Question: OD Scanner Issue

  • This isn't necessarily affecting my gameplay, just thought I'd bring it to the attention of the community.


    I'm playing single-player using IC2 1.43 for reference. I just finished using my first miner+regular drill+OD scanner on a new map and got some strange readouts from the OD scanner after it finished mining. I scanned the block on top of the miner and got a readout of 8. That's understandable; there was either liquid or obsidian in the way. I started digging down and as I got deeper I got different results. After just 1 block the result went from 8 to 9. I dug deeper and eventually hit 12, then back to 8 then 10 and so on. I get to the very bottom of the shaft and I'm sitting on top of bedrock with an OD scanner result of 24.

    Again, not in any way affecting the game; just wondering what's going on here.

  • OD Scanner rates the density of ore. This is the ratio between valuable and invaluable block.
    I assume below the bedrock was an ore deposit.. the closer you went, thehigher the number got, given there was less smoothstone below you, compared to the ore still present.

    Greetz,
    Alblaka