Resource node

Resource Nodes are locations where Miners can be placed to automate Ore harvesting or by manually harvest. They can be located with the Resource Scanner (hold C), and they usually be multiple grouped together, which form a Resource Patch. Nodes come in 3 purities, which modify the speed of miners placed on them, as well as manual mining speed of engineer. Resource nodes are infinite, they cannot be depleted.

Accessing
Resource nodes will often have a chunk of ore on top of them, which must be cleared by hand before an automated miner can be placed. There are also often hostile creatures nearby to make accessing the node more difficult.

Higher Tier of resource node such as Coal or Crude Oil may require Engineers to build structures to reach them, like Foundations or Ramps.

Some resource nodes, such as Caterium Ore, can be blocked by large round boulders with cracks on them. These boulders may be breakable in the future updates, but they currently are not. These boulders block the placement of Automatic Miners, but will not block the placement of Portable Miners. To automate the mining process, it is advised to look for other resource nodes instead, as some of the nodes are not blocked.

There are currently 339 known resource nodes in the game World. Some nodes are invisible and can only be detected by placing a Miner on them.

Types
Below is the list of types of Resource Node in the current version:
 * Iron Ore
 * Copper Ore
 * Limestone
 * Coal
 * Caterium Ore
 * Crude Oil
 * Geyser
 * Sulfur
 * Uranium
 * Raw Quartz
 * Bauxite
 * S.A.M. Ore