Spawn Rates and Composition

[Nightstar]

OK so here’s some stuff.

I want to clarify, since you used the word “node” earlier and I glossed over it with a comment about spawning locations and chunks. So technically, my earlier comment is incorrect. I’ll clarify.

If you use the term “node” to refer to a single resource (mineral/plant/boulder/etc…) associated with a given block, then yes, individual nodes will move over time.

@lucadeltodecso

If players literally only ever remove resources from the walls of caves, and never the solid rock, then by nature of randomness, the cave walls will become less populated on average, because its going to reinsert more resourcres randomnly, and theres a non-zero chance that the replaced resource will not be on the wall.

The node will be replaced with a new node, in the same chunk. However it may be a different type of resource. So they move, but not “around the planet” or anything. It’s a very localized (2 plot X 2 plot) area.

I’m struggling to find a link to the dev explanation of this next part. I’ll keep digging but for to move the thread along, here’s a write-up I did on this a few months ago:

About resource world regen

Resources spawn according to a pre-defined (at world generation) chunk density. If a given chunk has something like 10 gems, 15 hard coal, 15 fossils, 30 iron, 10 gold, 10 flowers and 5 mushrooms, and 5 boulders it’s going to respawn resources according to those percentages. So if someone comes through deep and mines 50% of those minable resources (50 items), the regen is likely to also regenerate some surface resources, as it will regenerate something like this: 10% gems = 5(ish) gems 15% h…

@Redlotus :

@olliepurkiss

At that extreme case, it’s down to about 85 hours.

@olliepurkiss

The system ticks every half a second, evaluating which chunks should be regenerated. Each chunk can be regenerated no more often than once every 180 seconds, and at most waits 4000 seconds.

96 Hours should be plenty - they were doing 85 hours on Serp, and it was the only diamond planet at the time. Super busy and super mined out.

Still kicking around - I’d like to find the actual dev explanation for that spawning system.