Yeah first of all i found myself not only the warp upgrade to buy (gold not actually) and some location markers but i found actually a really effective way to find gold.
This is seriously my final resolution to this, there have been many ideas arround it:
-look into caves
-strip mine mountains
-desert mountains
-icy mountains
-just more on other planets
But what i found was a little conversation between wichall and the dev james and nevir from january
check it out here Gold.
So the best way to find gold is indeed go into the deserts, look for a mountain or rather a plateau which is at a height of 130 or higher, the higher the better actually, than dig 30 blocks deep inside of it and strip mine it to all directions, only going deeper while staying above height 100 but at least 30 blocks under the surface and actually stay at least 15 blocks away from caves. I can’t tell if this is really necessary but i never found any gold in caves surfaces so i would assume it’s actually not a good idea to look into caves. I found gold pretty fast and in decent amounts that way and it works mostly everytime. Sure sometimes it takes very long and i leave that mountain without gold but next time i might as well find 2 veins and besides from that i found a lot of silver and a lot of medium coal which is very nice too.
There you have it folks, i dont know about other planets yet but thats definitely the way to go on starter planets ;D and i think a lot of players especially new ones don’t know about that.
And if i gave away the secret art of finding gold to the masses than call me a revolutionary, or a freedom fighter, or a liberator, or just someone who wan’t everyone to have equal chances to find gold xD. It still needs a lot of time, patience and a good portion of luck to find decent amounts to build your golden hut :D.