The Cave - No Space Age


A standalone Base-game edition of The Cave for Factorio 2.0. This edition does not require or use the Space Age expansion. Dig, explore, loot, and survive in a vast underground cave with mixed resources, darkness, Train Interiors, Cave Collapse, Uranium Caves, Fortified Vaults, Underground Belt/Pipe Reach research, markets, coins, and configurable progression. Space Age planets, official belt stacking, quality, spoilage, freezing, and other expansion-only systems are intentionally excluded. Start a new game; saves from the Space Age edition are not supported.

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5 hours ago
2.0
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Enemies Environment Mining

g Exploding Rocks No Ores

10 hours ago

Hi, I've been playing this for a few days now and I notice that if I destroy rocks with explosive rockets, nothing spawns, no resources are dropped, and it doesn't generate any ore patches. Is this normal?
Are there faster ways to mine more than a single rock at a time?

7 hours ago

Hi, yes, this is intentional and not a bug.
Ore patches and resource rewards are generated only when rocks are properly mined through the cave digging system. If rocks are destroyed using explosive rockets or other damage sources, they will not drop resources or generate new ore patches.
This restriction prevents players from bypassing the main cave progression by simply destroying large areas with explosives. The intended gameplay is to dig and mine through the cave gradually to discover resources. Explosives may clear rocks, but they do not count as proper digging and therefore provide no mining rewards.

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