All Permanent Ore Spawn Locations in Solarpunk

There are a total of eight types of ores in Solarpunk, and each one has a permanent ore patch in the world map that you can mine for as much of that resource as you want without fear of it ever running out.

These permanent ore spawns are also the only locations where you can set up a Drill to automatically mine the ore for you. Combined with a Transport Drone, this can allow players to fully automate ore mining as long as they have enough energy to keep the system running.

However, since these ore patches are spread out across the map, players will only be able to reach them by upgrading their Airship step by step, with each upgrade unlocking access to new permanent nodes.

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All Permanent Ore Node Locations in Solarpunk

The following table shows the exact location of each permanent ore node in Solarpunk and which Airship Upgrade is required to reach the islands where they are located.

Ore	Requirement	Location	Screenshot
Iron	None	Starting Island, right next to the pond in the middle of the island.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave
Copper	Airship Level 1 (No Airship Upgrade)	Northwest of Starting Island, west of the Tradebot’s shop.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave
Quartz (Silicon)	Airship Level 2 (Airship Upgrade 1)	Northwest of Starting Island, on the leftmost island among the group of three sky islands floating together.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave
Sandstone	Airship Level 2 (Airship Upgrade 1)	Northeast of Starting Island, in the northernmost part of the sky island.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave
Cobalt	Airship Level 3 (Airship Upgrade 2)	South of Starting Island, on the northern edge of the island.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave
Stone	Airship Level 3 (Airship Upgrade 2)	South of Starting Island, on the same island as the Cobalt patch.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave
Clay	Airship Level 4 (Airship Upgrade 3)	Northwest of Starting Island, on the western edge of the sky island.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave
Diamond	Airship Level 5 (Airship Upgrade 4)	Southwest of Starting Island, in the western part of the snowy island at the edge of the map.	Image via GameRant; Source: Cyberwave

How to Automate Mining Ores in Solarpunk

To automatically mine ores from the permanent ore nodes in Solarpunk and have them delivered directly to your base, you’ll need two main things:

Item	How to Unlock	Recipe
Drill	Unlocks at Energy Workbench Tier 1 (Requires Blueprint x1)
Transport Drone	Unlocks at Energy Workbench Tier 2 (Requires Blueprint x1)	Cobalt x8 Iron x16 Copper x16 Silicon x16

Here’s how this works.

Place the Transport Drone where you want to receive the shipment of your ores (typically your base), and connect it to an energy grid that has at least 300 power to spare. Give the Transport Drone a name.
Go to the permanent node you want to start mining ores from, and place your Drill there. Place an energy generating device like Solar Panels or Wind Turbines nearby and connect them to the Drill to give it 120 power.
Interact with the Drill and select the name of the Transport Drone you put down in step 1 to start the automatic mining operation.

And that’s it! Now, your Drill will start mining and depositing the mined ores in its inventory.

The Transport Drone will fly to and fro between where it was placed and where the Drill is mining to carry the mined ores back to its original location.

All you need to do is periodically empty the Transport Drone’s inventory of the accumulated ores and store them in a chest for safekeeping.