Just go to the creep vine forest thats near the life pod and go to the end of it ull see an area with red grass its stacked with it

There’s some vertical caves by the edge of the plateau with a lot of crystal at the bottom. Kind of northwest of your original life pod.

A good tip for the scanner room is to drop pieces of different resources under your base so it pops up on the scanner menu.

Quartz? Bulb zone caves blood kelp zone

Crag zone has loose and deposits of Quartz.

You can easily find quartz in the area where you start the game. As for the drill arm, look in derelict ship part.

There is a large coral tube in the shallows that is usually full of quartz

I remember the bloodkelp trench having lots of quartz if you don’t mind the creepiness. It’s between the dunes and sparse reef.

The other bloodkelp zone north of the floating islands has a bunch as well, but the crabsquids are super annoying.

Is this a joke or when you go to it, its under the sea floor?

Context.

thats a really big cave, I usually use the entrance near the coal nodes at the north east edge of the rocky desert. there are 4 coal nodes, a canyon opens west between the northern 2 and southern 2. Follow the canyon to the cave entrance.

I see you're using the SCIM. It has an option to view caves so that you can see the entrances.

Try looking near the ocean.

Most of the entrances to that big cave are blocked by breakable rocks, so bring Nobelisks. And be ready for lots of spiders.

I certainly hope you like spiders, because you're about to make a LOT of new friends...

I was the exact opposite somehow. All quartz and no salt

I already have about 4 full lockers in my base of that crap

Spicy Quartz

Thanks for the reply, everyone! I will try the beachside. I JUST WANT TO BUILD MY WINDOWS!!

gotta find the cave entrance on the beach

When you can't find a node, even though the map shows it's right where you are, it's either below you or above you.

The map is 2d. The world is 3d.

Is underground, entrance is by the sea. Use the SCIM if needed

Widen your search. There's a number of entrances from different directions. Be ready for a lot of stingers.

You can find a lot of quartz in the big coral tube at the safe shallows. Quartz also pop up frequently anywhere in smaller quantities.

Seamoth parts can also be found in the Grassy Plateau, the biome with the red grass. Look for wreckage.

Well theres a section on the aurora with seamoth fragments and as for quartz, look in deeper water

Everywhere go look for godsake

If you can find one to scan, you need a scanner room and then a HUD chip which you build in that room. Makes finding quartz and anything else really easy.

Ores spawn based on tfc rock types and aren’t latitude dependent. Certus can spawn in Shale, Quartzite, Schist, and Gneiss. Though if you’re in HV then you should be able to just fly around with a jet pack/hang glider combo and use an ore prospector to scout around for certus

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1P3Baz4y5vgJ3XrCoNs4l3BXGPiFEPlW7i4taPEWpTB4/htmlview

I found some in limestone, along with salt

its in the field guide

Shale shale shale shale shale shale shale

dont know how to find deposites but, you can do what i did and centrifuge superlarge amounts of quartz sand(or whatever its called) the thing you get from macerating sand and having a 20%chance of certus quartz dust

if you play the latest version of TFG, you will see there will be lots of white spots on your map. Usually it will be Quartzite on the surface.

pstt do you know any place with chertz?

also are in in any place that have ingenous intrusive rock or slate as surface? if true, there is chance that schist and gneiss spawn under there (hope not phyllite, that trolled me).

edit: nvm i thought you're talking abt quartz. but still useful!

SHALE SAHLE SHALE SHALE SHALE SHALE SAHLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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You can have a chance to get it though glass processing in a machine

check the field guide for the required stone type and look around for that stone type and then search for the ore indicators for quartzite.