Is it possible to delete patches if they spawn in inconvenient locations, say in the middle of your base?

Hello,

There isn't a feature for this for now, that's why there is a minimum radius to prevent patches to spawn in the starting aera (where you usually build your base).

However it can indeed still be a problem. For now the only way is to use a console command like this :

-- remove some entity in a radius
/c for _, entity in ipairs(game.player.surface.find_entities_filtered{
area={{game.player.position.x-32, game.player.position.y-32},
{game.player.position.x+32, game.player.position.y+32}},
name="iron-ore-patch"})
do
entity.destroy()
end

I'll see if it's possible to make an in-game way to remove them with a special item or by mining them with a pick axe with a slow mining time and lot of ore (similar to rocks).

Hello,

As of 1.6.0 there is now a tool to remove ore patches !