accepted loss :(

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Coretalless ●

I've been having this issue and recorded it happening with Saving and reloading the game file.

https://youtu.be/FJ8em_3O_Kc

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Tyler P. ●

https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/51313-resourse-disappeared-from-asteroid

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SE2 Community Support ●

Hello Argin Petrosian,

I could not reproduce this issue on current Game version: v2.0.2.51. Does this issue still occurs for you?

Kind Regards,

Bartosz

Keen Software House

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Calexar7 ●

As of 1/15/26 the issues still exists and occurs often. Ver: 2.0.2.51 - survival mode; I’ve noticed it before but didn’t pay attention to it; however, have been experiencing it commonly for the past 3 days.

I finally got my big ship in working condition enough to need to fill it up with ice and locate a source of silver to finish off the last of major construction. I did a scouting mission with a small ship and put 20+ GPS markers around the asteroids I had visited after running an ore detector around them (naming them along the lines of [Gold, Iron, Lead, Ice] to indicate what the scanners found.) It cluttered up the HUD but was intended to make follow up mining simple. When I found titanium or platinum among the mix, I mined a bit of those as it was also needed.

Upon taking my carrier out to start actually start large scale mining, most of the asteroids I had previously visited only retained 1 of the ores previously scanned; in the cases where I had touched the deposits (ex. titanium/platinum) – those were the deposits that remained – all others were gone.

Save / Reload did not cause the ores to return – it appears once they are gone, they are gone for good. It is easy to reproduce - it happens often upon scanning a fresh asteroid, exiting, and reloading.

Today I had planned to investigate this further, but finding this post decided to respond with what I am currently seeing. I am going to travel 50 miles in some new direction, scan another couple dozen asteroids, and try to better record what is happening and how often.

(NOTE: I am still experiencing multiple crash-to-desktops throughout game sessions – but I am not sure if that is somehow impacting this issue in some way.)

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Calexar7 ●

Follow up:

Case 1:

•Went to a large previously uncharted asteroid – detected 4X separate iron deposits, 1 each of cobalt, nickel, and silicon. Some were surface, some were totally internal.

•Hand drilled and took a small amount of ore from the cobalt, nickel, silicon, and two of the 4 iron deposits.

•Remained within scanning distance of the ores.

•Saved game file and exited to menu.

•Reloaded game file, and the 5 deposits I had touched remained – the other 2 iron locations were no longer there.

Case 2: Separate session

•Went to a mass of asteroids – detected copper and iron in one of the rocks.

•Did not get out of the ship – saved game file and exited to menu.

•Reloaded game file – both deposits were still detectable.

Case 3:

•Continued immediately from the same asteroid as in #2 – went only to the copper deposit, and hand drilled a small amount.

•Returned to ship, remained within scanning distance, saved file and exited to menu.

•Reloaded game file – copper deposit remained, the iron deposit had disappeared.

Case 4:

•Went to another fresh asteroid – found platinum, iron, and ice – all surface deposits.

•Took a small hand sample from each

•Remained hanging in space just outside one of the deposits.

•Saved file, exited, reloaded – all deposits remained.

Case 5 – last one:

•Fresh asteroid: 2X gold (1 surface deposit, listing gold twice), 4X copper (1 surface deposit, listing copper 4 times), and lead.

•Took a sample from the gold only.

•Returned to my ship and positioned it in front of the copper deposit.

•Save, exit to menu, reloaded.

•The 2x Gold deposit remained; both the copper and lead deposits were gone; where the surface copper deposit HAD been was only asteroid rock.

Called it a day; didn’t put full rigor into testing any differences between surface deposits vs. internal veins; but it performed consistently enough to come up with the following:

•If I scan an asteroid (and GPS it) without modifying it in any way – the resources remain as originally scanned.

•If I modify an asteroid (cluster) in any way, only the resources I’ve edited will remain after a save / reload. All others will be removed.

•This only seems to happened upon save & reload; I have not detected resources disappearing within a single session.

•On the bright side – I’ve never had a resource that I’ve been working disappear.

- in short - don't touch a rock unless you have time to sample all of it...

Hope this is helpful.

Follow up:

Case 1:

•Went to a large previously uncharted asteroid – detected 4X separate iron deposits, 1 each of cobalt, nickel, and silicon. Some were surface, some were totally internal.

•Hand drilled and took a small amount of ore from the cobalt, nickel, silicon, and two of the 4 iron deposits.

•Remained within scanning distance of the ores.

•Saved game file and exited to menu.

•Reloaded game file, and the 5 deposits I had touched remained – the other 2 iron locations were no longer there.

Case 2: Separate session

•Went to a mass of asteroids – detected copper and iron in one of the rocks.

•Did not get out of the ship – saved game file and exited to menu.

•Reloaded game file – both deposits were still detectable.

Case 3:

•Continued immediately from the same asteroid as in #2 – went only to the copper deposit, and hand drilled a small amount.

•Returned to ship, remained within scanning distance, saved file and exited to menu.

•Reloaded game file – copper deposit remained, the iron deposit had disappeared.

Case 4:

•Went to another fresh asteroid – found platinum, iron, and ice – all surface deposits.

•Took a small hand sample from each

•Remained hanging in space just outside one of the deposits.

•Saved file, exited, reloaded – all deposits remained.

Case 5 – last one:

•Fresh asteroid: 2X gold (1 surface deposit, listing gold twice), 4X copper (1 surface deposit, listing copper 4 times), and lead.

•Took a sample from the gold only.

•Returned to my ship and positioned it in front of the copper deposit.

•Save, exit to menu, reloaded.

•The 2x Gold deposit remained; both the copper and lead deposits were gone; where the surface copper deposit HAD been was only asteroid rock.

Called it a day; didn’t put full rigor into testing any differences between surface deposits vs. internal veins; but it performed consistently enough to come up with the following:

•If I scan an asteroid (and GPS it) without modifying it in any way – the resources remain as originally scanned.

•If I modify an asteroid (cluster) in any way, only the resources I’ve edited will remain after a save / reload. All others will be removed.

•This only seems to happened upon save & reload; I have not detected resources disappearing within a single session.

•On the bright side – I’ve never had a resource that I’ve been working disappear.

- in short - don't touch a rock unless you have time to sample all of it...

Hope this is helpful.

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