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Ores guide: where to find and mine every ore

8 ores, each with its own rock and ore patches. For each one: everything a rock and an ore patch can drop, the islands its ore patches spawn on, and what it smelts into.

Official gameplay tips

You can destroy very large rocks and very small stones with a pickaxe. Large stones need more hits than small ones.
Use pickaxe on ore patches for loot, but it breaks fast — automatic drills don’t break and work better.
Once you’ve placed and named a drone, you can go to drills and select the drone that should pick up the resources, and bring them to the drones base.

Official in-game tip, quoted verbatim.

Copper Ore
Breaking a rock
- Copper Ore ×2 · 100%
- Copper Ore ×2 · 70%
- Stone ×1 · 70%
- Clay ×1 · 20%
Ore patches
- Copper Ore ×1 · 100%
Ore patches spawn on islands Copper Sprout, Mossback Hollow

Smelting
- Copper 20s
Iron Ore
Breaking a rock
- Iron Ore ×2 · 100%
- Iron Ore ×2 · 50%
- Stone ×1 · 70%
- Clay ×1 · 20%
Ore patches
- Iron Ore ×1 · 100%
Ore patches spawn on islands Copper Sprout, Mossback Hollow, Twinfall, Threeleaf Islands, Sunfall Basin, Worm, Wheatwater, Claystep Fields

Smelting
- Iron 20s
Sand
Breaking a rock
- Sand ×3 · 100%
- Clay ×1 · 20%
- Sand ×1 · 50%
- Sand ×1 · 50%
Ore patches
- Sand ×1 · 75%
Ore patches spawn on islands Copper Sprout, Mossback Hollow, Twinfall, Threeleaf Islands, Sunfall Basin, Worm, Wheatwater, Claystep Fields

Smelting
- Glass 15s
Stone
Breaking a rock
- Stone ×2 · 100%
- Stone ×1 · 50%
- Clay ×1 · 30%
Ore patches
- Stone ×1 · 100%
Ore patches spawn on islands Copper Sprout, Mossback Hollow

Recipes that use it: 29
Clay
Breaking a rock
- Clay ×3 · 100%
- Clay ×1 · 50%
Ore patches
- Clay ×1 · 100%
Ore patches spawn on islands Wild Winter, Twinfrost, Pepperbend, Froststep Rise, Island 1, Island 5, Island 15

Smelting
- Brick 20s
Recipes that use it: 1
Cobalt Ore
Breaking a rock
- Cobalt Ore ×2 · 100%
- Cobalt Ore ×2 · 50%
Ore patches
- Cobalt Ore ×1 · 100%
Ore patches spawn on islands Wild Winter, Twinfrost, Pepperbend, Froststep Rise, Island 1, Island 5, Island 15

Smelting
- Cobalt 20s
Diamond
Breaking a rock
- Diamond ×2 · 100%
- Stone ×1 · 70%
- Stone ×1 · 20%
Ore patches
- Diamond ×1 · 100%
Ore patches spawn on islands Wild Winter, Twinfrost, Pepperbend, Froststep Rise, Island 1, Island 5, Island 15

Recipes that use it: 3
Quartz Ore
Breaking a rock
- Quartz Ore ×2 · 100%
- Quartz Ore ×2 · 20%
- Stone ×1 · 70%
- Clay ×1 · 20%
Ore patches
- Quartz Ore ×1 · 75%
Ore patches spawn on islands Wild Winter, Twinfrost, Pepperbend, Froststep Rise, Island 1, Island 5, Island 15

Smelting
- Silicon 20s

Amounts and chances are the game's own loot tables, entry by entry. The islands are where each ore's patches can spawn.