space engineers increase ore detector range

Good question! It seems someone has already published a list of all the different texture variations you can encounter in your quest to find ores. It’s still difficult to find these patches just because they’re so hard to spot, especially on noisy grass or rock terrain, but you can try scrolling out your view with alt+mousewheel to get a good picture of the terrain, and you might be able to find these patches easier. It’s a lot more obvious when the snow is in the sunlight’s shadow, too. This isn’t the sunlight, this is the ore patch. In the snow, you might be able to notice yellow spots. Instead, you should look for subtle, light discoloration in the ground to find ore veins. You won’t be able to find ores by looking for dark patches anymore.

Turns out, all they did was change the way the voxel appears on the surface. Since the Survival Update has changed the ore generation significantly on planets, you’ll be hard pressed to find anything now. The survival update added a lot of things, but also made ores harder to find.

Space engineers increase ore detector range