How to get Silver Ore in Once Human

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Silver Ore is a material that’s chiefly used to make Silver Ingots, a resource used in a huge range of crafting recipes in Once Human. You’ll find Silver Ore quite regularly out in the open world, however it’s a little harder to track down than Coppers or Sulfur. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to get Silver Ore in Once Human.

Silver Ore Once Human: Players that mine silver ore can get new deviants too
Mining Silver Ore has chance of dropping the Digby Boy deviant. Captured by VideoGamer

Where to find Silver Ore in Once Human

To get Silver Ore in Once Human, you’ll need to mine Silver Ore nodes. The best places to find ores are out in the wilderness away from points of interest and structures, typically on mountainsides, by main roads, and near beaches and rivers. Silver Ore looks a lot like Tin Ore, so keep your eyes peeled for a nodes with distinctive grey-ish ore sticking out of them. In the early game, the best places to mine Silver Ore are as follows:

  • By the main road near the river in the Dayton Wetlands and Broken Delta.
  • By the mountains near Aiden’s Hideout in the Dayton Wetlands.

To mine Silver Ore, you’ll need at least a Copper Pickaxe, thought if you can quite your hands on a higher-tiered alternative, you’ll get a better yield. When you get Silver Ore, you can use it in a few crafting recipes. You’ll need to unlock silver smelting from the memetics research tree. Silver Ingots also sell for a lot at traders, giving you plenty of Energy Link for future crafting and research unlock needs.

When you mine Silver Ore, there’s a small chance you’ll get a Digby Boy Devient. These are helper Deviants that mine materials passively around your base. They’ll go out and mine nearby nodes then bring it back to your base.

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Once Human

  • Platform(s): Android, iOS, PC
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Shooter, Simulation