1. FortressCraft Evolved
2. handbook-Survival
3. Italian
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Your next exploration task will be to scan your surroundings. Aim at a block you haven't scanned yet, bring up your scan tool and hold the right mouse button until the popup window in the bottom left tells you the scan is complete. Try to scan all the blocks in your surroundings, including snow, dirt, logs and leaves!

Research your surroundings

Ricerca i dintorni

Now that you've scanned these blocks, it's time to process the scans at the research station back at the crash site. Open the interface by pressing 'e'. The window will show you a list of your unprocessed scans, followed by how many research points they will grant you once processed. Research points aren't important for now, so ignore them. Process all the scans you have in your list. Each one takes power to process, but if you've been keeping your hub filled with logs or coal, its power bar should be most of the way full, and plenty for processing all your scans.

Processing the scans may result in unlocking research projects, but for now you don't have to worry about that, scanning your surroundings had a more important goal.

Ping your surroundings

Scansiona i dintorni

In particular, the 'unknown material' ping is what we will be using next, in order to find our first ore vein. Switch to your scan tool and with 'Unknown Material' ping selected, press the left mouse button. This will highlight any blocks in range of you that have a characteristic your suit doesn't yet know about.

If you didn't scan all your surroundings, this ping will return the blocks around the crash site such as dirt and rock. If that happens, scan and process those blocks, then try again.

If successful, you should see a cluster of unknown signatures somewhere underground or inside nearby hills. Keep an eye on your power levels though, there's no need to freeze!

Dig to the veins

Now you will need to dig a path towards those signatures, and see what they are. Scan the ore vein and process it. You will notice that they grant more research points than common materials did. Once you know an ore block, you can go back to the vein and scan it again, and the tool will give you information about this particular vein; how big it is and how much ore it contains (this is not the same).