Resources can be placed, cleaned up, erased or restored, Supports Vanilla, not tested with other mods in 2.0!
Play it your way.
with the iron resource checker, i select an area and no resources are placed?
Checker does not place resources, it will convert an existing resource to the resource of the checker, you want the placer to place a resource.
Placers are off by default, see mod settings on how to enable.